Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

..... UJ !I ~ ;iii!: ~ ~ g =- g -e- r--. O"l l!') ... U ... ....0 ::: u > 0 z SCUDERIA HUSQVARNA PENTON LA VERDA • SALES . SERVI CE ·. A N D MAIL SPECIA LIS TS (213) 542-1695 • The Finest Selection of Parts and Accessories For Bike and Rider -\ We Offer Expert Repairs Porting and Compet ition Tuning R eceive $ 50 Wort h Oh, I got those 01' o n my head in traffic blues . .• esc Team MX By John Huetter of Parts and A ccesso ries FREE When You Buy a New Husky or Penton . 2419 Art esia Blvd . Redondo Beach , California 90278 ~TOPQUAUTY ~ AT COMPETITIVE PRICES • PERFORMANCE • RELIABIL1TY . • HANDLING The Motorsport Co. 18651 Valley Blvd ,. Bloomington. CA 92316 714 ·877 -015 1 34 Ride you r motorcy cle. CARLSBAD, CAL. , OCT. 20 A two- ho ur mo to is long - even 'by Internati on al sta ndards . But th at is h ow lon g it was fro m green flag to chec kered today o n the U.S. 500 Grand Prix co urs e at Carl sbad . The CRC ca me up wi th ano ther innovative approach to having fun racing moto rcy cles. It w a s si mi la r in concept to the " ma ra thons" favored in North ern California but a ty pe of eve n t rar ely seen in the great er SoCal racing area: a tw o -man team mo to cro ss. If nothing else, it was a gas to bo u nce over the ' same course tha t Wol sink. Mi k k o l a , a n d D eCost er had so th oroughly zappe d a few mo nth s ear lier. And th ere was so mething else: the opportunity to run two 30-m inu te mo to s, whil e in th e back o f yo or mi nd there 's always th e feelin g th a t if yo u d o scr ew up, yo ur partner will be ab le to make up the po siti on s so every th ing will be OK. So , unpressured, mos t ride rs didn't screw up. At least not un til the end. Sloppy low- speed cras hes go t fairl y prevalent in th e last 10-15 minu t es of racing as fa tigu e caugh t up but with maybe 60 ride rs of all purported s kill levels o n the track at onc e, There wer e no serious injuries in four hours of motocross, an d Carlsbad is not a particularly easy tr ack. (We suspect we should thank "Uncl e Rolf" Tibbl in for the fact th at Carl sbad rem ains all nice an d motocross-lik e . We do n 't th ank him for running his school there so th at all the go od lin es are full o f humps. It 's ohvious where a go od rid er is su p posed to ride at Carl sbad: Rol f has worn a I ' .. ' groove in some o f th e corne rs and straights. The co urse go t less easy as the day wore on. Novices used berms that were not 'what the GP riders had used and ran through th e o nes that th e small field o f Expe rts was trying to co ns t ruc t and reconstruct. Th e bumps go t ve ry big and very h ard, mak ing th e uphill quite in te re st ing. When th ere 's no good line, you take t he least worse o ne . An uno f'f icial chec k of so me reasona b ly nego tiated lap times ind ica ted numbers aro und 2:20 . During th e GP. tim es were in the I :55 to 2: 00 ran ge. We co uld figur e ou t where 10 seconds co uld be mad e up o n a smoo ther . b etter-pr ep ared track. Wher e do the oth er 15 seconds go away ? It see ms th at th e laws of physics an d mechan ics ge t in there so me where making it impossible. Everybody sho uld race Car lsbad o nce j us t to have an apprec ia tio n of th e Gr an d Pri x rid er s v.pe n the y co mpete th ere . Only so me o f th e Exp ert fin ishi ng po sitions had been calcula te d fo r th e cash p aybac k at day's end . Beginners and Novi ces will have to wa it un t il all the lap charts are sorte d o ut to find o u t if you trophied for sure . (In ma y be a week or so . . . Edit or. } Qu ickest teams of the da y was clearl y Craig Adams and Mike Foreman o n a stro ng -runni ng Husqvarna. Th ey no t o n ly went fas te st but were p robabl y th e sm oothest for the full two h ours in the 500 Exper t class . The fast-smooth act may well ' interrelate. One young lady , Marion Kom, I bel ieve, blew everybody 's mind at the sign -up hooth wh en she entered the 250 Novice clas s - riding sol o. There was a popu lar sentiment to give her a trophy righ t then. Ron Siegler and John Smith (R eally ?) led th e little Elsinore par ade in the 125 Expert class . First through sixth gears must hav e been "all right" as per Beach Boys' Honda lore . Without keeping o ur literal handfu l of fans in suspe nse any longer, we 're happy to in fo r m you that a greedy Te am T u rk ey .tu rn ed Pro For A Day, paid the ex tra entry fee an d finished one position out of th e money , just like when we were non -Pros, Oh, well . . . The tc am mo to cro ss fo rm al is gre a t in giving every rid er tw o fu ll 3 0-m in ute mo tos (o r four I 5-m inute motos if yo ur mind runs th at wa y) just like th e big time. You gaine d ex tra minutes for smoo th hand offs when sw itchi ng riders, th o ugh we d idn't see too m an y rid er s in a panicky hurry abo u t it all. Th is pa rticular CR C effor t, in clu ding the form at. has to be co un ted a suc cess in • fun -time moto cross racing. Unofficial Results 1 25 EX PER T: 1. Ron Siegl er/Joh n Smith (H on ). 2 . Ron La ffran ch i/S han e Sm ith (Hon ) . 3 . Don F a ul k ne r/ R o b We stb ro ok (H on) . 2 5 0 E XPER T : No fi nish ers co m p u ted. 500 EXPER T : 1. C raig Adams/ M ik e F o re m a n tHus) . 2. R ic k 8 10m /Larry Kopp tHu s) . 3. S c o tt W he el er/Carl G az afy (Yam/Ma l) . All ot he r cla sses T B D. Hrynkiewicz is back! By E. C. Chitlin ESCAPE COUNTR Y, CAL., OCT. 20 Last week John Hrynkiewicz had a pin pulled out of his shoulder that had held him togeth er for tw o months. Today he set a new lap reco rd at Escape Country. In the first mo to of the 250 Pro John H. got off of the line lit tle late and John Estes shot out a ahead. IIryn kiewi cz was in hot p urs uit the entire moto and within striking distance three or four t imes but each time Este s would pull away . Lat er we

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