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Gary Bailey. Cliff Carr. Gary Chaplin
Jimmy Chen -Jon Ciener. Sonny Defeo
Yvon DuHamel. Dave Evans -Jimmy Evans
Pat Evans. Gary Fisher. Len Fitch. Ron
Gram. Jerry Greeoe • Fred Guttner • Ray
Hempstead. Ted Henter. Barry Higgins
Ake Jonnson. Gary Jones. Pierre Karsmakers
Brad Lackey. Peter Lamppu • Mike Lane
Doug Libby .Kur! Liebman .Johnny Long
The start of the Trail Novices.
Hans Maisch. Jeff March. 0 uane Mc-
Daniels. Steve McLaughlin. Bart Meyers
Ron Muir eJohn Nash -Jady Nicholas
Gary Nixon. Chuck Palmgren. Or. Bob
Pepper. Ron PIerce. Caf Rayborn. Phil
Read. Bob Recl>tenwold. Kenny Roberts
John Sanorious. Tom Schroeder. Merle
Shanks. Paul Smart. Dave Smith. Conrad
0-37 Dual European Scrambles
Spokebenders
Urbanowski. Denny Varnes -Jimmy
Weinert'. Peter Williams -Sill Belknap
Jamey Blunt. Darral Brown. Tom B..yars
Marc Carlwrlght • Jeff Cassidy. Bob
Crossman. Brian Dalgarno -JeH Deal
George Miller - Robert Norrisl-Jack
Orndoff. Mike Paulsell.John Potier
Gerhard Klemm -William Payne-
BELL MOUNTAlN, CAL"JULY 29.
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member of Spokebenders M.C., Jack
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bent rims litering the Spokebenders
sign-up area.
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The Bell Mountain/Stoddard Wells
area is notorious for its rocks, and both
courses (actually all four if you count
the Novice courses) had their fair share
of hard spots, but surprisingly, riders
seemed to be happy with the courses.
Mitch Mayes is extremely happy,
having won both sides of the
Heavyweight battle. On the
Spokeb~.nders side of the go-round Jim
Fishback, riding a 400cc CZ, again
grabbed the lead by the bomb and was
really making tracks with Mayes hot on
his heels. Fishback mis·timed the hill on
the second lap and Mayes dived into the
opening. The pair provided the only real
racing of the day. Mayes kept his Husky
in frorit and Fishback was hard on his
heels, trying to get the lead back. Mayes
and Fishback flashed under the
checkered flag with only a few feet
separating them.
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Speculation may come to an end
over whether Cordis or Tom Brooks is
the better rider as Cordis showed up in
the Division II Ligh tweigh t class today
mounted on a 175 Bultaco and
proceeded to stomp all over everybody,
finishirig the Spokebenders first race of
the day so far in the lead that it was
almost obscene. Brother Tom suffered
bike problems, most likely in the form
of the very popular flat tire, and retired
for the day. If Cordis remains in the
Division II class we may see some very
exciting racing as the brothers meet
head-on.
Larry Roeseler finally came out of
his slump, and after having so many
problems that he wasn't even ahle to
race the fIrst Trailbike go-round, came
back and took his Baja, sans air cleaner,
to an easy victory on the Spokebenders
course. Larry has been plagued with
bike problems for the. past few weeks
and today was riding last year's mount,
apparently needing time to sort out the
difficulties on his new mount, which has
been seizing with monotonous
regularity.
Garry Conner (DKW) is back after an
absence (at the lmish line, that is) of
who knows how long, and did well with
a second place. Bob Rutten knocked
huge gaps in his rear rim and when last
seen, just before the start of the
Spokebenders race, was trying to knock
his little brother off his bike so he could
race. Larry better 'keep an eye on
Rutten. The name isn't familiar, but in
the four races since he transfered to
Expert, Bob has had three lll'sts and a
third. Maybe he is the lad who will put
Hodaka back on the top of the Trailbike
heap.
It sure was good to see Tom Poteet
back out. Doug Winchell took an early
lead in the Spokebenders 250cc
go-round with Larry Pfutzenreuter right
on his tail as the three Bultacos moved
out of sight over the hill. Poteet's Bul
was the lll'st one to come around the
first lap, Winchell having lost the course
and Pfutzcnreuter dropping out with a
flat rear tire. Poteet appeared to be just
motoring around, but he finished a
quite respectable distance ahead of
second place Dave Lapraik (AjS) and
Elsinore mounted Wayne Cook.
Probably the best part of the
weekend for many pe9ple was the
Spokebenders annual Bota Bag Contest.
This year, setting a new record for the
wine drinking contest was a Prospector,
who shall remain nameless in the
interest of preserving his marriage. (No,
it wasn't Jack Lund. He was disqualified
before the start due to his professional
status.) This stalwart fellow managed a
phenomenal five minutes 56 seconds
under the bag without once coming up
for air. Utterly amazing.
By Alice Rhea
Prospectors
At 8:00 AM the first 45· minute,
three lap race was off and running.
I motored on over to the
Expert/ Amateur course to check
it out. The third check was located on a
small hill abou t a mile ou t from the',
finish. I noticed why they call this area
rock city. Lots and lots of bad, bad
rocks. Just before check three was a
particularly nasty section with cross
grain ruts filled with those previously
mentioned obstacles. I felt this was
going to be one of the worst sections on
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Mitch Mayes managed again over
Jim Fishback.
Larry Roeseler rode his old bike,sans air filter, to an easy win.
