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Northern Californja-Northern Nevada-Oregon·Washington-ldaho:-Utah-Alask SEARS POINT . Seer-Shows A Double Vision NORTHERN DATELINE Shopher wins Oregon 250 GP Challenge o 00 (j') By Russ Cazier PORTLAND, OR, JUNE 22 The im p act of two northwest roadraces on the same Sunday was evident as a relatively small field of entrants raced before a SUN And GLOVE r Both saw their way to first overall by wearing SEER #505 goggles . SUPER SEER Goggles . Best in Sight! - - -- - ---- --~---------~------ - - - -- ---- - -~ ---- ---- --~- Whatever you decide to .d o, do it with Cycle News. - - -- - -----=----=---=-~- - -::::-~~ -- - - - ------------------ - - -- --- - - - -=--. --~ WHAT DOES A HANDLEBAR HAVE TO DO WITH WINNING? • EVERYTHING! Ask RICKY GRAHAM and DONNIE CANTAlOUPI two of the fastest young racers in the countr y ...THEY KNOW! RICKY'S been ripping apart the WINSTON PRO SERES hal f~ ile and mile events: while DONNIE has been puShing his factory Yamaha MXer to TOP ptacin gs in NATIONAL and SUPERCROSS events. I What both these guYs kn ow for sure is INTER-All HANDlEBARS give them what they want, a hand lebar STRONG eno ugh to take z. race long PQUIlding and a handleba r that's available in a CHOICE of bends for a COMFORTABLE ride . Get a set of INTER-AM HANDlEBARS toclay and find out why the nation s FASTEST . RIDERS ha ve been winning with INTER~AM for yea rs. ill iI 34 _. INTER-AM BIKE SUPPLIES 3ll5O PuIm8n Ave. CooIiI Mesa, CA 92626 (714) 557-7941 good crowd of spectators at Portland Int ern a tiona l Raceway. The $1600 pu rse for the 250 GP Challenge attracted rid ers from as far away as Canada and th e San Franciso Bay area , but the ' absence of Lind , Phoenix, Pinkstaff, Skiver, Sutton, Whitlow and W ilson , et ai , gave some diehard Oregon Motorcycle Road Racing Associa tion racers a delicious taste of the front of the pack. The modified sched ule called for one heat of 15 laps for ea ch of the usual racing classes p lus the main event , 25 laps in 250cc GP . T he first ra ce, 125cc GP , set the tone for the da y's racing " s Bill Mullins a of Concord, CA , Tod Dressel and Peter Jacobson pulled away from the field in a three-way dice that lasted int o the 12th lap. Mullins finally stretched a sm all lead in the last three la ps and was followed across the line by Jacobson and Dressel. Dean Zinter's air-cooled 125 was next after a brief off-track excursion where he overcooked the esses in turns seven and eight. ' Rod Chronister and John Haskin put on a fine show in Open Production, dicing from start to fini sh. Haskin and Chronister had met briefly in the last ra ce at Portland when Haskin ran into Chronister from behind. An y ill will was rap idly forgotten as the two stayed within feet of each other the entire 15 laps of the heat. Haskin's GSI000 had a bent po int cam with result ing strange timing cha racteristics and no tachometer or even speedometer but still had a slight power ed ge on Chronister's new GS750 . Haskin 's win or crash style pa id off this time, with Chronister pulling a close second. The two went at it aga in in a cornbined 850 /0pen Cafe heat with neither one very concerned by the fac t that th ey were in different classes for this race. Ha skin again edged Chronister after one off-track trip and a locked u p , sliding pass in turn one. Dan Zlock , on a Suzuki GS850 Cafe bike, took th e win oblivious to the madness goi ng on behind him . Chronister says he's going to prepare for their next meet ing b y beating on his point ca m with a hammer. In the featured 250cc GP race, Glen Shopher , also up from Concord, shot his beau tifull y prepared TZ250 into a n early lead a nd used a fast bike and a sm oot h , precise rid ing style to stay the re. Excell ent dicing was going on further back , with Mike Ross and Chris Robinson swapp ing positi on s several tim es, but with Ross ah ead when it cou nt ed . . Glen Sh opher , leaving Portland on his way to Road Atlanta , had praise for the tr ack a nd OMRRA and sai d he'll be back. T he $500 check in his poc ket for 33 m inutes of slaving over a hot mot orc ycle represented a wage rate of a bout $900 an hour, a nd '. should help with gas money to Georgia. Results 250 GP CHALLENGE 1. Glen Shopher (Yaml: 2. : Michael Ross{Yaml; 3. Chris Robinson(Yam); 4. Gene Brown (Yaml ; 5. Doug Guthrie (Yam). OPEN PROO 1. John Haskin ISuzl: 2. Rod : Chronister (Suzl: 3. Russ Cazier (Suz). 550 PROD: 1. Eric Garland IYaml: 2. Robert Adams (Yaml; 3. Richard Johnson (Yaml. 430 PROD: 1. Chris Robinson {Honl: 2. Robert Adams (Yam); 3. Thomas Hilliard (Suz). • OPEN CAFE: 1. Dan 210c (Suz): 2. John Haskin k (Suzl: 3. Russ Cazier ISuzl. 850 CAFE: 1. Dan Z10ck ISuz); 2. Rod Chroniater (Suz): 3. Ken Neill (Hon). 600 CAFE: 1. Tod DressellYaml; 2. Ken NeililHonl: 3. Mik e Steffl lYam). OPEN GP: 1. Gene 8rown lYam): 2. James Dawle\l IYaml. 125 GP: 1. W illiam Mullins (Yam); 2. Peter Jacobson (Honl: 3. Tod Dressel (Hon). OPENSINGLE GP: 1. Gene Brown (Yam): 2. Michael Marr IBSAI: 3. Miles Andrist (Honl. Get-offs and getting it on at Mt. View By Jan Newman Photos by Barney Newman and Newman SANDY,OR,JUNE22 We fooled the weatherman. Mt. View got nary a drop of the showers predicted for today. A few clouds helped hold the dust to a minimum on a day ideal for raemg. There were a lot of exciting get-offs] all day long at various places. I'm sure there were some bruises and newly discovered muscles , but no serious injuries, . were reported , fortunately. The first Open Junior rnoto gave us the first crashes. Only 50 feet from the gate, Doug Snook (Yam) tried to get traction on Tim Dyke's fanny. Tim had apparently decided to let his Kawasaki go on without him . . Several others were tangled by the tr ee in the first tum . Mike Overfield (Kaw) led the survivors for most of the race whil e Randy Townsend (Yam) was putting on a su pe r ride from the back of the pack to eventu ally win it. Round two went to Terry Conklin (Yam) all the way while Overfield worked from nex t to last on lap one to second at the flag for top brass. Gary Boslar (Hus) led wire to wire in the first 250cc Intermediate race but, after struggling from a mid-pack start, he worked up to seventh in the second moto before a boo boo dropped him to the tail end. Ted Holt (Suz) put in a 21 for first overall. Randy Hom (Kaw) was the crash specialist for this class . He fai led to properly maneuver the double jump at the fin ish . He was shaken up but managed to attend to his screaming bike - we thought he might ha ve to pull the piston to silence it. The first 250 cc Pro moto was led by Arne Hettman (Hon) with Jeff Cropper (Yam) poking at him until he got around . Holding third until the halfway mark was Chris Seines (Suz) , but he suddenly parted company over the bars of the Zookie and wound up with a right angle bend in those bars. On the sa me lap Allen Pits (Suz) , trying to get fro m back to front , pulled a ha iry slid e out comi ng up th e double jump. H is frame had broken at the downtube lea ving him with a stretched ou t low rider. Fortunately it had happen ed on th e way up , not down . Cropper came back to win th e second with Perry Scott (Hon) nabbing bo th follow u p sp ots. T he first 125c c Pro moro had a variety of leaders . First Michael Kinnear, th en Cropper and finally T im Michl itsch who had started last.