Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

; ·.· 1:1 ~ · · v.·.· · ,. · v ~ ,. IIl'IIl' 1Il' ........,IIl'• •••IIl' .., ... Desert Hotline t Chuck Miller took half of the 0 -37 250cc Expert win. Cruisin' through some rocks at the CRC Tenderfoot , Scheffers/Zarp take Badgers' of th is writing a definite decision has still not been made as to how the problem will be handled in order to be acceptable with the D-37 Sports Committee. Out on the first loop for the No vices and Beginner the Heavyweight Novice Ron Pavey /Robby Cosner team (early sta rt ers) had taken the lead with the Pete Postel/Dennis Maxwell ( Novice "C" ) team next, followed closel y by the 250cc Novice team of Bruce Joseph/ Dave Kennedy, and lronman Ed Andrake ("C" Novice.) . Pepsi Challenge team race.HaH . By Joyce May RED MOUNTAIN , CA , MAY 13 Lee Scheffers and Ed Zarp forgot about the Yamaha/Husky rivalry and teamed up at the Badgers M.C.. "Pepsi Challenge" hare and 22 IIl'IIl'• •••••••IIl' hound to take first overall honors by a good margin . Despite the extreme gasoline situa tion the Badgers managed to draw a very respectable entry of about 300 . Those riders who were bra ve -en ough to take a chance on finding gas in the desert for the return tri p home were not disappointed. The station at Red Mountain had all the gas that was needed and then some. The Badgers Club is down to about six healthy members. The rest are all on the inju ry list , including numerous broken legs and arms . Beca use of th is, the club called out the " reserves," fellow badge carriers that loved th e desert , and , although the tra il mark ings were not the best , they managed to put on a very good " Pepsi Challenge" race . Pepsi backed th e prerace publicity as well as some of th e contingency prizes. They also helped provide th e finisher belt buckles wh ich will be ma iled to all th e fin ishe rs. Aft er an unusually cold week wit h tem peratures down to th e middle 30 's at night , th e weekend warmed up a nd go t almost too warm , and there was not quite enough breeze to keep the dust cleared off the trail. The first half of the teams lin ed up on the sta rti ng line . Part of th e lin e was ou t of view of the banner truck , so when the sponsoring club blew ofi a " bo m b, " ab out 30 Novice a n d Beginner riders took off. A few turned around and came back when th ey discovered their m istake , but most wer e not aware that their start was fa lse until they ca me in for ga s. The club went· down th e start line and re -marked all th e tank cards before the official start took pla ce. Many of the "earl y starts" la ter dropped out of the race , but ot he r teams decided to take a cha nce a nd go ahead and finish the race anyway. As • ,T he team of Brian Dickson/Bob Johnson was the lead Beginner with the "C" team of Kurt Pfeiffer and Alaskan Steve Darby running second Beginner, while in the next spot was Chrley Inman as a Heavyweight Ironman. O u t on the first loop for the Amateurs and Experts Scheffers (Heavyweight Expert) , on a Yamaha out of Fullerton Yamaha, had gotten a good start and was leading the pack. Ed Zarp'(Lee's partner) has had one big weakness, his starts; so he and his Husky (out of Payton 's Anaheim Husky) waited in the pits to ride the second lap . Husky-mounted Kern Park (250cc Expert) came through check two in second while Amateur Heavyweight Jeff Matthews was cook ing in th ird . Flying through in the fourth overall position was Trailbike ace Cliff Thomas of the Thomas /K evin Hopkins team . The Hea vyweight team of Jim Lawrence and Brett Howell wa s followed closel y by 250cc Expert Mike . Eckardt on his new YZ Yamaha . First Senior team was th e Bob Doig/Charl ie Morris heavywe ight combo with a second Senior team of "Smokebomb" Gaetz and Mart y Reider only four bikes back . Amateurs Bill Conger/Rick Jones (Heavyweight ) came through in good sha pe with one

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