Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

i GR O SSI, BLACKWELL ~ Cl .g u.. ~ w Z W ...J U >- U I ~ Goade Aces Sanders LEAD WINTER-AMA Blackwell. Eastern er J im Weinert (Ma i) ro lled eas ily to wins in each of th e 2 50cc m otos t o take th at class o verall. Swedish tra nsplant G unnar Lindstro m (B us) gra bbed sec o nd wi th ;'IIo rCa l's R on Stockman (Bul) third and T exan Wyman Priddy (CZ) fourth. An estimated 1600 were in attendance with 10 0 riders participating. The nex t event, wi th sti ll more top West Coast riders competing, is this Sunday at J acksonville, Fla . The series continues each weekend through Daytona Speedweek t ime. ORLANDO, F LA., J an. 23 , 197 2 Cal ifo rn ia's top Husk y t eam riders, Bob Grossi an d Mark Blackwell, took t urns topping th e 5 00cc class of riders at the ini tial round o f the Win ter-A.\IA series here today . Gr ossi pi c ked up th e win in th e first m oto a fter Blac kwell dropped out of the lead w he n he ran ou t of gas four min u te s b efore the checkered. Blackwell th en re turned and easily swept the final two mo to s wi th Grossi second in each. The Northern California st a r took first overall ahead of Floridian J oh n Lon gsd on (Hus), Southern Californ ian Bill Clem en ts (Bus) and By Art Lo ya SOUTH GATE, CAL., Jan. 20, 1972 Who says it's a two-rider race at Trojan Sp eedway? Rick G oad e of Fullert on , with a very impressive showin g, gu ided h is T .D.C. Bultaco to vic tory over ea rly lead er , Bob Sanders of Wh ittier , in the 250 F.T . Main Event tonigh t at the Trojan oval. Goade, t he defending 25 0 TI/F .T . champion. stop ped th e wi nning ways o f Sand er s and Da n Corbett, wh o h ave monopolize d m o st of th e Main Even t action la tel y . and appears ready t o give the tw o ac es m ore th an ju st an argu ment abou t the checkered flag. Sanders , Corb ett, and Goade, shared the w in ner 's circle with th eir resp ec ti ve victories in fe a tu re even ts , b ut it was more th e man n er of th eir triumphs th an the win it sel f th at was wo rth n otin g. Goade, com ing from fourth on th e first lap, m oved in t o th e runner-up p os iti on o n th e sec o nd lap o f th e 6-lap Main b ehind Sanders (Ka w). A t this p oi nt. Goad e called o n all hi s best efforts and for th e next two laps gave San ders all th e pressure he co uld handle , and then some, as h e ed ged in to th e lea d o n t he fo urt h lap t o stay. Fo llo wi ng both riders ac ross the finish lin e wa s, Corbett (Bul) , R on Pow ell (Bul) , Barr y Love (Suz) , Rudy Williams (Bul) , and Jim Mill er (Oss) . In th e 2 50 TI Main , it was Corbett all the way leadin g Sanders fo r six laps to score h is second win in-a-row in this class. Corbett 's performance was ju st as flawl ess as o ne can get . and a fter th e race, Corbett stated, " If y o u want t o b ea t Sander s. you ca n ' t a ffo rd t o make any m ist akes. He is o ne o f th e t oughest t o bea t. " Th ird was Go ade fo llo wed by Lo ve, Chris Smith (:\lon), Powell (Bul), and Mark Revels (Bul). Th e 100 TI Main saw five riders spill in tw o separate tan gles o n th e first lap, bu t all escap ed an y seri ous injury. On the restart, Sanders , who accou nted for three feature w ins, jumped t o an earl y lead and that was enough to beat th e likes of Steve Okuda (Kaw), A llen "Buckwheat " Swett (Hon). Rick 214 Smokes Under NHRA Mark By Kei th Arnold WILMI NGT O N, CAL., Jan. 22, 1972 The N.H. R .A . rec ords for t op gas dragbike have been broken h er e at Lions with an incred ib le fr equen cy . Some we eks it will be T im Marks on h is b ig-in ch Harley but m ore freq ue ntly it is th e Ac tio n 4 "2 b y 4 ." The newl y reb uil t bi ke has new bigger m otors . The p rev io us fast ru n o n th is bike was 9.88 seconds a t j ust o ver 141 mph. Bill Hahne, p ilo t of th e b ig do ub le , made several runs to find a good traction area o n th e starting lin e. After finding the position he th ough t best , Hahne made o ne fu ll-on run and tu rned 9.73 se conds a t 144.69 mph . Amazingly en ough, the bike and rider can go even better. Alth ough several b ike s were d ebuted in this well attended race , the tw o m ost unusual bikes t o enter we re, Ralph Muldoon and his 900cc fu el inj ect ed Honda 4 fu nny b ike. This o ne -of-a-kin d bike is com p let ely street legal with a hom, ligh ts a nd rear view mirror. In order to get the nitro-methane fuel to the c ombusti on ch am ber a 20,000 Hilborn injection system is emplo yed . More on this bike at a later date. The second major debut was th e Robert E. Schrniedeke-owned turbo charged Honda 750 . This bike is so quiet yo u wou ld n o t believe it is ru n ning. Bob also a nno unced the availab ility o f th e turb o ch arger in a kit form for $650 . In n orma l handicap brac ket racing , the word was o ut t ha t Lions was th e p lace t o be . T o m ake th e com petitio n a littl e rough er, th e Long Beach Hon da p eop le p ut up a Safe Guard b ike p ro tector and transmitt er alo ng wi th Lio n's p urse of $4 0 . A m ong the racers were J eff Berry, The Ac t io n 4 t eam, a nd Troy Pu geu s o n a 13 second fu ll d ress 74 , and man y o thers. At th e concl usio n of th e final ro und of racin g, Jim Sickenson of th e Actio n 4 team ran a 14 .26 to defeat Dennis Fry er's 838cc B/Gas Ho nda 4 . Fry er b roke o u t b y go ing t o o fast over his d ial in handicap. REMINDER FOR MOTOCROSS RIDERS USMRC Insurance requirem ents d ic tate th a t for riders under 21 years o f age to co m pete in th e Feb. 4 o pener a t El Toro Speedway, notarized membership forms should be in US~IRC hands pri o r t o th e Feb . 4 date. Forms can be obtained from : Karen Bookout, 12421 Chase , Garden Grove, Ca . 92645; or Lew Stoltz, P.O . Box 1027, Pomona, Cal. 91769 . Anderson (Ho n), a nd Rich ard Riley (Yam) . Okuda and Swett gave the fans a real b attle for second with Okuda finally ta kin g second by a wh eel at t he checke re d . Sander s a nd T om Do ty (Ho n), d id their usu al thing in the 125 TI ~Iain wit h Sander s win ning. Robert Cr eceli us (Yam) was th ird . It was st ric tl y n o con test in the 100 F.T. :\Iain as Sand ers (Kaw) lit erally ran away from J im S tewar t (Ya m), Rile y, and Rich ard Kyzer (Yam) , but not befo re havin g to d ispose of Stewart on th e second lap. The 12 5 F.T . :\Iai n was h igh ligh t ed b y Doty torm enting Sa nders with h is consis te nt p ro bing t o grab th e lead, but t o n o ava il as Sanders scored his fourth fea t ure win of the eve ning over Doty, Cr ecel iu s, Vern Maxwell (Bul) , and Greg Mit ch ell (Ya m) . Top J unio r p erformances we re turn ed in by Crec elius , R ick Anders on, and Allen Sw ett. Jim Miller , who perhaps is o ne o f the m ost under -pub lici zed j un ior riders. is curren tly giving th e Senio r riders a run for th e money. You ca n ex p ec t t o h ea l a lot of go od things abou t his rider in the near future. His lat est top showing was placin g third b eh ind Sanders and Cor b ett in th e 250 F.T. troph y dash . Th e 25 0 Semi -Main h onors w en t t o Pow ell, wh o in turn was chased b v Love and Revels. Silencers a nd triple numb er plates are required b efore com pet ing a t an y Trojan Sp eedway event . 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