Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

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UPS IH_D DAILY AlIfYWHEIll! IN U ..... ~ _CA_ . • ""-- I • _ _ _ v_ _. TIM FACTOIlY _b* 18 __ _CH'",,, --- King of the Desert By Loretta Pipkin SUPERSrrmON MTN. CA, JAN. 25 Many Tripes grinned through champagne, cheen and $850 as the overall winner in Fudpucker Racing Team's King of the DcRn Race. Tripes did the five 50 mile loop' in two b9urs and 45.77 minutes mounted on a new 490 Maico. "That was really fun." quipped Many as he got off hi! bike. Pulling in two minutes later was Larry. Roeseler (Yam). Tripes WlIII deIert Kin« OK and he earned it in the wild 150 mile meleee. . Early in the race Roese1er led Scot Hardin (Hus) and Tripes by one half of a mile after 15 miles. Hardin and Tripes were a quaner mile aean. The rat of the pack was three miles back. After ClOIIIing the pole line road Tripes began to gain on Hardin. He caught him at the check below the sand dam. Tripes was 1tIIOkin'. From my seat in the airplane above it was quite a show 10 the distances quoted arenoB·.S. Down the rol1ing type of .mightaway you could see Tripes gaining on Roese1er. He was in the air and all over, riding far to the right of Roaeler. Into bome check Roeseler had a one-minute lead. He ~t into the pit and was gone at 80 mph into ~he desert. This was to be his undoing. for he had not refueled. By the sand dam Tripes caught Roeselet. Both riden flew into mid air over the top of the slide of blow sand. It was beautiful. They diced back and forth for the next few miles. Neither rider seemed to 'push the other. "It seemed like a cat and mouse game," said Roeeler later. Then it got tight for . Roeseler, who had to stop at the rolling check and get some gas from a friendly check point person's bike, His crew had sent gas to him but it hadn't reached him in time. Tripes rolled into home check with two minutes on Hardin who was movin' up fast, RoeRler was third with John McDaniels founh. Hardin was staning to' push Tripes, Roeselc:r was gaining a little and Leon Livingston passed McDaniels. Tripes and. Hardin diced it aways but Tripes got with it on the rolling straights and w~ 97 hundredths of a min~te ahead of Harden at the end of the third lap. Lap four was· getting to the nitty gritty when Hardin broke a chain and came to an unhappy stop. Roeseler - stopped for a second but didn't have the riglit things to fix the chain, Into lap five Tripes had a four minute lead over Roeseler and II minutes over third place Leon Livingston. Roeseler was smokin' the 465 Yamaha but not enough to catch the high flyi~g Tripes, Many took the checkered flag .;th two minutes to spare, As he got off the bike he said the best pan was he and Roeseler flying over the sand dam. "That was just bitchinl" In the Vet txpen class the battle was between two Bills - Carr and Reams, Carr led Reams for four laps. but within sight of finish he fouled a plug. "That never happens to this kind of bike and there I sat watching everyone go by," he moaned later. Some three wheelers came to the rescue and Carr fmisbed in ~d i ••rt...:' - SIll••I.II.,.... - ........tIIIon ••w btLI- ..... - spot. Claude Maynard got a third and special recognition for not breaking his leg as he has the last two times he was out. Terry Strauwald is keeping' that number one in the right spot taking his class inthe 125s. There was $1990 in cash was given to the winners. no protests and the best time was had by all. Congratulations to Fud'. team and all participants. Mattox did the "big bail" right on the pit line. Immediately there was plenty of help. but it's always better to teU about a crash after the race than ~ving everyone u. it. Leading the ".C" bikea into the pill was Pete PClltel. going for the cl_ win. This was his third Brush BUiten race. 'and he had won the JSesinner and Amateur C classes in the previous two, so now he wanted to add the Expert win to tbiI string. . The Veterans' lead was held by Monte Lee, with MorTis Norman (Open) two bikea ahead of Gary Charters (C) for fint Senior position. Sixbery bad dropped out on the first loop with bike prohlems on the flnt loop. Other cuulties among the leaders were Jeff Matthews and Tom Elias. both sustaining br.oken coUarbones. Out on the second loop Miller had dropped out with bike problems. Opvie took the lead on his 465 and earned the fint overall honan. Into the helter-skelter finish came Dan Smith (Open) followed by Thomas (25Occ). Canwright (25Occ) and Ken Upp (25Occ). wbo had done a tremendous "move up through the dust" job. finilbing fifth o~all. Mike Mulconery (Open) was sixth ahead of Ed Whisenant (Open). Tom Mattox (Open) and C biker Pete Poste~ Postel had earned the fint in class he wanted and had finished ninth overall on the big bike' course. Rich Shumaker (250cc) round,ed out the top 10, Fint Amateur was Steve Williams (Open) with the fint Amateur Crider, #216c, right behind him, and first 250cc Amateur, Paul Baxter, only one bike behind 1216c. Fint Senior honon went 'to MorTis Norman with charging Gary Chanen only one bike back. Fint Vet Monte Lee (Open) separated them. This reponer must apologize to the Novices and Beginners. No numbers or results were available at presatime to include your action. Ogilvie takes Brush Busters HSwln· . By Joyce May LUCERNE VALLEY, CA. JAN, 25 With suppon from Dale's Modern Cycle and White Bros., plus a bike from Yamaha, Bruce Ogilvie returned to the desen to capture the overall win at the Brush Busters D-57 hare acrambles, The Brush BUlten came up with some original thinking when they decided to r:un a abon six·miIe loop off the stan before the regular hare scrambles loop was picked up. The !l.OO-plus entrants sitting on the stan line took off in two waves with the fint one roaring to action at 10:05. Coming off the shon loop and heading toward the pits,. some racers were slowed down by the high rollers. But for the leader there was no sladd Cliff Thomas had established .... himself in the point position before the thundering herd had reached the bomb, Chuck Miller. however. foHowed by Ogilvie. was giving Thomas absolutely no room for error. The Amateun and Experts came down the bill like a _arm of bees. flying aClllllll the unpredictable dr~ ditch which lay aClllllll the trail just before the pits. Mike Siabery followed Thomas, Mil1er and Ogilvie aClllllll the ditch with Amateur Dave Wasden croEng it next. Later the ditch would be the site of much congestion created by riders flying over the heads of other riders Italled in the middle. It wasn't too far out onto the regular 58-mile loop before Thomas started feeling the effects of being pursued in such a dedicated fashion. He finally bad to bad off tnd allow Miller to pass him. Midway arotind the loop Miller still bad the lead. but he too was being relentlealy pursued. Thomas was close behind him. followed closely by Ogilvie. Dan Smith was nen. followed by Darin CartWright. Sixbery and Rid Schumaker. Two areas of the course came near private property. In the dust many' riders went off the course to get out of the heavy. blinding stuff. In doing 10. bowever. they croIlIed on to private property. The owners were in the area at the time and confronted the sponsoring club. It was decided that the problem could not be corrected at the moment, but it was agreed that strong emphasia would be placed on educating everyone involved. so that thiI would not happen again. Off the first loop. still holding the lead. was Miller with Ogil,qe now nipping at his heels. Thomas was next, followed by Smith. Canwright and flnt Amateur Chrill Crandall, Schumaker was in the seventh overall spot followed by Ed Whisenant, Tom Mattox, Mike Mulconery and Ken Upp. Woodndf captures Jail House Enduro By John Owen SUPERSTITION MTN .. JAN. 11 The Bush Eaters' Annual D-38 Jail House Enduro featured many of the ingredients for a successful event: hills, sa nd, rocks, ~p-de·dooS, sand, excellent check placement, wide washes, sand, fast speed averages, resets, and almost forgot, sand. They even managed to control the weather with mild mid-70s temperatures seasoned with refreshing rain to settle most of the dust. Although the enduro was factually advenised as a family event, D·58 steward Bruce Sanford predicted no zeros among the two·loop finishen. In fact the lowest scores reponed among the top finishers were two points. Local rider Eddie Rock lost 2:28, a score bea!en only by top D·57 rider Larry Woodruff (Doug Douglas CanAm) who dropped 2:15 to unofficially take the overall. Other good scores rumored were three points lost by Randy Liebig (KTM) and four poinll for Rick Bieniak (PE 250). Randy will carry the D-57 number two 250cc plate for 1981 and Rick is a trialsturned-enduro rider. The 25-mile fint loop slaned near ~e Jail House sign-up and went over a few unall bilb before emptying onto . ·the open desert sandwashes. deep

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