Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

i Writin'Around By Chuck Clayton ;:: HOW I CLEARED MY GARAGE FOR FUN & PROFIT '" - WOO"'.I" tr.el ell••piolsllip By N. A. Williams WOODLAND WAsa, March 21, 1971 - The track was fast and there were many spills during the day, but no serious injuries. 244 riders turned out. . By the time the heats were timed in there was 530 for .fast tune over all and another 55 for fast time in the 100cc class heats donated as pnze money. Another 55 was to go to the winner of the lOOcc B Main. Gary Kapus collected the fast time money by timing in his 250cc Kawasaki with a time of 1.34.4 for a four lap heat race. Bill Ehrens collected the fast time in the 100cc class with 1 :40.0. In the 200cc C Main Gerry Gilles dumped his Kawasaki right at the fmish By Maureen Lee line as he tried too hard for 2nd place. Who says motorcycles are dangerous? As we all know, there's more than one way Heart stopper of the day was when to get hurt but we hate it all the more when it's one of our o~. Many of you know Gary lUpus and Larry Mascottee, Ed Fulbright, Service Manager for N.orm J.l.e~es. H~ used to nde ~scot as one of the tangled in the .250cc Trophy Dash. BSA Wrecking Crew, got us started m racmg mcluding even lending leathers .for the Mascottee got sideways and lUpus flTSt ladies race ever held in California, not to mention some excellent coachmg and couldn't maneuver around him. He hit tuning on my little Beezer. Well, his wife Norma was critically injure~ crossing th.e Mascottee's rear wheel and went over street in front of St. Mary's Hospital, and the damage was great, beheve me! So ,f the handlebars onto the track flat on his you know the Fulbrights, keep in touch with them. Nonna needs some cheering up, back. Kapus got up quickly but didn't it'll be a long time before she'll be in shape again. . _ finish the race. Mascottee came back to The Mint 400 is over now, some at Caesar's Palace. They DID firush, by see if Kapus was O.K. He didn't finish observations on that...with no disrespect the way. There were squawks from the the Dash either. The crowd was glad to to any of the other great riders, when bike riders last yell;'" when over three see Kapus up O.K. J.N. and Switzer team up with no bad hundred entered, thIS year only aro~d (Results on page 22) luck you could just see the writing on ninety did, maybe the promoters will evening and it's good; Doesn't stay with the 'wall...two of the Desert Daisy!, learn that the riders are getting anyone brand although tliere's quite a Patty Clagg and Mary Brooks put on a tired of being pushed ar~und...h?w bit of BSA and Kawasaki, but it shows valiant effort on a Steen's Rickman, about the emergency veh,c1e bemg all types of the sport in an unbiased even to the point of going out again for driven by a girlfriend who ~ot herself fashion from road riders (but none of one more loop after it was dark! ... that stuck in a wash and to get It out they the uglies) through hillc1imh, motocross, James ConnoUy shown riding the had to u ~ e 0 f those cabl.e minibikers, the whole shot. Cycle News Triumph chopper is District 37's whatemyoucalhts and th~y stretc~~ It will let you know when it's scheduled number one heavyweight scrambles across the course to do ,t, at twilight, for release. rider, admits it was tricky but was with many bikes still running... ouch, my Read where Dave Aldana's oil plug lapping in one hour thirty·five while his neck! . fell out at Daytona. Tut, tut. If he'd partner was taking two-and·a·half. It We attended a press sho~g of an been in an ACA Grand Prix he couldn't was the same bike Evd did his thinll on hour long documentary on bIkes for TV have passed t«;ch without it wired on! called "Sparkles in the Wheel" the other Over the years I'd accumulated a small truckload of motorcycle parts, .~ including a dismantled 1954 Matchless, that I had no particular use for. « The stuff wasn't junk, but it was too miscellaneous to sell and too h~y ~ to keep shifting about in my never-ending quest for more garage working ~ space. I'd w paid too much for the old 13 Matchbox and the few parts it was >- lacking were getting scarcer all the time. t.) The new Mavrick shocks over there I'd purchased in the wrong length and was too embarrassed to return. It's a mistake I frequently make. There were lug boxes and coffee cans all over my workshop full of similar mistakes as weU as tires and parts discarded in favor of some modification. Hauling it down to the Cycle Swap-Q.Rama, I hoped to get a hundred dollars for the lot. What 1 dreaded most was having to haul it back in case nobody else wanted it. I needn't have worried. A few minutes after the doors opened I had fIVe collectors bidding for the Matchless. Each one wanted different pieces of the rusty hulk to complete some rig that he was restoring. We had a good old time talking about Matchless and Ajay lore. It was fun to see their faces ligh t up when I named the prices I wanted. 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