Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

Double up, America• . - ~~" he's worth , Glasen app passed u p T odd, Corbett a nd was righ t on Cannon 's rear knobs. En glund was by now wa y ou t in front. Mean while, Cannon los t his second p os it ion to Glasen ap p for good. Todd moved in to th ird and Dietrich was fourth. With o ne lap remaining, it was En glund, Glasen ap p, and T odd in the first three places an d that's the wayit ended, • Griffith shines at Mt. Crested Butte MX By Don Cleary CRESTED BUITE, COLO., A UG . 29 After co nducting a mot o cro ss school on Saturday, Colorado ace Morril Griffith came on stron g Sunday to give folks at Crested Butte a real show for th eir m oney. Tanglin g with J im Hefftner in an incredible first m ota mid-a ir bar clic ker spe ctacular, Griffith cam e ou t- with badly ben t b ars to ca tc h, p ass, and leave th e fiel d o f 125 Ex perts. A lan Haley (Hus) p roved that hanging in was th e secre t to the Op en Amate ur class. He secon ded the first m o ta b ehind lightning- stre ak Mike Hefftn er (Yam) bu t came thro ugh fo r the win in the seco nd mota wh en Hefftn er's master lin k snap pe d . Jerry Whilh ite (Suz) lo oked good for his first ever, real life m otocross, coming up with two w ins in th e 125 Amateur class, catapul ting his brand n ew Suzu ki from two poor s tarts. HOleshot ace Larry Fo re, hailing fr om Oklahoma City , powered his b ig Kawasaki to two mota wins in t he Op en . Expert class, over Dave Williams (Pen) and local sh o p owner Tim Breen (Hu s). Anyway y ou looked at it, Sunday was all Mr. Griffit h's, w ho nev er tired of , th e super rough tr ack. Jumping fro m his 125 to 250, o n ly an unfortunate lower end be aring failure late in th e second mota thwarted his cle an swe ep ch ances. Most am azing of all was Griffith's su pe r fast lin e throu gh the gia nt Cre sted Butte "floater. " No body b eat - th e dis tance Griffith covered a nd certainly m ost of the 75 plus spec ta to rs th at hovered around c an prove it w ith th eir Kodachromes. • Aggie 200C.R.R.C. Road Race By Tulia Vulgar is COLLEG E ST A., TE X., SEPT. 1l,12 Twenty-six leather and fiberglass encase d rid ers spri nte d ac ross th e pi t lan e of Texas World Sp eed way marking the beginn ing of the first 200 mil e end urance road race ever held in Texas, The Aggie 200. Two hours, 28 minu tes and 37 econds la ter the lime green fairing enclosing t he win n ing Kawasaki Z-I ca fe racer an d pil o t Benny DelMon ico roared across the fin ish to take the w in. T he 1I00cc Yoshimura Kaw (c o-rid den by Gr eg Bau er ) h ad b een unch allenged sinc e th e 34th lap of th e three m ile c ircuit when Richard Patton crashe d while attempting to p ass Duncan Pau l (400 Kaw] in the infield. A look of ca ta str o p he spread across the face of co-rider J oe Patton as he reali zed that the race was over for his brother, their extremely rapid 750 Honda, and him. On lap 3 4 they were leading t he DelM onico /Bauer green rneanie by" 30 seconds. Bikes and riders were evenly matched and the real racing ac tion was going on in the pits. The Patton fueling action was being orchestrated by Glenn - Pat to n , their father/sponsor (Glenn's Honda, Midl and , Tx.). The Bauer/DelMonico effort seemed to have a p lan bu t by contrast they seemed to take a good deal longer. On the production sid e of th e ledger arch-riv als Feddie Sp en cer and Gene Homo t team ed up to bring th eir RD-400 in first. The nex t two p roduc ti o n finis hers were also mounted on red RD-400s. Se co nd pla ce piloted by Tim and D avid Bear den an d t he th ird, t he T eam Deviate entry ridden by Mar ty Bass and Vern o n Davis of Austin. The save of the day was performed by Ben Chil d s, an eng ineer fro m Ft . Worth wh en co-rider Den nis Kalm us crashe d th eir very co nsisten t 750 Ducati in th e infield portion o f th e 11 tu rn course. Ch ild s ran fro m th e start-finis h line to the sce ne of the accid en t (abou t three qu arter mil e). re trieved th e lame Due fr om the inju red Kalm u s (separated shoulder), restarted. and managed to finis h firs t in 750 Produc tio n , nin th overa ll. Sunday sa w th e CRRC race rs b inding th eir wo un ds, p hysical an d mech an ical, to co mpete in the 13 class Aggie Grand Prix. Garages rev erberat ed with talk o f CRRC m embers co ming bac k fro m Bonnevill e with the sm ile of su ccess on th eir faces. Sprin g Ran ch Honda, in th e personage o f T erry and Henry Brigh am , had tak en fo ur rec o rd s wi th their water cooled Can -Am. J ack Wilso n grin ne d wryly whil e speaking of com ing b ack with on ly one record. "It was ju st an old stree tb ike th at we had o n the floo r; " he said. A lthough the " old s treet b ik e" had only man aged to wrest one salt reco rd fro m the wre tch ed con diti ons there wa s consolatio n in th e fact th at it was Big D Triumph 's 18th world rec ord . Bu t tod ay, fa te h ad se t Wilso n and rider Jon Min onn o u p for the th e old sw itc heroo. Du ring prel im in ary he at race th e Bonnevill e twin th at had carried him to the head of W/ ERA 's 750 Prod p o in ts list be came omin ou sly silent o n the back straight and ca me to a h alt. The Lim ey 750 's vo ice had been strang led b y a ca m idl er gear wh ich she d all of its tee th o Standin g with a wet to wel over his he ad, Minonno's only remark, " I've never see n ' that happen before!" Undaunted,Minonno returned on Big D 's full faired one liter Cafe/G .P . racer to figh t a monum en tal battle with TZ-7 50 m oun ted T ommy Byar s in Open G.P. The Yamaha had a visib le edge in top en d which see med to be balan ced by an equal handlin g advan tage for th e Triu m p h. Andy Robbins hacked a nd hewed with Saturday's winner, DelM oni co in the Open Cafe b ash and fin ally fo rced him to tak e second. Sponsored by A. J . Foy t Kawasaki" R obbins was astride th e b ike ridden so successfu lly b y his pre decessor, q re g Bau er. Bau er was DelMon ico's p ar tn er on Saturd ay. Fre die Spe ncer pu lled off wha t has become an almost pre dictable daily do u ble, w in n ing 25'0 GP and 410 Prod. He .. lm ost added 4 10 Cafe bu t was forced to settl e fo r second by J oe Bue nneke. In 750 Produ ction J oe Patton vindicated the family na me with a co nvi ncing win over Norton mounted Dennis Kalm u s. Kalm us, riding with a b andaged shoulder fro m Sa tu rd ay 's crash, beat his te amma te Ben Ch ild s wh o was riding the same , not so lam e Du e. David Ro b inso n proved the rel iabilit y of h is virtu ally hand con stru c te d 75 0 Banda Cafe bi ke sponsored by B&B Honda of Ft. Worth. It lo oks lik e your b asic 5 50 Hon da Cafe rig from t he ou tside but th e insides are stri ctly T ex an wh ich of course m ake it bi gger - ab ou t 200cc' bi gger. And better. Ladies an d gen tleme n , y ou r 750 Cafe winner. Divin g into th e present furor caused by th e nonenforcement of Showroom Stock Production rules, the CRRC has established a policy of tearing down the first three finish er s in randomly cho sen classes. This was the first try and it was not withou t the predi ctable confusion, re criminations a nd he ated wo rds. The response of most riders was quite favorable especially the large number of new riders that h ave started racing in wh at is turning au t to be a bumper cro p year for 'texas road racing. • Resu lts in Results Section. ~ lWo can ride cheaper than one. 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