Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

i Desert hotline ~ seen a bike but Sunday at 9:00 a.m. over 200 Amateur-Experts t 250 Open Novices, Rob Biccum (196), Tom Mattox (81) and Peter Voight (37x) qrope for traction at ORA EuroScrams. - Cordis Brooks wins DRA EuroScrams By Dale Brown ADELANTO, CAL., MAR. 21 Brothers Cordis and Tom Brooks battled back and forth for the lead, with Tom ending up with a crash and Cordis with the win in the Amateur/Expert finale to DRA's European Scrambles. But when the course went through a bannered tum just past 22 the bomb, Birdie (250 Yam) swept by a tightly clustered group and moved into ' . first place, a position he held for the next six miles or so. By then the course started to go 'up a loose rock and silt hill where Birdie slid out in the tum at the top. Tim Bowman (400 CZ) appeared to take the lead at that point, but he 'd cut most of the course off on the way back to the pits with a loose gas tank, so the official leader was Cordis Brooks (360 BuI) with Tom Brooks (250 KTM) in second. Birdie came through the pits in third, but retired when his brakes gave out. Streaking out across a flat valley, Tom moved off the main trail and passed his brother. Also by that time, Allen Meek (175 KTM) had worked his way up from a multiple-kick start to take third. On the third loop, Tom Brooks crashed about four miles out on the nine-mile loop. That left Cordis with a comfortable lead, and since Tom retired, Meek moved into second in this his first Expert ride. Cordis had no troubles in finishing the race, other than the deteriorating condition of the course. "I rode everywhere but on the course, " rhe later commented. Meek took a second, now that he's back on the 175, it was quite a brilliant ride. Zoller took. third and first 250, while Jamie Avels (400 Yam) returned after a crash last month to take fourth, second Open Expert. Heath Hibbard and Rick Shirey (400 Yams) were next. At seven th, Dale Anders (200 Bul) grabbed first Amateur. In the Novice race for bigger machines, Richard Smith (400 Yam) led for most of the four-loop duration. But when it really counted, at the finish, Chris Gray (250 Hus ] had snuck by and won by a couple of inches. In the small-bore Novice, Sen ior and Powder Puff event, Lee Shaffers did the honors handily, finishing in fr ont of Steve Grenke and Richard Round (his first Novice race) all were 125 mono-mounted. At seventh overall, Keith Soesbe (4 0 0 Yam) took the Senior victory and Leslie K1ug -'(2 50 Yam) triumphed over the Powder Puffs. Bill Maddocks led the first loop of the 250/0pen Beginner race, but he ' DNFed so Thomas Knapp (400 Yam) and Marc Kibbe (250 Yam) .were one-two at the finish. In the first race of the day, Mike Cookson (125 Yam) took an immediate lead in the 0-200 Beginner clash and won going away, this despite a lost footpeg. Fred Wentworth took second on a 100 Suzuki. Susan Goade (175 Pen) won the Beginner division of the Powder Puffs, while Scott Atchison and Kelly Kline had yet another terrific dice for first Mini, this time with Scott out front. The nine-mile course featured some fast open country, sandwashes, some loose rock and the ever-present Adelanto talcum-powder pits. Just the thing for blinding the guy behind -y ou , • Results in Results Section. Mitch l!IIayes masters Maywood Motorcyc'eMeet By Dick Kay BORAX PK., CAL CITY, CA., MAR. 21 It's been over 10 years since this private "virgin" area legally has and 250 Novices quickly changed that. The traditional banner dropping was given a new twist by adding music. Somehow it would have seemed quite fitting to hear "peanuts, popcorn" shouted out while the starters waited for the banner with "March of the Clowns" blaring from the ' white' Maywood starting bus. It was Roeseler first to the bomb, but a get-off (he's OK but the bike wasn't) quickly turned the lead over to Mitch Mayes who kept it for the remainder of the two 40 mile loops. /" The Maywood third annual Bullrun started out as a classic desert race. The weaiher was almost perfect and the virgin course was well marked. It was boogie city desert until they got to a hill 15 miles out, which yours truly had no problem clearing the day before. Well, such was the case for the first , dozen Amateur Experts, but No. 13 laid it , down at the narrow crest and started a 200 bike jam-up that was not helped by the fact that check number two was also at this spot. There were still over 50 bikes trying to get through when the Trail-Novices arrived, but last minute quick thinking by someone altered the course and the Trail Novices were checked at the bottom of the hill and spared the agony. There were only two other hills, that could barely be called such, with the toughest part of all having to slow down for the ruts in the. road crossings. It took Mayes only one hour and 49 minutes to cover the 84-plus miles. Less than two minutes behind was Brent Wallingsford with A.C. Bakken right behind him. Senior heavyweigh t winner Phil Shipley (Hus) remembered racing in the same area back in 1963 on 650 Triumphs and when asked what he thought of the hill Shipley simply stated it was (unprintable). Scott McConnehey was first trail bike at the one loop finish bu t opted for the case of beer prize offered to the first trail bike at the end of two laps and won it. Ladies division finisher Juanita Morris was on a Cooper. In terestingly enough the name Honda doesn't appear anywhere in the top standings. Could this be a portent of things to come? • ' Results in Results Section. Alright men, dismount. We'll set up camp here for the ni~t. And they almost did at Maywood Me bottleneck.

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