Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

~moo~w~~~~~~_R_~_~_ili~~_b_~_o_S_~_~_:R_oo_~_3 e The four-day Idaho City ISDE Quali fier came down to th e final MX special test; La rry Roeseler emerged on top. Ku rt Hough reco vered from ~ cras h in th e first special test to finish second overall an d first in the 250cc Intent class. Roeseler shines in Idaho By Anne and Tom Van Beveren IDAHO crrr.m MAY 17·20 ea m Gree n' s Larry R o esel er turned in four flawless da ys of riding to take the overall win at th e G e ne Miller Memorial ISDE Qualifier at Idaho Ci ty. r It was a close battle all the wa y, as Roeseler [ought to establish a lead. At the end of eig h t special tests and more than 350 miles of trail, the Kawasaki ace led defe nding National Enduro C hampion Randy H aw kins by just four seco nds, a nd three o the r riders were withi n 40 seco nds of the n u mber o ne spot. " It all ca me down to th e mo tocross sectio n a t th e end a nd I rode those last five la ps as hard as I co uld," sa id Roeseler. " It's on ly a 10 to 12 minute race but all my expe rie nce , everything I'v e been work ing on fo r years, I put into that last five-mi le section." Roeseler 's last minute charge paid 0 [[. The Kawasaki pi lot grabbed th e hol esh ot and stretched his lead to 61 seconds, to take the overall win wi th a four-day total of 2531 points. Last _ r~und wi n ner Kurt H ough took second overall and th e 250cc Intent class win wi th 2592 po ints, fin ishing withi n a second of third-place Bohumil Posledni of Czechoslovakia a nd fourth -place Hawkins. Dave Bertram p laced firth. "There's on ly a seco nd betwee n me, Ran dy a nd Bo h u m il. You ca n 't get m uch closer tha n that," said Hough, who overa lled ea rl ier qua lifiers at Ill in ois and Oklahoma. " T he trails here were great . I just wi sh 'the. last section was a bit lon ger. It 's too ha rd to mak e up time wh en yo u' ve on ly got a IO-minute race." The four-day even t in the mo untainous terrai n nort heast of Boise dr ew ra ve reviews from the rid ers. Organized by th e Bo ise R id ge R iders M.e. and named in memo ry of Ge ne Mi ller, a club me mber who was kill ed in a n ac cide nt last Christ mas, the eve nt featured a new co urs e each day and the terrain var ied from snow-do tted peaks to grassy river va lleys. " T h is is th e best riding you ca n find a nyw here ," sai d Mik e Dougherty, who was cam paign ing ATK's fuel -injec ted 350 fo r the first tim e in competition. " T he trai ls a re tremendous. It 's God's cou ntry u p here - Grade A cho ice riding." Roeseler was a little less en th usiastic going into the event. . I " I' ve a lways enjoye d Idaho , but it's a bit different fo r me th is time becaus e I broke my neck here last year," said Roeseler. " I rod e o u t to th e p lace tha t I crashe d - it was part of th e special, test last year, and I sa t and stared at th e rock I hit for a w hil e. It was a stra nge feeling." R oeseler was back o n stride the mom ent th e racing began. H e clocked th e fastest time in th e fir st terrain test a nd finished JU S! two seco nds behind T eam Suzuki's H awkins in th e second test, to gain a three-second adva ntage go ing into da y two. Aaron Hough go t hi s hi ghly modified KXSO orr to a £lying start and was o u t in front of the l 25cc Intent riders a t the end of da y on e, bu t Ku rt Hough was not enjoy ing hi s b rother 's good ' luck. " I had a pretty bad first day, " said the 250cc Ka wasa ki pi lot. " I fell down , in th e first test and go t beat en by 20 seconds. I had a lot of tim e to mak e up after that." " War m su nn y weat her kep t the riders in dust for most of da y two 's l O S-mile rid e. " I bu m ped two minutes ahea d just to get ou t of th e dust - it wa s ge tting. rea ll y bad, " sa id KTM 's J im my Lewis, wh o was four seco nd s behind H o ugh 's KXSOwhen th e da y began. " Being out. in front he lped a lot. There were some h ills that yo u needed to keep your; spee d u p on too - people bo ttl enecked on those further back." ' Roeseler still held a three-second lead at th e end of the seco nd day bu t fast times were being clocked througho u t th e fiel d. " I was o ut in fro nt of m y class both da ys but what really mad e me happy was th at I bea t Roeseler 's tim es in two of th e specia l stages on da y two ," said C h arl es H a lcomb , who en de d up winning th e Lightweight Fou r-Stroke class on a Suzuki DR350. ~. Mechani cal probl em s si d el ined ATK 's Garth Sweetland for the second day in a row, but ATK teammate Paul Kra use was hanging tough behind Husaberg-m ounted Greg Surdyke for seco nd i n th e Heavyw eight Fo ur Stroke division. " We had a few probl em s with the brakes on da y two ," Surdyke exp lained. " We used the wrong brake: fluid a nd it expanded and loc ked the rear brake in the special test." Day two saw Joey La ne's hopes

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