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- FoliOwing the moniing 'trlais' came - - --' lunch, a complete and delicious affair prepared by Judy Maely , at the Webcol Cycle World Clubhouse. An early afternoon hillclimb provided a bit more comic relief before a short trials exhi bition by Experts Dave Pyle, OIi Thordarson and Dwaine Walters. An awards presentation at the club house ended the day as Grand Marshall Joe Parkhurst directed dispersement of prizes traditional and ridiculous. A handicapping system is used at the LTT (regularly competing trials riders are docked 20 points, using a genuine tri als bike costs 10 points, riding your first trial gets you -10 points, riding a non-trials bike . in the "Ba lls" class is worth -3, etc.) , After all points had been tallied and handicaps figured in , Boyd Bernard took home a bottle of brandy and earned the Ma lcolm Smith Perpetual Trophy for top performance with an adjusted score of 1. Despite penalty points for riding a regular trials bike - an SWM 320TL - be ing over 40 years of age helped offset that. "I had probably one of the most enjoyable days I'd had in a long time ," he said later. "The people that put it on did a heck of a job." This year's infamous Fickle Finger of Fate trophy (sans box of Ex-Lax which was forgotten this year) for the worst performance went to Rick Hobbs with his tota l of 54. Best Journalist performance belonged to Husky 250WR·mounted Larry Little of Cycle World with an adjusted score of 19. Dirt Bike 's Tom ~ebb did quite well , but since he was on a trials bike, he totaled 21. . The Oldest Bike award went to Wayne Moulton who brought out, and entered, his immaculate, shiny, black and chromed '66 Triumph twin. Though he didn't tackle the sections, he did attempt a couple runs at the hillclimb, making it nearly halfway up before a wheelie turned into .a crash. Fortunately, the Triumph escaped injury. Art Webster received the award for Oldest Rider (his points handicap in cluded the -10 for being over 40, though he didn't say how far over), and his son Mark won the hillclimb trophy for his performance on a Honda XR500R. Fourteen-year-old Sean Webster rode a Montesa trialer and won two tickets to the Anaheim Supercross from Mike Goodwin for being the Youngest Rider. The VIP award, inaugurated this year for an industry executive, went to Kawasaki's Chuck Larsen who blasted his way through - sometimes successfully - each section on a KDX250 , drawing cheers and jeers with each dab , paddle or stop from a few Kawa saki employees who also rode. Bernard became a double winner when Parkhurst called him up to ac cept a prize for Best Poker Hand . Tony Murphy was next up for the Worst Hand. Most Spectacular Crash of the Day award went to LTT regular Dave Aldana who commanded laughter and groans all day with his stunts aboard an old Honda CR250, as well as a gutcrunching number he performed when he hopped on a real trials bike after, wards. Honored by the award, he said on a serious note , "I want to thank all the people that su pport this program. It's kind of like a family tradition." Parkhurst wasn't about to let Aldana leave it at that , though, and called him back up la ter to accept the new Dolly Parton award, a singing telegram from a eye-popping Dolly Parton look alike. She proceeded to taunt a nd tease the red-fac ed racer who tried to take it in stride, but while Judy Mael y rece ived a cowboy singing telegram for providing the food , Aldana admitted , "It's embarrassing up there!" • r-------------------.. .--------------------------.. . . 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