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appeared to be a bra ke -stay /cha in
failure slowed him to an overa ll
eighth. Several seconds back (on the
last lap) were Hayd is and Haak, close
enough to cover wit h a b lanket.
The most subversive part of the
course, in the author's opinion, was
the old railroad grade which was
apparently smoot h and straight , as
railroads must be . Wrong. The ties
had been pulled many moons ago and
the amplitude/frequency syste m made
it extremely rough for the lesse r riders
(i.e. the author). In addition . the RR
grade portion of the co urse terminated
in a 40' x 40 ' wash , wh ich alt ho ugh
well-marked. swallowed several ri ders
"at speed" (according to L a d y
Begin ner Bo b by Boedell, who watched
in awe . . ." Ah hh h" ).
If any portion of the co urse could be
term ed a pa in in t he neck , it was the
five-mi le creek bed . No kid d ing . This
was as end uro-orien ted as a nythi ng
you 'll fin d . 12·24" bo u lders, t rees,
sa nd , erc. , you name it. A real down pipe-ea te r.
T he three -lap 'non -ex pe rt Za m a teu r'
race was won ove ra ll by " O ld Timer"
M urJe W illiams, a good bet to do it a t
a ll local races to the kid s. T he scary
thing was the t hird overa ll (second
under 40 old -timer behind Williams)
finish of Mark Samuelson on a G-50
Beezer . I thou ght all of those were
either in England or the Checkers
MCI Williams finished five minutes
ahead of seco nd overall ; first Open
Novice Rya n Dickson .
The Long Distance Award (a nonexistent situation) goes to E.A.
Nemecek who flew in from Olympia,
Washington for the weekend and
borrowed fellow Sun M .C . member
Ro n Whittington's RM 370 and rode
10 sixth Open Amateur. The Hard Ridin '
