Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

• A huge three-hour bottleneck had riders pushing up slippery hills at the 49'r Enduro. A pair of enduroing buddies go for it on a faster section of t he 49'r Enduro trying to make up time. A mudhole was placed at t he end of the enduro for a last chance for Mother Nature to catch a few more riders. the Polka Dots' Forry-Niner En duro overall trophy by shaving h is score of one point down to '. Haney built up a 50-ya rd lead in th e Novice main and was never headed . Speck d idn't have qu ite as co m forta b le lead with Murphy and Seidel on his. tail. Murphy laid it down .in th e same curve as he d id in the trophy dash a nd turned over thi rd to Seidel. ma in , Buddy In the J unior Robinson led severa l la ps followed b y Hansen and Johnst on . Celori e a nd W incewicz waged a fierce ba tt le to work up th rou gh th e pack and around Rob inson . Hansen held on to fou rth beh ind Celori e , W incewicz a nd Robinson . Nine Nat iona l num ber s line d u p for th e Exp ert ma in. Scott had a lready won th e trophy dash wit h Ha teley fourth. However. Scott didn't ge t a good sta rt a nd Ha teley. Aldana and Skvier did . Aldana took the lead from Ha teley on the sweeper and held it for a co uple of la ps before Skiver took over. Aldan a unl oaded in tu rn one a nd cou ld n't ge t his bik e sta rted soo n eno ug h to ge t back in th e hunt . Hock ing d id one of th ose " th rill of vict ory a nd ago ny of defeat" cras hes on th e sa me turn one lap lat er. It was W ord , Joyner a nd Scott battling for four laps th en it was Joyner. Word and Scott . At th e thre quarters point . Scott took third behind Hareley . Skiver didn't falt er and went on to win it with Hateley looking just as smoot h taking second , Results in Resul ts Section . Frolics fill the Forty-Niner Enduro 42 rac es of th e d ay. Burres made good his bid for th e ma in by winning the semi over Rick Hocking and Don Smith . Dodge and Hurst finished fourth and fifth respe ct ivelv . By Mike Kinsella FORESTHILL. CA , APR . 23 Yamaha rider Troy Kelso took near perfect ion in seco nds . Larry Ba ys (KT M) ca me in -a close second a t th e tie -breaker and Bill Co oper , a B rider , finish ed third on his Maico, also one minu te down . Sta rt ing off with a spee d average of 24 m ph over fast tra il, th e ride rs co u ld appreciate exce llent tract ion, b ut in a few shaded places th ey co uld suddenly feel t he back whee l slidi ng out from undernea th as they gassed it arou nd tu rns . The average soon d rop ped down to 12 mph a nd t he co urse dropped onto a narrow pa th tha t skirt ed a deep ravine . Rid ers surprisingly bega n to meet head -on with contestants who were coming ba ck d own the trail against traffic. By thei r a ngry , frus trated signa ls it was plain that a bo tt leneck had developed up ahea d , Wi th in m inutes th e scene ca me into view; the pat h fell away to a creek th at was cylinder head deep. th e cree k a t th e crossing point was a solid da m of bikes and riders fro m bank to bank , a nd beyo nd was a sho rt, steep uphill th a t had turned greasy fro m th e recent heavy ra ins . O n thi s slope , two and three individuals la bored to pu sh on e bike a nd rid er to the top as heaps of men and machines piled u p like spa g he u i. As time went on a nd the C rid er s approa ch ed the traffi c sta cked up like rush hour o n th e freeway . The bo tt lenec k was a t 5 .7 mil es ou t a nd most rid er s spe nt from 15 minutes to an hour th er e . It too k three hours for th e bortleneck to clear ou t co m pletely . For th ose who wer en 't in a co mpletely nega tive sta te of mind by now , a nd who. one way or anot her m an aged to g~t over or a ro un d this na sty. spot . th ere was 95 mil es of su pe r end u roi n ahead , The co u rse between th e bouIene&. a nd th e gas sto p a t 52 mil es passed in blur of trail rid ing brinkmanship; £0 fast , for get th e wat ch and speed om eter , en joy the sensa tion '

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