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5 BORN ways competitive. I hope I can ride ~ for his age. I don't know how he iiust flies. He's got a lot of stamina. good rider, a good sport. IG HAVE YOU RIDDEN AND 1l0U GET STARTED? it got me started. He used to race 't around then. He was good when !'II flat track. HAVE ANY PLANS TO RIDE CK OR ANY OTHER TYPE OF fiVE EVENTS? Uclimbs, Ice racing, Scrambles, hings like that. lU GOING TO BE RIDING LS THIS YEAR? II be just going to a few of them Take the wife and girls along with e it a family sport of it again. Ilike going I will, if I don't I won't. IOUGHT! that they should change their •ttle bit on enduros. There are too ~o;so.o, R time. So they really didn't check your riding ability. If you go in on time you come out three or four minutes late, you probably rode harder to do this than the guy that goes in five minutes early and comes out on time and he just puddled through the whole section. We've got to have somebody to stop the guys from going in early. Either that or you've got to run it like they do over in the six days; they won't let you leave a section until you're on time. DO YOU HAVE ANY TYPE OF PHYSICAL FITNESS PROGRAM TO KEEP IN SHAPE? I used to especially for the Jack Pine. You have a 7-8 week layover in the summer and the fust one is the Jack Pine. That's like a double day event. I used to work out down at the "Y" and playa lot of ball and stuff. I didn't this year I didn't have time. I just went as I was. You've got to have a couple of things; you've got to have confidence in yourself and your machine, know that you can do what you want to do and you're got to have the will to win. The whole secret of fmishing a national is keeping your bike together. If you go 60 MPH down through the ~s you're not going to 'keep it together because you're going to hit one. So that's just being foolish. You've got to know what your limitations are. And you've got to have enough confidence in yourself and your machine to ride up at the maximum of your machine's limitations and your limitations. so that you can go down through here at speed. DO YOU TEAR YOUR MACHINE DOWN AFTER EVERY RUN? No there just isn't time. That's why I usc completely stock engine and parts now. You start putting anything into the engine, cams, special valves or anything and they won't last as iong. You've got to have an engine and a bike that can run 700-800 miles in each run. If you're putting anything special in it your only going to get one or two races out of it. I And when you go from one race that's here in New York one week and you get back Monday or Tuesday and you've got to be down in St. Louis or something you don't have time to rebuild an engine. HOW LONG DO '(OU USUALLY RIDE ONE hey will try and put the checks at f a difficult section to try and see ou are. Well, if you go in four arly then you may come out on MACHINE? My other bike I rode for two years. This year I changed models .. .1 don't have as much trouble keeping my bikes together since I siowed down. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN SERIOUSLY INJURED? No, and I've been riding for six years. HA VE YOU EVER RECEIVED ANY OTHER NATIONAL TITLES? I received second last year, fourth the year before, second the year beCot':: that. My first year ridin~ was when I received second. (Mv rust year riding nationals that is.) . I started going to the nationals when I became an A rider. 1 rode Jack Pine as a B rider and was High Point B and won my class. Tben I rode the rest of the year and won both state championships and another one. That's where I got 100 points to become an A rider. DO YOU THINK THAT THE POINTS SHOULD BE GUMULATIVE FROM YEAR TO YEAR FOR B RIDERS TO BECOME A? I think that they should put some incentive in it so that riders will want to be A riders. None of them want to be A riders: right now anyway'- Most riders want to be B riders as long as they can. Maybe it's changing now because there are so many riders starting out so, maybe some oC them now might want to get up in a class where there isn't 100 entries. But the thing of it is that when you become an A rider you have to ride against A riders. Most of them don't want to do that they want to be right up at the top of the B riders; be winning aU of the time. Rather than move up to the A class and go back for a year or two until they become competitive. Also powderpuff riders should have their own class. They shouldn't be riding against the men. I GUESS YOU'D FEEL PRETTY BAD IF A WOMAN BEAT YOU? Maybe I would. I could say I won't. I don't think that there's much chance of it. But there are some good girl riders around. Carol Moss, (Degraw), is a good rider, Lucie Stratton was riding some of them, she wasn't doing too bad. I think Carol is the best woman rider around. STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS: I don't know how they can call everything a state championship. There should be just one' per state. One year I think they had four or five of them. You've got a 100 mile state championship, 125, ISO, 175,160,200. That isn't right. They should have one state championship. 'J' ~ ~ ...... ",."-~.:,.- '~-,.~ .. .... ';f,f£~ 0-100 - 101-101-125 ":'126''25 All cash and trophies presented M.arch 2f at ACE Motocross'here at Indian ~DuQes_ ""