Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

i Tr~jan's All-Star- Night :;; SOUTH GATE , CAL., Nov. 25, 19 7 1 It was a night for the real champions of ..- short-track IT racing to stand up and be u counted, because Scott Sm ith of Riverside, Bob Sanders of Whittier, and 111 Rick Goade of Fu llerton, stood 'way s above all others T hursday night as ~ Smith, aboard his Yamaha sponsored by w K & N, took over the lead from Goade cj on the eleventh lap and went on to win ~ the 50-lap 250cc IT Grand Prix at U Trojan Speedway. Smith, who was never ' worse t han third from the start, sped to a brilliant five-lengths margin over the field as he pursued the lead ers, Goade on his Bultaco, and Chris Sm ith and his Montesa sponsored by Kagay Cycle Sales. With o n ly three laps down, what first appeared as a royal three-way battle for the lead was quickly cut down to a two-way duel whe n a nut came lo ose on the primary sprocket of Chris Smith's m ach in e, forcing the hard-riding veteran out of contention. O n th e te nth lap , Goade's lead over the 18 -rider field was cut down from an ea rlier 12 second lead to five ove r Smith, John Carbone (Bul), Joe Brown (Bu l), Charles Gamm (Bul), and Mike Clarke. Sanders at this poin t was working his way from heavy traffic, but moving to challenge the lead ers. On the very next lap , Smith riding deep into the firs t corner, picked up three lengths and then caught Goade coming out of the second corner with a fancy high, and then low maneuver to grab t he lead as th ey headed towards the high jump . The 12 th lap saw third place Carbone pit with m echanical problems, while fourth p lace Brown tangled with fifth place Gamm. -G am rn restar ted and joined the field as Brown was seen headi n g for the pits, On the 15 th circuit, Smith held a six-second lead over Goade while Mike Clarke (B ul) and Sa nders w ho was rid in g Danny Corbett's a DISPLAY ADVERTISING DEADLINE AT PERR'S Boydstun, Huffman Transfer regular bike, a Bultaco, were battling for third. Goa de, experiencing handling problems w hen his compression release cable broke, was having difficulty slowing down for the corners and spilled on the 21st lap , but quickly recovered before losing his second p lace to Sanders who by this time had moved ahead fo r third over Clarke. At . the mid-way point, Smith increased his lead to eleven seconds ove r Goade, Sanders , Steve Hyder (Bul) , and Gamm, but as Goade and Sanders engaged themselves in a hot duel for second, the pair of champions cut Smith 's lead to only five seconds by the fortieth lap and were in the process of catching Smith. However, Goade still just barely managing to hold his machine up-righ t at the corners, spilled for the second time on the 41st lap ca using Sanders to slow as he m o ved into second, but in doing so, lost his bid to catch the lead er . Goade, as he did earlier, made a fast recovery and still held on to thi rd behind Sanders at the checkered. Rounding off . the top ten finishers we re Gamm in for fo urth fo llowed by Hyder, Craig Steigler (Bul), De nis Porter (H-D), Rex McLeod (Yam), Steve Hein (Yam), and Tim Tipton (Yam) . (Resu lts on page.24) By Elaine Jones Lowe third. PERRIS, CAL., Nov. 20, 1971 - David Dan Johnson kept the family honor Boydstun and Shawn Huffman both alive by takin g the 250cc Novice 11 rode themselves into Perris Amateur class. It was Dan's first wi n over two ratings Saturday. David's win came in years so it was a popular one. Robert the hotly co n test ed 250cc Novice I Graves and John Rogers were second class. Craig Johnson started off with the and third. win in the first heat with Dave hot on A wild mix it up was the order of the his heels. In the second round Craig had 175-200cc class. Tad Willis took the the tr ack wired b ut lost it coming down first moto with Jamey Blu nt and the back side and David got by for t he Gorden Bettencourt close b ehind. In th e win. From then on it was David's nigh t second moto Tad was out in front only with Craig a solid second and John to have h is carburetor come apart giving hi m a DNF and Jamey got the firs t by squeaking by Gorden at the finish lin e. FORMER BSA EXEC DIES Gorden then got out of shape so mehow The death is anno unced with regret and Islid out forcing him out of the of Mr . W. L. (Bill) Rawson, MBE, ballgame, Tad ca me back in the third formerly Sa les Director of BSA moto but it wasn't enough to beat Motorcycles Limited . Jamey so h e settled fo r second with Mr . Rawson, 70, retired in 1966 after Gorden third. 49 very active years with the company. By the way if you think you can p ut He established the Service and Parts a silencer on your bike, then pull it off Departments before t he last wa r and after you're in the ga tes, forget it. T hey fro m 1939 un til 1945 was responsible catch you and you get no points for th e for creating and coordinating the Hi-Point awards n or do you get a enormous network of sub-contract trophy. manufacture set up by BSA for arms (Results on page 24) production. In 1950 , he was appointed Export Sales Manager and between them and his re tirement, traveled often and extensively throughout the world but principally in America. By 1953 , he had BLYTHE, CAL., Nov . 21, 1971 become a member of the United Blythe M.C. hosted a super rough Hare Airlines 100,000 Miles Club whic h Sc rambles that definitely. separated the indicated the enthusiasm he had for the men from the boys. Four rough 15-mile American Market. Even at that time, his lo o ps with wal l-to-wall rocks was the confidence in the future of American theme for the day. motorcycling was such that it h elp ed John McManus riding a Bill Lowell many BSA dealers in their decisions to Engineering Kawasaki and Mark Phillips increase their investment in the on a Yamaha traded th e lead several industry. times, and an en do by McManus g-ave Mr. Rawson lived on a farm near Phillips a narrow win. 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