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. .~ ~ ' 11'- . NORTHERN DAT Schreiber " ones" KeOTA's first points t rial By Lane Campbell SEQUOI A N. F., CAL. ,JAN. II FOR J 6 7 \ \\1 ~, ~ :_P ~ Newe st add itions to the su pe r team of performance suspension components are the dynam ic duo - the LTG™ lIong travel gas) shock and the GaspringTM . The LTG. a shock designed t o conquer the rigors of G.P. and cantilever suspensions features : self lu brica ting to p and botto m bushings. extra large oil capacity reservoir. alu minum cooting fins , dy no -tuned gas ope ration . up to 4% inches of travel and like all Team Mulholland members is rebuilda ble. The GASPRING . already dub bed "t he spring with a brain" is the perf ect teamm ate for th e LTG. A replacement fo r convention al coil springs. t he GASPRING add s tr uly progressive perfo rman ce t o th e entire Mulholland line. 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Mar k Eggar got a disastro us start with a five in Trap T wo first time thro ugh and a three furt her o n, then settled down to t u rn in th re e two-point lo op s for second Expert. Matt Pritchard was Mr. Consis te ncy o n his KT 250 Kaw fo r third, a nd Bob Nickelsen overcame a bad first loop for a fourth on the Ho nda TL3 00 pro t o ty p e. The Honda, b y the way , is getting to lo o k m o re "prod uction" all the time (ye t Honda still m ain tains th at it's a 1977 m odel at the earliest); except that Bob sure has a strange way of shi f ting it. Randy Rader was top Amat eur over Dean a nd Lan e Smith (n o t related). Sherry Gre go ire topped the Novice As riding double with Debbie Evans on Debbie's Yamaha. Sh erry's bike had quit before the trial , so th e two Plon ker c1ub m ates teamed up. Deb got fi fth Amateu r. Club Prez Ron Sprayberry (wh o ' s recovering from a bout with lung cancer) was not unhappy with KCOTA's firs t AMA tri al. In fact, he was happy j u st to be up and ar o un d, wat ching tri alers doing their thing on scenic National Fo rest grou nd he had helpe d get opened to tri als. T he G re enhorn are a itse lf is a paradise to greenery -starve d Sou them Ca lifornians. On ce th e club gets di aled in to the demands of ATA poin ts ri ders (so me o f the sections were ridicu lously easy) , their trials witl be well worth the • trip, just fo r th e rid in g. Results in Resu lts Section. Wilson goes flat, Plant gets the cash Send $2 .00 for comp lete Interpart Motorcycle Catalog to Dept . CN·l Wa>hable ~. Hand . co ntaet us " ' " What happens when a clu b that's used to getting 20 to 40 en tries thro ws an ATA points trial and gets 100 riders? Instant traffic jam. Even tho ugh there wer e only nine sections in a loop and a four hour limit, the rider jam put the squeeze on the customary Expert ARDS RIVERSIDE W AVE (I , Benell" ARlllA PRIOLO 'AGUSTA 250 IAIICHI APRI SCOOTERS @ PARTS World's I. rgesl invenlory lor 1I,li.an motorcycles Reb uilt Engine Exch. nges COSMOr1)lIU. M010_S. I.. e H ,l l tJOt O P .l 1904 0 21 5 672 9 100 re p. area s ava il. c~~ ~ @ Coast Mota Cycle @ 2334 Newport 8lvd.. Costa Mesa. CA (714) 645-8008 @ Goodyear is Carroll Shelby 213-538-2914 Husk y-moun ted Pat Wilson was well on his way to the first 250 Expert tod ay un til his rear tire developed a leak in the second rnoto , Tad Gum bmann (KT M) got the h oleshot o ver Wilson and Gary Cooper (Ya m ) in the first moto but got a bad ca se o f the crashes. With Gumbmann . departed, Wilson t ook the lea d and was never headed. Da n Waller (Hus) survived th e 3 0 minute round in seco nd foll o wed by former district number one, Eddie Brown, in third. Wilso n, Ken t Sp ratt (Suz) and Arnold Plant fough t in round two for t he first few lap s. When Pat 's tire le t go , Sp ra tt on t he Strictly Dirt Suzuki got the lead . Arnold Plant, rid ing a borrowd Yamah a , was held t o a fo u rt h in the first m oto b y a dragging cl utch a nd ended fourth. However, Plan t fixed the bik e and we n t o n to ch alle nge Spratt 's lead. Fo r t wo laps Arnold trailed Sp ratt before tu rning the wick o n and ta king the moto victory. Ken n y Spratt held on to second while Eddie Brown repeated his first m o t o t hird.