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.• II, • • 9AN 9ABRIEI. VALLEY M.e! lOll t ~pe from reality or can 348 motoaossers be wrong and the other two be right?? Crowded living conditions at E cape Country. 8:00 A.M. Am. & Ex., 9:00 A.M. Nov., 9:30 A.M. Trail Nov. & Sidehacks. for~ Use Tllis Entry or District 37 Entry 81anlc SAN GABRIEL VALLEY M.C. 16217 Santa Bianca Drive Hacienda Heights, CA 91745 Include: $10.25 & 2 Self Addressed Stamped Envelopes. (Legal Size) LIMITED ENTRY BY MAIL ONLY ENTRY CLOSES NOY 15 For further info: (213) 330-7756 or (213) 966-8541 DISTRICT 37 RIDING NUMBER DESERT SAN GABRIEL VALLEY MOTORCYCLE CLUB OTHER BARSTOW NAME TO AGE, V EGA S PHONE _ ADDRESS,--:-:_~---:----------------~:--------=-:--Number Street City State Zip CLUB, ~AMA EXPIRES, ENGINE #, MAKE OF MOTOR'-- I WILL ENTER THE: #. EXPERT 0 AMATEUR 0 CU.CM., NOVICE D, _ _ CLASS, THE UNDERSIGNED ENTRANT BY AFFIXING HIS INITIALS BEL.OW, ACKNOWLEDGES THAT HE ASSUMES THE RISK cpr ANY LOSS FROM INJURY OR PRoPERTY DAMAGE TO, HIMSELF OR TO OTHERS, DUE TO HIS PARTICIPATION IN THIS EVI£NT AND HE HEREWITH SPECIFICALLY HOLOS HARMLESS FROM ANY SAle LOSS THE AMERICAN MOTORCYCLE ASSOCIATION. SPORTS COMMITTEE, DISTRICT 37 AMA, INC., THE SPONSORING CLue OR ORGANIZATION, AND THE OWNERS OF THE REAL PROPERTY ON WHICH SAID EVENT S ....ALL TAKE PLACE. (ent,.ant's and/or pa,.."t's initials) ------- --- --- ---- ------ ------ ----_.- ---_.- --------_._---------- - _.- --- --------------------- If entrant is under 21 ,years old and does not have current District 37 Card, parent or guardian must s1qn here acknowledging his consent to the terms of entry. I herewith consent to and authorize first aid and ambulance service as provided by the sponsoring club and further hold all parties harmless from any consequences of said aid. SIGNATURE Most Powerful Best Handling MAleC West of Mississippi COOPER MOTORS 16 110 E. Santa Anita Ave, Burlbank. Ca. 91502 STRONG D • • Carrl__ Motorcycle 1'733 Hiawatha Dr, Glendale. CA 91208 (213) 247-2850 Dealer Inquiries Invited By Scotty Schafer TRABUCO CANYON, CAL., OCT. 28 Getting there was simple enough - down the freeway, then up Trabuco Canyon ,through pleasantly somnulent groves of trees. We'd cashed in our Daylight Savings and gotten an extra hour's sleep. We were ready to Motocross! The pits were busy, so we grabbed an off-camber parking place and toddled rapidly over to sign up, then stood in line while most of the day's competition was out practicing. We got back to our .little chunk of pit ghetto (Sheer luck. Like the announcer said, "Women and children should be careful in the pits because of all the pit racers. "), cranked up and ambled on down to the start area. Two laps (Three or so minutes.) later, practice was over for my group. At two p.m. rou~ly four and a half hours later, the second round of 21 motos began. Meanwhile, the rid ers were main taining their competitive edge by moving great billows of talc from the floor of the pit area to car tops, bikes, anything that didn't move. Four hours between motos just doesn't make it. lt's a nice thing to have five "skill" classes: First Day, Beginner, Novice, Intermediate, Expert. Combine that with 40% trophies, a little cherry-picking, and some luck and in any season, a racer will take home a trophy. That's nice. The father can justify his $4000 van and his son's $1500 motocross bike, the $10 per entry it costs him to race, and so on. However, there is just damn near nothing to be learned from leading (or losing) the First Day or Beginner class if sports competition is the aim and not just the short-tenn and definitely relative pleasure of trophy-gathering. At the risk of being hung from a tree by my fellow thirty year-aids, I also can't see where four to six minute ,motos have anything to do with motocross. When the British started "scrambling" and the Continentals picked it up, the two or three heals they ran were 20, 30 or 45 minutes long and still are. In a.long moto, the riders learns about his body, his machine and develops his track sense. A racer can recover' from a missed shift or blown berm. In a short moto, or Trophy Dash such as these were, there ain't much you can do after a bad start, particularly if the track wa. artifically crealed by a bulldoze,r with hiccups. The fascinating thing about all this is that as a group, the 350-odd SoCaI MXers at Escape Country today thought the short motos, confined and basically