Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

. .. ~ ~ _ , Dick Mann developed the World Pre-'65 Team Scrambles race. "T he hill is fine, but we' d be too close o n th e firs t la p ," sai d th e evergreen racer. H e was riding a 418cc unit-construction BSA single of his o wn devisin g and was as neat and unassuming as ever. Wid el y respec ted, more th an one English fan just wanted to shake hi s hand. Some were surp rised th at he failed to reshuffle th e U.S. team a fter both Fords adapted well to the atrocious conditions. Peter (BSA Gold Star ) went on to ta ke th ird slo t in the PreUnit final, wh ile John (Cheney Triump h ) threw his mud-spattered glasses at a marsha l before sq uirting back into the action. Four riders really shone in the slippery conditions. Roger Neale from Devo n disp layed unerring throttle con tro l on both twin and single-cylinder four-strokes. Aboard the pre-unit T iger 100 Triumph Metisse built by Pl ymouth motorcycle deal er T erry Hobbs, h e wa s in vincible. Neither Dave Bickers nor Dave J erem iah - both on raucous CZs have lost an y of th eir crowd-p leasing style. Bu t Andy Roberton (H usq varna 250) led them both, at times by 80 yards or more. Robertson 's reflexes loo ked razor sharp. . His' ex uberance was stra nge ly at odd s wit h the cau tio us circu lauons of some riders. Pr e-'65 mach in es have begun to a ttract relat ively hi gh prices in the U.K. and ma ny less competitive ow ners are loath to ris k bending th eir h ighl y-pol ished moun ts. Mix four-stro ke thumpers wi th more modern two-str okes and you have a repl ay of motocross history as th e ligh tweigh ts triumph. Bu t the G old en Vall ey Club's events favour th e o lder p re-u n i t co nstructio n models. T here's even a Bri tish Bikes up to 350cc cla ss th at sees scads of Vill iers two-s tro ke powered Greeves, Do t and Co tto n scra mblers compet.ing on level terms. In fact th e stra ngest devices are . campaigned, including ponderous AJS parallel twins, Velocette singles, Greeves twins a nd even a 350cc Model 8 AJS . Considered a tu rkey .in its day on th e roa d, Pau l Murrell's AJS had recen tly been equipped wi th . a Lucas magneto as an alternative to th e fire-ra ising Wipac ignition fitted as standard. '. Results WORLD PRE··65 TEAM SCRAMBLE: 1. England (Bickars/Naala /Moss Abbott); 2. Wales (Jeremiah /Roberton/Peterson/Hawkins); 3 . Belgium (P. BormmslT. Borm s/Capel/Castiaux); 4. USA ' (Mann/Keeton /Hammond/Saw8zhki); 5. Franc e (8aco u/Bechet/Bazier lVernier)-. UP·TO-250: 1. Andy Roberton (Hus); 2. Dave Jeremiah (C-l); 3. Colin Flashma n (Gre). PRE-'5O: 1. Roger Neale (Che-BSA); 2. A lan Arnott (BSA); 3. Phil Gitt ins (Tri-BSAI. PRE-UNIT: 1. Roger Nesle (Hob-M att 2. Joh n Duncombe (Tri· BSAt 3. Petar Ford (BSAI. • UNIT 1: 1. Andy Roberton (Hust 2. Dave Bickers (CZ); 3. Mike Woods (eZ) . UNIT 2: 1. Dave Jerem iah (C2); 2. Darre n Midwinter (BSAt 3 . Phil Petarson (CZ). Ryan Young clinched the Nationai Observed Tria ls C hamplcnsh lp after win ning the Washington National. AMA/NATC National Championship Observed Trials Series: Round 7 Young on top' at Cedar Creek National By Russ Cazier PORTLAND, OR, J ULY 2 R yan You n g, in a dead h ea t for the National Champ ions h ip with Swede Jonny Anders.son after six rounds, clinched the coveted first.place finish by sq ueezing ou t a last loop win o ver a very tough course in the Coastal Range in Western O regon. . Pen nsylvam a n Young led with the best ro und of the meet, 24 points with eigh t clea ns after the first loop. Andersson, scoring a 37/ .. 5 in th e first loop , cou ntered wi th a 32/ 6 in the second loop to Yo ung's 40/4. Young and Andersson were ru nnin g righ t next to each o the r, and Young kn ew his work was cu t out for him in the th ird loop over th e 18 section course. H e responded with a 35/4 round, to Andersson's 40/ 6. Young had an 8.6 point late penalty, to And ersson 's 11.6 and it was all over. Kip Webb . . . . .' finished a distant th ird with 160.8 and 4 clean s. . . Young had h igh p'::ll~e for" th e co urse . and. th e. offlc~a tl ng. No championsh ip nder lik es an ea~y co urse, S? no o ne can comp la in abo u t thiS. one. -They were :eally tough sections, and I spe nt five of . my alloted seven h?UTS on th e first loo p: We had to nde fast over th e co u rse just to avoid heavy time penalties." Becau se of scoring me th ods for the Na tional Cham pio ns h ip, Yo ung 0(( will sit out ro und eig~t, th e fina l round. of the series, in Spokane , Washington, on J u ly 4. " O n ly the-' best five rounds are cou nted. We'll have to take a rea l close look at the numbers, but I th ink I could on ly lose the ~mpionship by cOl:npeti.ng m rou nd eight, It would be Jus t l~ke J o nny (Andersso n) to come ~ p With .a super rou nd, a nd I think m y sponsors would be pretty unhal?PY to see me tak~ a chance on .thro,,:m~ away th e Natlo~al Championship, Mar k ~ a ~ mko , wh? , fin is hed fourth, sai d, You kno w i t s a tough course when 200 . IS a r~spectable score. At a .lo t C?f tnal s you II s~ th at they have to l!1<:!< up the sections to mak e the m difficult, but th ese were Ju st run over the na tural terran." The' Sportsman class saw so me superb riders competing. ' Wh ile all classes bu t the Champio nship co mpetitors ra n o ver a somewhat easier course, th eirs was difficult eno ugh. Expatriot Pol e J ad ynak Zbig niew turned in a sparkling 11/6 to lead aft er thefirstloop but J eff Kingsford stayed steady an'd put toge ther a winning score in the Sportsman class . Local heroes Larry Dra who rn and Jay T erry thrilled the large spectator tum o u t wit h top five fmislies. Jonny Andersson finished the Championship series in secorid. Senior rider Keith Adams from ldaho.domin ated his class with a 65/ 19 score th at would have put him th ird in the Sportsman class . T he up-and-comers in the H igh School class , nearly all of whom come to trial s from bicycle MX and tri ck ridi n g, were led b y Kell y O ldroyd. " I think we have an adva ntage moving up from th e bikes ," Oldroyd said. " Bala nce and traction are what it 's all about, Once yo u learn to handle th e extra weight, th e motor just makes it easier." • Results C'SHIP: 1. Rvan Young (Bet); 2. Jonn y Ande rsson (Hon); 3. Kip Webb (Mer); 4. M ark Mann iko (Fan); 5. Kenny Leduc (Yam); 6. Andy Saum (Bet); 7. Tom Hamann (Bet); 8. Chuck Sutton (Yam); 9. Duane Rinkes (Fan); 10. Steve Clark (Fan). SPTSMN : 1. Je ff Kingsfo rd (Bet); 2. Larry Drawhorn (Bett 3. Jedynak 2bigniew (Honl; 4. Sven Blay (Hon); 5. Jay Terry (YamI. HIGH SCH: 1. Kally Oldroyd (Apr)12. M ike Guns (Fan); 3. Todd Clark (Fan). . SR: 1. Keit h Adams (Yaml; 2. Rod Tomson (Honl; 3. Garry Hoover (Fan). YET: 1. Bill Thompson (Yamt 2. Jack Hemin way (Yamt 3. Robert Raad (Yam); 4. Arthur' Webster (Yam). S/SR: 1. Bill deGaris (Bet). 35

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