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- Kip Webb finished in the runner -up position. Bernie Schreiber negotiates the Litt lerock rocks. The f ormer w orld champ won by 20 points in his namesake trial. An unidenti fi ed rider fi nds himself between a rock and a trials bike. Water and big rocks comprised a number of the sections. Schreiber keeps his cup who mad e it still had to ha ndle two turns and a massive bou lder blockin g th e ex it ga te. Bern ie tri ed so me thi ng differen t o n h is fir st atte mpt. Lin in g up 90 degrees o ff the line used by o the r riders . h e attacked the tria ngu lar rock wa ll head -o n . Desp ite th e bumpy, a bbrevia ted a p p roach , he was a ble to blast h is SWM up th e roc k face. Schreiber reco rded 15 o f th e 3 1 Expe rt clea ns. Support rid ers managed 20 clea ns with th eir m odified sec tio ns . Bill Wachendorfer , Super Sen io r number five in national co m pe titio n this year, won th e fabled Va sco da G ama Travel ers Aw ard for flyin g in from M issou ri to co m pe te. Bill , wh o hosted a celebra tio n for Bern ie a fte r he clinched th e nat ional titl e last fall , was Sc h rei ber's g uest o n th e coast. Ari zon a visitors included fo rmer S W ~ I im porte r Ron Sa u m, hi s so n And y, deal er J oe Crook . Bob Pen n ington. and J erry Bridges. Six o f th e I I Expert starte rs moto red down from I' .I.T .S. co unt ry. j ust four starte rs ca rr ied ATA cards; Sch rei ber. Ma rk Oldar, J oh n Ro ber tso n , a nd Kevin Norton, th e yea r's n u m ber o ne Am a teur. Kip Webb (Mo n) , ni nt h in th e na tion this year, cha lle nged Sc h reiber o n th e first loo p . Hi s 23 wa s just fiv e o ff th e pace. Bu t Berni e lo wered hi s seco nd lap sco re to 14 w hi le Kip went up to 2·1. Sch rei ber's th ird loop bal looned to 2 1 whi le Webb d ropped 26. Webb s strong seco nd p lace showing added .to h is s tri n~ o f imllressive in V.O.T.E. toughie By len Weed LITTLE ROCK, CA , DEC. 10 Bernie Schrei ber jetted home fro m Italy just in time to retain p o ssession of the to p troph y for the Valley Observed Tria ls En thusiasts' Schreiber Cu p Trial. Motorcycle shows an d arena tria ls had kept the th reerime American cham pion bu sy overseas since the co ncl us io n o f th e Wo rl d Trials Series in Septem ber. T he Sch reiber Cu p . th e final Am erican T rials Associ ation (Experts o n ly) poi nts event of th e yea r, drew 2 1sta rters. an a tte n da nce drop o f eig h t from t h e p revio u s ye a r. T h rea i e n in g weather ma y have hu rt . Big ro ck s, water, and g narly h illclimhs defin itely keep th e tu rn o ut lo w. T hose who did show ta ckled a l 2-seet ion loo p th ree tim es. Cl er k o f the Co urse Reyn ol d Hi ck - o n th e slo pes falling a wa y from th e parking a rea. Secti on four wa s j ust a sp las h a way, across a strea m . Secti ons five a nd six were posit ions just o ff th e fire road leading up th e mo u nt ai n . T h en a five-mi nu te ride brought riders a n d viewers to th e fin al six sectio n s. g rou ped with in 400 yards o f eac h o the r. Hi ck lin ho ped to pr ov ide demanding sectio ns whi le low erin g th e scores co m pa red to pa st Schreiber Cups. H e h it h is mark. Schreiber d ropped 53 'mar ks, o ne o f th e lo west scor es ever fo r th e event. Sect io n two p rov ed th e most trou blesome, even fo r Sch rei ber who fived lin geared course layout il twice after threeing it on his first to fully ac- co m moda te the numero u s spectators lu red by th e event's reputatio n fo r cha lle ngi ng sec tions a s well as o ne of th e rare cha nces eac h yea r to see the nat io nal cha m p io n in acti on. T he first three sectio ns were located 34, . a tte m pt. T he riders en u-red a t th e ba se o f a slope al o ng a la rge roc k face and th en turn ed ri ght to a ttack a 30foot climb o ver loose, rock v soi l. A nasty roc k step near th e base o f the cl imb stop p ed most. And th e lew,' . perf orman ces. j ust two ymrs ear lier he was a Support rid er a t th e Schrei ber Cup. th e class win ner desp ite brea kin g a wrist. He has since become north ern Ca lif ornia's to p rider disp lay ing a style that m ixes modern stop-and-go with carr y-th e-bloodybike-up-th e-h ill physica lit y. Andv Saum (SW M) took third w it h a 95, 22 points beh ind Webb. A 28 o n th e last loop just seven off Schreiber's fin al lap score. ena bled Clive Belvoir (Fan) to claim fourth pl ace. five points be h ind Sa u m an d two a head o f local rider J ohn Ro bertso n (Cag), Reij i Nak a yama (Yam) guided his Bay Area 250 Monotrial er to a five point victo ry o ver Ari zona 's Bob Pen n ington . Bob sq uea ked by sta terna te R o n S aum b y a sing le point. V.O .T.E.'s G a r y Conrad cl aim ed fourth , tr ail ed by Scott Armand (Bay Area H o nda TL200)a nd j a ck Heminwa y. As support winner, Nakayama received th e fir st a n n ua l Gren cius Cup awa rd , donat ed by Bay Area Cycle Cen tre in memory o f 1982 Support wi n ner J oe Gren cius, a V.O.T.E. memher kill ed in a n a u to mo bile accident th is year. • Results EXPERT: 1. Bern ie Schrei ber {SW MI 53 ; 2. Kip Webb (M onI 73; 3 Andy Saum ISWMI95; 4 . Clove Belvoir IFanl l 00; 5. John Roben , on ICag1 102; 6. Neil Belvoir (M anllOS; 7. Dan Dixon (Fanl l 10: 8 . Ma rk Oldar ICag) 113; 9. Mike Read ISW MI119; 10 . Kevin Norton (SW M ) 130; 11. Bim M iller (Fan) 138. SUPPORT: 1. Reiji Nakayama (Yam) B3; 2. Bob Pennington {Fan } 88; 3 . Ron Saum (SW MI 8 9; 4 . Gary Conrad (Man ) 95 ; 5. SCali Annand IHonl 98/ 3 crs: 6. Jack Heminway (SW M) 98 /0 ct's. 7. Jerry Brld ge, (Fan) 112; 8. B,II Bedford(SWMII 17I I 2',; • 9.Joe Crook (Fan) 117 / 0 2' , ); 10 . Bill Wachendorfer (SW M) 118. • - -------- --- ---------