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Malcolm Smith Racing Products presents . Malcolm Smith Handlebars "It was him or me." Peace Steve. mazing second overall in the combined 50.100 G.P. and 200 production. Gary Denton gets a leg up at CMC Saddleback. Smith pretty much had the first rno to under contro l with Mos ier back about seven bike length s. Suzuki team ma tes Robert Elliot and Ron T urner produced a good race for third with Turner edging out Elliot for a to p t hree first moto finish. The second go looked much the same. Smith and ·Mosier got by ea rly leader Elliot to take over the top two posi tions. Gaylon was just waiting for Smith to make a wrong move and Marty didn't let him down . The 125 Champion came through with a 180 in the tight score keepers tum and that 's all Mosier needed to m ag the lead. Marty tr ied hard to r egain his lost position but Mos ier and his German machinery held 0 ff Smith's charges all the way to the victory flag. PK Products racer Dave T~y lor inv aded DG Performance tern tory today and kinda lu cked out for the overall 125 Pro win . Dave pulled both holeshots only to hav e DG 's main man, Broc Glover, scoot by for first in both motos. Halfway through the second moto, Broc was well on his way to another win, but something gave inside the motor ending Glover's chance for top money . With Glover o ut th is hande d Tay lo r th e $13 5 top position, while two DG bik es, in the hands of Dave Williams an d a strong running Gary Denton, rounded out the top three, Marty Smith's ace me ch an ic , Dave Arnold, did some ra cin g today and wen t home with a vict o ry in the 500 Intermedi at e clas s. He did it o n a • 4·stroke! Results in Results Sec tio n . These new h igh -stren gt h , ligh t-wei ght bars fea t ure Malc olm's unique "Sparkle " c hro me fin ish . Made from .0 83 wall chrome-m ol y s teel and knurled for secure throttle and center se ction m ounting, they come with or without the heliarc welded cross brace which assures maximum stren gth . Avail able in most late '76 popular motocross and desert bends including Husky , Yamaha, Su zuki RM, CZ, Bult aco, Elsin ore and others , All bars wi th cro ss bars $19 .95 All bars wi thou t eross bars $ 15 .95 Malcolm Smith Motorcycles See y ou r lo cal dealer Over The Hill Gang hold mudfest at Dunes By Lucious LeRoy run. The fair in g hadn't come in , so I was j ust taking it e asy ," said Ful ler . "But it seemed willi ng to go, so I just started pushing a little harder. " Fuller pushed from seventh place to second, after a prolonged dice w ith third-place Bruce Hammer (TZ 250). Cook Neilson won Open Production on an AMA-Iegal (read AFM-ilIegal) IDucati 883cc bullet. Steve McLaughlin (BMW) passed Nei lson several times in Tum) 7, only to be repassed o n the straight. Finally McL aughlin ran off in that tum, swep t through the dirt, and gassed it back onto the track . But the BMW never ran we ll again - may be it sucked in some di rt from the off-road ex cursio n. "Cook just stopped in that tum," said McLaughlin. " It was him or me , and I didn 't want to knock him down ." Lee Fleming was se cond on a blatantly illegal American Turbo-pak turbo-charged Kawasaki 900. Neilson's and Fleming's machines, alt ho ugh illegal acco rding to the AFM Production rules, were not protested. Therefore their finishes stood. But the first truly legal fin isher was Wes Cooley , Jr. on a Yoshimura R&D Kaw asaki 1000. • Results in the Results Section. Mosier manhandles Saddleback CMC By Joel Jamieson ORANGE, CAL., FEB . 15 Maico mounted Gay lon Mosier fina lly had things his way today. He picked up top CMC mon ey in both th e Open Pro and 250 Pro aboard a co uple of Wheelsmith prepped machin es. In th e 25 0 ra ce Gayl on's main wo rry was Marty Smith, minus his usu al RC bi ke . l\lar t y was rid in g a 250 Elsino re st o cker again st Mosi er 's dialed in Maico. VA LENCIA, CAL , FEB . 8 The Over The Hill Gang Assn. br aved the wet, muddy weather and moved their race from Saddleback to Indian Dunes. The track was re-ro uted to the sand and a complete new co ur se was laid out. It became an excellen t modified desert race. A smal l group turned out because of the last min ute change. o nly 24 riders, but not bad for a miser abl e weekend, The guys in the Beginner class don 't le t a little rain sto p them, they had eig ht of the 24 rider s. Longwear Lou put it in high gear and ro de over the Hangover (Hambone], Third p lace wen t to Juicy J im and the little guy, Weinie Wayne, squeezed out a fourth. In the Novi ce, Downhill Dave find an y downhills but could n ' t man aged a rust. In sec o nd J o ckey Jo hn 's scoote r must be a mudder, it ca me through for him. Jittery J oh n was a little jittery becau se of th e co ld and wet we ather, but got a third followed 11