Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

111111 •••• i ••• II •• I •• I ••••• I ••• I.I.II.I.I ••••••• I ••••• 1.11.111.111.1 •••••• 1 ••••••• 111 c.D~aI PlpeliDe c.o • ORAN'E COUNTY'S * *'REATEST MOTORCYCI.E * * * PARTS SWAP!! * * CN * $-0 11) ..0 o ..... Oct. 28. 1977 o FRIDAY NITE. 6 PM TO llPM u Movie World Exhibit Center 6900 ORANGETHORPE . 11 0 1 E. 6th Street . Co rona , CA ( 710/ ) 735 772 1 <:~ ~t1o 11 trsll Dealer Inquiries Invited Viva Distributing Company 32 10625 Vanowen 8urbank. CA 91505 213-766-6101 Roger Brown wrapped up both the 250 and Open Expert classes on this night to complete his mastery of the big bike experts in this first state night championship. Though "the Brown Bom ber" was beaten in both motos of the 250 class. it showed the fans that Brown can charge through traffic as easily as-h can run away e from th e pack. Roger suffered a fall on the first lap of the first mota and picked. himself up in last place. 30 seconds behind the leaders. As Ralph Babin and Glen Johnson were putting on a fine contest for the lead , Brown was moving through the field like a . m an possessed , at a pace two seconds a lap faster than any other rider. At the checkered flag , Babin won ' over Johnson. and Brown took third. only 20 yards behind the lea ders. The fina l ' mota was won by Houston hotshoe . Rick Weir (Suz) who took the holeshot . to a mota win. Brown was again tied up in traffic. finishing second :' Yet another fa st Kidd. Papa Don Kidd helps Gerry ,Ki~ d take M i. e's National k Overall . Roger Bro wn clinched the number 72 off the Penton in preparation for Gerry s first half m ile. 250 title. Ba bin second and Rick Weir third . . at the Rio Bravo night MX track. Th~ in high style as he took the lead in the In the Open Expert class action championship series involved two junior class main event , followed by Roger Brown. again on the " O rangeT weekends of racing, first at the Capital Joe Wilson of Albuquerque. Tom Express" Pentons, went two !or two. City Night Motocross Track in Austin Bries of Madison . Wisconsin , and dominating both motos to chnch the on the weekend of September 16. 17; Battle Creek's Bobby Decker. The end Open class state night championship. and then the final races in Houston of lap four saw Bries take Wilson for While Roger was out front a furious over the September 23 . 24 weekend. second and start moving fast on battle waged behind him involving' All classes were involved. from Junior Mertens. For the finish it was Mertens, David Stutts. Bart Batson from Mini to O p en Experts , with the Bries , and Wilson followed b y Pasa den a (Van d ivers Cycle Maicok rewards befitting the level of Californ ia 's Rick Graham , Jack Hicks, and Barry Ritchey from competition. For the Junior and 'O kla hornia n Bret Brady. and Decker San Antonio (Cycle City Maico) . Intermediate riders . trophies to IOth in sixth. The back of the pack Overall . Brown was the winner, with place paid overall each weekend , plus incl ud ed Danny Hogue of Gilroy, David "the Stutts Bearcat" Stutts top 10 trophies for the overall Calif. , Ft. Worth's Mik e Green on the second and J a ck Hicks third. championship finishers , Experts were only Norton . Richard Bates, and Again it was the inconquerable? attracted to a $5 ,000 purse that was Floyd Wyatt. . Shaun Kelley out front of the 1-25 paid per mota and for the top overall The expert main for th e Oklahoma Expert class as he rolled to two mot01 series finishers. State Championship started ou t like a wins and the st are night repeat of th e San Jose trophy race . Capital City MX, Austin Sept. 17 championship. Once again . as he had except just 1,400 mil es to the eas t , . Roger BTOwn, aboard the factory done in Austin . Kelle y grabbed the with Ted Boody grabbing th e lead Pentons from Penton Central , swept to early lead and motored awa y from the whil e Denverite Chubby Armour and four mota wins in the 250 and Open competiiion . Ke ll e y's closest T erry Poovey shu ffled around with Expert class to open the first big night challenger was David Martin from Sonny Burres to sort things out , but of Texas night MX . In the 250 action , . Rosenburg (Suz) who was at least able on ly for a lap as th e h ard -charging Brown came from behind both motos to stay in sight of Shaun. Glen Johnson Poovey and Armour both zapped to catch and pass "t he Rajun Cajun" was third both , rnotos and clinched' Boody on lap two and set their own Ralph Babin fr,om Lake Charles, second overall in the championship. pace wheel -to-wheel for the full 12 Louisiana (Mai) and Glen Johnson Nei l Cooper was consistent enough · laps. Boody led the rest of the pack, from Houston on the DG, Suzuki. In and too k third in the title chase. "\ followed by Burres and Albuquerque's Open Expert action Roger recovered For Kelley. recently crowned as a Vern Johnson , Michigan 's Randy from a fall in the first turn of the first three-time NMA national champ for ' Goss , and Houston's Bubba Rush . mota to charge through ihe field 1977 , it was a most satisfying victory Boody disappeared on lap eight defeating Jack Hicks (Yam) and David after losing the 125 state series' with a sick magneto and loaded up for Stutts (Suz) from San Antonio. championship last spring to nationaf California and his bid fat national Sixteen-year-old Shaun Kelley from riders Mel Newman and Mike Jones. number one, Goss, working hard on Houston swept both motos of the 125 Roger Brown added his two night Burres, finally slipped by and started Expert cl~ss. The fiel~ .not. only championships this weekend to his trying to catch " Poo Be a r " and included the best 125 nders III the Texas state 250 Expert title that Roger Armour , but the checkered flag came state, but half-a -dozen national won last spring in the annual Texas out for Poovey and Armour way out in numbers who were once again blown series . So Brown and his now famous front of Ooss, who had a big gap over away by the "T exas Tornado." Kelley, No. 426 Penton showed near total Burres. Johnson , a nd Rush . Bringing piloting an R&D Suzuki . held a five domination of Texas' b ig bike experts', up the rea r was second fastest tim e second lead through the entire first The amateur and intermediate trialer of the day Keith Uliki, Mike moto until slowed .by lapped traffic on battles were as competitive and well Caves , John J ohnson . Bill Sch aeffer, the final lap . ' T his provided a last rece ived as the e x p e rt cla sses . a nd Chuck Palmgren. cha nce effort for Mel Newman from Raymond Pa gel from Kileen never Oklahoma's Bruce Townsend #37G San Angelo (Suz); who . in th e final won a mota . b ut was th e m ost announced thi s was his las t race . He is corner tri ed to di ve underneath consist ent , winning th e 250 reti rin g to spe cta tor. Kelle y 'for the pass . In stead , he sent Intermed iate title. Tom Curry, who both riders to the ground . Shaun had proven to be one of the top 125 recovered qui ckest to win the mota Intermediates in the state throughout an'd Newman . just healed from a the year , won all four motos aboard broken back su ffere d in the 125 hi s RM Suzuki for th e ' 125, National wars, had to be helped off Intermediate championship. Pat Pugh the track. Kelley put enough distance from Houston won the 100cc class , on the field in the final mota to Lloyd Tisdale from Houston was tops practice his cross -ups , thrilling the in 250 Novic e . defeating H ousto n's crowd in the process. Behin d him Glen Bob Vatter. Mike Macejewski won the Johnson . aboard a DG Suz uki . fought r Over-Sf class with Bob Vatter again By Mike Reilly through the bitter competition ro ' the runner ·up . L es Rugg from finish second in the fina l mota . Ho uston won th e 125 Novice honors . Roger Brown from New Braunrepeating his runnerupposition in the Cra ig Raymond from League City was fels a nd Sh a u n Ke lley from first mota. Neil Cooper (Suz) from the senior mini champ and- Michael Port Lavaca took third. Ho uston domi n a ted the first anCaskey from Georgetown won the nual "Texas Night Motocross Rio Bravo Night MX, Houston junior mini class . Resu lts in Resu lts Section. e . Sept. 24 State Championship" that concluded Brown pens big bike .experts at "Texas night MX championship"

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