Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

Dorsch Makes Cal Crown 4th Straight By David Swift By Swift GARDENA, CAL., Nov. 21, 1971 21 , The day was as p leasant as grandma's d ay gra nd m a's pleasant blueberry pie. Tension was replaced blueb erry with easy laughter. The dinky crowd, a c rowd , bit lazy and removed from the day's lazy th e activities, was spiced with a small ac t ivit ies, contingent of females who occasionally co ntin gent w ho o ccasionally gave a rousing cheer for their favorite racers, more often than not Gene Romero. Many racers, such as Romero R om e ro . race rs, R om ero and Don Castro, brough t out their Castr o , brought second-stringers while others played sec ond-stringers with experimental equipment. Terry Dorsc h , however, brough t his Dorsch, h o we ver, brought business machine. lie won the last busin ess m achine. He w o n Corona TT, Cor ona IT, the previous Ascot th e p revious half-mile, ABC's Race of Champions at h al f-m ile, ABC 's Ch ampions a t San Jose , and now today's California Jose, an d t oday 's Cali forn ia S ta te Ch ampionsh ip State Championship back here on h er e o n Asc ot's n o t-so -h ot d a y time tr ack. Ascot's not-sa-hot daytime track. MAIL ORDER , ~ w Z W w FORK BRACES A.. "" inch A $11 .95 $ 1 1.9 5 B. 1 in ch $12.95 $12 .9 5 B.l inch POLISHED ALUMINU~ ~ Ll S H E D ALUMINU ~ O ~ ALL MODELS ~ MO DE LS .J ..J U > U W CHAINBREAKERS CHA IN BREA KE RS Made of 4130 chrome moly with Ma d e o f 413 0 ch rome m o ly wit h hard en ed point. hardened poin t. New Cal State champ Terry Dorsch (65,) tries to pass old Cal S tate champ Eddie Wirth (26).. It Cal St ate Cal State (26) Terr y Dorsch (65r) dd ie was a runaway for DOfSch and Tom Rockwood (9 1 after t en m il es. Notehowslick the track looks. w as r una way f or D o rsch (91 ten miles. N o t ehowslick t h e loo k s. Ivan Shigamasa (56z) has just taken over the lead from Tom Horton. In fact. everyone has tak en Sh igamasa just Ho rto n. fac t, taken over from Tom Hort on. Pat McCaul (48y) looks for the ho le that ain't there. (48yllooks hole Horton. Dorsch wins in an assuming m a n ner . assu m in g manner. individ ual a nd fol ks He is a rather quiet individual and folks ar e are just now getting used to the idea this ge tti ng used th e th is TT specialist is no lon ger a IT specialist. IT specialist n o longer TT Mi ke Mike Mumford set fast qualifying fas t tim e a t nam by-pamby 24. 78 . T he best time at a namby·pamby 24.78. The b est times during Ascot's successful Friday tim es su cc essful Frida y nigh t series th is p ast season were two this past tw o seconds faster. The 10am-c1ay·whatever fas t er. T he loam -clay -what ever surfac e th at h olds th e famous c us h ion surface that holds the famo us cushion c5lll!?CJ( Cycle Mfg. Inc.. c!:J1~CJ( Inc together w hen the sun goes down toge ther when d own b ec omes a Mr. Hyde affair in the th e becomes Hyde afternoon . The sun b a ke s it dry and a afternoon. bakes it a nd few hot laps converts it to a surface not h ot c on ver ts it no t unlike the nearby Harbor Freeway, n earb y Fr eeway, without the b en efit of rain grooves for w ith out th e benefit o f traction.. trac tio n Dorsch followed Mumford for th e D orsch fo llowed Mu mford fo r the first couple of rounds to start off the co u p le r ounds t o th e Ex pert h eats Expert heats but Mike appeared t o have Mik e appeared to , NEW I RON. (Abovel Edd ie Mulder rode this Norton b uilt by Ron Wood (Norwood? !. Check the NEW IRON. IAbove) Eddie built (Norwood?). frame as so on as you get d one gawk ing at the tank/seat co nfigurat ion. Mulder claims it is quite frame soon done gawking configuration. is q uite comfortable and handles well.. (Below) Rider Frank Gillespie sticks his tongue out at the snoopy co mfort ab le han d les well (Be low ) Rid er Fra n k Gillesp ie st icks tong ue a t t he snoo py ph otog rap her who photographer wh o is oogling h is Ge ne Ha rt line Ben ell i. Hand ling is fin e bu t powe r is down. That his Gene Hartline Benelli. Handling fine but power d ow n. Th a t comes w ith time and money.. Frank and Gene have th e former bu t could use some of t he latte r. with t ime mo ney F ra n k a nd Ge ne have the fo rm er but som e of the latter. the edge. In fact,, he did have t he edge th e fac t h e hav e the th e the edge of the unpredicatble wide u np red icatb le groove - and too much of it, at that. a nd t o o of a t th a t. A ttem p ti ng t o gas up a bit going in to a ttemp ting to going to tum , Mumford su d den ly found himself tum, sudd~nly fo un d floating off on a ta ngen t and Dorsch fl oating on tangent a nd Dorsc h underneath undernea th him for th e win. fo r the The same thing hap pen ed to m an y of th ing happened t o many the other riders , including Dave Smith th e o ther riders, Sm it h se m i, Gen e R omer o. R id in g and Gene Romero. Riding in the semi, Romero held off Smith, who had his o ff wh o h ad h is hands full holding off Jody N ich o las. h ol d in g o ff J ody Nicholas. T hey They battered b att er e d away for four-and-three-quarters fou r-and -three-quarters laps lap s when whe n m ade his of plucky Dave made h is move out of the last turn at th e sa me moment Gene lost the same m o m e n t tum lo st the line h e h ad used successfully th e he had successfu lly the th e p revious previouS four t ours. Dave got excited tours. and did the same thing. J ody suffered a th in g. Jody rough crash h er e last time out so h e here ti me o u t he kept cool. The three of t h em sped for kep t co ol. th ree them fo r th e fla g in a clump and no telling who the flag te lling won.. They all m ad e th e Main, an yway . w on made the anyway. Las t year's Last year 's winner Eddie Wirth was again leading the final fiel d th ro ugh the fi nal field through th e first of the 20 laps. Dorsch elbowed his lap s. elb owed h is way past Tom Rockwood and Eddie R oc kw o o d a nd Mu lder t o n eedl e Mulder to needle Wirth for the lead. lead . T erry Terry finally hurried past with the extra horses he has b een displaying la t el y . he been d isplay in g lately. Mean while, Ed die Mulder, riding a ~anwhile, Eddie unique N orton built from the ground up uniqu e Norton fro m t he b y R on Wood, b ega n letting go of a by Ron Wood, began le t ti n g of thus'far-strong cam paign to take third th ird th us- far-stro ng campaign t o away from Tom Rockwood.. His m otor R o ckwo od motor soured and h e slowly fell back, farther he slowl y and farther.. farther Rockwood decided to dab at Wirth's R ockw o od de cided t o d ab a t p ositi on and tired several times to get it. position t ir ed t o ge t Finally , o n abou t th e Finally, on about the seventh lap,, he la p h e h eld t he t hro ttle held the throttle open much longer than m uch lo nger th an h is mother w ould have a pproved , rush ed his mo the r would approved, rushed past Eddie and headed for D or sch . By past a nd h eaded fo r Dorsch. th en Terry then Terry was enjoying a comfortable e nj oyin g co m for ta b le lead and was savi ng h is sweet-running saving his sweet-runn in g Bonner-vill e ( R on Bo nn er Bonner-ville (Ron Bonner is h is tuner, his t uner, see?) see P] Tom cut off the margin and Dorsch o ff a nd Dorsc h t h ought, "Uh -oh, Better gas it some so me thought, "Vb·oh. Better more." As you ng Tommy later pointed m ore," young T omm y p o inted o u t. could n ' t h im out. "I couldn't pass him because we wer e going t he sa me speed," were go ing the same speed." Dave Smith. Practically ignored Pr acticall y ign ored despite two superb rides in b oth Expert d espite both classes a t the Ontario Na tional, Dave at National, rode more o f th e sa me to day. rod e m ore of the same today. He was the last one into the first turn toda y and ih e o ne in to today a n d rode th e way Joel Robert wins the wi ns m otocrosses ; he passes everyone . one at motocrosses; everyone, o ne a t time. crept t hro ugh th e field a t im e . Dave crep t through the fast fi eld with admirable timing. He took th e ad mira b le lie t o o k the white flag in fourth, right on Trophy wh ite flag on Dash Dash winner Keith Mas hburn 's tail. Keith Mashburn's tai l. Kei th a n d Keith and Dave had both come a lo ng co me long way for th e third Spot, but Dave had the sp ot, Da ve come farther and wanted it m or e. Once a nd it more. O nc e again , the last-Iap-Iast-turn move a nd again, last-Iap -last -t u rn and Smith passed him. R ober ts Ken Roberts set fast Junior time a taste slo w er th an Mumford's a nd tas te slower than Mumford 's and things were going to be his a ll day.. Gary Scott go ing h is all d ay Ga ry was on hand with t he same fairly:stock on the sam e fa irly-stoc k T ri um ph w on of Triumph that won the Race of Ch amp ions. Ken n y r ode t rick fram e a t Champions. Kenny rode a trick frame at Sa n J ose San Jose back then bu t today showed th en but up with a tried-and-true job that wo uld up tr ied -a nd-tru e th at would win him his last half-mil e as a Junior. h im half-mile Roberts took the lead from th e start t ook th e the sta rt an d Sc ott, c o u ld be called and nobody, even Scott, could b e calle d co m petitio n. competition. Unlike oth er races, Gary had trouble other h ad tr ouble with the opposition in his heat and th e th e o p p ositi o n hi s h eat a nd the Junior Main. Main . Ron Mo ore, Moore, the th e recently-budding 29 -y ear.old , pushed 29-year-old, Scott all the way to the checkered flag. th e t o th e ch ec ke re d Iva n Shigamasa th e N ovic e Main Ivan Shigamas a won the Novice Mai n with help from Tom Horton. As T om m entioned mentioned before, today's fad was falli ng o ff th e falling off the elusive groove unexp ectedly and Horton, on his way to o n h is to unexpectedly building a resp ec table lead, fell off b oth respectable both that and his Yamaha, too.. Pat :'IcCaul th at a nd h is Yamah a, to o Pat McCaul came across a narrow second with Jim cam e ac r o ss sec o nd R od ea r a nd Rodear and even narrower third. (R esu lt s oft (Results all page 32 ) 32) -'i8q4 A-· '? i A EXTENDED FORK TUBES Of 4130 chrome moly,, triple chromed Of mo ly t rip le ch ro med HARLEY $ 3 4 .9 5 (Per Pair) $34.95 Pair) SPORTSTER SPORTSTE R $34.95 (Per Pair) $34 .9 5 Pa ir) TR IUMPH TRIUMPH $34.95 (Per Pa ir) $3 4 .9 5 Pair) BSA $38.95 (Per Pair) $ 3 8 .9 5 (Pe r Pa ir ) HONDA (all models)$38 .9 5 (Per Pr.) HO NDA (a ll models)$38.95 ( Pe r Pr .) 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