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r""""'' ' ' ' ' ' ' """""'' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '""'' ' """~~::i~:"'1 § § = = = = :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: = :: = = = = UNFAIR ADVANTAGE- Coope r Motocross and End uro give you five unfa ir advantage s over the co mpe tlton. · • POWER: We have the muscle when and whe re you need it. Effi ciency proved bo re and stroke dimensions de liver expl osive power mixed with down-to-earth torqu e . • HANDLING: We use the most successful chassis design in racing. With 30 · of fork angle and almost s ix inches of tra il a Cooper won 't plow, slide-out or wiggle. There's no better chassis ava ilable. We can prove it. • DESIGN: There's over three years of intense te sting in the new Coo pers-on the track, on the tra il. The re's' over twe nty years of experien ce bu ilt into their design. The result is Europe a n handling and Japanese power. • MATERIALS: No other competition motorcycles offer these United States made steels: frame-4130 chrome moly tubing ; transmission-8620 gear steel. And more . Betor forks , Mikuni Carburetor, Reg ina chain , Bridgestone tires. • PRICE: $103S· - lnexpen sive , yes : cheap no . With inflation push ing overseas prices up we have kept cost increases down . You don 't pay e xtreme impo rt or sh ipping costs and the motorcycles are available now. . :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: = :: Key ti me at ten p. m. was the be gin ning of four h ours of velvet dark ness and sp ooky dust. Lighting equipment was imaginative - miner's lamps, fla shlights, lots of duct tape and even a chemical flourescent. I I The new Cooper 250cc MX-S3 no w available with a stro nger 5-speed gearbox and improved power. Cooper Enduro: Identically" the same machine and materials as the MX with a torquer engine, full knobb ies, enduro sp eedometer, com plete lighting, CHP approved high exhau st. It's endur o ready. DISTRIBUTORS: APACHE LTD. 6422 Sa n Fernando Rd. Glendale, Ca lif. 91201 213/246-8241 jersey. CRC laid out a co urse wh ich would ha ve been a bore during the day but was just righ t at night, a lot of fire roads and easy tra ils. T he hardes t thing about riding at night is the dust. It 's j ust like ridi ng in den se fog . Spooky. It could have been dan gero us on a hard co urse b ut C RC di d an excellent job in . picki ng t he layout . T he first ch eck was quite a ways out and we sm elled it 'o ut as we approac hed a little ' hi ll and sure enough there it was. Good old jerry (my rid ing partner) had hi s t imekeep ing down pat and led us in righ t on time. The course was marked pretty well except at one spot about two m iles from the end of the first loop. Ei ther a tum arrow got knocked down or it wasn 't t her e to begin with but a lot of riders were going up a wash instead of a road. It was mo stl y follow the leader time. On a well marked enduro co urse if you go 50 yards without seeing a ribbon it 's time to back track. Most got back on the right t rail without losing too much time. Now it was race time in to the finish and that is a thrill at night. It was int eres ti ng to see how fast we could go at night (with in reason of course) . A 45 minute break to get things squared a way for the second loop and a lot of riders are wo rking on their lighting systems. There's craz y jerry Sparks. He burned his headlight out just before the enduro so he taped a flashlight to his handlebars and o ne to his helmet and rode the enduro an yway. I'm surprised he's stilt a live. T he second loop was faster than the 'fi rs t but st ilt fun. The first chec k was lo cat ed at t he bottom of a sho rt but ste ep sand downhill and if yo u hesi tated Y$)U were lat e to the chec k. It 's a very str ange fe elin g to stic k th e fr ont wheel over an edge wi th t he ligh t sh ining out into space an d s ta r t down. You ca n' t see m uch . Hey hey hey, zeroed t he chec k 48 seconds in to our m in ute, jerry's t ime kee ping is su pe rb. Leaving the chcck the run heade d in to a rock field wh ich really wasn't that bad. May be we're use d to ridi ng at night now. More sand washes, roads, including a mining road which wound up so me small mo untain out there somewhere. (I had no idea where as I was totally disoriented. I kno w the area pretty good but at night it's easy to get turned aro und. Ah, another check . What ! We' re a min ut e late! T ha t turkey, jerry! Where did he learn to time keep ? It's all his fa ult! The last three miles into t he finish were the d ustiest. At tim es yo u couldn't see yo ur front wheel. Finally we hit the road leading into the pits and to t he end of a fine enduro. CRC had nice finisher pins but ran out towards the end. With only 200 riders that's a real bummer. I know CRC was trying to cut their losses but that's c utting it a little close. There were quite a few zeros so it will be up to t he tiebreaker chec ks to decide the winner. Four seconds lost between two tiebreaker checks was the b est score I heard. At night, that 's re all y in credible. For the real enduro freaks it was time to load up and he ad on over to Adelanto for SRA's Crack-of-Dawn Enduro. It 's now three a .m . We're all crazy . • Cooper motorcycles are made by Moto Islo in M"xic o. Moto rs io is North America 's largest manu facturer of two-stroke motorcycles . prod uc ing almost 40 ,000 machi nes ann ually. MITSUBISHI INT. 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