Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

••• • • •• • •• • •• •••• • • r • • worked his way th rough the traffic for second overall and Shaun Kelly clai me d third making it a clean sweep for Honda. • Trey scores Yukon MX gold San Antonio's By Robert Fillmo re Cyclerama YUKON, OKLA., APRIL 9 By Ginny Cutting SAN ANTONIO, T EX. , APRIL II »: MAY 8-9 Saturday May 8 GIANT VAN MEET VAN CLUB FUN & GAMES . Manv Prizes - Trip for two to Las Vegas. for Best non-prod uct ion van. PLU S seats , t ires, whee ls, and many others . COUNTRY-WESTERN CONCERT SUE RICHARDS - ABC Dot Records " Sweet Sensuous Feeling" WE NDEL ATKINS - Headliner for Willie Nelson DAWN GLASS - Chart Records Sunday May 9 - - - $5,000 Mothers Day Motocross $5.000.00 Purse (pro) - BiCentennial Trophies tarnat) to 10 places + Jade Trees 2nd-5th for M om. PLUS - 1st Place each class - 02 in a ll) T rip for t wo to Las Vegas - to be presented to Mom. Tr ips includ e : Air far e - 4 nites at El Cortez - 2 ste a k d inne rs - 3 breakfasts . All trips co.. po ~ red bV Going Places Travel of Texas FREE CAMPING - FRIDAY AN D SATU R~ ... NIGHT!!! PRE-E!\l'R Y O:-:LY ~~ ALL CL ASSES LI:\lITED TO T H E FIRST 4 0 RIDE RS EZI.'TRY FE E 520.00 Phone or mail Send entry in fo & check t o P.O. Box 7B6. Whitnev. Texas . 817-694-2901 En t ries w ill be confirmed y : , ,_ _.e.W.h.it.ne CYcle.R.a.nC.h_tJ, GRAB ONTO SOME TEXAS HaSPIT Al lTY WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING SOMEPLACE? You've got moisture in you r fue l tank. It's condensation th a t for ms from changing temperatures. Gumout Ca rb Clea ne r can help bec a use it rem oves the moisture. G umout also gets rid of gum a nd varnish that consta ntly bu ild up in your carburetor from he at a nd evaporation . For faster, easier starts get G umout Motorcycle Carb Cleane r. • can-am Ii#H competiti on service . IIlC . 38 By Ed Beckley A BILENE, TEX. , AP RIL II Mark Cullifer (Yam) and San Angelo 's J immy T higpen cleaned the cobwebs off of their racing attire and came back after retire- Cle veland, O hio 44'().4 yo With the winners.' 12 · 4 ~J C,If/,'\(. S.ll1 P, ~{hll CA 9 073 1 1 7L: <1 1 17 l of the bes t Amateur moto cr ossin ' Cyclerama has seen fo r a great wh ile. 250 Novice, Ken , Ko ttler (C-A), pro bably fe lt as if he ha d been caught in the middle of Grand Cen tr al Station with Chip Biery (Suz), Lloyd Long mire (Pen) , Dann y Boren (Suz ) and Competiti on Cycles' Dwight Tronson (Suz) j ust passing through an d all wa iti ng for first class tic kets. All the out-of-town ers were high on t he insi de an d providing fierce co mpetition. Chip Biery le t it be known t hat first class was the on ly way to go - an d h e vdid just that - battling back and forth with Lloyd Lon gmi re. Biery too k the driver's seat in mo ta o ne, only to find he had to patiently cope with Longmire's back-seat driving. That wasn 't the only headache .. . San Antonio's Kent Kottler did so me tough tailgating which was more hazardous to Dwi ght Tronson in the long run. Falling during the fourth lap could have cost Tronson th e race - but knowing that all 's fair in love and M.X - he saddled up and lassoed a well deserved fo ur t h . Houston's Danny Boren felt th at Biery ne eded a few tips start first, st ay on go ing first class first, you will be first and he did just th at for malo two. Longmire was o nce again awarded the position of back-seat driver un til Biery caught him off guard and passed with the " grea test of ease" on ly as the checkere d flag was given . The 125 Novice Division was simil ar to watching a scene from Ben-Hur (with a ca s t of tho usands). Th e largest class of the day yielded interesting and unusual resu lts . Both motos were led an d wo n by Randy Goff (Han) and that was the only sure thing. Th o mas Sto ffel (Han) was secon d in ove rall co mpetition , laid clai m to t he honor wit h 4-4 wins; J erry Rigby (Han) obtained his third overall wit h an easy second in Mota one and a well earned sixt h in Mota two. With riders dropping be ca use o f mech an ical pr oblems and some simply growing too wa nn too fast with t he heat of early af te rnoon, Bob Burkhart (Hus) stunned the spectators with speed and coolness in the second mota. • Cullifer, Thigpen zap Good Times THE BEST THERE IS. •A Pen nz o ll PrOduct Thirteen has never been considered a lucky nu mber - but add a zero to the end of it and that's how many riders showed for some '-~4IIli ~ V Frame Mods, @ Porting. We ldi ng Race Preparat ion (714) 645-8008 2334 Newport Blvd.. Costa Mesa. CA men ts to whip all comers in their resp ective classes . Culli fer domin ated the 100 class on his fir st ride on a YZ 100 Yamaha. Usua l winner Do ug Blue di dn't let Cullifer get m ore th an inches way early in the mo tos, bu t fad ed to wards the end to fini sh third be hi nd Culli fer and Lonnie Bergen (Kaw). In th e 125 Experts Gary Tome rlin ha d to se ttle for second overall af ter gett ing a flat tire in the first moto an d fin ishing second in th e fi al ro u nd. n Meanw hi le, the consisten t an d flawless riding o f J immy Th igpen paid o ff in to p mo ney. Russ Fletcher wo n both mote s of both classes of the 125 and 250 J un iors as the local 15 year old ma y be moving u soon. • Yukon Raceways hosted a good turnout of m otocro ssers for what turned out to be Trey J orski's Fri day night be nefit as he aced all fou r Expert rnotos. In th e fITSt 125 Expert mota Glenn Sne decker shot in to t he lead witli J ors ki's Hu sky hot on his tail. Kelly Sullivan on his D&B Hon da filled in the third pl ace spo t. J orski passed Sned ecker on t he fourth lap as t hey wen t o ver t he b ig tun nel j u mp and pulled out a qui ck hal f a lap lead. Sullivan got by Sne dec ker aft er a slide out. The secon d moto be gan with Tr ey, J orski pulling the holeshot and never lookin g back . Snede cker held se cond until he slid ou t again allowing Sullivan to sco ot by for sec ond overall. The 250-Open Exper t co mbined s tarted out with J o rski ho les ho tt ing tlie pack an d go ing away . Jim Th omas, Tommy Abb itt and Chuck Hoenshell fo llowed in t ha t orde r un til Abbitt highsided an d Ric k Sanders moved up. Thomas crashed next and Hoe nshell took over second with Sanders third. San ders passed Hocnshell and the mota ended with J orski. Sanders, Hoenshell and Wendall Woolard in the top four. In the seco nd mo ta J orski took the win while the Woolard brothers held second and third from the start . • Results in Results Section. Cyclesporf crossin'

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