Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

~ o ...... Peter Mary tcz) p ut togethe r the points to take the 250 Pro cl ass at Rawhide. Wilson, Gomez star in S.A.M. action. By Fred Klugman ORANG E, CAL. NO V. 16 Jim Wilson (CZ) showed the pack of Op en Experts at Saddl cback what it takes to win mo to cross. Gassing it a ll th e way. Wilson held orr assaults by Gary T omczak (Mai) arid .J err Witherell (CZ) throughout both 40-minute motos. Tomczak and With erell. nev er far behind, kept co nstant pressure on Wilson, waiti ng for a cha nce to ge t by. Riding fast and smooth and making few mista kes, Wilson never ".lve them that chance. The 125 Novi ce cla ss had plenty o f ex ci tement also. Neith er David Gomez (Ho n) o r Kym Kirschenann (Suz) were im pressive in the firs t of the th ree 20 -m inu te rn ot o s, David Gomez fin ished . thi rd wit h Kirsch enann way back in seventh place. The next two motos we re a diffe ren t story, ho wever. Wit h David Go mez leading, Kym worked h is way by the pack taking th e longer . rougher o utside path th ro ugh turns aro und the slower bikes wh ich were running in th e groove . Kir sche n ann, first finisher in the second mot o , used the same me thod to take firs t in the th ird mota also. Go mez took second twice fo r the overall win, o verall second go ing to Kirsc henann. • Res ults on Results Page Don't look back, Pete. He may be gaining! By Ste wart B. Sap icoff ELSINO RE , CAL ., NOV. 17 Sunday at Rawhide Park the American Moto cross Club held th e first hal f o f a two-day series with th e second d ay to be held at Saddl eback Park. 125 Junior Gary Truesdill (Hon) may not have had th e greatest positi on in the first few laps, but by th e end o f each of his races he was occupying th at sacred firs t p lace spo t. His mai n competition came from second overall Mike Rai nes (Ho n) and th ird ove rall Bobby Coc hras (C·A) . Their th rea ts to take th e lead wer e not enough to ma ke Truesdill error or push himself off h is pace. The 250 Pro race saw Pe ter Maly (CZ) again ta ke the first p lace p urse b ut this time proved not as easy as when he rides in th e Open class . The first moto had Toby Takei (Ma n ) take the lead off the starting line onl y to lose it within the next few laps to Maly, wh ile Taki lost ano ther position to FMF rider Tony Rogers (Mail . :-Ialy looked as if he had the ra ce all sewn up. On the last lap though, as Maly was looking back to see just how close Rogers was to him, his bike drifted to th e outside of the tra ck a little bit too far and began a series of tumbles through the rocky sidelines of the co urse. Rogers passed Maly before he could get his bike fired up , but he was the only guy to get past him. The lap rem a ining was too sh o rt fo r an y ho pe of Maly ca tch ing Rogers, so he was forced to be co nt ent with second place in that mota . . The second mo t a fo r the 250 Pros had a differen t guy lead the pac k for the en tire race but because o f a bad 12th place fin ish in the first moto he would receive no be tt er th an a six th o vera ll fo r th e day . This fell ow's name w as Loren Hall (Hus) and b eliev e me , h e reall y put th e scre ws to th e rest of the Pros. Secon d fo r th is race as well as th ird for the day was a madman deluxe by th e name o f Drew Nelson , who rides fo r AAA Cycle Center. Maly to ok th ird in this race an d with it the first o verall fo r the day while Ro gers crossed th e finish line righ t beh ind hi m and ende d up with • second o verall. Results in Result s Sectio n. 5weet Hearts at Skunk Holler By Barbie Ferr in SKUNKHOLLE R, CAL., OCT. 26-2 7 The last week end in October the Poway, Calif. ~1. C. changed the locale of th eir an nual Pioneer Town To ur to the in trigui ng Wood chuck Campground, eight miles cast of Temecula, California, on high way 7 1. This interesting old ho mest ead was p urch ased from th e Ind ians, in 1895 , and is still ow nc d by a gra ndaugh ter of th e o riginal homesteaders. Bi kers rode down a rather stee p road int o th e lower ca mp (cal led Sku nk Ho ller ) and p it ch ed the ir ten ts under large shade trees. One of th e firs t c lubs to arrive were the Swee t Hea rts M.C. of Las Vegas , Nevada. They have never m issed this tour since the be in ning, five years ago , g an d always enjoy themselves. Their President says Ui t ~s be cause it is small (150 entries thi s year), well managed, z « :< CI ::> .J 'o" "' cr u. More hand lebar scrimmage - Jim Wilson (A3 ) ~nd Guy O lsen (25) at Sad d leback . with excelle n t fo od and n ever any trouble", As usual th ey went h ome with several trophies - thi s year Best Camp Site for th e Club, with Barbie Ferrin an d Dave Fuller winning th e hil ari ous Halloween cos tume trophies. . Although this y ear's ride was hampered by intermittan t rain, th e Poways successfu lly held a field meet, fed everyone sumptiously and ha d a fun party and trop hy pr esenta ti on in the Old West ern Saloon Satu rd ay night. If you h aven ' t b een on th is rid e, try it • ne xt year, yo u'll like it! ! Half-mile and 51 By T om Blattler CORONA , CA L. , NOV. 20 Over 120 riders co mpe ted at Co rona Raceway in what p roved to be one of the finest flat track progra ms of the 19 74 seaso n. The Open Ex pert hal f-mile class again was filled wi th ma ny of the top big bike ride rs , as to p Al\I A roo kie Expert Bob Sanders of Whittier mad e an appearance alo ng wi th Brian Garcia , J im Wrigh t , Nick Vog e, an d Ro bby McSwen. In the fo ur-lap h eat race. Sanders , ridi ng h is su pe r quick, Shell-framed 750 Ya maha , s t o rmed th e event co nvincingly, as he grabbed th e lead early a nd never looked back. Sand ers was th e fa vo ri te go ing int o the feat ure, but Wrigh t and Garcia were also top th reats. At the st art o f th e l O-la p main even t, Sanders got a terribl e start, leaving th e lin e de ad last. Wright, Garcia a nd Voge ba ttled fo r th e lead in th e ea rly going while Sanders passed six riders in th e first lap . By lap three Sanders was in sec o nd an d cha llenging Wrigh t for th e lead. Garcia h ad pro blems wit h his 750 Yamah a and par ked it for th e nigh t, At the hal fway point San d ers h ad really closed the gap on Wrigh t , wh o was aboa rd the Sanda k Racing Te am 750 Yamaha, an d it loo ked as th o ugh Sanders migh t catch him in the final few rounds. Ho wever , Sanders pulled h is big Yamaha into the pit area on th e eigh th lap , as he could n o t see because h e ha d no more tearo ffs. Wright, the 17-year-old from Corona, recorded th e easy victory . Voge inhe rited the second place finish wi th McEwen and Tom Worfolk followi ng. Little Mike T idwell looked quite impressive aga in as h e rode h is 25 0 Yamaha YZ to vic tory in th e 250 Expert half-m ile and short track main events. To prove how fas t Tidwell was going, he bea t th e twins of Rob Murray and St eve Fortune, two of the top hal f-mi le racers a t Corona. Top AMA No vice Dan McWhorter of Riverside also was in the race, ab oard his 250 Mo ntesa instead of his lightning-fast Yamaha twi n . McWho rt er su ffered so me tough luck in the Open Expert short track main, as he led the six -lap event for th e first fo ur rounds o nly to pull into th e pits on the whi te flag lap. Terry Griner took the win with J ohn Newq uist seco nd . Fred Co nover scored a double win in the Min i Cycle class , riding a Kawasa ki o ut of h is dad's sho p, C.H. Moto rcycl es in Riverside, to easy victories. • Results in Resul ts Section. Combo-cross scheduled at Valley Cyde Park MOORPA RK , CAL .• NOV. 2 6 BCA will p resen t its first Co mboCross at Valley Cycle Park on Sunday. Decemb er 15. A challenging. three-m ile track is to be designed especially for this even t. Th e cou rse will inclu de portio ns o f Valley's MX and IT tracks p lus so me fasci nating new ter ra in . Experts will be competing for a $500 pw:se and tro phies will go to 50% of the sportsmen finishers of a 45-minu te , single mo to event. Vall ey Cycle Par k m ay be reache d by go ing west on the Ventu ra Frwy. to the Fillm ore Frwy. (Hwy. 23 No rth) to th e Tierra Rej ad a Road exit, For informatio n call (805) 529·9546. • 41

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