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Eighteen,y~r old
Debbie Lawler goes 75 feet ramp-to-ramp setting a female distance jumping record; since she's probably the only female to have tried it.,
"Cowboy", Debbie and Charlie.
by Scotty Schafer
TUCSON, ARIZ" Dec. 3, 1972 Resplendent in super white togs and
perched on a non-sponsored collection
of sligh tly modified dirt bikes, John
"Cowboy" Brower rode in to town with
his Wild West thrill show. Squinting in
the deset sun, "Cowboy" wheelied his
Harley down the drags trip while tall
brother Billy stood on his Yammie seat
at 45 MPH. Billy's steering was courtesy
of Body English - this is the bike that
Cowboy took to the Riverside Grand
Prix (Check the results!).
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Cowboy came on down to Phoenix,
Arizona when Lake Tahoe froze over a
few years back. He rode a Brahma bull
or two, recorded a couple of Johnny
Cowboy songs, but never really dug the
bike thing until he noticed that riding
his Yamaha for bull-riding practice (A
new use for stock shocks.) could be
more than just rodeo training.
Tucson Dragway's Bob Huff, a
transplanted West Virginia mountaineer
who believed in Evel Knievel when only
the police and Bob knew who he was, is
shepherding Cowboy's block through its
southwest wanderings, as the Bud
Ekins-trained stuntman builds a
Standing Room Only following.
While Cowboy's boots were still hot
from the tunnel of fire (and the charred
flesh on his wrists was still smoking),
young Billy stepped off the humping
Harley and blasted through two fire
walls on a steel skid plate strapped to
the seat of his leathers. The angular
daredevil could have used some of the
boi~er plate 011 his shoulder blades and
helmet. as a rough spot in the track set
Besides haVing Debbie jump, they also do things like riding a Sportster through flaming haybales.
him sideways between the walls.
Sparks smoke, ftre, and a human
body crashing through a pair ?f wooden
fences. And now an ou taslgh t ch,ck
bringing Wo"!,,n's Lib to r~p rid~g.
Debbie Lawler, who ndes m the
desert to maintain her model's figure, is
a veteran motocrosser at 18 and now a
year later all up in the air as the ftrs t
female bike flyer. She bits the ramp at a
steady 35 MPH, rocks up on the pegs,
treads on wood 75 feet later, then Waves
to the huge crowd with all the grace a
senior teenage con tains.
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All this was somewhal.unbehevahly
done astride a stock 370 AJS with that
temperamental AmaJ and those 'fragil,e
Girlings some of the press guys can t
stand, Debbie was cool, cooler than old.
rodeo man Cowboy, who went through
a pack of' smokes watching his pretty
protege make the first female
ramp-to-ramp exhibition. ,This zappo
c'ombination started out WIth a chance
conversation at a mutual friend's
wedding, but stranger things have
happened.
Then the grand fmale, as Cowboy
bumps his trusty AJay to life, hauls up
to the steep ramp and explodes through'
the burning wall of wood at the peak of
his fligh t between the ramps, then
gen tly touches the BuZ-.lorq ued wh eels a
hundred feet away from his takeoff
point.
. Happy Days - the Cowboy Brower
Motorcycle Rodeo Show is off and
hucking, with a pair of ?own-home
stuntment and darling Danng Debbie
Lawler putting on an hour of solid
entertainment.
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