Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

fIl 51 I:iQ i2: I:iQ ...::I g =- g street ri d e rs would p au se a n d w a tch in ~~Ull wonder. Even the High way Patrol to o k a 15 minute break from d uty to be en te rta ined . Bob Ho ffm an won Amateur class b e a t ing o ut Lin Fulfo rd . George J\IeKendry, afte r havin g 16 stitches in his leg on Sat urday , turned in a sizz lin g 2 1 point s to beat No rm Say lor for the W~~GI~ >- w Z .... DESERT a: rC7l Baja S.C.a.R.E. w a: ~ NAT IONAL ~ '-' C""l o u. =:=!~~~~~~~~L Laguna Seca Road Race >- ... ~ ~__J~ Fla t truckin' at Santa Cruz. Rice hulls and wood chips, yet . Rickman Cafe Racers riders taking his first w in in the 250cc Xovi ce A Xla in . Steve Eb right evidently DIRT BI KE TEST 1974 Y> CZ 400 wan ted one of those hu ge trop hies bad, and ro de his best to tak e the win ahead of Mil ton Me Farren . Kell y Dunnagan d id so me pretty fan cy rid ing o f h is own to take th e 25 0cc No vice B Main , Skip Ha th a way is one of th e m ost co n sis te n t rid ers here and again won the 25 0 cc J unio r Main ahead of so me s tiff co m pe tit io n. c overe d the A b lanket co uld have firs t four . th ey were so tigh t. Ted Da vidson again won bo th the :!50cc and 360cc Expert ~l ains, In th e 250 sc rim mage his c o m pe ti to r was Lee Seidel who pushed Ted to a h alf lap lead over the third p lace rider Curt Bro o ks. Dan ny Mills was right on Ted the full d istan ce in the 36 0cc Expert ~ I ai n but Da n ny cou ld on ly wai t for a mistake that d id n ' t appear a nd had to settle fo r se cond. • Resul ts in the Results Section . The front end that works! or your Money Bac k . These Fron t End Dampening U nits ar e designed for RACING o ve r rough terra in . They will give you a ride second t o none ! Ridge runners' Santa Cruz MX: More try it, they like it By Devore Fortney SANTA CR UZ, CAL.,JULY 14 Today's race brought out a wh ol e ho st of ride rs to try o u t th e Ridgerunners track , eno ugh riders to create a Powder Puff class whi ch Tari Moran won after battling fero ciously with a 100 Novice rider (another one o f th e new classes to day) . Riding along with these two cl as ses was a handful o f BURAK BYE-PRODUCTS 15170 Ray me r 51. • Van Nuys , CA (2 13) 181).1768 Old Tim ers with Al Cavan au gh a nd his Maico sho wi ng them the wa y. He was cha llenge d fo r the lead in the seco nd mota by Bob I1enneuse, b ut all of a sudden Bob was nowhere t o be seen . Wha' happened. Bob ? Both the 250 and 500 Experts ra n together , al o n g with th e Open Amateurs. In the se c ond m o to a Novic e. HR L Lubricants 7340 Fl orence Ave. Downey, CA 90240 213-927-4781 e !L .J032 w. BROOKS Sf. ONTARiO,CA91162 · 714 983·5871 Dan Southwood (who asked if he co ul d ride this c lass today) je lled his Hu sky in fran t o f all the Experts during the first part of the race until Larry Gurley inched up and passed him for the 5 00 Expert win. Coming in a sq uin t-ey ed second was Dan Roberts . The 125 and 25 0 Amateurs co mb ined for what had to be the most exci ting race of the day . In the first mota it was Gary Murphy all the way , never being chal lenged after th e sec o nd lap . In the second mota it was a different story, as Eric Harvey moved his YZ into first while Gary got stuck in traffic in abo ut fifth place . As each lap ro lled around Gary would pass ano ther rider until final ly he was u p be hind Eric . Cary slowly whittled Eric's lead down to nothing on the last lap, bu t Eric was having non e of this an d won by a mere bi ke 's length. Trophy p resentation was a li ttl e slow today, but with good reason as the Rid gerun ners had an engraver on the spot to do th e tr ophies. . • Resul ts in the Result> Sec t ion . Darrow defeats Tyson at Donner PJ.T.S. Trial By J oe Bogums DONNER S U :>I~IIT , CAL.,JU LY 7 T he Donn er Summi t T rials held in th e p icturesq ue Sie rra mountai ns has the right terrain to o ffer t o trials ride rs. Ten sect ions were laid out by San J ose P. I. T.S. over a six mile course. With 20 MPH winds an d dust blo w ing, the red -eyed ride rs we re a bi t wear y at the end of the day .. Sec tion One was dry dust clim bing u p a ro ck y hill, a sharp tum whic h sen t you back d own wi th an off camber turn bac k up , on ly th is ti me it was mu d and roc k ins tea d of the dus t so "yo ur throttle co n trol had to be righ t fo r both dry di r t and mud . Bob Tyson, J oe ~ I asc ul in e, an d Steve Darrow all showed the con trol and bal ance it takes to nego tiate a section like t his. Th ese th ree batt led for the n umber one Ex per t spot all day . Steve Dar ro w narrowly beat Bob Tyson 22 ·2 4, with J oe Masculine co m ing in t hi rd at 34 p o in ts. S e cti o n Result s in Resul ts Sec ti on . Superbikes at Vallejo short track By James Bramme r VAL LEJO, CAL.,JULY 5 FL EET STREET ~ 22 o top Novi ce h o n ors. T hr ee w as the m o st demandi ng o f th e eve nt. It dr opped yo u off a bank int o a cree k where you turned up a natural wat er fa ll th at was covered with th at green mossy slime, th en a righ t turn up the o p posi te ro cky bank wh er e you rode off ca m be r along th e side of the cree k, before y ou had to cross the slippery ro cks aga in and exit out the othe r side. Bob Tyson lost two fives here and Steve Darrow lost one five, with o t he r Experts ,losing sub st an ti a l points . Steve Darrow pu t t ogether two brilliant rides in Sect ion Four, a rock littered creek, having the only two cleans of the day. T rap 10 proved to be a great specta t o r se cti on be cause it was located next to a county ro ad wh ere all of th ose According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Frank Crane, J r. is riding the same Schwerma Honda th at Dave Hansen rode in the Astrodome . Crane wo n the 36 0 Juni or class on it Friday night at th e Vall ej o short tra c k races, passing Rusty Davi s' and then Ti m O ' Hara in the fin al. Ru st y Da vis or Brad Kotsaris usu ally co mmands t he lead in the 25 0 Junior class , bu t thi s time , Mike Bogd anvi ch (Yam) passed Kotsaris to win. Kotsar is and Davis finished seco nd and third. K e nt J o hns on (Yam ) wo n an ex tre mely co m pe ti tive 36 0 Expert clas s start ing fro m th e po le p os iti on. In to th e las t co rne r, Mike Fari a atte m pt ing to pass Marl in Stew ar t co llide d sendin g Stewar t to the ground. Fari a held up for a th ird place fini sh . Offici als held th at the co llisio n was uninten tional. Kirk Kin g fi nis he d second on T om Turner's Yam ah a. • Results in Resul ts Se cti on . CMC Sunnyvale By Steve Castillo SUNN YVA LE, CA L. ,JUN E 3 0 Even though m ost o f t he regu lar C.,>IC North fast dudes were at the Mamm oth Mountain th e In termediates and Expe rt s at Sunnyvale pu t on a heck of a good show. T he hot test race o f the day was between Open Experts Jeff Mullins [Mai) and Rud y Leon (Pen). At th e twan g o f the rubb er band Mu llin s go t th e lead , but Leon wa s righ t on his tail pu s hin g hard. For several lap s Rudy hou nded .J e ff on the hard and d usty Sunnyvale track . Then Leon decided to make his move and he cu t t o the inside of a tum as Mullins was taking the high and o utside line . Coming out of the tum a t sp eed Mullins plowed into Leon and they b oth we nt down. From then on it was a race to see wh o cou ld ge t go ing fir st. Th ey bo th kicked at their mach ines frantically for wh at seem ed like minutes. Th e Penton sprang to life Allen Shaw (Pen) d id so me fast catch-up rid ing t o win both 250 Int erme di at e motos at Sunnyvale.

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