Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

Sudshouse Bill Yards lays some wisdom on 125 Beginner Mick Dahms. It must have helped . 20 Honda 35 0 getting the Overa ll over Neibau r and hard -rid ing Lewis Al ter, Jr. (Bul). The first hea t saw Mar k T enn yson (Ya m) slam (not shu t but SLAM !) th e gate o n Larry go ing into the fi rs t turn to tak e t he lead an d t he race. Tennyson crashe d in the second heat o f th e Exper ts, go t going agai n but co u ldn' t mak e u p en ough gro un d to beg back into the p oints. Thad Lawren ce (Ya m) rode like gangbusters and won th e th ird heat but d idn 't figure in the Overall due to a ra ce-ending crash in the firs t heat. The 12 5 's ran together (Beginne rs and Experts) and fa st Nat e Gross of Caldwell did a sh ot on his CR -1 25M tr ac k ra cer. Gross held off Denny Lee (Hon ) and T o m Fit zgerald (Ya m) for the Expe rt trophy . Boise 's Mick Dahms came o ut o f "retir cment " to ride his buddy J ohnnie Thompson's tr ick ed o ut Yammie One-Two-F ive and put in a go od sho w for a solid first in the 125 Beginner ran ks. Mick weighs about 40 pounds m ore than T hom pso n and had to build a special pipe to m ake the machine pull his extra poundage around the track. When last heard from, Dahms was soa king in a hot tu b and using a heating p ad t o rel ieve the ac hes suffered in a sec o nd heat spill. Racing on ce every two years can be kinda hard on the bod ! The Open class was popu lated by Husky 400's, Maicos, Pur sang Mk . VII 's and other motocross bikes. The club allowed a ny type of tires to be used an d the "Jofa types" turned out in force. Harve y Pendleton (~ Iai) ca me awa y from th e fray with a n ice trophy and showed the res t of the pac k how to go around a IT track. Danny Mo ore (Ossa) did a simi lar number on the 25 0 Beginners , One highlight of the Am at eur IT was the three wheeler . e xhibition races. There were better than a half dozen of the strange looking " d une cycles" cir cu lat ing the t rack and Rich Re yno lds >(T ri-Spo r t ) came aw ay victorious . The riders loved the chan ce to run the big IT trac k whi ch is norm ally used on ly for the Northwest Regional Champi o nships in April ever y yea r. Maybe t he Ow yhee Club will st art adding a IT race t o thei r regul ar pr o gram of sho rt trac k and m otocross. If yo u ne ver have t o cha nge t ires to run the track, it could .be sverv interesringl Kerstein aces Moore by a slim three points at Boise trials By Mart y Gregory BOISE, IDA .. AUG . 8 Boise Mo n t e sa dealer Chris Kerstein dabbed four tim es fewer th an Boise Ossa dealer Bob Moore to t ak e best "A" Expert , 3 1 marks to 35, in the Bois e Trials Club's late st event. Bob's son , Danny Moore, lo ok third o n his 12 3 Cota wi th 45 marks lost and m ot o crosser Dan Ren k wound up in th e fourth spot with 4 9 . (Sounds lik e t hey need a " Deale r's Cham pions hip" class up t here - Ed.) The sect ions were se t up am ids t th e m otocross course and surrounding terrain of the Owyhee Motorcycle Clu b 's grounds near Boi se . Some 40 r id ers com pe ted in th e Thursday eve ning e vent for trophi es and po ints in the club's series. A few fell ows traveled over one hundred mil es to ride. Dale Wayne, looking very official in his ne w "internati on al " number ap ro n pulled o ff a win in the B (A ma te ur) . clas s o ver Mark Co m a nd his br and new Ossa. Dale is a dedicated rider who make s the Mick Andre ws desi gned Yamaha wo rk quite well fo r him . In th e C:l ranks, it was ~li ke U ·N .) Hollingsworth (Suz) doing it to th e rest o f th e fi eld, dem onstrating the impre ssi ve new Su zie tr ialer, Rud y Anderson won the C-2 co m pe ti tio n on an Alpina and St eve J o nes (Yam) was sec on d in his first ever tr ials atte m p t. • Results in the Results Se ction . Davidson returns By W.H. Spence r O AKD A LE . CAL., A UG. 3 Ret urn ing in triumphant for m • from his firs t pro fessional event, Mark ' Co rn (Oss] re linquishes a dab , b ut only when his Plonker becomes airborne. scra mble a nd had qui te a go of it, ta king second in th e co veted 5 0 0 Expert class. J eff Hamm ond sho wed up on his BSA Enduro-type pump an d ne arly laid the best of the crop away with some awesome rid in g. Hammond, another of those long lanky six -fo oters, got in a tre m endo us ba sh with Allen Yarrow and John Hleb o and wound up second to Jim Fole y. Fol ey is the only one of th e four who isn't six foot and was long gone a t th e start of the ten lap Main. Hlebo held second past t he halfway mark with Hammond finally getting by Yarrow. Hammond was relying on lots of ho rsepower and traction, riding high down th e long back straigh t and h o ld ing a high line through t he tight corner and ove r the jump; the infield has a shady surfa ce making a n ice cushion, and the three were like undulating waves on the seas with beau tiful unison movements . On th e si xth lap , com ing off the last turn and down the fr ont c hu te; Hammond put in on the "E lbow" and made it sti ck despite some tremendous pressure. Foley wa s never headed with Yarrow holding o ff brother Duane for third and fourth . In the 125 Junior event it looked like Randy Mamola might take the whole smear after a tremendous Heat race ride that put him ahea d of Rick Hobbs by abou t 8 seconds a t the chec kered . But it wasn 't to be in the "l ain as motocrossers Hobbs and Bill Roberts got off the line in good shape and led the e igh t Iapper (a road race at th at ) Ted Davids on put o n a win in t he 250 Expert ~I ain and a seco nd in th e 360 Exp er t. In t he ~6 0 feature, he was leading the fo rm idab le pack and made o ne sligh t error in judgement th at cos t him the d ouble win. Going down the front st ra ight with a good lead he dropped into the fir st corner on the high side , ~i vi ng Dave ,Pestoni a n opp ortunity he Jus t co uJdn t refuse. Dave stuck hi s Bultaco right under Ted and that was that. Coming ba ck for the win.in t he 250 Expert Main, Teddy was lucky to get this o ne. Lee Seide l, who won last week, led the 10 laps right up until th e last when the lop of his ca rb uretor ca m e off. He barely managed to keep the co mpression release down to take second in front of Larry Burton . )?~ I1aan ~a. an excited young m inibiker h aving w on his second straigh t 6 0 Expert Main o ver flying Rick Ryan who at age eight is having a slump of two w hole weeks and hop ing it won't last too much longer. • Results in the Results Se ction . ISDT Benefit a success By W.H. Spence r BREN TWOOD, CAL.. AUG. 4 Internationa l Six Days Trial riders from Distri ct 36 will be in line for some extra spending money fo r their t rip to Camerino, Italy next month. The District Sports Comm ittee ele cted to try its sec"o n d annual ISDT be nefit at Tom Anderso n 's San d Hill Ran ch, an d 235 riders turned out in th e hot weather to d o battle for double points in all ca tagor ies including Black Plate points . Scott Williams cam e aw a y with the largest total o f po ints winnin g the 250 Expert Main for a 12 point co u nt. Duane Yarrow fought valiantly to ge t by lI' illiams' Yam ah a but the dust ma y have held him bac k. One lSDT qualifier made it to todav 's High, lo w , crossed up . R id ers bro ught every conceivable style to the Sand Hill Ranch . a: w u Z w C.

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