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Cycle News 1971 11 09

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.". M ~ .... '" ci Photos by Tom Pyle ,; o Z The first turn was similar to J any other you'd see in motocross but already you can spot several riders going down. ~ w Z W ..J U > U c Lafayette, Colo. Oct. 17,1971 Report next week The bottleneck has already build' up. The last rider to make it through on' the outside. is 1111 ... : ilInd here you can see that. Rider 306 appears to fighting to keep control... A D And appears to have saved it while those behind have either gone down or are completely •. blocked by machines. R : the mass of But 306 didn't make it either as he finally goes over the lip of the berm. A '5' ·H 'f ·R ·S Now it is sorting out time as the pile ,up is converged upon by the dismounted riders looking for their machines. No. 451 has wormed his way around the pileup and is now faced with an almost empty track ahead. It's still pretty much a mess but nobody was sertously hurt and most made it back to restart.

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