Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

~ of tbe run. A and AA rid~ ·had reason to f«1 doubly nhausted.. tb~ir rid~' included an additional 12.7 miles of tbe tight stuff between the two gas stops. This s~ction caused som~ CODtl"Ollers}' b«ause leWTal felt tbe run difficult enough without it." 1Dd«d, th~ painu 10It by e'oiCt yo~ ~ more than OM has becom~ ~ to Reing in t~ score columns at most himself off his bike at the w. endurOl. .-... ~ < Mlk. Melton 111C) Iowen hie Hally Into. T...,......trMln. Suzukl-mountecl nm Rochelle topped the 200cc B cIeeL Mlk. Traylor won the Open B . . . . AltA National ChamP1onshl~ Enduro Series: Round .. Little Harpeth falls to Melton By Brien & Anne PaIormo GRINDERS SWITCH, TN, APR. 5 Mike-Melton rolled to his second overall win in four events on the National Championship Enduro Series schedule in the 11 th Annual Little Harpeth Enduro. Melton, riding for Team Husqvama, powered his 250 WR over the 110 mile course, dropping 43 points in the tight woods I th a ong e way. M~lton's Husky t~ammat~ Dick Burlaon tuin~ in th~ best rid~ from th~ AA class and his 59 point loss was Sttond best sco~ of th~ day. Mark Hyd~ took Lightw~ight AA honors with a loss of 70 poinu on his 175cc Kawasaki. 12 With M~lton talting ~all hemars, the top spot in ~ 250cc A cIa. went to KTM rid~r Bill Berroth. H~ finish~ founh o~rall, d~ping 79 poinu: O~n A class Wlnn~r was a surprised Ray Cosgrove from T~am Suzuki. H~ had ~ disappoint~ in his "tripl~ figur~" sco~ which amount~ to a loss of 125 poinu and had not ~ally ~x~t~ to trophy, I~t alon~ finish in t~ top 20 to ~am National painu. Terry ~ale 100t 181 poinu and won t~ 200cc A class whil~ Kevin Brown captu~ t~ 125cc A class trophy, dropping 157 paino in the procelll. High point B rickr was Mik~ Mefford who ~. 62 pqipu, ip t~ .. 250cc B class. This will automatically advanc~ him to A rickr status. Unofficially, t~ win m~ M~ton into s«ond plac~ in th~ point standings, II painu (94·85) behind ddending champ Burlaon. T~am Husqvarna's T~rry Cunningham finished th~ run in eighth ~all aDd then b9c1ed fOr ~ hospital. Cunningham had crubed about 40 ~ before ~ finish and was _ _bow pinoed by ~ bike w~ ~ throttl~ stuck opm and the rear ~ li~ally burned ~ flesh off his right arm. H~ was back at wort in Husky's Ohio offitt on Wem-day, but will be out of com~tiOD for at I_af~weds. ~ 500 pnwons signed up to ride tbe Littl~ liarpah, but Rvere storms Saturday aft~oon apparently scared off several I~·bra~ souls. T~ approximat~ly 450 rid~ who did stan Sunday morni~ found trails that s ~ little ntd~ntt of t~ more than ~ inches of rain. Ri~ did find, ~, that t~ grow ~ cl~ together in ~ hills of west central T~nn~. Yamaha's Larry R~I~r may ha~ regretted taking Burl~son's advic~ and replacing t~ narrow handlebars he had ~ for the N~ Jersey National. Chall~ was wMt ~ rid~ got for six hours. 'T~ ~ ben! more ti~ than I am right now," said A clal!l.rider Floyd Jenninp • be ~ A f~ B clalS ri~rs who would ha~ chOlen to rid~ this section if th~ wanted f~lt it was unfair to ha~ ~ two ~rat~ routes. "I lik~ to com~ my sItills with th~ top rid~, but I want to ~arn a trophy too," on~ rid~ stated. "If I had talt~n th~ hard RCtion, I probably would not hav~ trophied at all. " Th~ club's r~asoning was that using this ~ction would ~liminat~ th~ complainu top rid~n ha~ wh~n runs are too ~asy, but keep th~ B rid~rs in the run to finish which makes them happy, abo. Despit~ t~ difficulty, it a~comp~hed just that as ov~r 250 nd~n rmJSh~. . Disr~garding th~ir initial ~haustion, trail tales from rid~rs w~re soon oong h~ard ~rywh~re in th~ staging area whil~ th~ final ~Iu w~ tabulated. R~I~ was t~lling AMA's Kathy Wanta about the vin~ that grabbed him around th~ throat, forcing him to stop. As ~ was att~pting to free himsdf, his motorcycl~ was rear-mded by anoth~r rid~r, tightming th~ vi~'s grip. Th~ rid~r thumped R~I~ on the back to see if h~ was all right, again tight~ning t~ vi~. Whm h~ finally suctted~ in removing th~ painful vin~, ~ I~t go of it and it caught that rid~ across the ch~ as R~I~ was riding away. . A ri~r on a lat~ number suggc5ted that anyon~ int~~ in going into th~ cycl~ parts busin~ss should volunt«r to rid~ cl~an·up for th~ club. "I'v~ ~~ a«n so many difl~rmt pam along a trail before," h~ said. O~ might say this was an ~nduro lik~ tbey ~ to be and th~ diff~ntt was that younger rid~n simply w~~n't ~ to this kind of d~manding course. A high~r p«cmtage of Smior and Su~r S~nior rid~n finish~d than was th~ c~ in som~ oth~r classes. Sox Brookhart took Super ~nior honon with a score of 96 that rivaled som~ of t~ factoty di~n. Ro~ Johnson, who won t~ ~nior B c1aSI, couldn't figur~ how ~ mana~ to do so ~ll when ~n _re having so much troubl~. It was his first class win. Charles Burk won th~ ~or A class, riding his n~ Honda 200CR. His wif~ was more thrilled than he. "It always makes the rid~ hom~ more pl~asanL This is ~ first bik~ he's had in a long ~ that he really likes." sbesaid. • .....Its_ _ tHuol43. 0p0nM; Opon M; 1lIl:Md ....... tHuolli8. 2IlOcc A; Mort< Hwdo Q(.-I 'II. Top T.. 0..01: 1. _ 43; 2........ 58; 1 Hwdo 10; 4. - 1 1 ; 5. - . , 18;" LaVoie 9D; 7. D. _ 93;" Cui......." ll&;" _ 96; 10."" .. 121ic:c A; 1. ~ _ 157; 2. G. _ . . . . . CHuiI 241; 1 R. _ 272; 4. L MeV8\' m. 2IlOcc A; 1. Teny I i - . (Y~ 111; 2. Teny_ 229; 1.1orry _ 23m4. R. Dunn 271. 2IiOa: A; 1. • _ lHuIIl8; 1 0.. _ 1.; 5. ~ _ s..v lKTMl 79; 2. A-V tHuol 93; 4. Hini "-idll1ICTMl 0CTMl155. e-- Opon A; I. Roy CSutlI23; 2. Tony-'" 1111; 1 R8ndy MeoIln :l!IlI. 121ic:c I: 1. _ _ . ; 2. Vorglo Young Jr 111; 1 S - Dillon 131. 2llOc cB: 1. TIm _ _ CSutl8li; 2. Bobby'eli; 3. JuIlln eany.. 71; 4. Riel< _ II. 2IiOa: I: 1. Mike M _ 82; 2. WrIt'( 57; 1 _ 5endridge 73; 4. Bobby Rodgn 11; 5. llMIid e-v ~93. Opon I: 1. Mike Tr8Yb tHuol 82; 2. 00nnilI JIMI 71; 1 FMlI:Iw I.Mnbort n; 4. s.mmIe Ow-. 84; 5. Glen Smith 84. PP: Suzy _ IV",",I40. S. A; 1. a.too _ lHanI 221; 2. D. IWo 232; 1 emrr- Cal 20. S. I: 1. ~ ~ Q(.-I 93; 2. I .......... 130; 1 W.E. _ .1. Soo ' 141. Sr: " " _ tHuol . ; 2. Bowd Cole s.- 104; 3. Jalln ....-131.

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