Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

C'J 00 Ci) Ken Maahs (left) went fast in the motocro.. end won 260cc A end overell. Ron Knerr (right) styled in the woods for top Intent end 126cc rider. AMA One-Day Qualifier Series: Final round .M aahs masters Trask Mtn. By Mark Kariya McMINNVIL LE, OR, J UNE 6 Husky-mounted 250cc A rider Ken Maahs .performed superbly when it .co u n ted - . in the final motocross/grass track made terribly slick in spots by the rain - to score but 2183 points (seconds) for the overall win at the Trask Mountain Trial R ~ K a ebounded from . 0 . n . IT r a di sappointing Dl'!F n~ar the end of th~ da y at last week.s Timber Mountam One-Day to claim the top overall Intent a nd I 25cc spot. Knarr scored 21S5 points (seconds) on his basically stock 'S2 Kawasaki KX125. water-pumper and reported no major problems throughout the day, ch aracter ized by off-and-on showe~ and beautiful trail on th e ISO p lus-mile course. Steve McCall ended up two points (seconds) behind Knarr for th e win in th e 175ccIntent class on his Yamaha ITl75J , to wh ich Knarr exclaimed, "All right, little bikes kick •••.1.. Kevin Hines bested the 250cc Intent clas s on his Husky for the second week in a row . Hines tallied 2216 points (seco nds). 16 In the 500cc Intent, 490 Maico rider Joe Coppedge took top honors with • 2311 points (seconds). And, for the second week in a ro w, Carl Cranke was the sole SOcc Intent en trant on Fred Cameron's 75cc Fantic, zeroing th e ,co urse .a nd zipping throu~h the da y s tests in 2261 seconds (points). Starting at six in th e morning from Mulkey ORV Park, Cranke led th e 174ent ra nt s for a check out/warm up lap aro und the motocross/grass track wh ich would be the day's final test. A few short miles la ter, rid ers arr ived at the acceleration test, an approximateIy 200 meter drag race against the clock with th e ela sed tim e multi- plied by five tor the rider 's score) on pavement. Brad Turnidge, a 500cc A rider a boa rd a .495 KTM , recorded th e best accelerauon score and was th e only rider to break 50 with hi s 49. Cop' pedgewasclose behind with a 50, and fellow 500cc Intent rider Anthony 'Pasq ualo tto stopped th e clock at 51 on his 490 Maico. Hines hauled to the quickest 250cc Intent score of 54, a point better than fellow Husky pilot Ted Bernert. Chris Korff had the best I 75cc Intent score with 58 on his Yamaha. Yamaha. mounted Morrill Griffith and Wil. liam Perk!n~ and Suzuki rider Joe Korzenecki u~ for next best 175cc Intent score with 60. Knarr also hada 60 for l25cc Intent honors. Cranke turned a 70. . From there, th~ cours e.headed up mto the moun tams outside of t.own and made a }arge l.oop tha t riders ~ould negouat~ twice before head109 back to the fmal motocross/grass track . On the loop, thus attcked twice, was a poim-to-point terrain test, 1.5 miles of " a little of everything-tight trail, fire roads, mud bogs," accord. ing to overall Timber Mountain win. ner Chip Howell, including a challenging hill. _ Hines recorded the fastest time of th e day on the first loop when he scaled the trail in 375 seconds (poin ts). Knarr also had a good run with his 379. Rain broke for the second loop, mak ing the test times co nsidera bly slower the second time around. Curiously, it didn't seem to affect KTM · mounted Mi chael H eff tn er who eq ualled his first loop score of 422, II seconds (po ints) faster than the next fastest rider, Hines. Though the trail and schedule was extremely difficult, a number of riders DNF. Matt Cullins and Zack Elkins, 1-2 in 175cc Intent last week , both went out with engi ne failures. 500cc Intent r ide r Ra y Cosgrove dropped out on th e second loop due to sickness, possibly too much nerveind uced acid in his stomach. " It's happened befor e; I kept getting sick at checks," he said. " Finall y, I just ran out of energy ." After getting back to Mulkey, riders faced IO·man, five-lap motocrosses which used th e two and a half minute MX course plu s a grass track. The resulting races took 20 or more minutes for the fastest. However, Mother Nature, as mu ch as rider ability, played a factor in the MX. , Knarr took advantage of a couple laps run in th e dry before rain turned the hard surfaced track as slick as an unseen moss covered rock in a stream to win the first moto in 1293, fastest time for any Intent rider. Astonishingly enough, Cranke worked his way up through the pack to second, onl y to be pipped at the flag by McCall. Husky riders and classmates Ray Mungenast and Hines, who was hampered by disintegrated steering head bearings, battled back and forth , fell down and got up several times with Mungenast finally winning the second moto in 1344. Alvin McCannon, an early front-runner slowed by a first-lap crash, finished third on his Maico. Maahs put on fresh rubber, hunkered down and smoked the th ird moto, despite the slippery track, in 1265. Howell, whose engine died a coupIe times without explanation coming in and whose kick start gear apparently broke a tooth, rode cautiously to win the fourth moto in 1430 on his Yamaha IT465H. Lyle Perkins passed Robert Windham on the final lap lor second with early leader Bob Rutten , whose bike lost fourth gear early in 'the day, using only third gear to finish fourth. • Results 80 INTENT GOLD: I . Cart er.... IF.nl 2261 . 125 INTENT GOLD: I . Ron KNlrr IKow} 2185; 2. D... Ri.nt IKTMI1422. 175 INTENT GOLD: 1. St... McC.1I (Y.ml 2213; 2. Morrill Griffith (y.mI2244; 3. Will~m "-kins(Y.m) 2287; 4. JoMph Konened

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