Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

But u p until H awkins' burned heck, th e battle fo r the lead was .lose. " I sort of messed up rig h t at the irst check," said Roeseler. " I crashed nd missed the check by II seconds. He (Ha wkins) went zero and I went n e, So I gave up points to Ra nd y ight at th e start. After that, we stayed pretty much even up until lunch. " After lunch I went 0-1-0 and Ra ndy burned the third chec k. There was a valley before th at chec k and you cou ld' ve gotten a hea d real easy, ut a t the next reset he to ld me he burned it by two minutes. I said, 'Ra ndy, what are you do in g?' And th en I sa id, 'Well, th anks a lot , buddy.' We shook hands - it was ac tua lly prett y fun ny. " After that I ca ug h t Randy (who as riding a couple of minutes a hea d f Roeseler), which I hadn 't done all ay, so I kn ew he was telling th e uth a bo ut burning th e chec k. He as just cru ising 10 th e finish after urning that chec k." Hawki ns ' mista ke left th e door o pen for Pepper, who was riding on min ute one and taking full advantage of the relatively dust-free ri di ng condi tions up front. Pepper, who is the Rocky Mountain Enduro Series Champion, slipped int o the numbertwo overall positio n wi th a 33-point score, toppi ng Cunningham 's 35poi nt tall y. Ma ny riders were knoc ked out of co ntention due to running out of gas during the lo ng loo ps, one of whom was Hines. '" ran out of gas five miles from the first ga s sto p," said Hines, wh o was riding a 1990 KTM 250 EIXC. " I guess I was just sp inning the rear wheel too much like a mo tocrosser, because no one else riding th e same bike ra n out of gas. I lost about seven mi n utes th ere until so me body gave me som e gas . I also lost my odometer in th e first section, and since they (the clu b) pu t mileage markers every 10 mi les in stead of a t all th e maj or intersections a nd tu rn s, I couldn't ride off my co mput er. I burned three o r fo ur checks ." Colo rado's Fritz Kad lec also ran ou t of gas but no t before cras hi ng and " .. . knocking mys elf si lly," said Kadl ec. Four-ti m e N a ti on al H a re & Hound Cha m pio n a nd th e prev io us wee k's Ba rsLOw-LO-Vegas H a re & Ho und winner Dan Smith was in contention for the overa ll win befo re saturating h imself with th e ex tra gas he was carryi ng in a p lastic bottle attached 10 his fannypack. A stick punctured th e bottle a nd th e KT M rider ha d LO str i p down LO his underwear a longside the trail and douse himself with water. Despite losi ng valua ble time, Smith finished th e event l l th overa ll with 71 po ints. In order 10 avo id running o ut of gas, Roeseler, whose KXI25 had a stock gas tan k, carr ied two halfgallon plasti c bottles full of ga s o n hi s fannypack. " I wou ld use the bottles a t th e resets a nd no t wai t for th e bike to ru n ou t on th e tra il ," said Roeseler, " I ended up ma ki ng all the gas stops with no problems." . Illino is' J eff Fredett e was also in top content io n before burning two checks by 10 m inutes. The Kawasak im oun ted rider repo rtedl y progra mmed his com pu ter in corr ectl y, and before he rea lized it, th e damage was alread y done. • Unofficial Resu lts 0 / A: 1. Larry Roeseler (Kaw) 26 ; 2. Kelby Pepper (Kaw) 33 ; 3. Terry Cunn ingh am (Kaw) 35 ; 4 . Kevin Hin es (KTM) 42; 5. Randy Hawk in s (SUl ) 42 ; 6. Todd Harr is (Hon) 53; 7. Jimm y Lewis (Yam) 57; 8. George Wall er, Jr. (SUl ) 66; 9. Dick 8 url eson (Hon) 68; 10 . Brent Wa ll ing sford (Hon) 68; 11. Dan Sm ith (KTM) 7 1; 12. Char les Halcomb (SUl) 72; 13. Ganh Swe etland (ATK) 72 ; 14. Duke Lambert . (Yam) 79; 15. Scot Harden (KTM) 80 . YOKO DEALERS CALIFORNIA ••• "ARE YOU READY?" CYCLE GEAR Concord, CA Richmond, CA San Leandro. 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