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MOTORCYCLE SWAP MEET Buy - Se ll - Trade Here's your chance to sell your used motorcycle, trade it, or buy one for a good price! SPACE FREE Water crossings are fun, when the rains haven't been too heavy. ' "8 . , S1·~':"'> 1,:",ji1N ~B, ~t~ , ' bike , go ing very slo wly . A CHP co p saw him, swung his car across the , ro ad in fr ont of h im a nd j u m pe d o u t. Th e rid er laid it th is way , " I d id n' t h ave any mirro r so I sure wasn ' t go ing to stop . an d here was th is police ca r bl o c kin g almost all th e road. I sure w asn ' t going to ru n in to that. O ff the edge of th e road was a IO-fo o t em bankment. I di dn ' t wan t to go down that beca use -I was al ready bruised from crashing . The o n ly p lace left to go was where th at CH P guy was sta ndi ng, so what co uld J do ? I gasse d it!" By the tim e the co p got b ack up th e embank ment a nd went, sir en scre aming, past the cam p , the rid er was in his vehicle, un d ressed , an d his wife had the plates off h is scootcr ! S hades of the 'F ifties. Awarding him th e tro p hy he deserves migh t be hazardou s, but I hope the C ER A d oes find so m e way to ac knowledge h is co n trib u t io n to th e spo rt. Ma y be th ey co uld ta ke h im to d in ner . say so m eplace specializing in roas t pork ! Al th ough the ru n di d no t tu m o u t ver y pl easant th is year, th e club ca n 't be faulted. T h e m arking was so ex tensive tha t even th e d el iberate sab o t age fa ile d. Distan ce s were ac c ura te acco rd ing to th e top rid ers, an d all bu t t he o ne cl o ck were acc u ra t e. Ther e is talk th at th e M IA might t ry to ge t th e CERA to h ost a Nati onal Championship nex t year . 'Ib is would require some "fiddling" somewhere along th e lin e as the CERA is not pr esently associat ed with th e AMA. but J hope it happen s. Th e CERA has exo rcised at least fiv e years ' bad luc k, so th eir next one o ugh t to be great, a nd t he AMA su re needs a great one in Cal ifornia. • Resu lt s in Results Secti o n. What isn't fun is being attacked by a madman driving a pink jeep. Ray Hinton d isplays the damage. . ... <:J ..0 o .... u o Sat urday , October 26th , 11 -3 ': ' writer observed o ne girl, p ro bably the wife of a n en t rant, who was just sightseeing wit h her chi ld o n the ba ck, ticketed for no t having a regis tra tion in the veh icl e a nd not having a "Class li c e n s e . No m irrors a nd four " inoperat ive taiUigh ts were co m m 0 n "offenses." While I was standing th ere, a ride r ca me up to thc co p and ex p lained th a t h is bike h ad broken d o wn a nd h e wanted to get ba c k to ca m p . Wo u ld he be tic ket ed if he rod e slowly on th e shou lder of th e ro ad ? " Probably," said the co p with out even seeing o r asking about the bike. The police attack came abou t as follows, according to the CE RA. An officiou s cl o w n na me d Ralph McCormick had an encounter with some bike ride rs in the area on the weekend of Se ptember 20-2 I. lie wrote a nasty letter to th e Distr ic t Ranger (he used the wo rd "ro ar ing" six ti mes in the first pa ragra ph) , a nd se n t a copy to the L e gi sl a tur e ' s r e sid en t d runk , Assembl yman Z'berg . Z'berg called on an o ld friend in th e CHP, Captain Cramer , a man wh o has alr ea dy had several " tr ansfers" fo r his handling o f sim ilar affa irs. Cram er ordered th e day-long harrassm ent . It is worth no ting th e Forest Servi ce h as several t im es requested CIII' help with real problems in the Georgetown area, su ch as lo gging truck sa fe ty viol ations. No CliP help was available fo r that, according to a forest range r who was disgust ed with the ClIl' act . If you guys in the Sacramento a rea don't get rid o f Z'berg in this co m in g election, we'll all be walking. Calamit y number four ca m e in the form of a murder-minded charac ter in a pink jeep who de liberately ran down at least two riders a nd chased others . Ra y Hinton was h it fro m beh in d a nd kn ocked d own . His left rear sh ock was turned in to a V-shaped pi ece of jun k and ja m me d in t o the air cleane r of hi s Penton . Ray, wh o won las t w ee k 's Sonora Club run, sai d , "W e've all b een hit by o ther bi kes , tha t 's nothing. But when I saw th at big jeep t ire a nd tha t win ch ab o ut to run o ver me , I was re al ly scared ." Ray escaped inju ry , but th e other rider received two broken fin gers and was pretty banged up. A m essed-up clo ck is usu ally enough to foul up a ru n all by it self, bu t with all th at happen ed in this one, most rider s didn't even n otice t hat o ne clock was four mi nutes off. No o ne kn ows qu ite how it happened, but there was n o qu estibn a bo u t it an d the ch ec k was thrown o u t, By the end , there wer e only 9 7 finishers , a nd only th e reall y top riders scored less than -3 0 . Geo rge Hendricks ' (Yam 360 ) with · 10 bare ly aced ISDT rider Be n Bower , who sco re d - I !. Mike McGowan was third with ' -14 . Th ere were no I2 5·A finishers, a nd only two I25-C finis hers, but one girl, jackie Steele, finished wi th a mere -249 po ints . There was o ne bit of humor for th e day. One rider, who for o b vio us reasons is go ing to rem ain unidentified, was lim p in g back to the start o n a disabl ed ~ C'J .• · , ' I ,< .' "'. :c "' " , , ':A , ; : , ', " l M J . " : ' .1 I • ~ I . : ~ ' j , • " i' " ~f ~ - , ~ :' "' A I :[0 ' 1010 W. 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