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r - - -- - -- ~- team m ember Jim Mah oney. Longbo ya an d Luh d orff now join the Ex pert ra nks ju st in time fo r th e upcomin g half mil e a t San J os~. Ro d Sh ru m and Sco tt Garcia too k second pl ace efforts to m a ke winners o u t of the 100 No vice and 175 Nov ice . resp ecti vel y . Tony Deatherage wound u p sitting o ut the 100 Expert mini m ain a fte r he crashed goi ng into th e third Corner slightly o ver hi s head. T ony cou ld n't get p ast second pl ace early in th e season but some m in or c oac h ing taug ht h im h ow to throw h is Yammie in to th e comers. After th at , yo u cou ld n 't t ouch him with a 10 fo ot st ic k. There co mes a time in eve ry racer's ca ree r wh en some o ther big gun co mes to to wn. In this case Doug Chandler had a new 100 last week an d won. Fred Merkel showed up tonight with another new motor b u t T ony had it to gether. Or so it seemed, winning the heat, but threw it into th e c orn e r just a little hot in th e main. Merkel ca rne up the main ev ent win n e r with Chandler seco nd. The fight for No . One 'm in i-kid is ano t he r rea l thriller. • Resu lts in Re sults Se ction. ~ 00 l-< (l) ..0 E (l) > o Z Puyallup Raceway Park By Sue Sykes PUY ALLUP , WASH., OCT. 12 Pro riders cleaned house at Puyallup Raceway Park with three o f the best claiming double wins in Sunday's motocross ac tion. 125 U~ Voss p icked them off easil y in both m otos t o take the win o n th e final fla g. It looked lik e a SUre seco nd fo r Tom Bevvart (Hon ) with a second in m o to o ne and was in the sa me spot until the last two laps of moto two. Mechanical troubles put h im o u t of the money an d Bevvart pushed the mach ine over th e line t o finish . Duke Col eman (Hon) took over and put a three-two on the board for second overall , Husky mounted Dave Bunker was WFO in the 250 class and e njoyed every minute of both winning motos, A sour plug put a halt on Rick Benek [Pen) in moto o nc but he bounced back with a second in the next, His l J-two was good enough for four,l h p lace cash . • ace Coleman roosts the field By Chad Prince STARTUP, WASH., OCT. 19 Motocross takes on a different personality in the mud. All the trickness of super-tuned race bikes, dandy a tt ired riders, and nonch alan t spectators gets deflated b y a co ld , slimy su bs tance fro m pits, to comers, to finish lines. Startup's final race of the season was no different from those of former years: it still showed wh o could pi ck lines through the mud without getting stuck, and wh os e bike co u ld run 30 minutes two times with water and mud running over an d through it. And we finall y found out what WFO reall y m eans! West coast Factory Operation's rider Duke Coleman riding a very radical, a nd obviously very fast Honda made sh ambles of a fine field o f 125 Pro riders. Col eman blew everyone 's mi nd as he wheelied his CR Honda to a first moto wi n th at p roduced lap times faster than his 25 0 counterparts. Ro un d in g out the field in mato nu mber o ne were WFO t eammates George Gardner, Ru ss Roberts and R..'\I Su zuki mounted T ad Rich ards. Mo st sp ectators felt th at th e even t s which o ccurred tw o hours earlie r co uld n' t h ap pen again , however, from the drop o f t he ga te to the c hec kered flag Duke Coleman owned th e- second " Som ed ay YtMI'II -o;" n a Yamaha" Yamlll\l F.mlly ~YOt8' 441 N. B.mnea . COvina. CA~' 722 - 213·331·965 1 ~ !!~m!t-MAl-f.l 'f L ROGER DeCOSTER Meet & talk with him ' in person N ov. 28 SOUTHLAND CYCLE CENTER Garden Grove Blvd. E of Beach Garden Grove 714-893-5091 cao-am End ur u s & c.1X A l l rn c u e ts i n sto c k competition ser vice, inc. 1 2 44 N G a ff ~ y . 5.Jn ~dr o . CA90 731 113 · 83 1 · ' 27 9 (." "i o 1~" 'ltU T~" Tt:"'t"'" T~" Tt:" 't"'" t"~') T"t o r 't"~O TI;,OTt, 350 x 18 Knobby Tire $14.95 400 x 186 Ply Knobby • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $17.95 r. Q ~ t o 0 ~ 24020 Narbonne Ave.• Lomita. CA. 90717 . Phone (213) 534·2311 ~o 'rI;O 't,,-,'t,,, 't", 'tl.O t"eO f"( c _ -.. ............. -------. .. -........-... -. ...-....----._...... -........----. - ....... ..... _ ~ tC) !'c.(,) ' ( £ ---.. . . . .. 00. _ _ ... . . _ _...... _ ..-.-.-'-_ --. -.- -~ 'f',C) t"eO f"(" f ........... ~ ......... ~ -. Washab le Hand ~~ • . - ~:~ Othman Distr ibu t ing Co . Bo x 356 San Luis Obsipo , CA 9 3406 ,(8 05) 544-6181 • Rid ing • Racing ·S..... .r- GLOVES Dealer Inquiri es Invited 29