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Bledsoe Wins Barona Trials on Rocks and More Rocks By Craig Hunter BARONA, CAL., Feb. 13, 1972 - The San Diego Trials Riders opened their 1972 season at Four Comers Motorcycle park today. They borrowed the punch card scoring system from the V.O .T.E. club and split up the riding times like the Plonkers h ad done at Running Springs. Kids, Amateurs and Novices rode in the morning and the Experts and Masters competed in the afternoon. Dwaine Walters finally found out how to work his new Hodaka and won the Kids class with a two to the seven of Bultaco-mounted Stephan Stewart. The Amateurs had three hours to complete nine sections three times each . a tight schedule indeed and one which fo rced the riders to give up points to fi nish on t ime . Most of their sections wound through slippery decomposed gra nite gu llies or over p a tch es of boulders. The one real b ummer was the infamo us section n ine . Nine had so mething for everyone . It offered little time to react and no room to relax - it grabbed a lot of points. Jim Laudeman rode fast enough to take his time in thc sections. working his Bultaco with methodical precision and scoring an easy victory. losing only nine points in the process. Larry Sch midtke was second with 18 and Ralph Dodson third with 20 . Laudeman 's win puts him in the Expert class now. I 'm sure he'll be missed by the A mateurs. After the lunch b reak the Experts and Master class riders had their trials and, if a time limit h u rt the Amateurs, fat igue was the deciding factor in this event. They made two lap s of II sections each aro und a merciless five -m ile loop hewn out of the canyons fu rrowing the Barona plateau. The course was a n endless off-camber. snaking its way up and down the slippery ca nyon walls a nd the traps had everything fro m h air- raisin g decents to narrow gullies and rocks, rocks and more rocks. The rid ers felt that section one, a treachero us gu lley section, was the most difficult. It was n ever cleaned and the best ride in that section was a "2" by Mark Eggar. Section seven got the vote for hairiest of the day. It was an all-boulder nigh tmare that started with a lump-in-the-throat trip over a jagged four-foot boulder and bounded across several more just like it . Several gas oline stains suggested that more than a few riders had their problems here. Richard Bledsoe, defending his Number One plate, didn't seem to tire and massacred the other Masters, turning in an astrounding six-point first round and followed it with a five-point second round for a total of II all day. Bob Nickelson followed with 29 and Mark Eggar was third with 37. T he Expert contest provided the real surprise of the day. Young Marland Whaley , in h is second Expert trials, kept h is cool and narrowly defeated .I ohn Bo urdeau in the las t two sec tions by a score of 34 to 3 7. Astro unding thing abo ut it all was th at Whaley, on an obsole te "big h ub" Montesa, n o t on ly won his class but was t hird overall. Bourdeau, riding his first Expert event, was tied w ith Mark Eggar for fourth overall. They topped their class and put most of the Masters away too; somebody better tell Whaley about th at "obsolete" Montesa! While Bledsoe won again, the omens are pointing to a real battle in the Master class this year. British ace Derek Edgar returned to stay and, while he wasn't happy w ith h is new Montesa, he should be o n form soon. Bob Nickelsen and Mark Egga r will be turn ing in their p iles fo r new Ossas soon a nd r umor has it that Kevin Walker wi ll be jo ining th em . Rich ar d Delany tu rned up on a new Mo ntesa; you'll rem b er him from the Delany-Koskie wrecking crew of the Saracen days. Now t hat he and Jeff are o n 250 's they could get pretty t o ugh . There you have it. If the signs are true , it could be a h ar d year for turkeys . (Results on page 32) MIC to Support Nixon Move T he Boa rd of Dir ec t ors of th e Mo torcy cle Ind ustry Council adop te d a reso lutio n on F ri d ay, February I I , 19 72 , support in g th e goals o f Presiden t Nix on 's Ex ecutive Order d ea ling wi th th e use o f o ff-road vehicles on th e fed eral p u b lic la nd s. T he reso lu tio n " RESOLVED that the Board of Directo rs o f t he M ot o rcy cle Ind ustry support th e goals o f th e Presiden t 's Execu tive Ord er of February 8 , 19 72, d eali ng wit h t he use of off-road vehicles on the federal pu blic lan ds and the designat ion o f speci fic land use areas. T o th is end , Presid ent Col ma n (President of the MI C) is dir ect ed to commu nica te wit h th e Secr etaries of D ef ense, I nte r io r, Agric ulture and the Board of the T ennessee V all ey A ut h ori t y and o ffer o ur Co un cil' s full and immediate cooperation in the imple menta tion of the Order," Presiden t Co lm a n has today written to the respec tive S ecre tar ies. In h is letter, Mr. Colman pointed o ut that the Co u ncil h as, in the past , strongly endorsed sound p ublic la nd use planning a nd, to this end, h as engaged in major efforts to provide for the same. T he MIC is a trad e organizatio n comprised of th e m aj o r m anu fact u rers and distribu to rs of m otorc vcl es t h rougho ut the wo rld. M an u fac t ~ re rs PREMIER ' B IGGER HELMETS GETS WESTM INSTE R, CA L. , Fe b. I I, 19 72 - Cha rles T inch, president of Prem ie r Pacif ic , I nc ., m a nufactu rers and d istrib u to rs of m otorc ycl e a nd racing hel mets, an no unced today the appoin tment of J ohn Harringto n to t he position of National Sa les Man age r for Motorcycle and S now mobile T rade and G len Gross as Na tio nal Sales Manager for Automotive Trade. Premier Pacific 's office and p lant is loc at ed at 9311 Kramer, Westminster, Cal if. European motorcycle racing champion Phil Read h as signed with the firm to handle distrib ution and sales of Premier p roducts in Europe. Former world speedway champion Ivan Mauger has agreed to represen t Premier in the Australia-N ew Zealand markets and n ego ti at ions are currently u nd erwa y with Japan's Kokosa i-Ts u sho Comp an y fo r d itrib ution rig hts in the Far East. and di stribu tors of a llie d produc ts an d mo to rcycle d ea lers o ver 1,700 th rough out th e United St at es are also members of t h e Cou ncil. In h is le tter, Mr. Colman in d ica t ed tha t h e " w ould lik e th e opportunity to d isc uss w it h you ...th e p ossib ilit y of creati ng a com mi ttee of go ve rn ment, ind us try an d public re p resen ta tives to d iscuss the object ives of the Pr esid ent's o rder. It is th e ho pe of t h e C ounc il that early cooperation by all p arties conce rned will m inimize dup licity of effort a nd focus , at a n ea rly date, o n the fo rm ulation o f th e initial regu latio ns an d in structi ons wh ich th e Presid ent ' s o rder req uires. The C ouncil fully endo rses the designation of specific la nd used areas fo r all types of recreational activi ty. The Co u ncil, w hich has wo rked with various state and p rivate agencies towa rd this goal, will make avai lable to the federal govern ment its st udies , a ne w la nd use fi lm and public atio ns dealing with compatib le land use. , In closing, Mr . Colma n st ressed the "Council's commitment to t he concep t of sound p ublic land use planning". BMW HELPS THY NE IGHBOR T he 19 71 financial report of Bayerische Motoren Werk e (BMW) reveals that t he sa le of mo to rcycles inc reased by a record 5 2.8 % and the sa le of BMW a utomobiles increased by 4.8%. Wh ile the m o t orcy cl e assembly is lo ca t ed at Berlin, the ma in plant a nd offices of the Bl\IW Co m pany are loca t ed in Munich , directly across th e st reet fro m the site of the 1972 Summer O lymp ic Games. Being an immediate neighbor, B:\IW salutes the Olympics in a very tangible way. For t he duration of the games, the BMW manufacturing plants in Munich will be closed. All suitable plant fac ilities will be made available to the Olympic Committee, fo r example, the high rise parking facilities for 2,000 cars and the works cafeteria which can seat 2,500 guests. BMW will also make 200 BMW automobiles available to the o rganizers of the games. 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