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... ;. o Z ~ w Z W ...J U > U When the wind pulls your helmet off, shift. Splendid form. Notice the foot. Remember to point your toe. ~,._------------------------------- Reach Out Rialto MX at Arroyo by Chris Ostlind DEVORE, CAL., Oct. 29, 1972 - A motocross for Experts put on by a youth organization? Yes, and a super job they did too! The whole thing was put together by some young people from Reach Out Rialto to raise money for their activities and programs. They are giving the kids in their area something to 'do with themselves besides getting busted and they're having fun doing it. The race site couldn't have been much beuer. They chose Arroyo CyclePark and the racers loved it. A sometimes warm, sometimes cold, always windy day, lent itself perfectly to the racers' needs and they responded with some fan tastic riding to provide a real treat for all the spectators. As you'd probably expect, the best visual excitmen t was generated by the E.xpert cIasses. 250 Experts Ray Topham, John Holmes, and Ron Burns zipped around the demanding circuit at ungodly speeds and angles, sometimes THE THRILL IS ON A Color Film Featuring DAVID ALDAMA -""IlolrySee the big names get It on In protesslOllil rac;Ulg tracks from coast 10 coast Flat track e,llcitement al Its best al aeti~packed d.,1 Admission $2.00 at the door. York. Pa • lOUISVIlle. I(y • Terre Haute, Ind Troy, OhiO • ~umbus, Ohio. San Jose. Calif and more ~soLIQUIQ JOURMEY . TIE sua. lEA WAVES OF 1«.".' f SATURDAY NIGHT, NOV. n 7:30pm TAFT HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM, WINNETKA & VENTURA, WOODLAND HILLS SATURDAY NIGHT, NOV .18 8:00pm RIVERS,IDE CITY COLLEG~,T~RRACLNA.t.F!IV~RSIDE,AVE •• RIVERSIDE opposite, but this time CZ rider Erik Strommer moved in to put some pressure on Saunders. Strommer was coming off a terrible ten th in the fust moto. and had no shot at the money but was having a lot of fun. The third moto was supposed to be the big showdown between Hollis and Saunders for first overall but the battle never materialized as Strommer moved out to the lead on the first lap, with Hollis in hot pursuit and Saunders a good distance back. trommer and Hollis stayed that way stretching out a big lead over the field until lap 4 when Strommer made one little mistake and Hollis took over the lead, which he held to the checker. That Hollis is really fast and he wears this real ugly blue parlsa that makes everyone think he is a dud. Some way to psych out your opponents. The next Reach Out Rialto event will be in two weeks. Check the calendar section for details and plan on being there. The money is for a good cause and the competition is more than most can handle. leaving y.ou slttmg there with dirt in your camera lens and a totally blown mind wondering how they can do those things and not crash. Topham and his CZ are incredible. When he gets a bad start, say a fourth or fifth, he just keeps gassing it into the first tum and, voila! He's in first or second. No messing around, just straightforward business until he is so far ahead of everybody that he can tool around like he's cow trailing. In the first moto, his bike was a little off and he still won by a good margin. The second was no con test and in the third he slowed down a bit to dice with Burns until the Ossa rider got off and was dropped to ten th. That crash cost Bums second place money as Holmes was getting a steady 3-3-2 to beat him. While Topham was waxing the 250's, Troy Hollis was blasting away at the Open Experts with his big CZ. The first moto was a fight between HoUis and Yamaha rider Henry Saunders. Saunders won that one with Hollis second. The second moto. was just the USMRC MX ....;... by Pat Gross EL TaRO, CAL., Oct. 27, 1972 How's it go? While the eat's away ... Well, El .Toro's top cats were out of the running, Bruce Baron in Baja and Dave Carlson out with a cold. John Volkman was stoked. No one could stop him in the J25 Experts. Then in the second moto Murray Hoffman, making up for lost time, managed a pass, but John pulled a s kin-of-his-teeth switch before the finish. It was the final race before Hoffman found his way clear to first. Volkman had gotten a last place start, but five laps Later had worked his way up to third. The win was John's but Murray's DN F added to lust and second fmishes wa only good enough for third overall. Scott Miller filled in second. The 250 topper was Jon Derhammer (CZ). Jon was going strong with two firsts, and Dennis Briggs (Kaw) seemed just as solidly in second until Moto 3. Murray Hoffman, who had been trailing last and next to last, stormed off the line like a kamikaze. It was definitely a case of do or die, and Murray did it for second overall. This time it was Briggs in last, so Dennis had to be happy with third. David Boydstun got off to a sizzling. start in the' 50U, which was quickly ~-------- I curtailed as his Suzuki conked out. Boydstun had to take a back seat for the rest of the race, watching winner Morris Malone (AJS) pick up the pieces. Mike Waite got the 500 Intermediate firs t. Pete Schabasgary controlled the 125 In termediate without winning a single moto. The wins were split among Dale Andersen, Pokii Seeman, both on Yamahas, and Rick Wiseman (Pen). Wiseman and Seeman were second and third in that order. Schoolboys had better watch ou t for John Gless, who has singlehandedly sewn up that cIass. Scott Spencer (Pen) took over the 125 Junior class. Mike Gibbons stopped his attempt at a sweep by taking the last race, which put Mike in second. The same thing happened in the 250 with Lee Evans taking Moto 2 for second overall. The big win went to Mike Wade (Bul). The 500 winner was Dale's brother Nathan Andersen (BSA). Lee Eide stampeded a passel of 100 Juniors. Seventeen-count 'em!... J7 charged off the line, careening off each other, leaving a trail of maimed and wounded, and creating chaos for scorers. But leader Lee had no such troubles. When you're that far in front there's no one to hit (or hit you). Ron Street (Yam) .and Mark. Ripley (Kaw) followed oVefaJl: - ,,