Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

-J -J W ttl ttl o ttl ~ o Io :I: Q. 125 INT: 1. Kip Smith (Hon); 2. John Newhouse (Hon); 3. Scott Kaskel (Hon). VET INT: 1. Jeff Murray (Hon); 2. Bruce Garman (Vam); 3. Nale Grass (Hon). 80 INT: 1. Jason Rich (Kaw); 2. A.J. Belcher (Hon). WMN: 1. Tony Davidson (Vam); 2. Ann Frisk \ (Kaw); 3. Theresa Guynn (Hon). VET B: 1. Lory Harper (Kaw); 2. Scon Wasson (Kaw ); 3. Stan Rourke (Hon). OPEN B: 1.. Mike Gentry (Hon); 2. Kevin Barth (Hon). 250 B: 1. Trent Howie IYam); 2. Chris Crow ell (Hon); 3. Jay Easterday (Yam). 125 B: 1. SIeve Dcrse v (Hon); 2. Chad Rich (Kaw); 3. Eric Wil son (Hon). • BO B: 1. Mike Douglas (Kaw ); 2. Shad Greer (Vam); 3..Aaron Smith (Hon). 60 B: 1. Bobby Sisk (Kaw ); 2. Danny Sm ith (Kaw); Man Ward (Kaw). . :l: Nolin blazes .Bonzai.RQn HS By Bob Bell 8tie1u- 'sTY EXTEND-A-BED makes it fit. The practical way to lengthen your truck bed. STIELER'ST• . EXTEND-ABED bolts to the tailgate and folds flat when not needed. 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H onda to h is second straig h t overa ll win a t the AMA D-38 HMR DCMC Bonzai Run H a re Scra mb les. "EverHicks,. Jackson yth ingwent rea lly we ll. " My pit crew hammer Boise MX was exce llent, I cou ldn' t have done it wi thou t th em ," exclaime d Nolin By Mike Thuleen af ter the finish . BOI SE,!D, MAR . 13 At the drop of th e green flag , it Sm i th G o g g les/Pro C i rc uit/ was Vet rider Tom Moen lead in g th e Answer/Silkolene/L&L Shirt Shopway a nd he hi tcheck one nearl y two backed J eff Hicks p u t h is 500cc minutes a head o f the next rider. H onda out fron t of bo th combined Mark McP erry had hi s 250 Yamaha ' 250cclOpen Expert motos to take the second down th e pol e line road, overall win at O MC' s Peaceful Cove whi le try ing . to ho ld off a hard MX. Larry " Action " Jackson domchargi ng J eff Martinez on his 125. .inated th e 250cc Experts. Moen contin ued his charge as he H o nda -p il ot H an s Kirschne r headed for scenic chec k two on to p p ulled the hol esho t in moto one but of the Superstitio n Mo un tai ns until was passed by Jackson a nd H icks. h is bike seized up solid a nd a ll he They moved a hea d of the o thers, co uld do was watch. T he first rider wi th H icks movin g on the in side of to pass and ta ke the overall lead was Jackson down th e whooped, sand Martinez. hill. J ackson stayed close to H icks " I followed Mark (McPerry) until until bailing, bu t go t up in time to . he went down ha rd , it was th e worst .collect the 250cc Expert wi n over crash I' ve seen, " sai d Martin ei. H e Kirschner , Mark Ol ber ding, and proceeded to pull out a 45 second H arris. . ma rgin over J ohn Stead while Nolin Kaw asak i-m ounted Steve H enry wor ked th rough traffi c. held down the fro nt in th e seco nd As th e lead ers head ed ou t on lap mot o, but only briefly, as he mantwo, Noli n was u p to second and aged to work himself from first to began chiseling away a t Mart inez's last on the long u phill sweeper. It lead. J ust before check two, power di dn' t end th er e as he launched prevailed. .' h im self over a dou ble and p ulled off. , " I was righ t beh in d J eff (Martinez) An aggressive J ackson too k over the whe n we sta rted up the hill. I pulled lea d a nd p u t a co uple of seco nds o n u p a lo ng side him , gave him a q uick Hicks u ntil washing the. front end look, then roos ted away,". Nolin sa id. at the bottom of the sandhi ll. Hicks No lin immedi at ely o pened up a clicked off the laps, styling o u t in lead th a t grew to o ne minu te by th e fro nt of Kirsch ner, O lberdin g, Mik e end of lap two . While Martinez's 125 . H arr is and Jackson. was no ma tch for Noli n 's 250, it was Olberding powered by Kirsch ner more than enough to hold the rest bu t bo th , including Harris, were o f the field a t bay. T odd Ca ry, aboard cons umed by O' Neal/Smith Goga 500cc Hon da, had worked hi s way g les/ Ka l-Gard /MaierISudco / KSIto thi rd bu t was mor e than one su p ported Jackson's ' cha rge. Hicks min u te back. took a comfortable moto victory in T he rest of the race be lo nged to fron t o f Jackson, Ol berdin g a nd No lin. He cru ised the last two laps Harr is. while styling for ph o tographers in While Steve H enry had a n off da y the m udh ills. H e too k the chec kered in the 250s, he came from beh ind to wi th over a two minute lea d. Marta ke th e Vet Expertwin over Honda tin ez turned in his stro nges t pe rforof Caldwell 's Herb Nachtiga ll. T he Vet Interm edi a te saw Jeff Murray , ma nce ever a nd con tin ued to p ull away and by th e finish had nearly charge th rough to the overall over four minutes on th e next rider. Yamaha rider Bru ce Garman and T hird overa ll went to th e second Lory H arper. pl ace 250 o f T im Fu nk. H e had T eam G reen/ Sm ith Goggles/ EP go tten a very poor start a nd had been Performs/Bell /Circle In d.lCerb isl swa llowed up in th e pa ck's dust. He Duralube-b a cked ISD Eer R eed worked hi s way to 10th a t th e end Bright went 2-1 for th e 250cc Intero f lap one and settled into fourth at mediate win over Roger Neth and the end of lap two where he rem ained Robert Hayball. until th e last lap. Cary had gotten Ea ch l25cc Intermed ia te mota a fla t tire and dro p ped o ff th e pace, featured incredible ba ck-and-forth but maintained his fourth overall battles, but when it came down to position which netted first Open the checkers, Pro Ci rcuitI"J .D ." bike. Rob Pippin took seco nd in th e Hicks /Bois e H onda-support ed Kip O pen class some five minutes back. Smith topped John Newhouse. H e was a lso th e first ama teur to cross Results . , th e-line a t eighth overall. OPEN EX: 1. Jeff Hicks (Hon). While Martinez was long gone 250 EX: 1. Larry Jackson (Kaw); 2 . Mark Olberding (Kaw); 3. Mike Harris (Kaw). . wit h the l25 cc win the battle raged VET EX: 1. Steve Henry (Kaw); 2. Herb Nachtigall for second. Wes Enz ran second the (Hon). OPEN INT: 1. Rich Mecier (Hon); 2. Ricky Henson first lap at sixth overall with Scott (Vamt 3. Jay Roberts (Hon). Sease buried back in third at 14th 250 INT: 1. Reed Bright (Kaw); 2. Roger Nelh (Yamt 3. Robert Haybell (Kawl . overall. The second lap found Sease ., up to seventh overall and one minute behind Em. The close fight never materialized, though, as Sease siezed while within striking distance. Em motored in for seco nd in class at seven th overall. Sease was abl e to nurse his bike back to life and 'ease into th e finish for the third l2 5cc Vet. WInner. . Mike Rustorfer had to con tend with Mark McNulty for two laps befor e secu ri ng hi s victory in the Vet Expert class. As lap two near ed its end, Rustorfer zeroed in a nd passed by to take the lead . McNulty began to tire. and finished seven minutes behind, taking seco nd in class. Results . 0 / A: 1. Rob Nolin (Hon); 2. J eff Martinez (Hon)' 3. Tim Funk (Yam); 4 . Todd Cary (Hon); 5. MartY Kamery (Vam). Garber goes at Indiana HS LIGONIER, IN , MAR . 20 J erem y Garber too k the overa ll win a t the first event of the Northern Indiana H ar e Scram bles Seri es a t Li gonier. Snow fell th e night before . th e event a nd melted th e following morning, crea ting a slip pe ry, muddy cou rse. Pat Fl ynn , on a 500cc Lake City H onda, blasted off th e lin e to lead the O pen A and B classes for the fir st lap. The second wa ve o f 250cc A and B bikes was led by two mor e Lake City H ondas, ridden by Eric Muffley a nd Garber. After di cing for the first lap Garber pulled o u t a two-minute lead by the third lap a fter taking the o ver all lead b y th e secon d lap. Meanwhile in th e 500s Todd Snider led laps two and three until Flynn , Muffley and Steve Dewitt, ona 250, . picked up th e pa ce. By th e six th lap the y had Garbe e's lead do wn to 45 seconds, but' after pit signals Garger turned up the wi ck to lead by over two minutes at th e chec kered flag . Dew itt led Muffley to th e flag for seco nd and third with Flynn picki ng up the win in th e 500cc class. Brian Wa lker on a 125 H onda led every lap in the 200cc A class, leading John Ca rmic hael to th e flag by six . seco nds . In the Mint class j ason Flynn was left at the first turn wit h a fouled p lug, but by the third lap had passed th e field an d led to th e fla g. Results . 0 / A: Jer emy Garber (Hon). OPEN A: 1. Pat Flynn (Hon); 2. Neal Pettit (Hon); 3. Steve WeiCh (Hus). 250 A: 1. J eremy Garber (Hon): 2. St eve DeWitt (Vam); 3. Eric Muffley (Hon); 4 , George Tubbs (Hon). 200 A: 1. Brian Walker (Hon); 2. John Carm ichael (Vam); 3. Terry Bender (Vam); 4. Curt .Thomas IKaw) . OPEN B: 1. Todd Snider (Vam); 2. Jan Warn er (Hon): 3. Bob Tharp (Hon); 4. Jeff Cornel (Hus). 250 B: t . Bob Thornburg (KTM ): 2. Steve Rickens (Yam); 3. Pat Redmond (Yam); 4 . Dale Rice (Hon). 200 B: 1. Dave Stone (Yam); 2. Craig Howell . (Kaw); 3. Brad Brune n (Kaw ); 4. Dennis Artrip (Kaw ). 125 B: 1. Jim Hun t (Yam); 2. SIeve Lock (Hon); 3. Steve Love (Hon); 4. Greg Wein (Cag). SR: 1. Tim Hoffman (C-A); 2. J eff Keegan (Hus); 3. Roger Howell (Kaw) . MINI : 1. Jason Flynn (Hon); 2. Brian Howell (Kaw); 3 . Jerem y Stone (Kaw); 4 . Zachery Slone . Neibel nails win at Rocky Ridge MX By John & Douglass Schaub IMPERIAL, PA , MAR . 19 & 20 Ray Neib el battled with Norm Bish to tak e the overall win in the Plus 25 cla ss a t th e first Northeast Area Qualifier held a t Rocky Ridge race .tra ck. Riders were trying to qualify for their regional cham p ionships, wh ich would then g ive them a chance to compete in the Amateur Championsh ips in Hurricane Mills, T ennessee, later in the year. After a first a nd seco nd place finish . on Saturday, Bish and Neibel battled it out again on Sunday. Bish, aboard his Honda, jumped out front first. It was a seesaw battle in which Bish

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