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Da v e Bertram lo st his bid for the National title after colliding with a
rider in the first loop. breaking hi s water pum p housing on his Hu sky.
Larry Roeseler used some of h is home turf advantage to win hi s t h ird
c ar eer N ation al end uro ove ra ll victory in Calif o rn ia .
AMA RK Chain National Championship Enduro
Series: Round 10
Bad Mountain win
to LR, championship
to Hines
By Kit Palm er
Photo s by Kinney Jones
L UC ERN E
vAL LE Y. CA.
NOV. I
Kawasaki rider Larry " L R " Roeseler
captured his third career National Enduro
Championship win by defeating series
points leader, KTM's Kevin Hines, by two
poin ts a t th e Checkpoint Moiorcycle Club's Bad Mountain
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n . ur<;> 111 t ie so u t ern Californ ia hi gh desert.
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But t h e c h a m p a g ne wa s a lso
flo win g in rhe KT ivl pi ts, beca use
Hin es wrapped u p hi s Iirst -eve r
N a t ion al Enduro C ha mp io ns h ip
til l.. wi th hi s seco n d p lace finis h , but
it wa sn ' t co n firme d unti l th e foll owi ng' da y because 01sco ring d iscre pan cies, T h is is the first tim e a nonH usq va rn a rider has cli nched th e
N at ion a l Enduro C h amp io ns hip
title sinc e J ack Mcla ne did it in 19iO
o n a H onda . H in es rides a KTM 3.50
Enduro, spo nsored by Ba rr y HI ~~i n s ' H & H Cycle in Ma ble ton ,
G eor~ ia , Malcolm Sm ith P rod ucts,
Du ralu be, PB' Sprockets, Z Racin g ,
ICO , Dunl op. Sm it h G o~gl es , O ffR oad Produ cts a nd Ara i Helm ets.
T he o n ly r ider wh o had a cha nce
a t t h e titl e go i n g into th e Bad
Mountain End uro, o ther th an Hines,
was Hu sk y's Dave Bert ram, who had
to Iin ish fo urth o vera ll or bett er to
ma inta in hi s shot a t th e cha m p io n shi p. As it turned o ut, Bert ra m lost
h is cha nce lor the title when he
ta ngled wi th a no the r rid er o n the
n.ii l d wi ng Ih(' first 60-m ilt· lo o p .
Im 'aki ng till' wa t('rp u mp h Oll s ill ~ o n
his I-I usky Au to . B,,' tra m SIX'IlI t lu :
I'IS I half o f t lu : )()( IP l idi n~ w ith no
wau-r ill his rud i.u o rs a nd had to hab y
his H usky to lilt" pi ts, wh en' h(' ha d
a :,/)-nii nu l<' I JI'~l k t ime to fix th('
wa u-rpu m p ht'fOle s t art iu j; t lus('co bd Ill-miil' lo o p . The t i nuBr-rt r.un I,,,t w hi le n u rs i n g his
Hu sk y on Ih e Iirst I,XIP CO SI him just
enouuh po in ts to d rop h im to lift h
o vera ll a t Ih., Fi nis h . ('lIdi ng h is
hopes o f dd ..a lin g H ines. des p ite two
ro u nd s I"t' ln ai n i ng i ll t h e se r ies .
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