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IAbove) Open Intermediate w inner Bob Brooks roosts the field with a holeshot. IBelow) Goat Breker and the CCM were good first-time partners . Breker, CCM crowned kings CMC Four-strokeNationals By Dale Brown Photos by Patti Firth-Trotter and Brown CAR LSB AD . CA. DEC . 10 With less than an hour's practice on the 580ccin CCM, Todd "Goat" Breker devastated'the Pro '( class of Continental Moto-sports Club's Four-j ' stroke Nationals with it, over Tim Lunde and) Many Moates. CC M had originally intended for Ch uck Su n to ride the bike . , , but when Su n was Injured at the 6 Lake Whitney Trans-AMA . Breker (also a Husky pilot) was called a nd asked to do the job . He hadn't ridden the three-speed , right -hand shift machine until the day.before the race . bu t he did the job , lea d ing both motos wire ~o wire . Trick a nd unusu al four-stroke machinery was a key feature of the event . co-promoted by Knobb y Shop Int ernational.. Car~sbad Raceway. and CM C . In c luded"1 10 th e m achm~ryh M h wer.e: a ~tc ess, com~ tere w~t, . Maico . ru nn u:g gear; . MIke Hai r s ul tra -trick T ri umph twi n: and mor e modem ';Ia ch inery like th e KS.I 450cc Hon? a wit h c~ ntl leve r suspensIOn and Kelvin Franks custom fra med DR 370 Suzuki. T he lasf two bikes were ridden by Moates an? Lu nde , res pectively. Also m akmg an appearance. at Carlsb~? was th e famed . D,.ck " Bugsy Mann. aboard a Suzu ki wit h a fra me of his own manufacture . He won the Old Timers .Division II class . . I II going , away after getting by another ". famous name of the past. C ~uck J!I "~eets" Minert, who rode a high ly rl tricked-out BSA _ rl Breker put the 580cc of power to the I ground in the ,first moto, taking the r holeshot , O n his tail at the end of one.,b la p were Ra ndy Kreiter . Moates , jim I Lowe, Da vid Gerig and Lun de. Go at , was already starting to pull away . 1 Lunde moved past Gerig On the next, 0 ' lap and t hen found himsel.f in third zs ' behind Moates after passmg Lowe ' with Kreiter dropping way back with ~ problems . As the . race passed the midwa~':: point (the rac~ was 14 laps long :'u l approximately 30 m inutes). Lun? O J had closed the ga p on Moa tes whlle brr Breke r was long go ne. Moates was ha ving problem s as the twin shocksl~( , under th e seat heated a nd. starte~ ~o I pack up . leaving Marty wit h a rigid " rear end everywhere ex cept th e deep,:> whoops . Lunde took the full advantage~r . and passed him in a right hand corner r following a steep uphill ledge. T-he 'l first three pla ces wer e th en set at Breker , Lunde and ~10ates . They were followed ' by Gerig's OP/Escondido