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Bryan Brecker did some eight minute laps and whipped all the Open Experts.
by Scon Schafer
VALENCIA. CAL.• July 1 - From the
initial cloud of Novice dust to the sun
setting on the minfuike rerun abou t
10.000 man-laps later, the Shutter and
Lens people put on the'much-celebrated
and 6-times famous Viewfinder's Grand
Prix. The six-mile route ran through a
mile of deep sand, took in most of the
In te rn a ti onal MX course, crossed
carb times, and to
spice up the fast fireroading on tI1e edge
of the cliffs that rim the park, the
course included some sharp downhills
that were a real gas.
After the traffic jams in the
100-175 Novice class had cleared, the
Brooks Brothers and Bryan Brecker
headed down the start sandwash with
lanky John Rice a bit back. By the time
Tom Brooks romped over the last water
crossing on the first lap, the news that
he was cutting two minutes off the
12-minute lap times of the Novices had
already reached the pits. Tom was
slashing his Deek through the water
crossings faster than his fellow Experts,
but was far enough above the water to
avoid having his feet pulled off the pegs
by the impact. Most riders approach
natural obstacles with some degree of
healthy apprehension - Tom Brooks
seemed unaware that anything was in
Photos by Marcia Holley'
his way. Midway through the one hour
and forty-five minutes of racing he had
retired - John R's Monark followed,
with plug and/or clutch problems. That
left brother Cordis and Bryan Brecker
to blaze trail to the finish, as Jim
Fishback had looked at the course from
the back of an an tique Yamaha and
made it back to the pi ts in one piece
while Cordis went on for the win on his
100cc DKW.
The 250 Amateur·Expert class
finished the wrecking job on the
soft-shelled course, whipping the
straights into long frozen roller tracks
and gouginll out cooking pits in the
steep downhills. Jim Fiahback motored
his CZ to the overall win ahead of Mark
Adent, after Tommy Brooks again had
to drop out with mechanical difficulties,
this time on a b'orrowed bike. The 250
Experts got so competitive that some of
the "sportsmen" cut out the last
uphill-downhill, totally zonking the
resul ts for a time.
While the 250 Amateurs and Experts
were beating away at the course, the
winner of the 250 Novice class,
identified as Rick Durand, was trying to
coast out of the upper reaches of Indian
Dunes Park. By mistake, he got
the
while flag instead of the checkered he
had earned. Durand's CZ ran out of gas
about three miles out on his "victory
lap", and in coasting back down to the
pits he took a wrong tum, bent his bike,
and got lost. When the patrol finally
found him, he couldn't believe he had
-won. CZ riders are like that.
The course reptile (Viewfindera
Snakus) and the Playmate Pholdouts
were gone from the "Jungle" on
Sunday, but the course had roughened
enough that the "snake" was no longer
the most frightening part of it, and pits
were offering a bit more visual sex than
the minature slicks hanging in the
bushes. The pipeline still made a good
berm along the downhill at the end of
the asphalt, but the steeper route was
faster and le'ss tiring.
The Oldtimers ended up going both
directions on the same part of the track,
as some chose the minibike course due
to some missing markers. When the
restart had become history. Spike
Duncan had zinged his Yammie to the
checkered ahead of Art McNamee on a
vin \age G reeves.
The Powderpuffers didn't get a
chance to surf down the pipeline or
bulldog down. the short dropoffs, but
neither could have kept Marcia Holley
from a convincing win aboard her
Pen ton. Corrie Madison got her Husky
by the fast-starting stunt girl at the end
of the first lap, but bobbled and gave
the lead back to the steady-paced Miss
Holley. In takeoff on the Virgin Run,
one of the stalwarts at Checkpoint two .
dropped trou' as Marcia cruised by in
the lead. With an attraction like a male
nude, next year's Powderpuff will
probably double in size and include a
voyeuristic faggot or two!
Kenny Alexander won the first
minibike race, turning the last three laps
on a flat fron t tire after the numher one
man was disqualified for losing his
silencer. Youngest Checkers c1ubber'
John Welch snatched .!bird on an
approximately stock Honda. The
rerunners in the minibike race (Some
parents felt it was too long, so it was
mAISI"trt~
ABSORBERS FOR
BOGESHOCK
ROAD RACING,
MOTO-CROSS
AND ENDUROS
COMING ON
LOUDON
STRONG
When we say "Boge is absorbing
America" we mean it. Boge shock
absorbers are prominent in every facet
of American motorcycle spon, from
the lSOmph speeds of road racing to
the bone-jarring bumps and grinds of
moto-cross, enduros and desert racing..
Latest success for Boge came at the
Loudon National Championship road
race where our shocks handled the
bumps and swervery well enough to
help Gary Nixon on his way to a great
double win ... for Kawasaki in the
National event and Yamaha in Ihe
Lightweight race.
Switching to the dirt-tracks, it was
Boge shocks that Dave Aldana fitted
to his Kawasaki to win the recent
professional short-track in
Wash ington I D.C.
Whatever your suspension
needs ... Soge can absorb them.
••t.p.,.rtl
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