Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

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Birt at 213-542-8850 o r 370-8822 Dealer In quiries Invited r COMPETITIO N SHOC K ABSORBERS • FI VE WAY ADIUSTABLE • • • • 18 CHROMED & POLISHED DOUBLE DAMPENING REBUILDABLE STREET OR RACING DISTRIBUTED BY " ¥-. ~ Sammy Tanner Distribu ting "1 734 No . Avalon Blvd. Wilmington, Calif. 90744 Phone:.( 2131830-4040 Betor Forks and Shocks Make the Difference This y ear, it I S going to take some com p etitive riding to mo ve out o f th e Novice class in A.T. A. trials. For th e Plonkers' season o pen er at 10th place, a Novice had to ride in the upper 10% of his class just to pick up one poin t. I t takes 30 poin ts to transfer to Amateur. This is definitely going to be an interesting year. The club laid ou t 1 7 sections on a four mile loop through steep hill and canyon co untry ' east of Riverside. Novices rode seven sections, three loops. Amateurs and Experts rode eight sections, four loops. The kids had a special loop of their own near the campsite. For grins, the club threw a bicycle trials Saturday. The trail between sections was itself a trap, in spots. Occasionally there was a panoramic view of the smogless San Berdoo basin below, providing one ' could b reak concentration from the trail. This wasn't easy. Since some trials riders fancy themselves motocross stars between sections, attention was divided between staying on the trail and avoiding being run over. Novices had a relatively easy time of it in their first three traps; then suddenly - bad news Section Seven, a series of tight turns over loose rocks with bigger rocks for natural gates. Lots of lost forward motion and other forms of disaster. For the web-footed. Novice Section 12 and Expert-Amateur Section 13 had mud an d water hazards. Number 12 became something of an Expert section when o ne large rock shifted down into t he mud-filled ditch. It was just right to pin ch the cases if you rod e around it. The o nly ro ute was over it , and even an itinerant Expert failed to clean it. The real case -basher was Expert Section Ten. It was a near-vertical multi-stage rock step with a badly broken up lip . Those who survived th is still had to wigg le their cases through a cut between rocks and make a tight turn . The only man to rea lly conquer this trap was German champion Felix Krahnstover, riding the trial as a guest. The giant German (G·-8". 250 lb .) recorded a three, a one, and two fives . His one-mark second loop ride was an exercise in bru te strength, according to one section judge. He cleaned the rock step entirely, banked the front wheel off a rock slope, and then took one massive prod to un-stick his wheels from the narrow cu t. On la ter loops, the section broke up so as to become nearly unridable . Marland Whaley cleaned 22 sections to win the Expert class. Top puffer Debhie Evans rode to sixth Amateur. • Results EX PE RT: 1. Marland Whaley (Mon) 24. 2 . Bernie Schreiber (Bul) 43. 3. Ma~tin Belair 47. AMATEUR: 1 . G . Hermelln 19 . 2. R . Graham 28 .3. A. D il a b io 31. NOV IC E : 1. Tom Beeman 4 .2. Reg Dawes 5 . 3 . D ea n Stanley 8. K I DS "A·· : 1. Rob Tolleson 10.2. Robert Earl 16 .3 . Chris Dow 26. KI DS "B": 1. RObert Burman 1. 2 . Crai g Borremans 2 . 3 . Derrek Bernard 3 . BICVCLE "A": 1. Jeff Baisden. 2 . D o u g Baisden . 3 . Don Smith. BICYCLE "B": 1. BOb by Willis. 2. L o r ee n Mills. 3. Kathryn McGovern. Wave of t he future ?

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