Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

~ ~ a: w U Z w n. Vl ..J ..J iii >co Vl 0 0 ..... ~ :I: a, 00 ~ ........ ~ so ..c: U lo-< C'j ~ Team Husky rider Dave Bertram (23A) dropped 23 po ints. fin ishing third overall at Coalinga. (Below ) Geoff Ballard (22A) was sixth overall. Former National Enduro Champ Mike Melton began the season on the right foot. winning the Quicksilver over teammate Kevin Hines. Melton lost 21 points wh ile Kevin Hines took second, and top northern California rider Dave Bertram (O'Nea l/Cycle AMA National Enduro Championship Series: Round 1 Melton leadS Husky sweepaf Quicksilver By Scott Taggart and Julie Duffek COALINGA, CA, FEB. 17 Gea r/Team H usky) fin ished thi rd. H ines and Bertra m lost 23 po ints each. wi th Hines besting Bertram at th e tiebrea kers. 1984 Ch amp T erry Cunn in gh a m followed in fourth, losing 24 po ints. Larry Roeseler, filled o ut the top five Team Husky scores with a 26-poin t fifth place, to edge o ut factor y Ca n -Am rider Geoff Ballard, wh o also turned in a 26 po in t score. T he Salin as Ramblers hosted the event , a nd served-u p a well-mark ed ' course that took po ints fro m th e top five riders a t seven of th e II chec ks in . th e race. At first gas , 44 m iles a nd five checks into the race, Melt on a nd Bertra m were in th e lead with tied scores. while Hines a nd Cu nningh am trail ed by a po int. a lso tied. At the nex t th ree checks, th e top five fini sh ers dropped an eq ual five po ints 10 leave th em all still just o ne po int a pa rt. The .rea l break in sco res came in the last special test between checks 10 and II. This section was 15 mi les lo ng. wi th a hill that had more tha n one AA rid er push in g h is bike to the top. Melton sh ined in this section dro ppi ng o n ly six points , while bot h H ines a nd Bertram dropped seven points. Cunni ng ham a nd Roeseler each added eig ht . J eff Irwin (Inter-Li ne/Sun R iver Cycle Husky), District 36's top rider in 1985, added 10 the H usky top 20 do m ina tio n with a 3l -point sevent h overa ll. j ust beati ng ou t Dan Neil son, who also turn ed in a 3l- po int sco re. Ne ilso n too k overa ll A hon ors by 13 po ints over second overa ll A rider Chi p H owell. Fri tz Kadl ec (H us) took th e ninth overa ll position with 3 1 poi nts a nd Ca n-Am pi lot John Marti n turned in a 34-point score to 1983 N ational Enduro Ch ampion Mike MelfiIL6~{~id~is }~~ed best on O penton topped fo u r fell ow Team H u sky riders clas s bikes with Neilson lea vin g little . • • '. ' to dispu te with a n overa ll A score of by a tw o-p o mt margm In the Q u icksilver 32 po ints . foll ow ed not so closely by 16 E d h f N ' I d f h H owell a nd Scott Taggart, al so both 1 1) . ~r.ql .~ ..~ .. ~ .•. ~.~1.9!}~ . ~¥.. .. .!!.9.9.. ~ .. ~. Y.~?r.·..... ?~. ~~~ .b} ~~~,. ~n••t~~ .s.e~~~. ~nd . lf~ 1 I • • • th ir d overall A slo ts. Howell and T aggart dropped 44 po ints each, with H ow ell doi ng beiter at the green a nd wh ite flags. Bob T erwilliger topped th e 250cc A class with 43 points to beat second 250cc A rid er Duke La mbert a nd Mik e Wickerson. District 37 rider Garn er Pal en ske led the 200cc A rid ers with 56-poi n t first place fin ish, foll owed 10 points back in second by Don Hoagland; J eff Church was thi rd in class. J oh n Ha ak er claimed th e Four-Stroke A class wi n over Peter Postel in second a nd Al Ba ker third. In a Sportsm an class performa nce, Senior A rid er Ra ndy Carles dropped onl y 57 po ints to grab th e nu m ber o ne tro phy from second Senior A Morris No rm an a nd thi rd pl acer Frank Sh owers. J essie Goldberg won" th e Super Seni or A class by bein g th e only rid er to finis h in hi s class . Bill Fullmer stopped at chec k n in e for a second p lace and Ron Mor gen th al er's DN F came at chec k two - he was th ird Super Senior A. Lo well Sp iva on a four-s tro ke H on da was th e best B arrow-fi nder, losi ng only 54 po ints. Low ell will receive no t on ly the overall B trophy, bu t a n a utomatic transfer to the A class for h is win a t a National. Foll ow in g Low ell by o nly one point was Robb Du ff in the seco nd overa ll B. firs t 250cc. J erry Schockmel fin ished second 250cc B down 65 points. Leonard H ovch in filled th ird in the class . Matt Rohr wo n the Open B class with Kurt Pfeiffer followi ng for seco nd and Ga ry Fargo pl aced th ird. J ack Goeh ring ended up o n top of the 200cc Bs, with Dave J on es a nd J ohn Wh ite turn ing in second- a nd th ird -pl ace rid es. respectively. J o hn Fero p laced second Four-Strok e B. followed in thi rd by Tom Deem. KTM pi lo t Stephen Thom pson was th e best Senior B rider of th e day. beat in g Denn is Scam mell in second a nd Wylie Wilson in th ird. Only two Super Sen ior B riders competed today with Ron G oeh ring easly beating Ron Sterbenk. On a flat rear tire. Barbara Mihovich was th e only Women B rid er to turn in her scorecard. .\" J" I t- I 2 I I •• £' ;1 " i ij ... It

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