Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

~ exas 'Crossers ,S Smoking ,Still till ~~ ,... Cl By Richard Dunn Rich ard Photos by Richard Creed Ph otos b y Rich ard AU ST IN. TEX., Nov. 7, 19 71 AUSTIN, TEX ., N ov, 7. 1971 - Austin Motosport Park was about as invi ting as Mor o sp ort abu ut inviting Ma yo r Butler's home for errant folks Mayor Bu t ler's h ome erra n t thi s Sunday . but a month of p rior effo rt m on th uf prior effort this Sunday, by Fu King Productions, proprietors of by Kin g Productions. the track,, re vealed gold beneath all the th e tr ack revealed go ld b en ea th th e glo om gloom and cold.. Further rearrangement co ld Fu rther rearran gem e nt of the good earth opened up several p ra c tical practical lines through almost all th rough al most sec tio ns. in vit ing sections, inviting and receiving much receivin g much place-swap p ing. Everyone's pleasure place-swapping_ Every o ne's pl easure was fu rth er further enhanced by th e witty a nd b y the and reve aling re ma rks revealing remarks of the knowledgeable th e kn owl ed geabl e (ah em). announcer (ahem). The 100 and 125 Junior winners have 12 5 h ave been called cberry-pickers by some, but ch erry-p ic kers the fact remains that Jack Webb and Joe th atJack a nd J oe Powers clean the 100 class every time, class while Sam Finger and Joe Witter do the a nd do 's_ same to the 125 's. Anyone for Senior division? divisi on? Steve Stackab le p resided over both Stackable presided the 125 Seniors (Yam) and the Open O pe n J uniors Juniors (BSA). Although Frankie Hadeler led most of the laps on his 125 m o st th e la ps Penton, Steve always became impatient S teve became impatie nt on on the last lap and scurried on b y. Steve by. won three more heats from the Open he ats Juniors second time out [first race) on (first an Uncle Wrinkle BSA 500 , and allowed 500, as how he was gonna do the same to the he to Open Seniors nex t time, time_ o M ~ Z ~ w Z W ...J U o > U o Holbert's Great Crash A CZ doesn't work best this way. as our rider will find out all too 500n. By Janet West J a net \I' est HO UST O:\ . TEX., Nov, 7.1971 HOUSTO:X. TE X_. Nov. 7. 1971 - Greg G raham h as t rail er ed h is Graham has trailered his CZ and his Puch at leas t fur one Sunday of each a t least for o ne Su nday month.. He and his wife Linda ha ve mo nth lie hi s have op en ed opened a ne w m otocros s track about 14 new motocross a bou t miles north of Houston, on Fairbanks m iles H oust o n, o n Fa irbanks Road. Ro ad. Sunday's race went very Su nday's ver y smoo th ly. es pecially si nce G reg had smoothly, especially since Greg h ad only one week to prepare the co urse to th e course and an d make other o ther p r o vis ions provisions for fo r conc ess ions and j ohns. The track was a concessions a n d johns. Th e w as n ice o ne with . m uc h terra in nice one v.· j t h as much variety of terrain as p os sibl e. possible. The "d av was a surprise 10 everyone. su rp rise to every one. T he ddy Robbie Esterlein, who hasn't been doing Es te r le in, wh o hasn 't d oing much winning lately, was the bi g money mu ch wa s th e big winner of the day, taking a fourth in the win ner o f day. fuurt h 250 Experts and a first in the Open a nd first Open Experts. Don Rainey was the first place place winner in the 250 Experts, and he definitely had to work for it. He and a nd b attlin g Bob Grah am were battling like mad for Graham a while. but eventuall y Bob was forced while, eventually to drop out of the race, leaving Rainey a to out ra ce, R ain ey clear number one. Doug Maxey (Yam) Max ey (Yarn) carne came on pretty strong the second and sec ond third motos of the day, running second m otos d ay, to Rainey. after Graham dropped ou t. a ft er dropp ed t, almost catching Don several times. se vera l almos t ca tc h ing Es t erlein, who also had his eye on the Esterlein. h is o n th e (Pleas e turn (Please tu rn to page 25) aY111 I.w. Central Bill Kasson, King of the Kasson Kin g o f Motocross Team, got heavily wired to T eam. go t h eavily his 380 CZ. and saw first checks in two 3 80 CZ, sa w heats. Evidently fearing a n earthquake an of his own making in heat 3, he m aking beat motored in second behind Gary Park sec ond (400 Suz), who had rocked the seismos Su z), ro cked earlier, causing ghastly damage to h is ea rlier, d amage to his place . standing. Second and third were place Seco nd an d Bob Howard (skeletal Husky) and Ho wa rd a nd Richard Bigley (380 CZ).. R ichard (380 CZ) What's a skeletal Husky? Strangely tuned to drink from a hidden anti-freeze to can, it was totally devoid of its usual it totally reservoir of petroL This dietary petrol. deficiency doubtless accounted for its ac co u n te d em aciated appearance. Beware th e emaciated appearance.Beware the SPCM, Robert Howard. Howard , (Results on p age 32) (R esu lts o n page 3 2) Joh n Hughes rode h is CZ qu ickly e rratica lly to second in t he Open Juni o rs DEALERS-WHO IS REBORING YOUR CYLINDERS? 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