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Cycle News North SA LES SERV ICE Welding Porting Accessories 1352 Centinela, W. Los Angeles Gary Wallace, with a fine rid e, to o k top Amateur honors. Novice and Beg in ne rs competing on a separate course had their share of troubles too. However, nearly all managed to complete the course in good time, with Mark Lawson achieving first Novi ce a n d Sam Ferguson first Beginner. With riders from England, Canada, and America, the trial had a truly international flavor, and the suggestion was made by the three English riders that the terrain would be ideally suited for the 1975 World Champ ionsh ip ro und. Co rne r of Santa M onica Blvd . & Centinela Indoor Sho rt Track Open 9 to 6 Tues·Sat 9 to 9 on Thursday By James Brammer SANT A ROSA, CAL.,JAN. 18 On a 1974 YZ Yamaha in the 125 J un io r class, Mike Delacy moved up fro m the center of the pack and took a co nvincing lead in his six-lap qualifying heat race. 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C T RQ N IC IQl'II TI ON Rob Edwards 17 up in North American Cup Trials By Bonnie Paulson T IGE R MT ., WASH ., JAN. 14 It was sweet revenge fo r his d isqualification at Sadd leback Park . Rob Edwar ds sho wed his form at Tiger Mou ntain , Seatt le, Washingt on, and won by a margin of 17 poi nts. First . dese rt racing. Now , t rials . App ro· p riately enough. it's a Yo rkshire terrier in the fee t -up (o n t he tank ) gam e. Runner up J ohn Hemmingw ay proved tha t th e 123 Mon tesa was just as capable of success as th e larg er 250 machi nes. On sec tion nu mber 12, which co nsis te d o f deep ru tted mud, and tight turns over a number of fallen tr ees, handso me Hemmingway outsh one the rest of the o pposition and left th e spectators agog. Overnigh t rai n m ad e the previo usly froze n g rou nd very g reasy. co mpo unding t he already difficult sec tions. Prev iously warned of the intended severity of the course, man y of the local riders stayed away, m uch to the disappointment of the organizers. Rob Shepheard, slightly hass led by the slippery, sloppy slo pes, pulled in an incredible third place for the England trio. To complete Montesa sweep of the leaderboard first P.N.T.A. points scorer, American ri der Arlin Hannon p ip ped local oppostion with a well earned fourth place. Results 360 E X : 1. Manuel Crummett ( Bul) . 2 . Jerry Kale (v.m) . 3 . Fe nn 'Pe r y j e r (Bul). 360 J R: 1. Kenneth Pescnet ( B ul). 2. Norman Bentley (Klw) . 3 . Hoffman (Yam) . 360 NOV : 1. D ave P h illip s. 2 . JosePh Hardy ( Bul). 250 EX : 1. Steve E k " u nd ( aSS) . 2 . K 1r k K i n g (Bul) . 3 . Dana Perri raun. sal The 360 Expert final with Manuel Crummett and second-placer Jerry Kole (3) . T ne Most C omp let e D irt B ik e ShOg in N o rt h er n Cali f orn ia SALES - S ERVIC E TroPhy Cy"e. 1 84 san Antonio Ave . Mountain View. Col 94040 (4 15 )94 1·7317 Montesa trials ace Rob Edwards makes the first clean of the day on a rocky Section 12 on Tiger Mountain . on a YZ Ya ma ha, passed J eff Conway for second and then wrangled th e lead from Mike Delacy to w in . . Fresh fro m min ibi ke racin g, J im Mertens (Yam) from Pe talu ma led early in t he 1 2 5 Novice final, bu t Sebastopol's Jack Pedersen (Suz), in his second year of racing, took the lead to win fro m Mertens, Jim Jepsen. also co mpetitive among the leaders, finished third. The first two places in the 250 Novice class were inverted fro m th e previous week. This time Greg Ragan (Suz) took first with Danny Sauza (Bul) finis hing second. San Jose flash. Steve Ekl und, led a group of riders that ha ppe ned to all be pro fessio nal racers to th e 25 0 Ex pe rt class fin ish. He gained a quar ter lap lea d wit h Kirk Kin g and Dan a Perri in second and third . Pat Rose, in hi s firs t tim e o ut as an Expert, fo und him self leadin g th e 360 Expert fina l, bu t th e old p ro from Neva da, M an ue l Crumm e tt wa s the firs t of a series of whi te p late rid ers to pas s him. J erry Ko le finish ed second with Fen n Pervier t hir d and t he n J im Coats. Norm an Bentley (Kaw) led win ner Kenneth Pesch el (Bul) foll owed by Gary Co op er o n the firs t lap of the 360 J unio r final. Peschel led lap tw o and th e remaining laps w ith Ben tley fini shing second and Sal Hoffman m o ving up to th ird fro m a handicapped start. Numbe r two sc ram b les rider, George Kalam aras en te red fo r his first tim e in t he cu r ren t se ries a t Santa R osa. sc ored his cus to mary handicapped start, and moved up to second spot in his q ualifying heat. Quite a charge co nsidering the skill level of th e riders he passed in six laps. <;.[ PV IC£ 14 ... EL C A MI NO IH . A I R EOWO O D C ' T Y , C A I U