Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

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Odysseys & Dune Buggies Goodyear Rawhide $42.00 21X11X8 $42.00 Goodyear Compass Sand Sport Pad dle 21x 12x8 $69.00 TUCSON A.T.C. SUPPLY Specializing in ATe'. • TRIItIOTO'. • KL T'. • ODYSSEY'. fR'.~!)~ ~~ Parts. Service. Accessories Complete eng ine service and repairs our pleasure Special Orders 2730 E. G...nd Rd., Tucson, AZ 85716 (602) 327-4839 [Do it in the dunes. - -- - - - - - - -- ------ HONDA- KAWASAKI WEST * NEW HONDA MX SUPPORT DEALER * Special Parts El Accessory Discount Good through al1 ••82 with purchase 01 any racing model.motorcycle. Honda·Kawasakl West 2401 Lincoln Blvd. 18 Santa Monica, CA 90405 It looked like the entire town of Ajo was out to see the first race of the Arizona Desert Racing Association's 1982 desert racing season . Un like past ADRA races, only t~e buggies and three-wheelers raced In th e Ajo rac e. Pro Buggies raced three loo ps (120 miles), Sportsman Buggies raced two loops (80 miles), and Beginner Buggies and three -wheelers had to race one loop (40 mil es). T hree- wheel riders thought the 40mile course was a lot of fun and one of the most grueling course's <;ver because half of it consisted of three foot deep silt beds caused from the previous buggy races that day. It was 4:00 p .m. when the Beginner Buggies started to race and the and the three -wheelers started racing at 4: 15p.m., five minutes after the last Beginner Buggy left the starting lin e. It was Helm &. Son sponsored Tom Kakavas riding a fu lly-suspened fourstroke (228cc) Honda who took th e ea rly lead in Class 6 (250cc) but didn't keep it for long as he had to stop to fix a rea r flat tire a t about fou r m iles from thr start . Frank Truemen on a Honda 250 R too k over the lea d but later was p assed by Robbie Madison also on a 250 R . Fro m Ch eck one to Check two (ha lfway point) it looked like a graveyard with half of the buggies and three-wheelers b rok~n down in th e Three -Foot -Deep SIlt beds . nRES: 21X11X8 By Monty Owens I At check two it was Kak a vas who regained the lead with Madison second and Mike Jaskowiak , riding a fully suspe nded AT C Shop-spo nso red Class 5 (240cc) in third . Meanwhile at the finish lin e everyone was getting worried beacause it was getting da rk a nd not one single Beginner Buggy or three-wheeler had come across th e finish line yet. It was about 5 :49 p.m. when Kakavas crossed the finish line first in the dark with Madison second and Jaskowiak third. All three of them had beaten the firs t place buggy to the finish line. Based on Madison's and Jaskowiak's later starting time;;, Madison got first overall and first 10 Class 6 with a time of 129:43 , Jaskowiak got second overall and first in Class 5 with a time of 130 :50 and Kakavas in Class 6 with a time of 132; 59. Kelly Cheatham, riding a frontsuspended ATC 185s , took first in Class 4 (205cc) and Hatch's Saw &. Cycle -sponsored Craig Kakavas took second in Class 4 rid ing aA TC 185 . Zap McKaye took firs t in Class 3 (175cc) and La rry Miller got firs t in Class 1 riding a Ajo ATC·sponsored Honda 110 . Debbie McConnick took first in Class 7 (Powd er Puff) riding a Yamaha 175 . The next ATV rac e of the 1982 ADRA points season will be on Feb . 21 at th r Sixth Annual Salome Grand Prix in Salome, AZ . Fo r more infonna tion on ADRA ATV races con tact ADRA at 602 /252 ·1900 . Kakavastakes ADRA Gila Bend Grand Prix . By Tom W illiam (2 13J3 92-3 06 6 course. This was Arizona. Desert Racing Association's eighth GIla Bend Grand Prix , and since the race starts in downto~ Gila Bend, thousands of spectaton hned the paved streets to watch the start, Class Six (250cc) three-wheelers raced two times around the course, with all of the other three-wheeler classes racing once around it. The expected overall winner of the threewheeler race was Helm &. Son's Tom Kakavas, as he had won last year's Gila Bend three-wheeler race and had showed up at this race with his strange looking big-tired ATC200 with front and rear suspension. It sits about eight inches higher than his competion, ATC250s. The course, which many of the three-wheelers considered to be very fast, consisted of a little drag racing down the paved streets, then about 12 miles of sand wash which ended at the infamous 200 -foot long culvert going under the freeway . This year it had water in it which made it a little hairy in the middle with no headlight. Then it was 20 miles of dirt roads and back into town to the finish line. In Class Six , Kakavas :took the early lead at the start riding his Nicholson mono-frame 228cc Honda four-stroke. At the end of the first loop with one more loop to go, it was Kakavas first with a two-minute lead over Tucson Three-Wheeler Supply-sponsored Hank Winter, on his trick looking black Honda 250R. Two minutes behind Winter was another Tucson Three-Wheeler Supply rider , Buddy Nelson; also on Honda 250R. Following Nelson were nine more Class Six racers, then t he first of the one loop class racers with Mike Jaskowiak riding his ATC Shopsponsored 185S to. ~ake first i? Class Five (240cc) . Following jaskowiak was . Kelly Cheatham riding his front suspended 185S to take first in Class Four (205cc) and Dean Adams on his 185S getting second in Class Four. John Clines, riding his Hatch's Saw &. Cycle -sponsored Yamaha 175 , had the mishap of having his front axle co,?e out of his forks 100 feet from the finish line and crashing into a car. Clines still managed to repair his three-wheeler and take first in Class Three (175cc) with James Dalyniuk on his Yamaha getting second. Rick Branch on a Yamaha 125cc got first in Class One (llOcc) with Stacey Baker getting second on his 110 Honda. De bbie McConnick riding her Yamaha 175 got first in Class Seven (Powder Puff), Connie Kakavas on her Hatch's Saw &. Cycle front -suspended 185S getting second. Most of the first loop class racers had finished, and everyone was waiting to see who was going to be the first of the big Class Six racers. Sure enough as predicted, it was Kakavas who came in first in class and first overall with a four-minute lead over Winter, with teammate Nelson getting thrid. Besides the usual 1982 points and trophies the racers got, there were a lot of contingencies awarded from most of the sponson. The Gila Bend Grand Prix was ADRA's second desert threewheeler race of the 1982 points season with the fourth race of the season being the Sells Grand Prix in Sells , AZ on April 4. For more infonnation on Arizona's best desert racing, contact ADRA at 6021252 -1900. a Archer Stops the Bear at Southways GILA BEND, AZ,JAN .24 By Mauree n Daspit Daniels Forty-six three-wheelers and 570 motorcycles showed up for PICAYUNE, MS,JAN .23 Ron "T he California Kid"

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