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(DSCUDERIA HUSQVARNA PENTON LAVERDA SALES. SERVICE', AND MAIL SPECIALISTS (2J.3) 542-J.695 The Finest Selection of Parts and Accessories For Bike and Rider We Of fer Expert Repairs Port ing and Compet it ion T uning Steve Borg (Su z ) blew all the 125 Inte rm ed iate. ride rs off th e track. J eff Talbot (lIon) ra n second all the way and Mitch Kir kp at ric k (C.A) ble w his th re e thi rds in th e firs t race wh en he was pu sh in g Talbot a n d crashed. d roppi ng to fif th. Ca rl Trosper (Yam) took t h ree wins in the 250 Junior/ In termediate race with a spectacular th ird mota. lie came from dead last to finish the final moto in front of everyone and he's a Ju nior rider. Doug Aiken rode a Bul with an Astra barrel which left m ost of the Open J unior/Intermediate bunch in the dust. Ken Wheaton (lI us ) tried to keep him honest but a late stan in the second mota blew his ch ances . There was a whole flock of Turkeys including an American Eagle ridden by Walt Hewitt. He was running fourth in the firs t. race when he was shot down. Mike Husted [Mai] was the bi g winner and Jon Michaels (Bul) sec ond. These guys re ally have some tricked out equipment: Lee McBeth nabbed third on a Honka - Hondaka - Hoda-? - a four-stroke Honda engine in a Hodaka frame ! All the Experts rode together behind a different winner in each race . Randy Lim b ec k demo ns t rat ed th e POW in th e 125 Po wr o ll Honda by being in t he fro nt three all day and leading wi re-to-wire in the final race. Rod Ke ntne r (Ya m) and Barney Newman (Hu s ) di ce d it out all day t o see who could get the m o st o u t of 3 60cc Japan or Sweden . They ra n co nsist en tl y within three seconds of each other with th e lead changi ng o n the slig htest error. Newman broke th e point tie in the third moto. • Results in Res ults Section. Cycle News Very North: 1974 Alaska MX season recap By Chuck Johnson The first round of the third annual Alaska Motorcycle Championship go t off to a mellow start in]uneau with two days of motocross o ver Mem orial Day weekend. The first in a series of four state wide events took pla ce over a o ne mi le, pastu re-wo o ds setting with plenty of elbow room and primo traction. Thanks to Tom Aco rd and the sponsoring Juneau Cycle Club, virtually all visiting contestants were pu t up in private ho mes for the d uratio n of the event, a d eq u a te work space was provided for; given transpo rtatio n was given to and fro m th e track when necessary . Action started pro mp tly at II o'clock Satu rday mo rn ing in what the lo cals cal led "heavy mist. " The 125 Ex perts buzzed into the first tum led by J u neau rider Chester Good's rarifi ed Elsino re. Go o d stretched his lead for the full 20 minutes in a display of banzai Trio of 125 Intermediates go over the barrel at Deschutes. 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The m isty ozone crackled as 25 250 Experts waited fo r the start of their thi rd m o t o, by fa r the best race of the day . Anchorage riders Kevin Goard (!>Iai) and Jerry :' Iucha (Bul) were tied for first t but it was Bruce Lockwood, after DK Fing a nd a third spot, who gated first and led through the trees in a flash of all-or-nothing motocross. Apparently no one had told Bruce his stone stock CZ was giving away too much performance to the long-travel opposition, as he virtually rode the handlebars for the full 20 minutes, pulling off incredible saves seemingly every minute of every lap. Mucha and Goard duked it out for second, with the nod going to Mucha for second and the overall. With hardly five minutes rest, Lockwood gated Anchorage dealer Do ug Gallant's immaculate 450 Maico into an immediate las t Ope n moto lead in fron t of Seattleite Tom T hatcher's Pre-Fab framed 400 Husky. As they had done in pr evio us m o te s, Bruce Lockwood a nd Tom Thatcher simply made spectators of the res t of th e Open class. practically burying riders in 20 foo t roostertails of grass and loam . Lockwood took the overall, with Thatcher a stylish but fading second . a nd Anchorage rider Jens Jensen a distan t third. Su nday started with a home cooked tr ac ksid e b reakfast fo r which club wi ves a nd mot hers charge d 10 cents wh ile maki ng sure nobody wen t away h u ngry . Cheste r Go o d swept the 125 clas s giving him high poin ts for both days; Clayton Chikletts took second ove ral l on a Canadian C R , followed by Juneau rider Duane Feeny o n yet another CR Honda. J erry Mucha, after m issing breakfast and probably the p revious ni gh t as well , could run no better than third 250 all day, claiming so mebody had filled his Konis with tequilla. Kevin Go ard moto'd to a silky smooth second, giving him second high points fo r both days, while Bruce Lockwood won the day and tied with Mu ch a for total 250 points. Round t wo The Fairbanks race during J uly Fourth week .is, traditionally, the low point of the season, karma-wise. The Canadians usually stay well clear of this o ne. The first day's raci ng ended at o ne a .m .; the second day was can celled at the proverbial last minute since the local promoter had other plans for the track. For the Juneau riders it meant an eigh t hu ndred mile trip for one n igh t 's racing. Expensive points, those . Round fo ur Un fo rtunately, th e th ird ro un d, to be he ld in the border town of Hain es, had to be canceled due to lan d closures ; so everybody lay m ore o r less doggo in their res pective districts u n til Labor Day weekend for the final races of the series in Anchorage. 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