Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

riding a Cycle City Maico and third was Rey Longoria on a Bultaco from Beeville. A surprisingly strong fourth p lace effort . came from Chuck Schoenfeld on a Husky. He was riding Novice j ust three months ago. Steve Foster dominated the Over 30 class on a 125 Honda , winnin g both motes. Llo yd Longmir e went 2-2 on a 250 Penton a nd David Parker was 4-3 on a-chain throwing 125 Yamaha for th ird overall. Both Longm ir e and Parke r had earlier ridden in their respective Amateur classes as well. Scott Zettner showed true gr it by riding a stock Yamaha TT500 to th e seco n d rnoto victo ry and second overall in th e Open Intermediate class . T om Wes t was first with a 1-2 sco re . Results in Results Sec tion. T-shirts sizes S, M, L, and XL $3:95 -", Posters 22" x 28" fu ll ector World Champion Roger DeCoster, $2.00, Gerrit Wolsink. $2 .00 Decals Truck decals, two for $3 .00. bike . decals. two for 50¢. sew-on patches, $2 .00 ~ W('Ittorn [)eo.len and . DistributOR contact :· J~ Dan Holman rode his automatic Rokon to first Open in the Wheelsport Hare Scrambles. ' recent transfe r from the Novic e di visions, was fourth . Wayne Eskew was fift h on his ancient 250 Elsinore. The 250 Novice class was won by Houstonite Carl Price (Ya m) . T om Guidry (Suz) fro m San Antonio was secon d and Frank Pa tt erson (Kaw) was thi rd. Ronnie T ay lor led bo th moros of the 125 Intermedia te class from sta rt to fini sh but it wasn 't as eas y as it m ight sou nd . He got tremendous pressure th roughout both ra ces fro m four or five d iffer ent riders. Mike T angeman finished seco nd overall . Mike Maloney from Rou nd Ro ck was third. and Jack Beckham fourth . Mark Olgu in was a big double winner today, winning th e 100 class and the 125 Novice Division A. In the 100 cIass Ma rk 's-only th rea-t in the first moto was Rob Murdock. henceforth known as Black ' Ba rt . It was St eve Turner in th e second moto, but no on e really go t close. • Harry Laye r won the minis on a stock Yamaha wh ich he had to borrow after blowing up his trick YZ80 during practice. • Results in Results Section. Fine weat her; split program, k iller hill at Cyclerama By Greg Labbe SAN AN TO NI O , T X , FEB . 13 With temperatures in the seventies , San Antonio's Cyclerama ran a full Amateur and Expert program under their new spl it sh ift agenda . It consisted of two hours of open, practice in th e morning. th en the Mini. 100. a nd 125 Novice motes: another half ho ur of practice befor e the 125 Intermedia te , 250 No vice and all th e Experts raced ; a nd yet another half hour practice followed by th e , Open Am at eur and O ver 30 motes. The idea of three brackets ofracing is that any rider who doesn't want to hang around all day can come out to the track, pract ice , race in his bracket. and go home . all in a matter of about three or four hours. . Run with precision by Jim N idiffer. the program was right on sched ule throughou t the day a nd was an unqual fied success. Unfortunatel y. he avy rains durin g the week had left the tra ck muddy in a few places. Although the sunshi ne was d rying it qui ckly, passin g was difficul t . requiring more than the usual amount of guile in order to out-fox an opponent and get by. The downhill whi ch saw three or four cr a shes. sen t t~o Am ateu rs to th e hospital with broken bodies. Opinion on th e sa fety of th e h ill seems to be d ivided. Most experienced riders thi nk it's a gas. \ It is quite a thrill to launch you rself off of a 75 -foot hill that a man can't walk up, but you hav e to have the confidence and the motorcycle to do that. The hill , as is . is far too . dangerous for no vice riders and only serves to di scourage novic e and beginning riders fro m racing. . The Minis got the day off to a fast sta rt. Harry Layer took his ultra smooth Yamaha of San Antonio YZ80 to both moto victories and the overall. Mike Dick ey had to fight" his way all the wa y through the pack and into second place in both motos for second overall followed by Bryan Taylor in third . In th e 100 class Kyle Landrum was caught up in a first turn crash but worked his way to fourth by the end of the first moto . He came back to win moto two and the overall after fir st moto victor Scott Stephens from Houston cras hed on the downhill . Rodney Womack from McAllen was second overall. They kept it interesting in the 125 Novice class with constant place swapping and crashing. bu t Mike Meeks ended up winning both motos for the overall. Ruben Ramos fro m McAllen went 2·3 for second over a ll and Bruce Phi llips fro m Pt. La vaca turned a 4- 2 into third. Ali eyes were ~n #66 , Dicky Turnbo from Whitney. Texas as th e 125 Pros lined up. But when the gate dropped it was all over for Turnbo as he had his doors blown off in both motos by Shau n Kelley from Houston . Turnbo tried to press Sh aun ea rly but could not match his pace on th e brutally rough Cyclerama course through a full 25 m inute moto . Kelly went I -I and Turnbo was 2 ·2 '. Robert Coreale put in great come from behind rides to score third overall and David Stutts looked good on a Can-Am in fourth position. ' It was an amazing performance by San Antonio's Rob Reynolds in the 250 -0pen Expert class. Rob , who hadn't ridden in six month , and rid ing an old red -tanked Penton . moved from mediocre starts in each moto to the front of the pack and won each moto going away, Dicky Turnbo had the lead early in th e first rnoto , but his Husky " er p ed ," ending his ride . Second overall went to Barry. Ritchey Bel-RIV Co., Inc. S, M. L, and XL $14.95 Moton:yc.. II Automot.... . Lub ricanb DWWon 14670 Firestone BI. Suit. 410 130 riders turn last Roamers ice race into slush race Ask your dealer Lo Mindl. CA or order direct from Bel-Ray. 90638 (7141,522-41681 (213) 921-1055 By Suzanne Thumhart RAINBOW FALLS PK ., CO , FEB . 20 Harry's Roamers ran their final ice race of 1977 in 66-degree spring sunshine, and 130 riders quickly converted the ice to six inches of slush and water that splashed and sprayed over spectators lined up along the first straight. Twelve minibike entries led off the day's contests with Jam ie Gibson (Ya m) fin ishing first 10 end her days as a min i-rider on a happy note . jarnie's b irthday last week made her too old for the class , but her fellow riders voted to let her compete with no handicap anyway . Tony Edwards (Ya m) was second with Mark Iler (Hon) th ird. The Third- Wheel class clea rly belonged to Dave Carriker for 1977. He took his fourth straight win in a hot· and-heavy . (cold and l ight? . . . Ed .] race between seven ent ries who all wanted to be first . Glen Fisher slid by Jerry Capacious on the inside to take second and force Jerry hiridered by a loose exhaust pipe - to settle for third. All three rode Yamahas . Da ve says his success comes from "e veryt hing just clicking on the bike th is year; it just runs SO strong." The over-the-hill gang fielded its second Old Man Mini and drew ten entries who couldn't d ecid e whether to be to ugh or silly so they d id a little of both. Brian lIer (H on) mixed it up p layfully for the first two mores , but gritted h is teeth and cranked it on, roaring inside of Lee Morris (Hon) to cin ch first place. Morris had second and Phil Edwards (Yam) was third. They even tempted Sonny Anderson, Brian's father, to get back on the t ra ck after devoting all season to cheering from th e sidelines. Al Nesshoefer rode his 125cc Bulonda (H ond a four-stroke engine, Bultaco frame) to his third first place of th e season , coming in ahead of Fred Schutz (Hon) and Bria n Iler (Hon) . Who says only purebreeds ever win ? AI stepped out to a cozy three-bike lead in the first lap and never backed off. By the start of the main in the 175cc Bare Ti res , the track was slo ppy enough to make falls a messy business. Even without falling the riders had wet butts and stripes of water up their backs from the spray kicked up by the bikes' rear tires. First went to Dave Beck (Yam) , second to Kevin Walker (Hon) and. thi.rd tqjPeI,.stutts ~~· ) ~ FREE .177 IIX CATALOG Do you have t rouble locating name brand MX Items? Try TF. Number One Products - - TERRYCABLE WORKSPerformance - THOR Enterprises FOX SHOX- saw - HOSS - MOTOTEK Mark Charles MARZOCCHI -CERIAN I Phase 2 J TRac ing C.T. Alloy HI ·POINT SUN Chain Trte Pro -Te e Mikuni Wl seeo Le etron BATES TF Racin g BankAmtfricord M aSfttr COO-UPS Charge TF RACING (209) 7 9 5-2 9 81 Box 215 Aver C0.95224 YOUR LARGEST GOOD!'iEAR STREET TIRE SOURCE ~ • G ARY BANG CYCLE P.O. Box 47 2, Can09l Park, Co, 91303 . (213) 341 -8474 ' ! 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