Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

to N ACA'S QUIET ONE " C> '" ;:: Q. ... ~ w Z w ... -' U > >- U Young Lonny Singer. Young PC Meets 8C, FDr Fun BC, fDf fun By E. C. Birt MEXICALl, MEX., Nov. 21, 1971 MEXICALI, of Calif., Precision Cycle of Lomita, Calif.. Precision invaded Mexieali today to battl e with Mexicali battle the lo cals and emerged vic to rio us. After locals an d victorious. a free dinner and cerveza Saturday c eru eza night, everyone was felling good by race nigh t, time. After the third mota, in fac t, a fact, 30-mi)e Hare and Hound was run 3 0-m ile around a distant mountain. Emilo Guerrero won the 125 Novic e Emil o Gu errero 125 Novice comp etitio n clas s with stiff competition from Willy class Hernandez (Pen) and Polgerio Reyes, riding an 1s10. lslo, The 100/125 Combined Expert wa s Th e 100 /1 2 5 C omb ined Ex p ert was derided in the first moto when Bob rna to Bob decid ed Brooks (Carab ela) narrowly b eat au t Bro oks (Carabela) narrowl y beat o ut Barn es Clow ard Bill Barnes (Pen) and Paul Cloward (Ric). Barnes crashed hard in the second crashe d th e sec o nd mota and Brooks pulled out the win. out Nancy Des Rosiers managed a third Nan cy mota win on a 250 Ossa by holding the moto win o n lead fr om th e start and stretching it to from the an d stretc h ing the finish . finish. The Combined 250/500 bas h was Combin ed 250 /500 bash won b y Dave Rodgers, who swept a ll by Rodgers. all three races . Husky-mounted Joe Villon races. By Dennis Greene WILLOW SPRINGS, CAL., Nov. 21, 1971 - There may have been another road race going on the same time in the road ra ce th e Southern California area but you sure ar ea y ou couldn't tell by the large entry for the Premier Helmet Grand Prix Road Race. A cold, stiff wind kept most spectators in their ca rs but this did not cars detract from the show. The wind carried alI at all the sound away and at times it was like looking at a silent movie in a drive-in. Out on the 2.5-mile c o urse there was on 2 .5-mile course a great deal of competition in all G.P. and Prod. classes. First overall was was young Jim Evans on a Mel Dinesen on tuned Yamaha. Jim, on the 350, ran away and and h id hid from 500 Kawasaki-mounted Dick Kilgrove who finished second just ahead of Pat Evans Pa t who had been swapping back and forth h ad for that second spot. fo r Pat Evans ha d another of his fantastic Pa t had days with a wi n in th e 200 Senior GP win the class, the 250 class and 200 Production 25 0 class Prod uctio n the 25 0 Production and a second in the 250 Production.. Chambers Enterprises was well we ll represented the lightweight rep resen ted in th e ligh tweigh t classes with G.P. w ith first and second in the Junior G.P . Dick Robb, Italjet.mounted, I talj et-m o un ted , squeeked home just ahead of the youngest competitor on the track, y o ungest competit or o n Lonny Singer , also on an Italjet. Singer, als o o n It alj et. Senior cl ass honors went to head of class hon ors the comp an y , Sid Chambers, who came company, Ch ambers, wh o cam e home just ahead of two other Chamber tw o Enterprise machines. Vampire-mounted ma chines. Don Wicks headed in fo r a second and for se co nd Ed Kelly on a Tarbo for a third. The Kell y for 125 class winner, Phil Thompson 125 Th ompson (Yam),, r o unded out the lightweight (Yam) rounded th e wins of the Chambers Enterprises. th e Ch ambers Dec. 12 at Riverside will gather Dec. together all th e riders from both the associations. A fu ll program of both full of Junior and Senior riders competing in Prod. and GP events sanctioned by the ACA. (Resu lts on (Results on page 32) Bob Speier. 250 Production w inner. Speier, winner. -, ~ \ Nancy Des Rosiers beat a bunch of 125 experts on her 250 Ossa... NO FAIR! held on for a strong second o vera ll and on for overall first 500 . Second 250 went to Patrick went. first 500. DISTRICT 37 ROUGH SCRAMBLES 31 UTry it, you'll like it!" K.anczuzewski. J\..anczuzewski. The 'round-the-mountain Hare and T he 'r ou nd-th e-mou n tai n Hound was a close race between was Rodgers, Cloward, Brooks, and Ricky Ro dge rs, Cloward . Brown on a borrowed bik e. A cro ssroad bike. crossroad wiped out a ll but Brown and he held on a nd he on all fo r the win with Kanczuzewski second for Kanczu zewski seco nd and Juan Medina third. J uan Medin a (Results on page 32 ) 32) (R esu lts o n By Ed Drechsler will ride with the coveted Number 1 rid e I Sid Chambers . Photos by Ed & Jim Drechsler Heavyweight Heavyw eight plate during 1972. MOORPARK, CAL., Nov. 21, 1971 Congratulations, Jeff. J eff. O.K., O.K. , yo u you The last scheduled District 37 Scrambles 37 snivelers, list en sni velers , listen to this. Jeff reportedly point run of the 1971 season was held pLunks down 60 bucks every month for plunks 60 at Muntz Cycle Park by the Simi Valley at h is bike. He gets some help from C.H.. his get s fr om C.H b illed Wheat, but no more than the superb th an su pe rb M.C. The race was billed as a Rough Scrambles. tuning wh ich helped Jeff to win. Jeff which ;\I05t Most of us regular scrambles scra mb les p ays his own way to all events. too. pays o wn way to o. competitors arrived expecting to ride arrived rid e Ever see Steve Scolt ride? If y ou have Scott ride ? If you the same course set up and used by th e tr ouble a nsw ering that questi on , th e same cours e set up and used by the trouble answering that question, Dirt Diggers some months b ac k for therr back th eir chances are that you never did. Steve cha nces y o u never point run. Were we surprised!! Th e point run. Were we surprised!! The o u t-ro de th e 250 Experts to win by course (no way you can call it a track) out-rode the 250 Experts to win by co urse (no way you ca n call it a trac k) co mma n ding leads. But, during the first commanding leads. But, during th e first ran into the hills, around cactus patches, 0' aro u nd cac t us mot a Jim O 'Neal on his ran mota,, Jim Neal on his over softball-sized rocks, up a hill softball-si zed ro cks, Rickman/Montesa ac tua lly led Steve for RickmanjhIon te sa actually (called a bottleneck by some in other some distance un til losing it in a soft som e dist an ce until motorcycle activities) and down onto a o n to turn. Jim , riding for Kolbe Cycles, tum. Jim, Cycl es, fin ished fifth overa ll. ba ck portion o f the TT track. back porti on of th e IT track . I parked finished overall. the van and stood looking in awe at t he van st ood lo o k ing a t the lengths of ribbon decorating the drab th e Consider he was behind th e likes of Con sider the lik es len gths hillside. About the time 1 had decided Ab out tim e I de cided Steve Scott. Dannie Hacki e, Scott Scott, Hockie, not to ride. someone came up t o m e and ride, to me Smith and Mike Myers , plus that he Sm ith Myers, th at said,"Try it! You'll like it!" That was all it !" That broke his shoulder at th e Carlsbad Trans sh ou lder a t the T ra ns said,'Try the arm-twisting [ needed. I AMA and re-broke it last month . AMA an d month. th e A FM SUFFERS POOR TURNOUT AT ORANGE COUNTY RACEWAY T U RNOUT ORA NGE RA CEWAY AFM Get Th e Th e side-hacks found th e uphill rid e fo un d the Get this, sports fans: The course was The ride personally laid out by Dav e Riley of the o ut Dave o f th e too much , so they rode around it. much, the v aro und Aver & Garnett have troubles in the AFM road race Sunday.. A poor turnout mad e t he officials a Av er troubl es A FM rood Sund ay poor turn out made the o ffic ials bit discouraged, but they didn't have much pre-race publicity either. Photos by Buzz Saty.. mu ch pre·race publ icity Photos Barv but Usin g 37 Hair·raising ac tion was pr ovid ed when Hair-raisin g action provided' wh en Simi Valley club. Using the District 37 rulebook as a guide ("Rough Scrambles:: rulcb ook Scrambles one hack lost it and left the course.. No o ne th e co urse No The course sh all have no maximum co u rse shall ma ximum problem th ere, bu t as h e crossed under there, but he c rosse d length and sh all consist 'o f at least 50 % len gt h shall of 50% th e ribbon, his throttle stuck open. The the ribb on, stu ck o p en. Th e natural terrain ((unimproved)) and may ((u nimp ro ved) ) ribbon caught the pilot b y th e neck and ribb on caugh t th e pil ot by the hills, pulled him to the ground. Th e hack was gro und. The have up and down hills . sand, water now going a t a good clip and the n ow at th e cro ssing, etc.") Dave prepared a crossing, thoroughly challengin g course. So challenging c o urse. S o monkey seemed to be h appily riding see me d be happily ridi ng th oroughly challenging, in fact, that durin g th e first th at during th.e alo ng, until he n oticed the he was alone. along, he noticed th e alo ne. ch allenging, mota of the 250 Novices. who should moto o f th e 250 Novices, wh o sh ould Zap, he unloaded.. But the ha ck still unloaded hack prickly cactus b ombs along with a stuck throttle bombs alo ng high side into a prickl y cac tus patch side co llec ting head ing for thepit area. Just as it was to collecting a w orthy array o f ne edles worthy arr ay of needles heading for the pit along with two dislocated fin gers ? Dave disl ocated fingers? lay in to a ne w pi ck-up truck it hit a post into new pick-up p os t was las t seen with his hand immersed last with. im me rse d and nipped over. The damage to the o ver. th e into a plastic b ag full of ice and lookin g bag fpll o f looking hack was minor and n o one was hac k min or no o ne int o for a good pair of tweezers . tweezers. seriously injured. serio usly One of the purposes of th ese meets is purp oses o f these m eets It turned out to be a great way to end It ou t en d "l to select the best rider for the different fo r th e 1971 scrambles season. We didn't the scra mb les didn 't sel ect th e classes. This year's battl e has b een clas ses. y ear's battle been get to rid e q uite as long as we would ride quite lon g between Jim Connolly and Jeff Sexton. between Connoll y hav e lik ed to o, but it was nice not to be have liked too, n ot be Well, it seems that Hopetown decided it. th at H op et own de cided dogged-tired at the end of th e day.. d ogged -tir ed a t o f the d ay ~~om-~~r~er~~oom~-----t~~~~~------~-_-_-_-_-===-======================= -~-_-_-~-_-~-~-~-~-~_~_=_~_=_~_~_~_=_~=_=~_=_~_=~_=_~_~ :JdHeads -Jim -b y- over ZOO ' p oin ts-"mt- - - - - - t Re strltn nrpag S~ - - - - - - ~===-==== __ ---------- ------------------- - - ----- _ ---J

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