Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

~ ~ 0 a good ride, but by th e end of the da y th ose wh oops were killing me and wh en they th rew o u t that last check I sa id, ' than k yo u .'" Michigan rid ers ca p tured th e High Point A a nd H igh Point B troph ies. A n in e-point rid e by Brian Mull on a Husk y 250 netted him th e A honors, whil e Scot Luca to ok h is Husky 400 to a 15-point day for top B honors. An y di scu ssion abo u t Mich igan riders has to include th e Scharphorns a nd th eir Lake Cycl e Huskys. Reigning Mi ch igan Enduro Seri es champ Rich a rd Scharphorn placed 11th overa ll an d the elder s, Carl, Neil Sr. and Ralph , won trophies in th e Senior A an d Super Senior classes. Neil Sch arphornJr. won the 250cc B class. Bill Gusse, with o ne o f hi s Bike Barn Can-Am 250 ASE s, dropped 14 points for top honors in th e Senior A class, " I co u ld have sha ved a co u p le of m ore p oints off th e score," said Gusse, " but I let m y co ncen tra tio n lapse an d hit a chec k a minute hot, Then I go t mad a t my self a nd it took a little wh ile to ge t m y rhythm back ." Tom Bu ckl es won the Fo ur -Stro ke A cla ss by dropping only II points with hi s Husky, Bu ckles wa s grimacing from a badl y bruised righ t thi gh h e inj ured w he n he hit a pine tree , su p p ressed some of th e p ain by thinki ng of Kurt Hough , one o f th e ri de rs hi s Hoosier Husq varna sh o p sponsors. H ough has ridden tw o en d u ros : th e So u th Ca rolina National, wh ere h e won High Point B, a nd th e Cherry P it Cl assic where h e won th e Open A class. H ough h ad this to say a bo u t his rides. " In South Ca ro li na I rode on th e same minute as T om (Buc kles), so I didn 't hav e to do a ny timekeep ing, but today I didn 't ride with a nyone . I had to do m y own time. keeping." Mark Avery, cl u b o ffi cial a n d o rga n izer of th e even t, ca lled a meeting o f th e AA riders after the run for th eir cri ti q ueof th e run . Avery said, " My goa l is to put on th e number one N at ional. When they say National, I want th em to th ink of th e Cherry Pit Cl assic." H eading into th e Indiana round, Cunningham is still th e ser ies point leader o ver Bertram , 103 points to 79, with H ines third with 65. Fredette holds fourth with 55 points, over • Martin a t 54. a:: 0 U -c w ...J a:: w ~ >III IJl 0 0 I- l!":l :I: a. 00 O"l ....... N N ;;>. C"i ~ Terry Cunningham was 26 seconds off at the tiebreaker, Jeff Fredette rode his Kawasaki KDX200 to the overall win to move to within striking distance of points leader Terry Cunningham , AMA National Championship Enduro Series: Round 4 Fredette squeaks to Cherry Pit Classic win By Merle Acord T R AVERSE CI TY, MI; MAY 5 "The Lonesome Kawboy," Kawasaki Team Green's Jeff Fredette wasn't so lonesome as he shared a score of four with Team Husqvarna riders Terry Cunningham and Kevin j~ st che ck th e ,AAs in a nd ou t o f sec- Hines a t th e finish ofthe Cherry , ,. PH Cl aSSIC National. Fr edette got the win on tiebreaker check ti b 26 d dId irn e y secon S an p ace 28· himself, with eight rounds of th e 12ro u nd series left , in hailing di stance of point leader Cunn in gham and th e Na tional En duro title. " I push ed real h ard to day," sa id Ka wasaki KDX200 -mounted Fredett e, " bu t I co ns ider th is a warm-up for th e Burr O ak Na tional in Indiana. It was a good run - th e checks were righ t whe re th ey were su p posed to be. T hey' d check yo u in , th en chec k you o u t and yo u' d go flat o u t fro m po int to p oint, I ca n h ardl y wai t for Roselawn next week," Cu nningham wasn 't as pl eased with the check pl acement as Fred ette. " It was a ni ce tra il ride, bu t wh en th ere aren -r-arrv-rech nieal -seerions-and y6t1 - - n on s th ere wi ll a lwa ys be a lo t of ident ical scores. T he re were pl aces, in some sec tion s, th.at t~ e club co ul d have tak en a way pomts If th ey would have had checks." The T wi n Ba y Trail Rider s co urse clerk, Al j ames, incorpora ted five resets totaling 3 1 m iles a nd n ine time ch ecks in th e lIB-m ile ro u te th ro ug h Nat ional a nd Sta te for sts. " We used mostly esta blis hed trail s with eno u gh . virgin stu ff to make it interesting, " sa id j ames, " T he en vironmentalists won't let us cross a ny cree ks w ithou t bu ildin g bridges, or cross a ny area wh ere tire ruts will ca use erosio n , which means we didn 't have a ny steep cree k banks or mud hol es, an d we had to be very carefu l with th e hills," Kevin H in es, who ro de h is Husk y 400WR th rough th e tiebr eak er checks 29 seco nds behind Cunningham for - -his thtrtl~eraH,-had-this to-sey -wh en - as ked wh at differen ce tossin g o u t th e 10th ch eck wou ld make. " It will probably m ak e quite a bit o f difference with so me o f th e other classes, but I don 't th ink it would have affected th e AAs too much . I was on ly a minu te lat e, so most of th e AAs would ha ve been o n tim e. " T he check clock was fou nd to be o ff a t th e en d o f th e fin al woods secti on. Hu sky's Dave Bertram pil oted a 500AE to fourth ove ra ll to remai n hi gh in th e scra m ble for th e serie s title a nd was th e o n ly o ne o f th e 13 AAs who was heard to say , "I would have liked it be tter if it h ad been a littl e tighter. " Bertram lost six points. Ca n- Am's john Martin , who a lso dropped si x p oints but lost out to Bertram at th e tiebreak er for his fifth ove ra ll, sai d, " I ca n' t think o f a ny co u rse th at will m at ch th e a m o u n t of fu n we had up here toda y. The trails were exce llent and well la id o u t. I had so me p roblems ge tt ing aro u n d slower ride rs , but th at wa s minor. It was to o bad th ey had th e problem with th e clock a t th e last ch eck ; I think we need ed th at last 20-mile secti o n ." Gary johnston, th e eig h th overall fini sh er a nd o ne of five AA Husky riders who dropped eig h t points, in cl ud in g Randy Hawkins, j eff Russell a nd M ike Toole, agreed with Martin on th e importance of th e la st sec tio n. "We had almost 100 miles o f gassing it ," sa id johnston, " a nd then th ey tossed in that last gnarly , tight a nd long section. It would have separat ed the men from th e boys . It would ha ve separated all those four-point scores," Hawkins got th e nod to ea rn seventh o vera ll. johnston continued his argu men t with Barry Bell , th e secon d place fin ish er in th e Open A class with 17 points, on th e merits of ca rrying extra timek eeping eq u ip me nt. " My co m p u ter quit and th en my clock wa s off," said johnston, "and that co st me two points. " " Why don 't you ch eck yo ur watch?" a sked Bell. "I don't wear a wat ch, " sa id johnsto n. "I don' t thi n k I should have to ca rry three time machines," Alan Randt and Dwight Rudder eac h dropped 10 points with Randt getting the nod a t th e tiebreaker for II th in the AA ranks. Dwight had problems when h e banged into a tree and lost th e radiator off hi s KTM 250 ea rly in th e run . H e was a ble to byp ass th e radiat or a nd co m p lete th e run without losing too much time. Both riders were well within th e to p 20 overa ll. > --- bm"Sing€re~s-R.lI'f f i t' '-' I-hlld ' Results OVERALL : Jeff Fredene (Kaw). HIGH POINT A: Brian Mull (Hus) . HIGH POINT B: Scan Luca (Hus) . AA: 1. Terry Cunningham (Hus); 2 . Kevin Hines (Hus) ; 3 . David Bartram (Hus); 4. John Martin (C-A); 5 . Fritz Kadlec (Hus); 6 . Randy Hawkins (Hus); 7. Gary Johnston (Hus) ; 8 . Jeff Russell (Hus); 9. Mike Toole (Hus); 10. Richard Scharphorn (Hus); 11. Atan Randt (Hus); 12 . Dwight Rudder (KTM). 125cc A; 1. J . Pari<(KTM); 2 . Don Slauffer (KTM); 3 . H.F. Lohman (Hus): 4. Larry Dobson (Hus). 20Dec A: 1. Eldon Keen (Hus) ; 2. Gene O'Nail (Vam); 3 . Jim Gibson (Kaw); 4 . Jeff Hunt (Vam); 5. J. Engel (Hus). . 250cc A:. 1. Brian Lohman (Hus); 2. Steve Hess (C-A) ; 3. John Frazil (Vam); 4 . Jim Boy ne (Hus); 5. John Hoffman (Hus) : OPEN A : 1. Kurt Hough (Hus); 2. Barry Bell (KTM): 3. Bob Baan (Hus); 4. Kevin Piasecki (KTM ); 5. Laslie Wo~e (Hus). 4 -STROKE A : 1. Tom Buck les (Hus); 2. Randy Mastin (Hus) ; 3. Tom Krivj (Han) ; 4 . Steve Ellis (Han) ; 5 . Harold Hacken (Han). SR A : t. Bill Gusse (C-A); 2 . Steve Smigiel (Hus); 3 . Corl Scharphorn (Hus); 4. Tom Boyd (Han); 5. Neil Scharphorn. (Hus) . 12Scc B: 1. John Haas (Han); 2 . Warren Hills (Hus); 3 . David Mercer (C·A). 200cc B: 1. Steve MacLaan (Kaw~ 2 . Ronald Boals (Yam ); 3. Brian Johnson (e -A); 4 . Charles Malhis (Yam); 5. Tom Densmore (C-A) . 25Dcc B: 1. Neil Scharphorn Jr. (Hus) ; 2 . Kevin 'Vollmar (Hus); 3 . Scan Laverton (C·A); 4. Mark Craycraft (Hus); 5. Craig Williams (Hus). OPEN B: 1. Kevin Allen (KTM); 2. Dena Skolas (Hon) ; 3. Dennis Chester (Hus); 4. John Mitchell (Hus); 5 . Brad Myers (Hus) . 4 ·STROKE B: 1. Pat Danie' (Han); 2. Jim Krist (Han); 3. Jon Dixon (Han). . SR B: 1. M ike Olmstead (Suz); 2. J . McVicar; 3. Eldon Kuney (KTM); 4 . Fred M ills (Hus) ; 5. John Sch une (Kaw) . . SUPER SR: 1. Richard Lanover (Kaw); 2. Ralph Scharphorn (Hus) ; 3 . Parker Field (HuI); 4 . Phillip Palerson (KTM); 5. Harold Denny (Vam). WOMEN: Gale Vandewater (Hus) . 200cc C: 1. John 0 0nV8" (Kaw); 2. Alan Boltren (Vam); 3 . Jeff Begeman (Vam); 4. Jim Cain (Han); 5. Jeffery McDowell (Kaw). OPEN C: 1. Chr is Chihenden (Hon ; 2. Larry Brown (KTM) ; 3 . Ron Rogers (Hus) ; 4 . Corllrwing (Vam); 5 . I OontGet8'S fHuI )J ~ I I ii " I

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