Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

~ cu ~ e cu ;> o Z Riding a Husqvama 430Cc Auto, Dave Sert...m dropped a total of 12, point. at the Red Mountain Lest Chance Enduro for the ove...11 win. Rob Mesecher placed second ove...11 on hi. 250Cc KTM finishing th.... points behind winner Bertl'llm. Mesecher took the 250Cc cia.. win. In only hi. second enduro ride, in the de_rt, Husqvama'. Jeff Ru...11 claimed third 250 with a fifth overell. He had an 18-point aco.... AMA National Championship Enduro Series: Round 11 Bertram smokes to Red Mountain win By Kit hlmer RED MOUNTAIN, CA, NOV. 2 Team Husqvarna's Dave Bertram, riding a 430cc Auto, landed the overall victory at Southern California Enduro Association's Last Chance National Enduro, today, defeating local 'district riders KTMmounted Rob Mesecher and . 1 k Honda nder, Grant Pa ens e (MetzeIer/O Neal) by three 16 points. After completing three I~p-s totaling over 100 milesjn ibe'aiigtt desen, Beruam droppett'll'-tolal of 12 points, opposed to both Mesecher and Palenske who dr?pped 15 poi~ts each. But after addmg up the uebreaker seconds, Mesecher wound up edging out Palenske for second place. In AA class tOOlls, Bertram finished on top over Husky four·stroke rider Jeff Irwin (second Open), Jeff Russell (first 250), Randy Hawkins (second 250) and Jeff Fredette (first 200) on his Kawasaki KDX200. Terry Cunningham, who clinched the championship title two weeks ago on a Husky Auto in Delaware, rode the Last Chance Enduro on a 125cc Cag· iva but dropped out after crashing early in the third loop. "I decided to ride the Cagiva 125 today j USltO havt fun. I've got one back home that I've had since about June and I just love it. It's pretty much all I ride back horne, except for the Nationals when I ride my Automatic." Still recouperating from injuries sustained in Delaware, KTM's Kevin Hines, who bidding for second overall in the series. was a no-show at Red Mountain. -Rick Daniel rode his big-bore Husqvarna to the Open A class win with a seventh overall after losing 18 points. His closest class riva) was Chip Howell, who finished 12th overall on his_ 400cc Husky. In o-2OOc~ A class competition, Garner Palenske rode his KDX200 Kawasaki to the win ahead of Donnie Simone, Robert Bush and Michael Smith. ISDE silver medalist Pete Postel dropped out after crashing and breaking his Honda CRl25 early in the event. Compared to the wet, rainy and muddy Delaware National Enduro two weeks ago, the Red Mountain run was quite the opposite. Temper· atures climbed to the upper 80s, and the course conditions were dry and dusty. The first !J5-mile loop was considered easy by most of the riders but a few AA riders managed to bum a couple of checks, including Cunningham and Irwin. Irwin staned the day off on the wrong foot by burning the very first check and dropping two points. "I just wasn't thinking," said Irwin. "I burned the check by two seconds, because-my mileage was off by a 10th." Cunningham waited until the third check to arrive too hot, while Hallman-sponsored Howell did Irwin and Cunningham one better by burning both the first and second checks and dropping four points. "If I would've been in the hunt for the overall, I might've protested the check," said Cunningham, "because I came into the check and I was actually late. I had problems when I got stuck on a hill and was running almost a minute late. Then I got to the top of the hill, went down the other side, then went up a real fast uphill; got to the top of that and checked my time, and I was still about 48 seconds late. Then I dropped into a real steep ravine; wheeled into . the check, and they had me two minutes early. I said, 'that's not right,' and the lady at the check goes '00' and flipped the card right in the middle of the minute. They were all kind of goofed up, and I said, 'il'S still not right.' So they just kind of looked up in the sky ... ~it really dido 't matter because IH3wln't have to win anyway." lool )I

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