Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1960's

ROAD RACES Carlsbad, Calif Oct. 12, 1969 SPEEDWAY RESULTS Costa Mesa, Calif. Oct. 10, 1969 Mike Capalite 2 HOUR PROD. RACE OPEN Jody NicholasRiA Mike Keen Eric DoddKaw Jim Damron 350cc Dave AlleeRich Sheerer Hon Buzz BuzzelllSuz Wade Killen 250cc Ray VanderpoolKevin Stafford Yam Bob SpierMike Fairfield Suz 1 HOUR LT. WT. PROD 200cc Dave DamronSuz Jeff Mazon Kevin StaffordRay VanderpOOl Yam l75cc Tim RockwoodArt Barda Yam Davey DavisB. Franvenberger Bul lOOcc Pat EvansYam Kelly Evans Jim McWirthyFred Wetterav Suz 1st CLASS B Jim Nicholson Jaw :lAP Jan Crawford Jaw Jim Anderson 2nd CLASS B De Wayne Jones JAP Larry Shaw JAP Les Chanky Jaw _3rd CLASS B Larry Earhart JAP Lonnie Arnold Jaw JAP Mike Keena BEST PAffiS RACE Rick Woods Jaw Don Hawley Jaw Johnny Carter Jaw Steve Bast Jaw HANDICAP MAIN EVT. Bill Cody Jaw De Wayne Keeter Jaw John Fishburn Jaw JAP Eric Olesen Rick Woods Jaw Steve Bast Jaw SCRATCH MAIN EVT. Rick Woods Jaw Steve Bast Jaw Mike Bast Jaw Mike Konle Jaw Results A MA lXST. 17 IiIOTOCR06S CLUB POI"'" ST,U'UlCCS ~JO.UN:.!I 1. Sc::nmb1erI M.e. %.. stumpjWnen ...c. a. Orance COUllt7 M.e. 4.. l'rQllP6CWIl M.e. G.l..J(bt~III.C. 6. SIlalnrocU M.C. ' . AJltekpe JbDibIer.. M.C. I. Spolseteiiide.... M.C. 9. I1ad DotI: )f,.C. 10. lJtmJ VIJlot M.C. 11. SaD Gatlr'Jd, Val1eJ W.C. LZ. Vlctor. M,e. 13. $outbern caw.. M.C. 14.. FoW' Ae- '-l.C, 15. Cbec.ker. JoI.C. IG. Duert M.e. 17. 1Jnoaden; M.c. II. Coa:lpet1ton ),I.C. It.1CXh .v.c. !O.G~".C. 21. Powder P..a As5D... 22. Sandblist.erJl Lt. C. Z3. SJ,ed RJders N.C. 2t. Dirt 0lIPr. I.1.C. 25. JactraIlb'ta Ir.1.C. 28. R&!Id ".c. n.v~.)I.C. . , 51l1li 323 %29 220 .00 "" ts> 150 141 Ito to, ., " " ,. " " 100 33 31 30 20 l' 17 " to Subscribe To © ~ W © ~ & ~ Sliding In Kentucky By Darryl Skrabak In Kentucky a coal truck waits beneath the tipple, and as the coal drops into the bed, oil is sprayed on it. The truck drtves off, laboring over a back country road. As it prOCeedS, some of the 011, a special type which reduces the smoke of burning, drips to the road. At one of the hundreds of rundown houses which dot 'Kentucky's back roadS, the truck dumps its coal, then returns to the tipple for another load, and another run to another house. The truck makes scores of rImS. Each load drips its portion of oU onto the road. The road becomes treacherously slick. Along the road comes a ear. It is not moving at great speed, but it is not poking along, either. The car heads into a turn. It slows, then applies gas to get around. It slides off the road and crashes. The coal oil has claimed another victim. The back roads of Kentucky are littered with the wrecks of such ears. There are too many of them, and the driv1Dg habits of- the locals seem too cautious to leave much doubt of the cause. It was the misfortune of Judy and myself riding in Kentucky with some 6,000 sa!~ trip miles behind us since we left California on our Honda, to learn the story of the coal oU too late. We had thought the roads were slippery due to rain. When the rain stopped, we could resume speed. Not so. We came off on !l slow corner • The bike slid across the road and into a guard rail. We bounced after it. Judy and I were all right, with the exception of a couple of bruises and torn clothing. The bike survived, too, without serious damage. The forks were tweaked, but easily straightened, as was the brake Pedal. A turn light was lost, but it could ~ ~I TT SCRAMBLES MAIN RESULTS Hanford, Calif. Oct. 3, 1969 by Jack Light 90cc NOV. Kyle Lessley Rick Villanueva Al Kawaski 900cc AM. Jack Jones Darrell Smith Bob Muller 125 NOV. Gary Chrisman Lester Manson Rod Pires 125 AM & EX Ron Tobey Leon Cotton George Beckett 200 NOV. & AM. Rick Reed Curt Lange Mike Keener 250 NOV. Gary Chrismen Wayne Howard James Holmes 250 AM. Leonard Reed Ray Comer Jack Dodds 250 EX. Herschel Spurlock Harvey Bakker Richard Periera 360 NOV. Dale Arrat Wayne Howard Mike Spangler 500 NOV. Homer WIlson James Thomas H. A. Conklin 500 AM. Bob King Skip Saylor Don Harrell 650 NOV. Terry West Bob Reinke Ed WUliams 650 AM. Louie Wood Alan Haydon Roger Davidson 650 EX. Gene Chandler Darrell McCaulley Carroll Jackson Kaw Kaw Kaw Misfortunes Plague Bay Mare Motocross Suz Bri Hod Bul Yam Yam Yam Yam Bul Bul Bul Yam Yam Yam Bul Bul Bul Bul Bul Bul Bul Mal Bul Mal BSA Tri BSA BSA A-E BSA Tri Tri BSA Tri BSA BSA Tri BSA BSA be replaced. muttler was bent and cracked at the joint, but it would stUl serve. Our carrying equipment, however, suffered more heavUy. One of the lightweight sultcases we use for saddlebags was damaged almost beyond salvage. Judy was frightened by the tumble, but she recovered marvelously. While I attended to the bent motorcycle parts, she attempted to repair the suitcase. While we worked at the roadside people stopped their cars to ask if we were okay. A man in a Volkswagen brought a bar from his tool kit to help straighten the brake pedal. The coal trucks, huge Mack dumps, without exception stoPPed, their drivers almost solicitously concerned. I took the hike for a test ride to check it out. Then Judy and I repacked. Judy' had done a terrific job on the sultcase. 'With a roll of masking tape from her pack, she had bandaged it back to useab1l1ty. The suia:ase would carry its load. Farther down the road we stopped at a turnout to confer over a map. A sem1truck was stopped, too, and its driver came over, to warn us of a wash-out road ahead. He mentioned he owned a bike like ours. He said he was almost afraid to ride it. When we asked why, he told us the story of the coal oil. After his explanation I remembered my examination of the road surface where the bike lost traction. It appeared dry, yet feIt strangely slick to my boot sole. The driver's story rang true. We had become another victim of Kentucky's oiled roads. KATALAC KILLED IN DRAG RACE Motorcycle drag racer Ken Katalac, 28 of Santa Ana, Calif. was killed ins~tly when his machine went out of control and crashed into a guard rail at Lions Drag Strip Sunday. A speed wobble was blamed for the accident, which oc- , cured at 120 mph. J. lIacDonald wb.lfed away from the rut 01 tile 250 Novices at Bay lIare ilt a day plae..d by aCCidents, pit racine and what-llave·you. By Dave Smead 1000 OAKS, CAL•• Oct. 12, 1969 - Right off the bat you feellh1Ilgs aren't going to go right when you listen to Preston Petty, just back from Europe and the International Six Day Trials, argue with the sign uP official becallSe he was 10 minutes too late. He wasn't allowed to enter. The 125 Junior, Div. I, got off promptly at 10 a.m. 15 minutes later H. Pace on a quick Penton took the checkered flag. He had to be quick to stay ahead of C. Daly and his Sachs. Their second race wasn't so good because D. Garber and B. Ledford too!' the honors. That defeat only served as catylst for them because Daly rode the third moto just ahead of Pace and both went fast, fast. Pace took a first overall followed by Daly. The second division of 125 Juniors didn't put on such a fine show in the first race because Dean York, on a Sachs built uP a tremendous lead before the time ran out. M. Cook on a Bultaco and A Egizi on a Yamaha battled for second ~d third respectively. The second moto began to look like a repeat of the first but York, possible thinking that his Sachs couldn't be beat, forgot to give it gojuice before the race and gas stops during the race tend to lose places. Cook and Egizi prevailed, this timefirst and second. The third race found Cook ahead of Egizi again with a subdued York in third. The 125 Seniors displayed their talents next with j. dawson coming in ahead of Bob Fortter. A cr.ash at the start knocked Joe VeUlon out of the standings in the first moto. He came back in the second moto for a hard fougbt second behind Larry Shoemaker whohad led the first moto untU mechanicaldifficulties slowed him uP. Bob Fortier got tangled with a pie-plate Expert and came in seventh. Larry Shoemaker led the last race with Fortier pressing constantly. Dawson hung in for a second and two thirds to take second overall behind Shoemaker. In the first division of 250 Juniors J. MacDonald didn't play fair. He keptwinning with big leads. He let F. Herbert win the second one though, and that was all Herbert needed to take second overall. The second division of 250 Junirs was a race to behond with Mike Beanway leading Milt Hayes through the checkered flag. It was CZ against CZ with hardly more than 3 yards at any point in the race between them. The second race was the same close match as the first only this time Hayes led the excitement. The third race started like the' first two only Mut was shoved into Mike. Beanway stayed uP but Hayes did three or four flips. The race was all Beanway's (after a restart) but Hayes took a well earned second overall behind Beanway. The 250 Senior class was an outstanding battle between Jim Nickolson, CZ, Larry Shoemaker, Yamaha and Jim Dawson, Yamaha. They all took a crack at first place but over all it was Nickolson, Shoemaker, and Dawson. The 500 Juniors were spared the hwnlliation of being beaten by Bob Stettan. He led the first two motos but couldn't keep his bike running. Where he left off· T. BUton took over. In the second race even he quit momentarily letting S Littel take first. Bilton came back in the third moto to wipe out everyone with a long lead. Littell rode hard and the last moto showed the way the overall points went. Bilton first, Littel second. The 500 Seniors included names like Rice, Maynard, VeUIon and Shoemaker. The first race found Joe Veillon ahead of Bob Maynard at the finish. Rick took third. In the second race Veillon had to settle for second behind Rice. Maynard took a third. How apout the third race? It was cancelled! In the first place things didn't go right at Bay Mare this weekend. First an out of control rider severely injur~ three members of the sponsoring Sidehack Association. Next there is a first corner crash and out goes a 125 Junior. Later one of the pie plate Experts crashes abead of a true Expert and away he goes. To top off the day, a STUPID pit racer crashes and breaks I1is leg taking the last ambulance. It was just too late to wait on an ambulaJice for the last 500 Senior race. It's hard to explain why the rash of accidents considering the good job done by the Sidehack Association but two things are clear. Pit racers are the lowest kind of motorcycle riders on the face of the earth and there has to be a better solution to the no-number pie plate Experts. They are nothing but a floating hazard for the true riders. How about letting the pie plates ride with the Novices but sllbtracting five places from their finish position? It's got to be better than lel±1ng the Experts run them down. (Results on page 20)

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