Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

II ~ Westernhotlme . . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . ~ - . _ . _ . _ ; _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._... . E 00 1:' en ...... Billy Addington (1541 and Chuck Panne t won both encounters after some gooc! = At the Gold Miner Enduro. these were the first victims: Chuck za ionz (1vi. Don Klinger 1 BI, Mik e Tay lor (1DI and Roy 1 Taylor (Yaml. Mike Taylor wins ERA Gold Miner Enduro By M ike Klinger Photo by Judy Klinger CALlFO'RNIA CITY. CA. MAY 28 Enduro Riders Association held their second enduro in the club's existence over the Memorial Day weekend with only a slight rider 22 turnout. : Three hundred ride rs converged on the California City desert, with the scorching 100 degree weather causing a lot of the avid enduro rid ers to choose other means of rec rea tion . The overall and sweepsta kes winner was Mike Taylor . a 200cc Beginner , who rod e all three loops and d id not drop one second! H is overall score was 0.00 . Believe it or not , the two loop winner was a woman , Joyce Rob inson rid ing in th e 200cc Women's cla ss. Loop one winner went to a Min i rider, Bob Rose. The main purpose of form ing a club suc h as ERA , is to give the ch ildren and wives a real chance to compete in an end u ro. Many three loop rid ers thought the th ird loop was not very challenging, but the reason for thi s was to test the riders on th eir timekeeping skills. The promoters of the event stated that ERA enduros ar e mainly for children . wives and riders who need a life-like situation to practice their timekeeping procedures. For Mike Taylor, his skills ar e sharp enough. The three loops totalled about 60 m iles with loop one being 13 miles and loop two . 16 miles. Besides th e usu al sandwashes and dry , dusty trails. ERA incorporated some slap-happy sections. There was a hare and houndportion that was reall y mil es of whoopdies a nd a motocross section that had hairpin turns and jumps. Here is the breakdown of all three loop riders that were first in th eir cla ss: Tom King of UEA fame won the 250cc Experienced-over 40 class ; Mark Tennison received the honors for th e 250cc Experienced class : Ron Taylor won t he Open Experienced with James Thomson taking the 200 Experienced. The Open Novice class was won by Dennis Weber: 250cc Beginner cla ss by Lance Guilfoyle and Susan Thomas rode with the men to gain th e first spot in the 200c c Novice for three loopers. One interesting not e. Harry God et drove all the way from Lompoc , CA . rode three loops , dropped onl y 21 seconds and he is 64 years old! That's out sta ndi ng. The overall weekend was good . The weather was a little hot but th e endu ro ended before th e real heat set in. For ERA . their enduro was organi zed in fin e fashion and for Mike Taylor and th e other 300 rid ers , we all fin ished in fin e fash ion . Homchick hauls at ·Manning RR By Patrick Behar & Jim Lester Photo by Patrick Behar ONTARI O , CA, MAY 28 Over the Memorial Day weekend Pat Manning organized a road race. utilizing the long course at O nt ario . Even if only 167 riders sho wed up. it was a very comptetive day for most of the classes . Especially for the 250c;c GP class , where Mark Homchick had a fantastic race from start to finish . He grabbed the lead from Mike Bead er on tum six during the second lap. ahead of the J ohn Gidney (Specialist II) , Bill Henry. D. Lee and Bob Hyman battle fOT fou rth place . On the third lap, Baeder was out and Homchick cruised for the rest of the race until Joh n Gid ney started catching him. Hyman passed Lee. and took third by only three bike lengths. In 350cc/500cc/ Open GP. it was almost the same story. but this time Expert Harry Klinzmann took the command of that race ahead of Baeder , Billy Addington . and Chuck Pa rm e. On the second lap Baeder was out, Gil Martin took the second spo i and Chuck Parrne passed Bill y Addington. They remained in that order until the checkered flag . Barry Elliot took the 350cc GP win and John Gidney the 500cc. The battle between Chuck Parme and Billy Addington took place once again in the four -stroke GP race . where Addington led the race. after passing Parme on the first lap. for four laps. Parme repassed him and won . Whit Blakeslee, who was running th ird on a Ducati 900 Desmo from Champion Motorcycles, ran out of gas on the sixth lap. leaving that place to Don Gorak on a Kawasaki. Another rider experienced a misjudgment in the consumption of gas d u r ing the 500ccl750cc/Super Cafe race. Danny Coe , astride a Yamaha RD4 00 from Specialists II, was running second behind Steve Sowden and his Kawasaki KZ 1000 a nd could have passed him if Sowden didn't block him in every turn . Coe was losing four seconds a lap because of th at, and ran out of gas on the seventh la p of the nine -lap race. Danny told a reporter after the race , "We were running three jet sizes richer, and didn't expect to consume that much ." On the same lap. Steve Schrader on a 500 Yoshima Honda • .. ... . . ......... ... . "'. ~ ~ took the lead over Steve Sowden; Carry Keoshgerian was third. Whitney Blakeslee and Lee Flemming battled together in the Open Production and Box Stock races. with Blakeslee winning both . Champion Motorcycles fr om Costa Mesa was spo nsoring the Box Stock race an d offering cash to the winners. The next Pat Manning race will take place a t Riversid e on June 25 . { Resu lts ~ 5Occ 1. Ml rio Coldoto {ltv; 2. Poul Mlnning {ltv; 3 : Fronco Gorovoglio(Suzl. ' 25 GP: 1. Corbin Dickinso n IHoo); 2. Pets Kishdillion (Yoml; 3. Koren White (KIW). I 200 GP: 1. Jim . . - IC·AI; 2. Jon Siobom ISuzl; 3. Chud

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