Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

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Ca r lsbad, CA ticket info: 714·83/ ·3 540 • ,:,:-:,:,:-:,:-:..:.:y:,:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:-:.:.:-:<,:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:~.:.:.:.:.:~;:.:.:-:(~~.:.:,<.:-:.:.:-:.:-:.:.:-:.:~.:-:.:.:.:.:-:-:.:.:.:.:-:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. SRA Calico Enduro: Got those silty uphill, bottleneck, wish-I-had-horsepower blues By J . David Ulrich RANDSB URG . CA . FEB . 20 enduro , Even the first loop . billed for children and women . was harder than average. with soft . silty sa nd washes that taxed eig h r-yea r-o lds on YZ80 Yamahas and other small -wheeled machines to the limits . Wisely. SRA d id not award any penalty po ints for late riders on the first loop . so fathers a nd .g ro u p leaders co uld shepherd in child ren and inexperienced end uro ists without pa ying a heavy tim,' pena lty. The dust was I the b igg"S( first -loop cha llenge. but th er e was a wide-open paved road included in the loop to a llo w for mak i ng up t ime . Experien ced riders wh o stayed o n the cou rse an d didn't wor n' ab out th e first loo p tim e had it easy . . SRA saloo n . her a lded th e start of a .6miit" Free section wit il 15 minutes allowed for it , It was plent y 10 make up lostrime . , For som .. riders. th e b....r SlO p . j ust 10 m il..s from th e fin ish . signaled th e start of t he wo rst to eOITH' . . II seems About 800 'people converged on Randsburg for the 1977 Spor tsm an Ra cing Association (SRA) Calico Enduro . It'sunknown how many finished the enduro with bikes, bodies, and accesso ries in the ' same co nditio n th ey sta rted in . but th e end u ro trail was litt er ed with bashed -off pip es. broken m otorcycles. and worn -out peopl e . Th e e n d u r o. a lt ho ug h n ot extrem ely difficult compared to most AMA D·37 end u ros or to National End uros. . was a challen ging fa mi ly Even the fi rst loop was harder'than average, though easy here . T he sec o nd was a ha rd . cha llenging , fa mily enduro loo p , Th« entire 37 m iles of th .. second loo p see med 10 go up o ne soft. rut ted . rock-st re wn ridgehill a nd d own a not he r. incl udi ng som e very si lty. slippe ry. tri ck y downhills, sometim es so steep th at rid ers co u ld n't see th e bottom from t h.. top A gia nt bottleneck developed in o ne rock y. uph ill , narrow . silty ca nyo n , bu t riders who di sregard protocol a nd politeness and went for it. st ruggling. shoving . and using others for traction could make it through and get ba ck on time before the next check . More bottlene cks developed in less-difficult. less slt·ep. but still hard . uphill canyo ns. bu t all it took to make it was (on a 175 ) - keeping the revs scr eaming. jumping . off and pushing wh en slowed by other. .rid er s. and lot s o f det ermin at ion . Men on , T T 5 00 Yamaha s proved un sto ppa ble . shouldering through th e cro wds a nd up the ca nyo ns whil e sitti ng on the sea t. sm iling. unmo ved . A h....r SlOp. where free beer was -ha nd ed ou t 10 ride-rs hy a n officia l , t her .. was a v..ry stee p , 'u ph ill ridge 10 clim b . It was litt..red wit h sta lled ride rs. a nd a flat rock ou tcropping a bo ut five ft·,·t across punct ua ted th e usual silt, loose rocks. and sha lc . T h.. approach s..em ed simple ..no ug h ' wide o pen in second "gear. cro tc h on the st....rin g he ad . By th .. time th e solid roc k was r..ac hed , it was wid ,' open in first . and sky-shot t ime. T o avoid looping it . it was off the gas a nd bog, a nd th a t's a ll t her .. was . Several "sm a rt " rid ers th ou ght-they sa w a n easi e r a lu -rna rive in a ' sa nd wash in a g u lly adja cen t to the ridge . They end..d up st uc k about 150 f!;'t't fro m th e 101' in rhe narrow ca nyo n t ha t th .. wash It·d int o . a nd it took th e effo rts of five en d u ro isrs a nd Ron Vin ccllcur of SRA 10 r..m ow th e bikes up to th e top . Vin cell ern- single· hand..dlv rod,' nut a 250 Yamah a and a Can .A~ ; whil e cnduroist Ron Rigler - an hour afj er arriving in the ca nyo n - rode up a Triumph 650 (alone) , an MRI7 5 Honda. a nd a stock DTI7 5 (wit h assista nce) . It was a "rnug h fam ily end uro" because of th e uph ill pushing and bonk-necks, a nd a " cha lk ng ing fa nV l~; end uro" in th e downh ill d e partment. On a r r500. I I wou ld han' been a piece of ca ke . • Results wh en avai la hlf ,

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