Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

................, . TERRYKIT Longer Travel for YZ 250/400 '77 Marzocchi IT 175-400, YZ 125 '77 West otline' Smoothe r action - More control Im proved handling - More travel Different dampening Air or springs. T he fron t end kit that beats them all. Dealer or. Direct out of state call IoU free 80 0-8 54-469 1 90 da y mon t y back guarantee Takes Good Care of Your Threads (Above) Robert Marino chases another rider in the CMC Open Pro class. (Below) Cliff Lett leads eventual CMC 125 Pro winner David Tay~or. VIBRA·TITE BIKER POSTER . Send for ou r super 2 ft. by 3 ft. fu ll co lo r poster o f th e Vib ra-Tite Biker. $2.50 p l us SOc handling ge ts yo u the post er pt us tw o free decals. 1 ~9 3 The Oekland Corpora tion Ba rrell Rd , Troy , Mich . 48084 Triumph Honda :JOE. -'\,a 'thai Motorcycles T r y u s f o r T r iump h parts UPS same day • BMW 28 2509 Broadw ay . a Sacrame nto. CA 9 58 1 9 16-452 ·5 49 1 Moto gU lzi " I would like to b e able 10 stay here and rac e a ll around t h.. Slate," Rick said . Vid ic h a d some m ec h a n ic a l problems and he too wenI to the rear of t he p a ck . Luke Messer ( Mai) advanced to fourth with Tolar in fifth . , Steve Fry (Yam), Bo b Ru tten (H us) and David Gerig (SUI ) crossed the fin ish line next. Jc·ff Vidir , with his m a ch ine rc p a in-d vaulted fo r rh.. ho l..shot an d led ' th e ent ire second rnoto . Second pla ce c hanged several tim es w i t h Tolar an d And e rso n Messer , possessing h. Ma rino a nd Blackwell wer e wid e open and moving up when Marino fell . taking the Texan with him purring' both of them back a litt le in th e a cti o n . W ill Harp er. afte r ge tti ng ta ngl ed in so me ban ne rs managed to work his way to third . He fin ishe d ahead of T olar, Ge rig (Co le Bros ): W eSSuti on"a na ick Blackwell . / . ' Anderson got the overall m on ey with Har pe r . Tola r, Messe r and Ge ri g ta king the re mainder of t he cash . Su zuk i of Pom o n a's rider G a ry Denton gOI th e credi t fo r the holeshot in both of th e 250 Pro m otes. Gary was followed very closely by Marty Mill er (SUI), Cl ark J o nes (SUI), Tim L unde (Ya m) a nd DG rider David Taylo r (H us) . As th e pa ck was com ing out of ' Ih.. g u lly Jones a nd Lu nd t" locked ba rs a nd wen t down with a 101 of ri ders go · ing arou nd t hern for better S('o ri ng posi t ions . Both riders r..rin-d fo r the da y. Taylor loured to seco nd wit h Sco tt Gillman (Ya m ) lockin g in to the th ird slot. Sco tt d idn't waste too m uch time in th ird , th e next la p he was seco nd and on the IOlh lap he was th e leader. AI the end of the )2 laps Gillm a n led th e way ac ross the fini sh li ne wi t h Denton , Tay lor, T ony Wa nket (Yai'n) ,'Miller, John Tessiu)re (DG) , Sutton a nd Do ug - Boyd (SUI) ta king th e nex t poi nts. In th e second m o to afte r Denton ro u nd ed W e b co Hi ll , Taylor, Gi llma n. W ank et and A rden Hadley (V H) bega n t he ir assa ult on the eve ntu al winner . Denton kept it wid e o pe n a nd smoked. Once secu ri ng the two through four pos iti o ns T a ylor , G illman and W anket had no trouble holding off the advancin g riders. with th e exce ption of Ala n Sm ith a nd his Blandin tu ned H usk y. Alan di d n' t fare too well in the firs t ra ce so he had a lot of po ints to make up . During the ninth la p as the riders were out in the back part of the track Smith swooped th e n u m ber four pl a ce a way fr om W anket. Tessito re. A ndy Kirker ( ProT ee) a nd Marty Miller fin ish ed next. b enton pock et ed 'the b iggest hu nk of mon ey leav ing the rest for Gi llm an . Ta ylo r . Wanket a n d T essito re to d ivid e up a mo ng themselves. C liff Le tt , wh o works and rides fo r FMF sta rt ed th e act ion in the first 125 Pr o ra ce. T he H usky ~ nd DG blu e a nd go ld of Da vid Taylor was right o n Lett's fe nder. T on y G om ez (SUI) started the race in th ird b ut before it was all over fo und himself in second. Mik e Pill ar a nd T erry She kell (Yam) did so me dicing with Sh ekell rnovirig to fou rt h and Pillar g('llin~ bumped agai n by Tony W a nket (Yam) . Lett began having engi ne problems and rather tha n "st u ff ' t he bik e backed off and T a ylo r took over as pa rade maste r. Leu dro pped back 10 fifth t rying to keep th e machine a live . . Behind C liff, Ba ssett riders J im Gibson. a nd another FMF rider Ro n T u rner who were battli ng for sixth . When Mr. 'A tkins signaled th e end of the race Tay lo r came un d t" r . t he c hec kers first. Cornez , Sh ck c ll, W anket , Lett and Gi bso n followed h im to ' the pits. Late in the afte rnoon as the tim e was ge tting close fo r the last of th e I 25s there was some fra nt ic act ivity with peop le try in g to borrow a n d buy pans to rep air Leu's ex h a us te d m ount. C li ff got so me prt"tty funn y loo ks fro m his fello w ride rs as he .sat at the gal e . Instead o f th e fami lar red m achine; Cliff pi lot s he was o n a vt"ry custo m looking ycllow bi ke with a ka nga roo o n th e 'g a s tank . , . t hat's ri gh t it was Ke lvin Fr anks "su per b ike ." After Ra ndy Hess ( F MF· Ho n) le d the ri ders around W e bco " t he Roo" and Leu too k over the lead . Cliff he ld off the other riders until t he end of the ninth lap when he dumped the po werhouse bi ke giving Hess the chance to get by him and tak e the win . Taylor quickly lat ch ed onto seco nd wit h Sheke ll going into th ird . Lett restarted in fo urth with Go mez and Ray Lo pez (Ya m) finis hing next. Resu lts in Resul ts Section. Full moon gremlins hit 0.37 IT scrambles . By Maureen Lee . - , E LSINO RE , CA,JULY 30 It 's a known fac t that strange things happen in the full phases of th e m oon ; Satu rda y night th e back string of ligh ts kept blowing ou t , so met hi ng we 've never seen happen before . Ma ybe a spook was ba ck th ere pulling pl ugs . L uckily, each time t he y wenrout it wa sn 't just as a gang of ri ders got there at fu ll throttle. . Enough minis showed up to have two classes. In th e nov ice di visio n . it wa's 'J im m y Ro sa' (Yarri)' wit h 'a 2-2- )

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