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; II: s Da sandwas hes. Alan T homas and Bill Saltzman h ad a dude riding shotgun on th em whose name I haven't heard of since he fin ished 10th in the '73 B to -V, Morris Norman the Ba rb a ria n . Greg T homas and Tom Grant were going at it , Carl Mi ller righ t behind . Hitting a series of barren up and down ridges, the course d umped back down into a long straight sandwash full of sca ttered vegeta tion . Ga ry Fredrickson . and J ames Weis, both amateurs, were fast losing ground to Ga ry "H awkeye" Charters an d Ken Miller, two r a ts of the pack variety, Dick Postma , Mike Hagen, Chu ck Herma nson and Ra y Guilbeau were rea lly having a ball by the time th e course turned right into a tig ht sandwash well -bermed for the occasion . Steve Webb was having a fine day bu zzing his tr ail bike down the tight wash being followed by J oe l Parker, Earl R oeseler and Begi n ner C biker Keith T ullar . . Francis Christensen , Ray Wald b lum , Begi nner Cl iff Thomas and Ernie Mnoin ra n single file across the dusty flats secti on; the course heading back into the foothills . The fenced off mineshaft to the left of the trail marked the change in terrain . From this point on it was just like the areas co m ing in from loop one roller/whoopsy sections with an occasion al neetie for sky shots and lock ups . Steve Nicholson, W alter Sheek, Al Guzman , who used language on the downhill simila r to the language used on Olvera Street, and Phil Gorgone rea ched the progressive roll er sect ion sensing the finish could not be that far away . Rod Absher was next with th e sa me thoughts. The course headed left in to so m e really steep , pointed foothills. R oeseler was having about the best time of his desert career. Coming out of the foothills, Larry gasse d his Husky u p the wide was h and up the side of the h ill for the u nofficia l win. Larry stated at the finish this was just about the bitchenest race he had ever been in, which made the Shamrocks' chests pop out with pride. Wallingsford d r op p e d out with a lunched clutch so about 12 minutes passed before the next bike could be' heard , the KTM of one Bob Balentine. Bob tu rned in one heck of a ride coming fr om a seven -minute deficit. Terry Da vis got a flat about 20 miles in to the second loop losing him some time and p ositio n ; he still enjoyed the ride. The results for this will be found in your mail box, not in 00 ASUPER DEAl 0 A FINtHAND-CR FlED MAICO AW! 9 B.A•••EW IIAII;O AW 250 5 . 400 5 . 450 5 AI/AILABLE '0. A LIIII1EII 1111E O.LV A1 .01:K B011011 ".,I:E5I . 9 t l' l' 0') ~ Ln ~ Q) ..0 0 ~ U 9 0 ... SEE YOUR DEALER FOR A RED, HOT DEAL MAI CO AW400/450 No.1 FROM COAST-TO-COAST No.1 New England (Joe Collins). No.1 CMC, So. Cal. (Luke Messer, Dale Anderson). No.3 National AM~ (Steve Stackable). A head of SUZ . KAW . HU S, BU L. H -O . KTM-PEN . MON. F L A SH I On ly very f ew AW Z50 ' s left! Cycle News . Now for th e awards. The super good guy of the Dez , Ed Za rp stopping for , Mitch Payton then continuing on to finish unofficial third place. The new Tarzan , award ,goes to Tony G reaves who screamed all th e wa y down the hill without taking a breath ; the coveted "Huevos" award is split between J im O wens and Steve Webb , who got off to the left of the downhill , made it all the way to the bottom only to do a la ugh- in crash at the turn. The Psycheout award goes to the Shamrocks M .C . Due to their advance notice of th e downhill , the pits seemed to have m ore than enough help this week . Old bone breaks st arted to a ct up , sore throat, hoof and mouth , etc. The course was rated great in both the marking and terrain. The downer of the day, Bob Tarazzas informed me , was that due to the ecology/go for it friction on the Arizona Indian reservation , the Check Chase is officially off this year so if you still want to go to the river, it's an open weekend. The way it looks th e next race on the calendar is the Invaders National hare and hou nd , • Resu lts pending. EA ST : MI O-CENTR AL: WEST : Maico M oto rc y cl es , I n c. D eb en h am Im p o r ts '09 El ectr ic A ve n ue R t . 1, Bo x 2 " Ma ico W est, Inc. ' 10 E. San t a An i ta A ve . L ew is to wn . PA 17044 Ant i och , Illinois 600 02 Burbank , Cali f. 91502 11