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MIG WE LDED . -VERY STRON G ·STRA IGHT AND TM -wru N OT BEND I us, SWING-ARMS • PRECIS ION MAOE-FITS ALL STOCK PA RTS..cHAIN AD JUSTE R, _ PU RSANG CHAIN GUIDE, BRAKE ARM, ETC . - FRONTE RA • BEAUTIFUL O N BIKE·PAINTEO WITH HARD, DURA8lf ENAMEL. AVAILABl£ IN BLUE, SILVER, OR RED. -fROM YOUR DEALE R O R MCE- 12 By Maureen Lee ELSINORE, CAL, FE B. 15 Th e California Racin g Club hosted a point run at the new Elsin ore motocross circuit but no t too many came; som e no doub t op t- 4·225-30th Street San Diego, CA 92104 (714 ) 280-3344 • WEIGHT ...... District 37 tries new Elsinore MX track . 57 9 !!" Ca lif.Resid. odd 6% Tax MACDONALD CYCLE ENGINEERING (MCE ) 571 TWIN OAK VAllfY R0 40 SAN MARCOS, CAUF. 92069 ing for the Soboba Grand Prix. Those who did had a grand old time. The course is all natural terrain and if you're not going up , you're going down, or sideways, or leaping over a superb jump that gets you as high an d crossed up as you want, safely . There were also two natural wa ter hazards to add to the fun , wet en ough to be enjoy able but not bike destroying. Jerry McNeal gently but firmly led the riders me etin g - UNo , we won ' t go with t wo 20 minute m ot os, we advertised three 15s and that's it" and "If yo u touch that rubber ban d o n the start then we'll just have to tu m yo u arou nd backward s." They all heeded th e warning and no on e had to be turned aro und for gett ing an tsy on the start . Ho liday Honda jerseys were mu ch in evidence in t he 125 classes , and wea ring o ne was I :1 5 Expert winner Louis Darling - who in the second mota almost bought it in the first wa ter hole tryin!{ to jump it clean . Rick Kehoe (Ya m ) turned in a darn good ride for a second , while first round Rod Brand called at ten t io n to himself as he flew with feet off th e footpegs at times trying to catch up to the pack he missed at th e star t. They had half a lap lead on him. J erry Little (Ya m ) loo ked lik e th e 125 No vice winner, with two firsts, bu t dropped to sixth in the third round for a th ird overall . Curt Jensen (C·A ) took first overall with a third, a second and a first, while Honda rider Larry Bolin was alw ays right in there with two seconds and a third. Stylish Johanna Stenerson (Yam ) led the women home with no co ntes t. Sue Fish was plagued with an ill-shifting Yammie which fin ally destroyed any chan ce she had at reall y challenging Stenerson by chu cking its cha in in the last mota. Just before the second combined 250 Amateur/Expert mota, track owner Tom Fortune suggested some track maintenance but t he troops ta lked him out of it ; the track held up beautifully and had been prepared for days before th e event. That class really we nt flying over th e jump and Tim Welke (Suz) led them home with three st raight wins. Right be hind, Mark Cook, Fred Grie go , Eri c Jensen and first Amateur Mark Hood settled fo r different finishing pos it ions in each round. Un fo rt u na tely there were only three Op en Experts and two Ama teurs so they had opportu ni ties to play. Ch uck Pettigrew had ignition and shock tro ubles but that d idn't det er him o ne bit in banzai ng over the ju mp. He got two thi rds and a first: Tom Bice (Suz too k two seconds and a thad, bu t it was Paul Thede 'S two firsts and a seco nd on his e-Z that won. Gre g Hu mber (Mai) was first Amateur. The 250 and Open Novices ran together and th e difference in bike sizes didn't show to o mu ch, altho ugh the Open clas s appeared to be a bit more cautious. Richard Hernandez (Suz) took home first Novi ce, with a second and two firsts , and th e Open Novice winner was Hulon Morrow (Su z), with three firsts. All riders took th eir trophies ho me with them, the name plates to be mailed when engraved. Several riders said they though t the track was "neat " although some had trouble finding it since they had never been there for a TT. • Rubly wrecks Pro classes at Irwindale By Tom Blattler IRWINDALE, CAL., FEB . 13 Bill Rub ly (FMF) chalked third straight 500 Pro win the lights at Irwindale. He vict ories in the first two up his under scored motos and coasted to a second in the final five-lapper, Rubly battled with Luke Messer (Mai l in the fir st mo ta but held o ff the ve tera n rider o n the las t lap . Jumpin ' J oe J ohnston (Suz), re tu rn ing to Irwi nd ale afte r a co up le of week s layoff, had to sett le for the third position. The track was super muddy and the usuall y bulle t-quick st arting chu te into the first tum had 10 be detoured because of the nil s whir- h han devel