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1nt.......lon.1 ".c__-. 7:30 A.M. Gates ()pen: Sign-lJp B-l0 A.M. 8:30-9:30 A.M. Ptxtice: Fint Race: Enter Gate Entry: 10:15 A.M. No.5 E~:$7.50 Nov/Jr: $5.00 Spectato",: Adults: $3.00 J",. 12-16 $1.00 Under 12: FREE INPO: (707) • • • • • • • Hwy 37 & 121,12 Miles So. of Sonome, Celif "DOOR SHORT TRAer 0-36 & AMA Sportsman , Cart C.....1ce finished 10 minutlll before the next ..y. SAN JOSE FAIRGROUNDS Tully Rd off Bayshore Cycle News North FRIDA' lIGHTS NOV 2-9-16-23-30 DEC 7 $3 rider _tch $1 Jrs Gates open 4:30 under 12 FREE Race 7 p.m. Prac5:30 Winner wins race in Nevada desert, others follow behind Wes1em States Racing Association 1OQ-mile Hare Scrambles By David Swift 415-327-Wt1 Photos by Jeannie Cranke and Swift NIXON, NEV., OCT. 28 i~~~~~H~ ~(~~ ~ i .. CUTS 5 ~'@'" ~ ~ .., \.:....... ~ w ;: ~ Straight cut primary gears to fit SACHS, o DKW. PENTON and MONARK. ,. .~ c ~ ~ ~ w ~ Machined and ground from heat treated steel. More power. greater reliability. $69.95 C ; ~ De~:.\=;'~ ;: : ; PRODUCTS INC. The Most Comptete Dirt Bike Shop In Northern C~llforn~ CZ-HUSKV-MAICQ·SUZUKI SALES - SERVICE - PARTS Tro.... y Cy.... Custom Work 1M Sin Antonio AM. R.ce Pr.paration Mount.ln V .... ca ........ O Mall Ord.r (415) .4\-7317 Alloy Tanks 360--4112 KAWASAKI OSA BMW SUZUKI MONTESA IlIICKMAN MAICO selby motors MOTORCYCLES - SALES INSURANCE MAleo ELECTRONIC IGNITION SERVICE 3.& EL CAMINO REAL REOWooD CITv, CA\..IP, CYCl£ MART Perfprmance by Bailey 20 Triumph Rickman Maico Gemini Hodaka Mail Ord....· Sales Service RUlli) 542 So. Main, Milpitas, Ca. 95035 BSA (408) 262-3388 So Carl Cranke calls me from Up North ands sez, "Ever ride a desert race in Nevada. Come on up and let's do it." "The only bike I have access to right now is a YZ250. It's geared too high, and too low," said I, hoping he would have the heart to offer me any old 250 Penton he might have laying around. "That'll do. We'll just cowtrail," says Carl, the master of the 50-miJes-in-49-minutes cowtrail ride. Off towards Sacramento. It's Friday night when I leave L.A. I keep the J-truck nailed at 75 all 400 miles up 5Oapline-straight Interstate 5. I find two things to ease the boredom: I) Other driven who swoop up behind me at 90 and flash their brights instead of intelligently changing Janes to go around me. I don't move - I hate the rumble of Botts' Dots. They tailgate and f1ashityflashity flash. Then I pull my favorite anti-taiIgater trick: weave all over the road like I'm about to 0.0. I collected a record number of birds that night. 2) For a nickle, I bought a "Syko-Delik" jawbreaker. Big, and it has ..the syko center". One lasted me 27.3 miles. The syko center tasted quite good but did nothing to my mundane consciousness. At one a.m., I hit Carl's house in Placerville, rousted him out of bed. He tells me we got to get moving first thing in the morning so he can break in his new 250 Pen ton before the race, and I can use his 125 if I want; I refuse, thinking the YZ might be fun after all since it does go in' a straight line masterfully. By early afternoon Saturday, we are on our ·way to Nixon, Nevada. And we don't arrive at the race site until almost dark, what with stopping to get gas for Carl's VW van, stopping to buy me a visor, unsuccessfully looking around Rendo for a larger countershaft sprocket for the YZ, stopping for groceries so we might not starve the next morning, stopping for groats. And 16-year-old Kim SllIY10R is • rocket. Cart Cranlce is megic. we stopped at the site of the Two Battles Of Pyramid Lake, a Nevada monument on Indian Reservation land noting one time when White Man was soundly thrashed. We arrived with enough light for an hour of riding. Sigh. Wimmin-folk whupped up some grub w h ilew e roasted sagebrush and temperatures dropped into the low 40s. Camp population was low; only 149 riders would sign up by tomorrow; many of them are still wrapping up the Fool's Gold enduro 150 miles away. Ah, yes, life around the 01' campfire. Maico Monty is a trip - his ratty pickup has a fine tape player sound system and we all reverently listen to the guitar solo in the Allman Brother's "Ramblin' Man." Monty lights off a two-stage solid fuel rocket and the camp cheers. All the world's woes are hunkered away and if you don't want to talk and/or listen you can marvel at 17,488,992 stan. I suppose I could tell you all of us saw a UFO - but I can already hear your accusations of us smoking mescaline or drinking coke and aspirin or whatever it is kids do today for krazy kix. But we saw it - right, Carl, Jeannie, Maico M., Dale, and Pat? Next morning I talked to Doug Harrison, president of the Western S ta tes Racing Association. Every successful organization needs one or two fireballs to achieve any success, and he and partner Joe are the ones. Doug