Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

going like that. I could pass him (the Rude Rod Racing Yamaha ridden by Rodney and Kevin Andrade·that Fish· back was drafting at that point) and pull away from J:!im like that and then when I'd sit up and tuck down normal, he'd pass me back." FIShback handed the bike over to Bauer (riding his first SCORE race) who kept the pace up until his rear wheel caught some WIre, tangling up so tight that he had to stop and remove the wheel before he could start to clear the mess. That effectively killed their chances, and they finished sixth in class. The Honda Hollywood CR450R of Bill Robertson and Morgan Malocco was the first bike through Checkpoint 1 physically but had a flat. Fishback reported catching Malocco in a sand· wash just after getting out of Oasis. Another pre·race favorite was the Chuck Miller/Bruce Ogilvie team on a Yamaha Motor Corp. YZ465H. Unfortunately, Miller barely got a chance to warm up as gremlins caused the generally bullet-proof transmission to go out after some 30 miles. Mark Miller and Chuck Rush on a Southwest M/C Sales/Sportsman Cycle Husky finished third in class with a 4:37:02.70. Crashes slowed both riders down. "The Mexicans built a mound near El Chinero and I endoed on it," said Rush. Miller had. trouble recalling things after his crash. "I was KO'ed at Cohabuzo in a flip. I don't remember the flip and I don't remember getting back up and riding again," he said. "I awoke later on the bike in a fog. I know I was second overall when I fell and I awoke in fourth." For the Class 21 (and nearly the overall) winners, it was a good, fast ride. "We had no get·offs, no problems other than the bike wouldn't run real well at the top end," said Kent Pfeiffer. When asked at the finish if he thought they had the overall, Scott replied, "It looks like it's possible. If not, we didn't lose it by much." Kent said, "I didn't even know we might have won overall until I got here. It'd be pretty bitchin' if we did. The only thing that bothered me was the center knobs (on the rear tire) were gone." Scott rode the second half of the race. with the tire in that condition. After El Chinero, "We were pretty close to some of the overall leaders at that point and that's another reason why we didn't change the tire. We figured, 'If we want it, we've got to go right now!' IlO we did." American Honda CR250R· mounted Jeff Kaplan and Bill Tar!ing finished second in class, third overall, in 4:29:07.96. Kaplan reported riding from Cohabuzo to the finish on two' flats he got when he hit rocks following Scott Pfeiffer's dust. They had no spares, and it slowed them considerably on the last leg. Class 20 saw another Pfeiffer emerge victorious as Kurt teamed with Mike GoodWin on a Premier Yamaha for the only 125cc finish under five hours (4:51: 10.12). "We were down by three minutes at first and got to the bottom, and I don't know what's going on now because they're not finished yet," said Pfeiffer as he waited at the finish for the next 125. The man they worried about most was early class leader Bob Maxwell on the Quality M/C Service/4·M Co.! Dale's Cycle Yamaha. However, Max· well reportedly got a flat out of El Chinero and later ran out of gaa. He ended up seventh. Montclair Yamaha·mounted Jim Mattox and Oren Beck II finished sec· ond in 5:02:23.02. Their bike waa actually a pre·run bike that they got from Montclair Yamaha and race prepped at the laat minute. Originally listed aa third in 5:02:25.58 waa the Husky Produets/Sportstnan Cycle/R.C. Builders Husky of Scott Coutts and Daryl Folks. However. they were·re· portedly protested for bein, over the displacement limit and disqualified themselves before a race offiCIal measured their engine. That put Bill Holmes on a water· cooled White Cloud RanchlPro Circuit/ East·West/Anaheim Husky up one spot with his 5: 14:30.54. In Class 30, Steve Bell and Denby Dailey led most of the way on their Up· Tile Husky. They encountered one flat rear tire after the Oasis and Dailey got pitched off the bike once in a waah aa they finished in 4:55: 13.37. Runner·up Richard Jackson came into the finish upset, not at his place or time, but at some spectators who built some sharp-lipped small jumps in top gear, flat out sections. "They had one like this," Jackson said motioning with his hand to show about a three·foot tall hump, "over in the sixth ge.ar stuff, and I went over it like good. That's the last of it. If they're going to try to kill us down here, that's it, man. I'll ride if it's just spectators, but if they're trying to kill us, I ain't doing it any more. jackson's panner Steve Szckulla had a similar incident. "I turned over just out of El Chinero. The Mexicans built a berm in the middle of a sixth-gear road. They got me. My bars were bent and my goggles were cracked. I looked through spider webs all the way home." They got the Kern Sportcycle Husky to the finish in 4:57:54.60. Kirk Kontilis and Ted Lewis rode a Coors/Southwest Yamaha YZ250H in their first SCORE race to third in 5:02:22.22. Yamaha·mounted Don Teeter and Ron Wilson topped Class 38 in 5:03:50.4. Second went to Red Sanders on another Yamaha in 5:07.33.66. "Everything went really good up until I hit a big rock· down there and I did a handstand and got both knees up here on the handlebars," he chuckled. "I said 'Oh God, it's all over now.' That's the only trouble I had. Everything went good after that. The pit crews did a wonderful job; I had a real good ride and I really enjoyed it". Except for the handstand. I guess everybody gets a few of those. don't they?" A pair of Honda ATC250Rs ran the entire course with Wes Arnold and Wess McCoy getting the top spot in 6:48:40.87. They had one flat and . wa-e running behind tbe Robert "Ace" Williams/Tracey Dickson three·wheeler most of the way. Williams broke an axle. though, and the whole rear end had to be replaced at Tres Pozos. "We got by a couple of Class 8s (big trucks) and we're freety pumped about that," Arnol said. "There' wasn't much there we couldn't handle. We can take them (trucks) in most cases in the tough stuff and our top speed is 75 to SO." • '00 0') .M ~ < It That stack of Cycle News plied over In the corner could become an attractlye addition to ,.our living room or troph,. shelf. All ,.oa need Is oar new, bright-red, top ..aallty binder. Each one holds ZS I. . . . of America's Weeki,. Motorcycle Newspaper. The,. also provide a hand,. fillng.,..tem when ,.oa need to refer back a few I..... to an Informative article, and the,.'re a positive statement aboat the sport ,.oallke best: Motorcycling. Results ClASS 22: 1. AI 1Wc. (MugIHonI 4:23:32.l!'; 2. _ WlIiIlngoford lHuol 4:36:30.3ll; 3. _ _1ChucIl _ lHuol 4:37:02.70; 4. L-. LivingIlDn/MIlc " - ' lHuol; 5. 0... e ......... fHuol; 6. 5 _ ~Jim ~ (Hull; 7. Phil Bird (M.il; 8. K., 0vWItIe- _ lVom!; 9. T""V CIortcITom K.IIy lHuol; 10. RaIMi1 ~1ChN _ _ M.o.de lYom!. CLASS 21: 1. Kent ~/Sc:oIl ~ lVom! 4:23:58.53; 2. J-'f KIpIonilIllI TorIIne lHonI 4:29:07.96; 3.11ic1wd ZIlIc:/JOIII_lHuol4:46:09.34; 4. P8UI EcIdyIRan I.8Ihnchi 1V1m~ 5. _ Kennedy lVom!. ClASS 20: 1. Kurt ~1MIl8 Goodwin lVom! 4:51:10.12; 2. Jim -..ow. Beck H lVom! 5:02:23.02; 3. Bill _ (Huol 5:14:30.54; 4. Bill MMlDrIIlIrin e.-ight lYom!; 5. WoIl8r NeohICMtoo Sorrono 1V8mI; 6. DonniII Marrioan lYlml; 7. Bob ~ lYom!; 8. R-.dy Teo! lYom!; 9. ~ . .01 Jr. lY."l; 10. . - c.r.:oI O" fHuol. 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