Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

Fly me. ; "'--.----~~/ .:- 0- < Cycle News LOrWERS Air Mail and First Class subscription rates! take the time or expe nse to put together a w inn ing Tr ophy Tea m with the e nth u siasm that J ohn Penton has show n , bu t the re alwa ys see ms to be criticism a nyway, esp ecially with the selection fo the ride rs. We asked J ack and T om wh y th e Trophy T eam always consis ted of Te a m Pen ton rid ers. Tom - "11',' let our record sp eak fo r itse lf Th e q ualifiers and th e past" Six Days. La st ye ar w e had t h e best riders. Malcol m Sm ith. p erhaps. co uld ha ul' be en in t he re if he would haue ridden a Penton bike, bu t h e uran ted t o stick w ith H usk y. It s true t ltat yo u hat»: t o hauc 6 of t he same bik es to d o w"11 a" a t eam. ", [a ck - " We ma y nut hain: had th e 6 best or fastest riders o n th e Trophy Tea m , but in eac h class I think w e had the best man f or that class. There is no bet t er 10 0 cc rid er that w e k nuw uf th en Dancl. eimbach , No o ne is g uing t o argu " abo ut To m, and Bill Uhl . Bill was th e b,'s t A m erican 01 th e Six Days. Wha l mo re can you say ? Paul Da nik was a nt' of t he high esl placing m,'" in his class. Wil h t he excep tio n of so m e very minor problem s. it was so minor what w e had happen 10 t he Six Day s l ea rn th is past y,'ar. we had th e best m en in th eir classes . Dick Bu rleso n ma y be able 10 beat Dan e, bu t on a IOOcc bik e I do" 'I k now, " With a b etter und erst andi ng of how th e rid ers were selecte d for the te am , we went o n to talk ing about riding the Six Days. Jus t h ow hard is it for a rider in the ISDT ? Wha t' s it feel like? To m - " A ny o n,' da y of th e Six Days is n't th a i diff i cu lt . 1I's just th e accum ulat io n of th ose 6 da ys th at mak e it t ough. An y 1 or 2 day even t in th is co untry is m u ch more difficu lt. Th e acc u mulation of having t o rid e all 6 days and keep up th e bik e, and mak c all th ose che cks on tim e, ...h ly · v nc sectio n b etween chec k and check is not that difficu lt, bUI 10 make all uf them uii t h o u t hauing an y pr oblems tha t would mak e yo u 101,' is to ugh. For m yself, ph ysicall y . it 's "0 p roblem 01 all. 1 get bett er as l it,' uicck goes on . 11 :, like going on a hard jo b. const ruc tio n. TIlt.' mure you work at it . th e easier it ' gel" . M enially it becomes a problem bccaus(' yu u lose co nce ntratio n. )-'o u d o a lit tl e do)' dreaming. l'o u go 0 " a uto-pilot t oo mu ch . " j a ck- " AI t he Six Days you 're uio rk ing as har d m en tally as yo u are p hysically, so 01 t h r end of th e day you f ed as if y ou 'u,' wo rk ed t uio days wort h. One wit h your mind a nd o ne with your budy. This goes 0 " for 6 days. and aft er 6 day s y ou're pr etty exhaust ed. " To m - " Physically th ough , 1 co uld g o o n f or a 7th day, or an 8 1h. " [ ack - "Th is is considering thai you " eu,'r fa ll off your bik e. If you don 't fall of f your bike )'ou CO" go 0 " fore ver at that pace, Fall off o n,- time and spra in s omet hing an d it 's m ul tipl ied ,-very single day. L'ue seen p eople wh o just co uld n't f inish because of som ething like a knotted m uscle in th eir arm. 11 s th e lillie things. Lik e if you stub your toe, by t hr en d of 3 days your fOOL is just h uge. We d on 'I usually ge t hurt in Six Days because we can 'I af f ord to, but if you do g<'l hurl it hurts forever, " Jack is yo ung, anti when he isn 't co m peti ng in end ure s , he 's usu all y run nin g i n a ha re scrambles and so metimes a mo to cro ss. I wo ndered if he had any gene ra l plan s in the directio n of mo to cross, an d wh at t he team had planned for th e rest 'o f th e year in part ic ular . [ a c k - "Th e co nditioning a nd th e t iming that 's invo lve d in m ot o cross, you hm»: 10 go out and do it every weeke nd o r m o re to be go od 01 it, Wil h t h r sc hedu le thai w e k eep' fo r th e en d ure s, o ut of 52 weeks in the year w e hu ue t o rid e cnduros on 3 0 of th em . And t he n th ere 's th e Six Days w hich tak es up a number of uieeks. Th er e ju st isn 't time, and rig h t now it 's mo re important to m e 10 ride Ih e Six Days. I'd ha ue 10 take uf f a wh ole year from rn du ros 10 ride m ot o cross, and righ t now I ca n 't d o t hat , Th is y"ar th e t eam w ill be riding a wh ol e lot of e ndures, and trying f o r th e Nat ional Endu ro Champio nship. Th e n t hrrr's th e l S DT again. . . . " • On ce again Cycle New s West de fies co nventi on and gives ano ther be nefit to readers. 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