Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

~OCA Hosts ~Intermount TT ; Championship o ~ ~ By Larry Knop w OGDEN, UTAH, July 18, 1971 - The d Ogden Cycle Association held its annual >- Intermountain Championship IT at Hot () Springs today and the hot was very appropriate; hot weather, hot racing, and hot pants. A pleasant combination for a Sunday afternoon. Actually the racing would have been even hotter if the weather hadn't been. The small bore bikes in particular had problems with metal seizing metal, but there was always plenty of action. The OCA spent a lot of time setting up a good IT track, and the riders could really show their stuff. A 100cc rider, Del Brown (Hod), was the only Expert who- could walk away from his class. The 125 and 200 Experts had some real battles. It took a 3rd heat win for Phil Bernard (Dal) to beat out Pete erandaII (Suz) in the 125 class, and for 200 Expert Kevin Croft (Suz) to take Phil Hart (Bul). These riders then met in the Small Bore Sweepstakes, where Brown grabbed the lead and held it. Crandall kept the pressure on though, and fmally passed only to suffer the embarrassment of having Del's 100 outpull his 125. Finally Pete passed again, and this time he made it stock, despite the challenges of Bernard, then Croft, and finally Hart. The 250 Expert go was another wild affair. The third heat was a Woody Lawhon (Oss) disaster. First Woody and another rider crashed off the line, requiring a restart. Woody worked his way through the field, finally passing leader Jeff Carson on the last lap. Then he overcooked it. Woody ended up contemplating the dirt after two complete 360-degree slid-arounds while Jeff motored by for the win. The Open Expert class began the last heat with Bob Brown (Mai) and Craig Williams (Suz) tied with a lst and a 2nd apiece. Craig got the jump. Bob had to work his way past a couple of riders but he was soon on Craig's rear tire. Last lap, Bob made his move. He pulled almost even with Craig, but then his front wheel hooked Craig's bike and that was it. Boomp, boomp, thud. Williams took the win. In the Big Bore Sweepstakes all these riders had their leathers on again. The ligh t wen t on and Dennis Spencer (Yam) grabbed the lead. Dennis only took 3rd in the 250 class, but he was . fiercely in the Sweepstakes. He held off challenge after challenge, but finally yielded to Williams, then Brown. With only a couple of laps left Brown tried the same move on Williams again -.but this time he made it. That was it Brown pulled steadily away for the honors. The races ran off with dispatch, and as noted earlier, the scenery was excellent. OCA did a good job, but part of the credit for the races must go to the Dusters M.C. The Dusters are a brand new club, and they turned out in force to help and learn some of the ropes. (Results on page 32) Kevin Croft flies across the 12 miles of Utah desert to take a first place in the 2ooc.c elass at Cedar Fort. SAICr'OI DEI'ED Course Takes Toll on Scrallblers By Terry Newfarmer CEDAR F:ORT, UTAH, July 25, 1971 - Every desert c;ourse has that one or two rough spots where you have to push or plow through sand...but take a season worth of these spots and put them end-to-end, and you have the 12-mile hare scrambles course of the Lehi Challengers that defeated most of the 60 riders. Waist-high sagebrush and six-foot guillies marked the easy way to the smokebomb, where the riders took on the first of a long series of climbs up through the junipers, on loose shale sitting on deep powder dust. Many a 250 loaded up and quit on the leisurely practice lap, to never make the start of Lamar Walker took a first in the 100 class but surprised everyone by sneaking in second overall. the race. Author of the course was Preston Gerber, Utah's champion of the desert, who did the course marking on a damp day with his 400· Husky - and almost no help from the Lehi Challengers club. "It looks like the Challengers won't be putting on any more races," said Gerber, as he related the events leading up to'theJuly 24-25 weekend ofracing, not sanctioned by the American Motorcycle Assn., and hence not by the Utah Sportsman Riders Assn. "The AMA cashed my checks for a club charter and two sanctions, but after weeks of red tape we didn't have either," he said. He described a series of letters asking for five more AMA members on the -application, copies of constitution and bylaws and for a peace officer to sign the application; all ending in denial because the peace officer was a member of the club. The Lebi Challengers were scheduled to co-sponsor the Utah motocross championship in October. But for the riders who braved the 96-degree heat, the tough hare scrambles proved to be plenty challenging, and every finisher won a trophy, although Gerber finished them as they came in after the winner completed his four laps, so the 125 winner had to only push two laps. But the course could be ridden by a good enough rider on a smaIl bike, as demonstrated by 100cc winner Lamar Walker, who rode the full four to finish just two minutes behind the Overall and Open winner, Dave Blaylock. Charging in minutes after them was Kevin Croft, who remains almost unbeatable on the desert and the motocross tracks in the 200 class. (Results on page 32) It was Dave Blaylock's day in the Lehi Challenger's Scrambles as he won overall. Texan Scramblers Converge on Baytown By Johnny Warren ROMie Henriksen (Bul) in the fmaL . BA YTOWN, TEX.,July 25, 1971 - The In the 0-100 class, Wayne Stark (Suz) best scramble race on the Gulf Coast are won the fITst heat, Brad Hood (Kaw) held every fourth Sunday in Baytown. coasted to victory in the second, and All motorcycle riders and fans will Jerry Turner scored a win in the final. agree. This track is the best kept and organized in this section of the country. The riders are free to let it all hang out. Fans from all over the country came to see Larry Haston, David Rush and Richard Dillard, three of the top Amateur riders in U.S. Larry Haston, a veteran Texas Amateur scrambler, pushed his 650 Triumph to a one-sided victory in the By Terry Newfarmer first heat and final of the 350-open. He SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH - The Salt also won the trophy dash. Richard Lake City Attorney has been directed to pushed him all the way. But Dillard's investigate the pOssibilities of the city 250 Bultaco was no match for the 650 passing its

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