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DONSTILL Eft 'I enclose $3 for the 1975 catalog. . . : . Zip . Name Address City State Mo._s Unlimited,II. 5776 Parad ise Drive Corte Madera, CA 94925 415-924.Q327 leJ InternationaI Husqvarna Training Center 1975 Spring Schedule Reserve now for special Easter Vacation Classes March 25 Carlsbad. Calif. and Boise. Idaho Carlsbad. Calif. only April t Carlsbad. Calif. and April 15 Salt Lake CitY. Utah Carlsbad. Calif. and April 21 Grand Junction , Colo rado April 29 May 6 May 13 May 20 Carlsbad. Calif. Carlsbad. Calif. Carlsbad. Calif. Carlsbad. Calif. Cyce News North Sawmill Enduro: Napoleon's retreat from Moscow was something like this Getting back to nature - cert ain parts of a Husqvama are edible .• . For any student having at tended o ne or more Tra ining Cen ter classes. a year membership is available for $250 .00 annua lly . For further inf o. please contact the center: 714-744-2161. Fremo nt Raceway Marath on SUnday, March 30 2 man - 2 hour races One mile course No lice nse requ ired 4 15-327-4461 Sales, Se rvice & Acces so ries Su zu k i - Ja wa CZ - Mot o Guzz i Santa Maria Cycle Sport, Inc. 805-925-8997 529 So. Blo sse r Rd . Santa Marl a, CA 934 54 Call u s for In f o on Sp illway Par k Ra c in g ,.§n_§,.. .,U,,' U"" Cent ral Californ ia's largest dealer Se rvicing : Fresno. Merced. & Modesto Yosemite Sport Cycles 28 211 W. 17t h St .. Merced. CA 95340 209-723-3802 By Kinsella and Doody UPPE R LAKE, CAL, FEB . 23 The '75 S~wmill Enduro co uld be either the worst or the best en duro run thus far in Distri ct 36 this spring - it was certainly the roughest. The 90 mile co u rse conOh, take me away from all this . sisted of two types of trail - snow covered and bottle-necked. The hundred or so riders who co mpleted the ru n were extremely sat isfied but th e other five o r six hundred who straggled in by way of the hard-top road from the gas point o r points beyond seemed so washed out that the only co mment th ey could offer was " un believa b le, n "torture" and "just too much , impossib le to keep speeds." Evening came on with the sweepers gathering up the las t exhausted remnants. This is how it was: Yo u came up the sun ny . so u th side of a ridge. passed the five mile speedometer check, cl imbed to t he crest an d ca me up on a steep , sweeping downhill which was covered with a fo ot of sno w. You begin to desce nd an d then suddenly the fr ont wh eel slides ou t and yo u arc o n yo ur back, th e bike is o n top of you and y o u are both hurtling downhill with suc h gust o th at wh en you come to a sto p halfway down it takes a wh ile to realize th at this sn ow just don 't jive wit h a 20 mph average. T wenty m inutes later yo u 've man aged to remount the bi ke an d point it downhill. All aro und you o ther riders are flo undering about in the snow like a COVey of drunk penguins . The first thing you learn is to stay in the narrow rut provided by the A and B riders who carved it out hours before. You get to the bottom and cross a stream . Now you've got snow up your sleeves and down your trousers and ic y water sloshing around your socks. You are now all broken in and psychologically prepared for the co urse. Almost. th at is. You haven't seen the bottlenecks yet. The first one you co me to is a na rrow, muddy, rutted tra il up thro ugh the woods and it is closed to oncomi ng traffic by an avalan che of falle n riders. In a h al f h our you are at th e top but so tired fr o m pushing the bi ke o ver slick places t hat yo u hardly have the st rengt h to ride th at rut th rough th e snow. The easiest thi ng to do is to ta ke your feet off th e pegs, put them o ut to each side an d us e t he m like sleds to keep y o ur balance . Yo u foll ow th e riders in front of y o u as if you were a boxcar in a line of boxcars. So me how you fan tas ize abo ut crossing Siberia in winter OT wo nder if th ey 'll ever hold an en d uro alo ng th e length of the Alaskan p ipeline someday.