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KeepSOD Winning Jim Ellis rode can-am c his to win 1975 O ly Superbowl of Motocross usingS • • Long-Travel Shocks & Springs " Mike Steams got out in fron t of both motos to win the South bay MX 250 Pro class. behind, bu t McGowan fell at the end and Dan Steele (Yam) took second place and second overall fo r the night. Results in Results Section. • No more CMC at OCIR? By John Bethea EAST I RVINE, CAL. , A UG. 8 Officials, who had hope d for at least 125 riders to show up "to nigh t for the first of tw o qu alifying races leading tip to the September 5 National at Irwin dale, wer e disappointed wh en on ly 8 7 signed in . That m ay have spelled doom for CMC race s at OC I R as officials fro m bo th gro u ps will go into co nference th is week to see if racing will be held th ere in th e fu tu re. Pro winners in clude Mik e Yorba (500c c Mai) an d Dave Car lson in bo th the ·125 and 250 classes. He rode a Honda in the 125 and a Maico in the 25 0. • Resul ts in Results Section . Annual Old Timers TT at Perris By Maureen Lee P ERRIS, CAL., AU G . 9 What started as a Benefit to help rebuild th e Perris club house three years ago is now an annual event. Most of th em were th ere, the District's Old Timers and it was an in te re sting even ing, especially watching the California Gophers co n tingen t. They were th ere in full force and with so many in club colors you'd have thought they were still bei ng lined two bits if the y didn 't wear 'em. Th e fun b egan just before practice. Picture a bu lky ride r laced into his boots, helmet and goggles re ady and he has his kidney belt in his hand. Flips it aro un d his waist and it.doesn 't fit. Well , they're su p posed to be sn ug so he tugs. Tugs again and again. Just no way baby, is th at bel t going to meet and he wail s to a hy ste rical wife. " Honey ! I do n't understand! I wore it last year!" Wish y o u 'd been th ere. On the ready line for practice th e ribbin g go t worse. A li ttle b oy aske d abou t the California Gophers' name and ' was in fo rm ed by No rm Fleece of OCMC th at Gophers go t their n ame be cau se they ate th e roots o f plants and " OCMC was always fas ter, eve ry body kn o ws tha t , rig ht Ma u re en?" I wo n't incriminate mys elf but in a few minutes No rm 's Beezer h ad a Gopher stic ker o n the fen der. As a Tri u mph fired up one ri de r looks at hi s buddy, " Hear th at ? They always fir e on o ne sid e an d th en wait fo r th e other side to ca tc h up , dam n T riu mphs! " .. . o ne well girdle d man to ano ther, "You 've signed up in the under 4 0 class ?" . .. " Yeah " Gu ess that's right, yo u do n' t lo o k 4 0 " .. . " Hey , thanks!" . . . " Yo u loo k 5 0" . . . crushed " Oh." Hardest racin g was probabl y between Don Spargur an d J ack Simmons. Years m ay pass but still no one is smoothe r th an Spargur and he an d J ack real ly a Show w i th D on s taged winni ng . " . th ey ign ored the chec kere d and c o n t i n u e d r a cin g to th e co ns ternation o f the flagman an d it to o k more th an one red flag to bring th em in. At the trophy p resentation Don d id a neat th in g by giving his trophy to his pretty y o ung Dau gh ter Candy. J im Do ro n ge ts th e award fo r the busiest Old Ti m er wi th a secon d on a Suzu ki in the 250 class and a th ird on a Yamaha behind Spargur and Sim mon s in th e 50 0. J o h n Heynemann did his th ing again in ,tu m one, I th in k th ere's a spook down the re j ust waiting fo r hi m each year. Most be autifu lly turned out rider for the eve ning was Herb ert Matthews wi th a gorgeo us T riu mp h an d a jumper bearing a large Union J ack . .. di d m y hear t go o d, he did. The oldes t r ider was Paul Lambert a t 56 who won a trophy for th at and did right well fo r h im sel f in th e 125 clas s, th e onl y race he rides each year ... and Neil Winston came the furthest, all the wa y from Minnesota . . . and John G Rue 's Triumph literally spitting fire in the 5 0 0 Expert. Wish the re was sp ace to mention you all . . . Ben Fa kkel dy would have had cause to we ep if we hadn 't straightened out th e results for his class and got him hi s second as both h is bike and Neil \Vinslon '5 car rie d a number on e pla te . Th at particul ar class was a who's who the re was Darwin Ballard, Tony De nius unh appily having bike problems and Mik e Posey with a sup er fast Norton. Ken Maele y made hi s melon in th e 500 Novice race co ming off an unfam iliar bi ke an d it was quite so me t ime befo re he co uld re m em ber what h appene d , and I don't kn ow another pe rson in the industry who just enj oys the sp ort as much as Ken does. Th e list goes o n . . . 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