Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

Winters and Buck Walsworth. Buck set some kind of a record for flat tires before he retired through loss of time. Leroy had some mechanical rroblems, but retired while he was still running, commenting that he was "making too many mistakes and was going to get hurt". Dave Mungen~t started the event on a Honda 250. He managed to get through to about the fourth day by which time he was riding a collection of worn and broken parts held together with hose clamps and duct tape. On the third day, Dave broke his foot peg and repaired it with nose clamps. Rumor has it that some time later the foot peg became mysteriously welded in place. When a part broke in the gearbox, the now permanent foot peg would not allow the gearbox cover to be removed, so Dave was out. With a little bit of help from your friends ... For 31 entrics, the U.S. acquired nine golds, three silvers and one bronze medal. Five of the golds were won (on Pen tons) by jeff Penton, Danc Leimbach, Billy Uhl, Carl Cranke, and Gene Cannady. Three were taken for Husky by Ron Bohn, Carl Berggren and Frank Piasecki. One was taken for Puch by Lars Larsson. Silvers were won by Bob Fielding (Yam); jack Penton (Pen); and jerry Pacholke (Puc). Dick Burleson (Pen) took the Bronze. Some of the best support for this year's effort came from Tom Heininger. His company (Webco) supplied much of the gear for the riders and he and his wife personally manned what was considered by most of the riders to be the best check on the course. The organization' of -the trial itself was, in many ways, nawless but there were some serious incongruities. Cheating by almost cveryone was blatant and,' for the most part, unpunished even when discovered. It is with mixed feeling that I report that our U.S. team now seems to have come very close to the Europeans in level of sophistication in the art of cheating. Course ma[kjng was reportedly superb and there was no quarrel wjth the instrumen tation or scoring of the event. On the minus side, the scoring, done with the aid of a computcr, was very, very slow. Telcxes, manned by very competen t girls, wcre available for the press bu t film mailed the first day of the even t arrived 16 days later. It was an excellent Six Days. We're going to have our work cu t au t for us to equal it. u o ~ w Z W ...J U >- U , ,*,--*.:»;; •. <}, Carl Cranke (52) leads a pack around a slick, wet turn in the road race special event that was Cannady's undoing. . THE CANADIANS Nine U.S. riders rode for the Canadian team and, percentage-wise, they did better than the official U.S. team with five of the nine taking medals, including Dave Lathem (Oss); Bren Moran (Monark); jim Hollander (Pen); Eddie Ortone (Hus); all takinll; silvers. George Peck (Dalesman) took a bronze. The non-finishing membcrs of the U.S. "Canadians" were Ron Webster, Ron jeckel, Paul La Forge and Mike Lewis. . The AMA's organization of ihe event was much better this ye·ar than last, but was still quite spotty. - The AMA arranged bikes for everyone and saw that all transportation and rooms were paid for. A good part of the tab was picked up by john Penton. They also set up the checkpoint crews; arranged for gear for the riders; held nightly meetings to plan the next day's ride, and arranged for scouting the course. Russell March was on hand to act as OJ,lr juryman. -MOLLY BLUE gives you more than you A . '... el~~~!!~h~~~U~;~ "STRONG" )(. After six days', the victorious' Czech team receive their medals awards and, undoubtedly, the plaudits of a grateful nation. That's three in a row for Czechoslovakia. ~ 20% MORE POWER' WHITTIER HONDA rll ~ LOW OSS~ Motorcycle Trailers WHITTIER HONDA Complete stock 14324 E. Whittier Blvd. °afc~:;:~r4~~ (213) 698-0065 IfERFORMANCE I ~ .. • • .. ~ ----~ /< ~ " '~lia ~i 0 ~m ~MO~ SALES SEPVJCE Welding Porting Accessories BAYAREA BULTACO Inc. . 1~b2 Ctmllnela. W. * Los Angeles COfllt!r of Santa Monica Blvd. & Cef11lnela Open 9 am 106 pm Mon. thru Sat. clXl - - ~ , S

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