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" 1' • • ·.v.· ·.· · ·",. · ·.·.·..·..·. · . . I: Desert Hotline ~ t What happens when you make a wrong turn in an enduro. This was on the third loop of the CRC Hobo 100. Jim and Cindy Stephenson negotiate a serpentine sandwash on CRC 's first loop. Harry Keast tames CRCHobo 100 Enduro By T errence W. Rezek LUCERNE VA L LEY, CA, FEB . 18 1 4 With the kind of wea ther South ern Ca lifornia had had lately. I expected some of the bikes entered in the Ca lifornia Racing Club (CRe) Hobo 100 Enduro to have not onl y waterproofing bu t even some flot ation devicesl But what ever th e rest of the world may be , Lucerne is something else. The sand was moist alrigh t , if you loo ked abo~1t ~our inches down . You could reach It with a trencher (or a TT500 Yamaha). Even Soggy was dry . The C RC-Iayout· crew did manage to find a t least one mudhole, th ough - right in the middle of a powder lake. This was so fascinating that some rid ers got right down in it for a closer look . That is what happen ed , isn't it, Jeanette? "Fam ily" endu ros ar e usually such pu ssycats tha t they could be ridden by an em p hysem a sufferer on a l Ov speed bicycle. CRC's first loop was no pu ssycat, but neither was it a tiger. It could be ridden by anyone on any size bike bu t the begi n ni ng ride rs m et a challenge. T h ree miles from the start, the riders encou ntered a who ops-de- wash with rollers you could lose a minibike in. After a few m iles of fun opencountry riding, the course entered a super serpentine drainage canal on the edge of Anderson Dry Lake. Another brief stretch of clear desert and you were in one of the pr e ttiest parts of the entire course. I do n't know exactly where this rock ridge was, b ut som e people found it j ust to ta ke pict ures of th e scene ry: Magnificent panoramas in an y direction, early wild flow ers b looming , and t he ro cks softened in view by the gentl e su nl igh t of a desert spring mo rn ing. To remind everyone that th ey were in some competition, we found our heroines and heros crossing the dread Great Powder Lake wher e, hidden from the view of mortal b y th e cloud of dust , lurked the fearsome mudhole and its evil companion, the sha rp -edge pucherbush. This nefa rious combo lay in wait for the unlucky , the unvi rtuous , the unfaithful and , especially, the unobservant! T ime and gas constra in ts kept m e off of loop two: T o those who feel slighted by this, just thi nk - if I wasn't there at least I couldn't ta ke embarrassing pictu res of you doing dumb things , like 1 did of some folks on t he third loo p . The third loop, incid ent a lly, was designed for A and good B riders and featured a number of fun little sand uphills and 'something affectionately referred to by the riders as the "Goa t Trail." Sorry 1 didn't ride this , but 1 never could warm up to goats. Speaking of warming up , though , just before this , was' one of thos e little sandhills which caused the cremation of several clutches and pistons. A remarkable variety of semi catastrophic hill -climbing techniques were noted . This loop and the course finished off with an absolutely superb little trials section about five miles long and wiiiinding through the ridge of rocks that overlooks Soggy - and is close enough to the pits to allow spectators to come out and watch riders do stupid things in the rocks. Got some fun pictures the re. Much enthusiasm was heard in the pits for the course and the only checks which drew complaints had already been eliminated. Most of the riders thought it was a good run, but I could safely guess that it was most popular with the seven riders who zeroed the entire run. The relative standings were literally determined by seconds and these were figured out rather hu rriedly in the back of a trailer la te Sunday afternoon - which means these resul ts are extremely unofficial. W ith that copout , here are the Magnificent Seven : Harry Keast (-15 seconds); Joel Pitts (· 3 1); Rick Arnold ( -40); Sam Orrick (-48) ; Lonnie Stefan.Tr . (49 ); Da vid Rogers (· 53) and Ralph Stenberg (- 70). Pitts and Arnold a re (or were?) B riders , the rest are As. There were at least 13 on e-po int ers in the preliminary resu lts and I'm going to let CRC sort thos e ou t . Results ZEROES: Harry Keast IA Open l: J oel Pitts IB Open!; Rick Arnold IB Openl: Sam Orrick IA Openl; Lonnie St efan. J r. 11 250 1 Oavid Rog el" IA Open); Ralph ; St enberg IA Open). ONE POINT: Larry WoodrufllA Open l; Sam Strong IA 250 ); Tony An kerson IA 2501; Howard Shanks IB Openl: Bob Ash lock IA Open); Gary Selby IB Openl; Chuck Van Oe W egh e IB Open); John KneifllA Open~ G, eg Blackwell IB 2501; KaV Kleiber IB Open l; Chess Gaver (A Open); Keith Drochak (8 Open); Richard Brass IBOpenl. Tom Kelly wins D-37 Moose Run By Gary Laudig FREMONT VA LLEY, CA , FEB. 19 Tom Kelly pushed h is 400 cc KTM to the limit a nd won the Four Aces M .C. AMA D -37 Moose Run ha re scram bles. This was th e 28th running of the Moose Run, and this year it was a memori al race in honor of Lisa Ch ristense n . The crystal clear m orn ing still ness explod ed in to life as the Fou r Aces banner sent the first wave of racers heading for the saddleback and the live smokebomb. The course crossed the bas in past the smoke, through th e upper part of "W hitey's" wash, up a canyon into a series of abrupt rollers. The first bike to reach the drastic dropoff was Tom Kelly. Heading int o deeper rollers, Ed Zarp , Brad Henson , Gregg Thomas and Mark Zoller go t " skiborne" working towards the la ug her area of the dez , the "T u rtle" preserve. Crazy Dave Lapraik was keeping fast company with Kevin Hasten , Tom "Road ru n ner" Sch ell , Charlie Hamill a nd Gary " Hawkeye" Charters. Blas ting t hrough Camp C a n d startling all th e playriders , Ken Miller and J ohn Prater laid over th e bars a nd wou nd th e th rot tle to th e stop.