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KYLE AND LAVERDA TAKE NATIONAL HILLCLIMB TITLE Morning rain and afternoon gloom greeted the nearly 8,000 fans who turned out for the AMA National Championship Hill.climb held August 6, at Norton Shores, Michigan. But the weather did little to detract from the excitement as the country's best professional hill artists lined up one after another at the foot of Mt. Garfield to view for Formula A and B National Championship honors, a share of the LO N $5,000 purse and contingencies offered by Cycle News and BSA. When the Class A assaults on the mountain concluded, Glen Kyle, a Laverda rider from Goshen, Indiana, had collected the top spot with a time of 6.22 seconds for the 280·foot run. Second place fell to Doyle Disbennett aboard a BSA and third place wen t to Jim Thompson, another BSA pilot. In Class B competition John Williams of Ontario, Canada pushed Harley-Davidson billclimber up the incline in a time of 7.88 secondo to take the National title for his dass. Phil Fran"" powered another Harley to a second place finish and Randy Gabriel copped third place on his Harley i;, ~mbe~ l Contestan IS for the National N Championship were the top 15 riders in ~ each class as detennined from poin ts N awarded in this year's 16 regular N professional hillclimbs. ~ w Z W ...J U >U Bob Brown (21 xl and Dennis Packard were ttli. close in ttlis order for all three motos. Their CZS vvere wired to the course and each o!her. 12._1 OrAngetf>o,pe 8 .... ~ p.,I<. c •• 714/521-2420 714/521.2422 IBaS~9.!?!J ~~:.;. 1117 Fountain Way. Anaheim. Cal. 9280 ............... -:::::====:::: Windowmaker Motocross-------~----------- By Larry Knop third after some early lap pace setting. Photos by Gary Payne David Crandall, and Tony Jacobs SALT LAKE CITY, UT.July 30, 1972 took the 100, 125, and 200 Expert _ Widowmaker now means motocross, classes respectively, fOI a one shop, one in addition to hillclimb. The Bees M.C., brand sweep of the small classes that is sponsors of the famed Widowmaker 'almost unheard of these days. hiJIdimb, obtained the land just north Now that they have the ground, the of their famous hill, and held the first Bees seem to be going into motocross in ever Widowmaker Motocross. a big way. They have two more races The ground is good motocross sche~uled this year, with the next one ground, with trees, a good change in coming up on August 26-27. It will be elevation, cut by guUies. The Bees left an SRA District 26 points race, and it the terrain as natural as possible, and should be a good one. the result was a very rough, very demanding, although rather slow course. USMRC Junior In keeping with their hilldimbing By V. Lanza tradition, there were several hills and EL TaRO, CALIF., Aug. 9,1972 - The power made a big difference. All the dune cycle race has become one of the small bikes had to strain, and some of most interesting races on Wednesday th.e small bikes with Novice riders just nights. stopped and cried. In a last minute spurt of power, Gene There was plenty of good racing and Woods put it to Sumner McKnight in not surprisingly the best racing came in the last turn to win the dune cyde race. the 250 and Open Expert classes. The Woods unfortunately couldn't get it Bees put up $500 to lure the Experts together in the Schoolboy as Brad outs, and all the shoes were there. Bob Dutoit ran away with the win, followed Brown and Dennis Packard took a break by Bobby Tocco. from the AMA motocross circuit, and Schoolboys Charles Summers and showed why they are going professional. Danny Jones won their respective So smooth and so fast on such a rough divisions of Schoolboy, while Johanna course - it was hard to believe. Stenerson pulled out another sweep of If you tied a 10 foot piece of thread the Powder Puff. between Brown's rear fender and 500 Junior Jack Hawk rode to a near Packards fron t one, they could run an sweep to take the top trophy for the en tire moto and never break it. 500 class, with Scott Bodkin and David Probably even three motos. It was Brooks taking the second and third. Brown, lust Open Expert, and Packard, Doug Silverstein had a little trouble in second. the last moto of the 250 Division II but The 250 Expert class was a bit of a it didn't stop him from grabbing the surprise. Don Fuller showed up with a win. new bike, a n.ew sponsor, and new cool In Division I, Don Elder missed the He left with the lust place trophy and first moto but came back with two wins cash. Don has always been fast, but he to capture the first, as Jim Collins sometimes gets a little exuberant in his pulled out a second. riding. Henry Wior and' Jim Dean got the Sunday he cooled it, going fast when number one trophies for their efforts in he had to, and relaxing when he didn't. the first and second divisions of the 125 His two fusts and a second were dass. Jeff Wilson and John Dalinsky had unbeatable. Kenny Archibald finally' a good night in 100 Division I. Dennis settled the race for second with a last Sigalos and Mike Ricker ran off with the moto win, with Steve Burgess taking top places in Division 11. MX-------- ~ GRAND OPENING FREEBEES! Visit our new Inglewood competition center and enter our drawing for a complete racing outfit: helmet, leathers, gloves, boots, sox, goggles, and jersey. In addition to these items, we're giving away free "Cycle Products West" Hot Hats, free "T" shirts and free decals. In addition to' our West Los Angeles line of Hodaka and Puch, our Inglewood shop sells and race-prepares DKW desert/motocross bikes. Come tO,our celebration at the red, orange and yellow Inglewood store, meet manager Gary Hymes, and enjoy the same personal service which has made our W. L.A. store successfuL 10311 Hawthorne Blvd. Inglewood, California 90304 (213) 6'72-2242 (213) 672-4414 (W. L.A. STORE) 11900 W. PIca BLVD. W. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90064 .