Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

CN 00 0') ..... Dwaine Wa lters took the overall win by 36 points. Exhibition rider Bernie Schreiber had low Saturday score. AT A Observed Trials/California State Championship Series: Round two ble step on his second effort, but couldn't handle the turn. After riding exhibition on Saturday, Bernie jelled out Saturday night for Europe. Coming up are the Scottis h Six Days Trials and the next four world rounds. He'll be back (along with SCOll Head from Ita ly) for th e Ca nadian world round on J un e 20 and the American round on J une 27 at the Don ner Ski Ra nch , west of Ren o. (For m or e info about this tria l, con tact Tom Cullen at 4 15/342-6870.) T he Expert bailie, wi th Schreiber riding ex hibition, figured to be a Dwaine Wa lters' show. Mall Pritchard, number two in the ATA last year 10 Walters, was spectating, hung up in a time warp between selling his o ld bi ke and receiving his new bike. Dwaine started poorly. The first loop scores showed: Schreiber 14, Michael Lauxen 37, Oli Thordarson 46, Walters 48. Bernie had six of the 19 cleans while Lauxen had five. No other rider had more than two . Walters rebounded smartly on loo p two, ta llying just three points more than Schreiber. Bernie upped his clean count to II of 16 rides, but his score climbed to 20 while Walters turned in a 23 with seven cleans. At day's end, the points read: Walters 71, Lauxen 79, Thordarson 89, Kipp Webb 95. Schreiber headed to the airport with a total of 34 points, Walters dropped just 36 points on Sunday 10 win both ATA and State honors with a score of 107. Michael Lauxen finished second with 143, followed by Kipp Webb with 166. Rob Walters, Dwaine's brother, won the AT A Amateu r class with a 160 while Ted Fela nd topped the Slate Amateurs with a score of 156. Ken Mara cek of P .I.T .S. won both Senior A classes. The ATA runner.u p was Tom Hascher. John Husma nn took second in the State class. Bob Watson had the best Senior N score, 140. Gary Stewart topped the Slate entrants, Novice John Robertson scooted home 25 point in front of SCOll Annand who topped th e State entry, V.O.T.E. Two-Day has famil'iar refrain: Dwaine again By Len Weed SAN FRANCISQUITO CANYON , CA, AP R. 24-25 Wearing of the green. Top 0' the morning and all that. St. Patrick 's Day. Wasn 't that Mar. 17? And doesn 't the Valley Observed Trials Enthusiasts group always hold their big two-day the weekend before or after St. Pa tty's day? Always. until this year. Generally recognized as the premier event on the first half of the American Trials Association calendar, this year's version has moved forward a month after the clu b's request to hold the trial in the Gormanl Alamo area was turned down by the Forest Service. V.O .T.E. decided 10 return to San Francisquito Canyon, site of the 1980 AMAIN ATC national. SFC has been used since problems with shooters forced the clu b ou t of Texas Canyon. 20 The two-day also served as round two ofthe P.I.T.S.lATA California Slate Championship Series. The British-American Cup kicked off the series up north, The third round on the schedule is a P.I.T.S. event near San Louis Obispo. The year-end EI Trial de Espanan is also now a pari of the California Series. V.O.T.E.'s competition co-chairmen. Andre -Pl ouffeand Steve Hoiland headed the section selection, with plenty of help from Bob Morris and Jay Ebinger. Section three, manned by Holland, merited the Laid BacklFar Out-Award for Arresting Ambiance. Steve and his young section assistant. Lenny, decided to tape record the entire entry as it rode through their section. T hen they p layed back the tape during the second loop, u n ex p u rg at ed and everything. T he killer section on Saturday proved to be number five. No body three'd it. Or two'd or one'd or cleaned it. Even Bernie Schreiber rook two fives. The riders had to climb out of a water-filled hole to leap a rock step, then another step, and hang an immediate right to the gate in less th an a bike length. Bernie cleared the dou- Joe Lorenzen forged out a 14 point margin over J oe Fasola for the Beginners. The trophy presentation ran like clockwork. At lea st it was well oiled. Fin ish ers received chain lu be and oil produc ts do nat ed by Du ral ube and Kal-Gard. In addition, SPOrl T racks dona ted tires that went 10 the first and last place Novice, the winning Begi nner and, in a checker drawing, 10 Bru ce Ber mba u m of Bay Area Bul taco. Everyo ne headed for a Shakey's P izza in Valencia a fter the trial. MCs Andie P lou ffe and Steve H oll and , obvio us ly past their limit in root beers, kept thi ngs moving during the awards portion of the pizza chowdown. The best unofficial "trophy" of the weekend was p resented to Bill Da vey of NorCal's Team Elderly by Bob Miller of Section One Products. Dave received an eight-inch vise-grip attached to a cord 10 be worn around the neck. Bill's loss of his loop card on Saturday motivated Bob to come up with a more substantial method for h angin g onto Sunday's card. • Results ATA EXPERT: 1. Dwaine Walter. 107 (Iti); 2. Mike Lau.en 143; 3 . KippWebb 166 (Bul); 4 . OIiThordar· son 170 (Mon~ 5. Oerreck Bernard 17 6 (SWM). A M ATEUR: 1. Rob Walter. 160 (llj); 2. Sonny Baski n 172; 3. Reiiji Nakayama 190 (Han); 4 . Erik Soderqui st 194 (Yam); 5. Wayne Scott 199 (Itj). SENIOR A : 1. Ken Ma racak 16B; 2. Tom Hascher 176 ; 3. John Hu.mann 1B7 (Mon); 4. J ohn Hem in w ay 1B9 (Bul); 5. A n Webster 215 (SWM). SENIOR N: 1. Bob Watson 140 (ltj); 2. Gary Ste· w an 17 9 (Bul) ; 3 . Dean Hambrick 1B6 (Man); 4. Ronald Sleven. 193 (M an); 5. Bill Markham 225 .4. NOVICE: 1. John Raben son 1DB; 2. Scott An nand 133 (l1j); 3. Jo n M ill er 15B (Bul); 4. Raben Nonon 160 (M an); 5. Reece Fa.ler 1B2.9 (Man). BEGINNER: 1. J oe Lorenzen 6B (Bu l); 2. Joe Fa. · ala B2 (Bull; 3 . Scali Rigg. 88 (Bul); 4. Kein Smit h 96 (Bul); 5. Steph en Hagi. t 123 . STATE EXPERT: 1. Dw aine Wa lters 10711tj); 2. Kip Webb 196 (Bul); 3 . Derr eck Bern ard 176 (SW M ); 4 . Bim M iller 200 (Bul); 5. Kevin Cull en 217 (Bull. AMATEUR: 1. Ted Fela nd 156 (Bul); 2. Rob Wal· ters 160 (ltj); 3 . Ted Cull en 193 .9 (Schwin n); 4. Er ick Soderq uist 194 (Yam); 5 . Kun Hath aw ay 21 2 (M an). SENIOR A : 1. Ken M aracek 16B; 2. John Husmann lB7 (M a n); 3 . Bill Davey 193 .B (Bul); 4. Boyd Bern ard 22 5 (M an); 5. Tom Cullan 270 (Bul). SENIOR N: 1. Gary Sl ewa n 179 (Bul); 2. Dean Hamb

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