Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

ROA I AllANIA God O n l y Knows Don Emde was forced out of the WRAP ·UP Dinesen Yamaha flew open, sprayingMel ru n ning when the gas cap on h is gas in Em de's face. Don p itted once in a attempt to wash the gas o u t of h is eyes, too k one lap , pulled in an d cal led it a day. Apologies to Mel fo r saying his Yamaha wasn 't up to th e task on h an d . It's gas cap wasn't. '" .'" 0- n.n d He Isn't Talking en Eddie Mulder, second-place man in AMA's G r and National th e Championship p oin t standings. was forced out with a flat ti re . ;: w Z W ...J U >- Dave Smith escaped seriou s injury in a p ost-race acci den t Sunday n igh t in th e pit area. Smith, who had apparently fallen asleep in th e passen ger seat o f a van, w as pitch ed o u t wh en th e driver of said van p erformed a tire-scr ee ching donut. Smith was promptly ta ke n to the hospital in an unconsci ous state, ble eding profusely fro m th e head . He wa s later rep orted to b e o k an d suffe red onl y fro m a large lacera tio n o f th e sca lp and p ossib le minor concu ssio n. U Friday of th e Road Atlanta weekend wa s devoted strictly to practice and mid way through the day we discovered Gene Ro mero p lay ing p hotographer an d Dick Mann socializi ng. Upon inquiring we were informed that the Beez umps wer e so mewh ere between L .A. and Atlan ta, but where no on e seemed to know. Aro und 3 that afternoon , whil e out along th e course attempting to get an in -focus shot fo r a change, who do we see but Gene Romero ab oard Roger Reim an 's Krau se-Yoshimu ra Ho nda. We bet that made Danny Macias and perh ap s Ron Krause a bit nervo us, no? Gary Nix on's dropping b ac k out of the battle with S ma r t, DuH am el , etc. was cau sed by the machines chattering while under heavy breaking. Gary Fisher informed us that h e knew something was w ro ng wh en he could way -underbrake Nixon into the corners. Nixon 's Kaw asak i sported little spoilers o n either sid e of th e fairing deco rated with , what else? Nix on En terp rises stickies. . French Canadian Yvon DuHamel (1 7) to ok an earlv lead but d ropped back when he lost a plug cap. The Big Green K's also required more gas than th e Su zuk is (water cooling is more efficient) so Yvon lost more ti me wh ile gu lp ing the st uff. Still , his unofficial second p lace m ay be enough to w in the race when the AMA decides whether or not the Suzukis were legal. Here the Fearless Frog fends off Art Baumann 1301. Nicholas follows. Dixie Editio n's ad man ager Bob Lenk suffered a b ad case of wood rash, yes, you read it correctly. While he w as loo kin g over th e motocr oss co urs e aboard G ary Baile y 's Alpina, Len k, ro de eve r-so-carefully to the to p o f each jump and looked it over b efore co n tinu in g on. Wha t Bob didn ' t know w as th at th e hi ghe st ju mp on th e cou rse was fo rmed by bulldoz ing di rt into a large p ile, shored u p with wo oden p lanks, an d whe n he roll ed up an d p ok ed th e front wh eel o ver the edge he promp tly assu me d th e none·too-pop ular n ose dive p osition . Bailey was a li t tle mo ody , to say the leas t, wh en Lenk retu rned h is Bul minus th e speedo an d with variou s pa rts in a no ne -too-original-appearing form. Don Castro was ab oard his last year's Triumph 3, not a Yamaha as listed in the resu lts. He was forced o u t wi th ignition problems. Kel Carruthers (73 1 waited unt il the last lap to take the lead (his traditional spot I in the 250 Combined event. Until then , Ron Pierce 197) led on the Sudco Yamaha. Jodv N .... Ol The AMA will assembly an ap peal board April 29 to decide the official protest of Jody Nicholas' Suzu ki's cylinder castings. For those of you who tuned in la te , th e team Suzo o k b ikes were ru nning cylinders tha t looked o nly vaguely similar to th e p roduc ti on item s, alth o ugh facto ry rep s clai m th e all-im portan t in nards are exactly th e same. Rules are rul es, boys, bu t we can un derstand th e p ro blem of trying to co mmu nicate so me o f th e odd AMA rules to the manufac turer overseas. kinda of won the whole thing. Trouble was when the AMA Formula 750 rules were t ran slat ed into Japanese somebod y made a typo in the character fo r "cylinder head" . Pau l Smart d isplay s h is famous form. ROA D ATLANT A 125 ·mlle Nat io nal Apr il 1 6 , 1 972 Uno fficial Joel Nichols vven DuHame l Paul Smart Ro n Gr ant Gene Romero Dick Mann Gary Nixon Kel Carruthers ~:~;f,~~~ert s Roger Re ima n Dav id Sm ith Ray H emp stead John Hateley Conrad Urbanowsk l Ke it h M ashb urn Gary Scott Jo hn Samway s Du an e M cDan iels Bob B ail ey Suz Kaw Kaw Suz Trl BSA Kaw Vam Vam Hon Hon Vam Vam BSA Vam Vam Vam Kaw Vam Trl RO AD ATL ANT A 50-m lle Junior/ Expe rt Ap ril 15 .1 972 Unofficial Kel Carr utners R o n Pierc e Joh nn y M. Lane D ave Sm it h K en ny R ob ert s Howard L ynggard • Jerry Green e G ary F isher Mar ty L unde D on Emde Conrad Urbano wsk l Doug T ea g ue Ray Hempstead Jer ry C hr istopher F red G uttner Ro nnie Dottl ey Ke i th Ma shburn Dou g Libby Pa ul H iggins Dua ne M cDaniels Vam Vam Vam Vam Vam Vam Vam Vam Vam Vam Vam Vam Vam Vam Vam Vam Vam Vam Vam Vam (More res ults o n p age 3 6)

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