Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

~ BUZZARDS .... '" - HARE SCRAMBLES: Fast, Fun, and M >- '3 .., ~ w Z W ...J o > o A.C. Bakken was fourth. Bruce Ogilvie: Gobbled up. ALMOST Cordis on • 250? Su.... why not. Mitch May.. _ the numero uno duds today. by Alice Rhea FOUR CORNERS. CAL., July 22 "We are tired of races that turn out to be a test of whose bike is the strongest," one of the spokesmen for the. Buzzards M.C. stated. "We are going to put on a race that will be fast and fun and without rocks. n They almost made it, too. There were a few rocks on the back section of the course and that uphill had boulden if you got off the trail like Jim Fishback did while he was trying to get around Cordis Brooks, but the course was fast and fun. A.C. Bakken said he didn't even know that Husky of his had a ruth gear until he got into one of those sandwash es today and was finally able to really crank it on. Tom Brooks (DKW) leaped into the lead and had open.ed it up to abou t half a minute by the pits with Mitch Mayes chasing him. A.C.· was. hot on Mayes' trail. Jim Fishback (CZ), Tom Poteet (Bul), and Cordis Brooks, riding a 250 DKW today, were in a heavy three-way dice with Doug Winchell, righting . suspension pro,?lems trying to catch them and get into the game. Larry Roeseler has gOt to be the most disappoin ted desert racer today. He had that little Baja screaming and was in a good solid fourth overall at the pi ts when his engine seized. It is amazing that Larry was able to hang in there with all that wide open country where. as Bruce Ogilvie,. eventual trailbike winner, said, "Those big bikes just gobbled me up." The course was almost virgin, with parts of it completely unused and the rest territory which hasn't been ridden all year. The Buzzards found some beautiful sandwashes which had the guys on the big bikes reaching for another gear after they used what the bike had to offer. There were a few flats for people like Bennie Padilla, who dove off a j'!Jllp right into the only rocks anywhere on the 'course, but there wasn't the usual pile of ruined machinery at the fmish line, and there were very few injuries. Mitch Mayes came charging out of check two on the second time around and passed Tom Brooks who, Mitch .Said , appeared to be chancing his spark plug. Mayes came on in for the win, but Brooks never did show up at the finish line. Brother Cordis brought his borrowed 250cc DKW in for second overall and rll"st 250 Experts, but said the 250 ride was "for today only." The larger bike was probably a wise choice for Cordis because of all the wide open riding today where the trailbikes. just flat got out powered. Fishback must have been riding right on the ragged edge as he was about fiftieth at the bomb and had worked up to third overall by the rmish. Seeing Cordis' stocking hat flapping in the breeze ahead of him might have had something to do with it, as spectators said Fishback charged into the boulders on the uphill just before the pits trying to get around Brooks. Bruce Ogilvie got his first trailbike win of the year tod"y, taking over when Roeseler dropped out. Dennis Scammell (Hod) made it in ahead of last week~s first place Bob Rutten who also rides Hodaka. Did you ever wonder how the riders know how ·they rmish? Well, you get mixed up in a Grand Prix finish, with Novices and one loop Amateurs and Experts who had problems and still, somebody like Scott Haislip (Yam) can tell you that he is first in the Division II Lightweight class. Club members must have been keeping an eye on him and told him he won. Jim Gilchrist (DKW) got another second in the Division II class with Jim Wheater (Hus) taking third Expert and Ron Holst (Bul), an Amateur, sandwiched in ahead of him. Recently transfered Geoff Burgess rode his Monark in for fifth in that class as second Amateur, and AI Hull (DKW) got what had to be his last transfer ride

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