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00 .... .-4 1-0 c, < Get a load of this guy's rear tire. Eat your heart out. Weinert. (Above) Wes Evans won four classes at the CoorsiSHA climb on the Matterhorn. (Below) As they say in the sport. "Alley Oopl" Mackel's Matterhorn! By Dennis Greene ORANGE, CA , APRIL 8 Over 120 riders from as far away as Minnesota, Texas and Oklahoma came to climb the Matterhorn at Saddleback Park. The Saddleback HiUclimbers Association, ' along with Coors Beer, made their event part of the 1979 Cyclerama. The 120-plus' riders were competing in 12 different classes 14 . .. from 90cc Stock all the way up to the lSOOccOpen Exhibition. The climb site was a new cut in the 10·year-old hill. At the 400 -foot mark, a set of lights were set up to he lp score the. overall winners in each class . The ma jority of riders were easily scored by the footage covered from the bottom . of the hill to where th ey came to a stop on the mountain . To get a fast 'time score, not onl y did' a rider have to break th e light beam at the 400·foot mark , he had to get over the top or just settle for the foo tage. Cherie Larue was the first winner of the day in the 90cc class . She won out over two other you ng ladies; all were under 14 yea rs of age . Several riders in th e smaller class came close to th e top , but the hon or of being first over th e top went to W es Evans in the 20l ·385cc Modified Cla ss. Wes really had a day of it. H e took th ird in th e under 400cc Stock Class, he won the 20l ·!lS5cc Class. Wes also won the 600cc Modified Class and the under !l85cc Exhibition and th e !l85cc to 600cc Exhibition. The King of the Hill crown went io overall Open Exhibition class winner, Neal Mackel. He covered th e distance in 10.99 seconds. . The California · based Peterson family was ou t in full force , taking trophy and cash in six classes . Kerry Peterson won the Stock l75cc Class. Clyde Peterson took third in the under 600cc Modified , Kerry ran a 15.48 in the !l85cc Exhibition CI~ to earn a second place and his brother Gary took th ird in the same class. Kerry came back in the Under 600cc Exhibition Class to ge t third to yet another Peterson. Clyde, who got second. The event took j ust over six hours to run and was one of the best-run events of its kind in years , a credit to the club: Most of th e pit talk was about the upcoming W idowmaker Hillclimb in Utah . then the World Drag Hillclimb at DeAnza Cycle Park on June s. After all th e ' winners were determ ined. Carol yn Charkey, Public Relations person for Coors, helped ou t Ron Powell , President of the Saddleback Hillclimbers Association , pass out th e gold. • Results 90cc STOC K: Cherie laRue. 175cc STOCK: 1. KllfTV Pete-sore 2. St""" St ith 250ce STOCK: 1. J im Garner. J r.; 2. Perry Edwards: 3. Dick DeRosa. 400cc STOCK: 1. Ray Simmons: 2. Scott Wilson; 3. WesEvans. 401 ce OPEN STOC K: 1. Ken Moores: 2. Rodger Medf ord ; 3. Carl Collier. 385cc MOO: 1. Wes Evans; 2. carl Collier. 600ce MOO: 1. Wes Evans; 2. Ron Thompson; 3. Clyde Peterson; 4. Dick DeRosa. OPEN MOO: 1. J ohn Bjorkman : 2. Jim Ellenberger: 3. Ron Standeven; 4 . Vince Vinson . 3B5cc EXHIBITION: 1. W.. Evans 111.93 sec .): 2KerryPet"""" 115.48sec); 3. Gory Pet",",," (410ft.l. 600ce EXHIBmON: 1. W.. Evons 11 1.45 secl ; 2. Clyde Pet",",," 11 1.62 sec); 3. Kerry Peterson 11 1.84 secl . OPEN EXHIBITION: 1. Neal Macltof 110.99 secl; 2Tom LaRue 11 124 oec.I; 3. Ron True 11 1.86 sec.l; 4. Bill Correl'11 1.91 secl; 5. Jim Ellenberger11 1.95 secl. OVERAll: NeoI Macltel•