Cycle News is a weekly magazine that covers all aspects of motorcycling including Supercross, Motocross and MotoGP as well as new motorcycles
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Name _ _ Addre...... . _ I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ Zip I Allow two to three weeks for our so metimes post office. Send check or money order to: L 26 _ CYCLE N EWS ST U F F P.O. BOX 498, LONG BEACH, CA. 90801 _ _ _ _ Please print clearly_ _ By Jim Stewart _ _ _ I I I I ...I . L UCE R NE, CAL. , MAY 19 With the hope of spending another warm, sunny weekend in the beautiful desert, hundreds of desert freaks looking forward to sun and racing only found thi s half true. The racing was there but th e , . ' sun wasn 1. . The ~md never stopped blowmg, cuttmg thro ugh a nything yo u had on. T hi s didn 't sto p the die hard desert ra ce rs fr om lining up at nine o'clock sharp. With big shots from BLM presen t to witness the start of a desert race fro m the ir th ree Greyhound buses, t he banner dropped - m uch to the surprise of several of th e riders lined up on the right wh o co uld n' t see th e banner truck because of blowing dust. Mit ch Mayes (Hus) had a weekend off fro m motocross, so de cided t o sp end it in th e d esert whe re hi s riding fame sta r te d . Motoc ross sure has not chan ged Mayes' ridin g ability as a d esert racer, as he led it fro m th e b omb t o th e finish , wi th n o one every really challenging h im. Fo llow ing May es p ast the b omb was A rt Knapp (H us), Dave Lap ri k (Yam) , an d Amateur Mark S torm es (S u z) . Kn app see ms to go fas te r o n chop py courses, and th e Desert Foxes laid o ut one to Art's liking, as h e ra n second Overal l t he whole race. The real ba ttle was for thi rd Overall be tw een A. C. Bakken (H us), Kevin Hasten (CZ), an d Bo b Balentine (Hus) . Kevi n and hi s CMC of Costa Mesa sponso red 4 0 0 CZ o'ut powere d an d out rod e the H uskies of Balen tine and Bakken. Balen ti ne finished fourt h Overall be hi nd Hasten , whi le Bak ken , having so me pro blems, had to settle for fifth Ove rall. At th e first of the year, it seemed that the 250s w ere the bikes t o beat fo r th e Overall win , b u t the weekend 's race was no t like th e rest, with th e first five Ove ra ll rid er s m o unted on Open bikes . T he m iles of san d trails, up hill s, a nd sand dunes accou nted for the top rid er s being on 400s. . Lap rik led t he 250 class m ost o f the race, o nly to have t h is lead co me to a sudden end afte r u n lo ad ing on th e second loop. Wayne Coo k (H on ) held on to the class lead to th e checke re d. J im \'Va tri ng, on his ne wly sponsored Imperial Motors Husky, also go t by L~prik, to pick .u p th~ sec o nd . spot in t his class . . Lapnk . fm.s!;,ed third 250 Expert. Wnh Pettigrew s Cooper and Ben ny Padilla's Gringo slowing radically on the second loop, Jim Eveland forced his way in t o fo urth 250 Expert, having to st op a nd bend his shifter o u t o n the seco nd loop af te r h itting a rock on a Novice co vered hil l. Mark Stormes (Suz) has b een finishing well in t he Amateur class, b ut never be fore ha s tr ophied as an Am ate ur" since b ecoming one this year . But this was the weekend to give his all; he got first Amateur at tw elfth Overall. He had been ru n nin g ni nth Overall, b ut ran out of gas co ming in to th e pits. A llen May (H us) alm ost ca ug ht Stormes once , but th reatened wi th losing firs t Am ateur, Mark 'go t his Can og a Par k Suzuki goin g and m ad e May follow in his dust. A llen got second Open Amateur and second Amateur, an d soon shou ld be rid in g wit h a re d st ic ky since he has been doin g well all this year. Bob Ru tten agai n fin ish ed way up in the Overall p o sit ions, (an d first Trail Bik e) on hi s Hodak a. Again Bruce Ogilive (H.D) finished secon d be h in d Rutten. After Ru tte n a nd Ogi live, was another former Trail Bike winner , Ch uck Cartledge (Ho d) . It 's hard to bel ieve, after riding the san dy course on . a 250 tha t had a har d t im e topping one . of the. s~ve~al sand h ills, that a ridercoul d finish In the top twen ty on a 100 . Bill Friant (Pen) picked up a first in th e 175 class, so meth ing he h asn ' t done in awhile, since h u rtin g himself. Gary Conner (DKW), who in the past co uple o f weeks I have heen list in g as Bruce Kude by mi sta ke, was the second 175 to have t he checkered dropped before him. Cha rles Barney (Yam) was the t hird Divisio n II rider. . Robbie Parma (Ya m) of the Sand Sail ors, will soon be riding with the likes o f Friant and Conner, as he pic ked up another in a string of firs t 175 A mateur rides. Robbie had be e n run ning th ird th rough the pits, bu t re mem be rin g t he had sp ots the first d time ' a ro und , he p icked up th e o ther two p os itions on the second time ar o und .