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M ci' co fOUND fLAT OUT IN THE MOJAVE '" .... '" Q. '" «i :!! '5 .., '" ;: w Z W ...J U > U so me wa ter," Diana continued, so I drank some an d gave it bac k, and they said I bett er drink some more . So I dr a nk some mo re and th en I star ted off, and o ne of th ose swee t hearts ye lled , "Goodbye, Hon ey: " For a long ti me Sh aro n Rosenauer was a single girl. She d id a ll the wo rk o n her Hod aka exce pt the fine tun ing. (Her motto is " All you need is a little leverage." ) Sh e loa de d her truck. an d she wen t out to t he desert to race . No matter how tired she was after the race. she still had to load her b ike in t he truck and d rive home. ju st like every body else. Sher had it a little easier now: she got a brand new husband in Decemb er. and recently Swee t Duck Suzuki made one of their 185 Suzu kis into a 175 so they could sponso r her. Pretty, petite Joy Malis is a motorcycle racer. horsewoman and ba llet teac her . "The ballet co mes in . handy," quipped Joy . '" always look gracefu l wh en I crash: ' Ma y Ann Eyre doesn ' t race m uc h any more . O nce she brok e her leg while racing and was in a cast fo r fou r month. Duri ng the very nex t race she rod e. she bro ke her leg again. Th e bank wh ere she w ork s was ada m a n t . " No mo re mo to rcycle rac ing!" So Mary Ann co nte nted herself with yard wo rk...un til she slipped in th e fro nt yard and pulled all the liga men ts in her leg...gue ss th e ban k did n ' t realize th at 75% of all accide nts happen in t he hom e. Mar y Bro ok s is famous for her so ns. Tom and Co rd is. Mary refers to her self as a garage kee per. With two boys, her self and her hu sband racing it ke ep s her hopring ju st finding all the parts, in sp ite 0 th e help she rec eives from Carabela , I don't kn ow if you would call J an Ditson a sponsored rider. Her hu sband, Car roll , is p art o wne r o f Speed Sp ort in Van Nu ys, and they do the tuning... n arch , Chris Field s sta rte d goi ng to races with her dad , Do yle, and just never got ou t o f the habit . Chris has a unique job for a woman: she is a sales rep for a mo torcycle part s an d accessory hou se and says th e j ob is rea lly fun. " T he dealers are hap py to see me, and they almost a lways b u y some th ing." Patty Clagg, moth er o f th ree c hildre n. is in charge of pu blic relations for her husband's machine sho p, an d rides we ll enough to be sponsored b y the peopl e wh o used to sponsor Rich Th orwald son , CoB Mo tors in Hawt h orn e, Sa ndy Term in, divorced mother of three ch ildren, p ro babl y has [0 work hard er getting to the desert than most of us . San dy is an IBM Keypunch opera tor. psychology student at Santa Mo nica City Co llege, mother and motorcycle racer, alt hough not necessarily in t hat order. Sh e also has to run dow n part s a nd try to find somebody to work on her bike. Kathy Ainglin and Judy Lovell have recently been admitted to the Desert Daisies, bringing them membersh ip to ten. T ha t makes the club big enough that th ey cou ld camp and pit toge ther, bu t with their hu sb ands in the Ch ec kers , Ram s, Pros pecto rs...well...where wo uld yo u cam p? Aft er a ll, first an d for emo st . a Desert Daisy is a wom an . Bright er than so me. in better ph ysical co ndi tio n tha n mo st , an d probab ly a lot happier th an the average ho usewife. Cer tain ly they have mo re courage th an most wom en, being aw are that th ey are co mpe ti ng in a man 's spo rt and yet trus ting th at th e m en wh o ra ce arc man en ough n ot to Brooks Daisy at Rest feel threa ten ed by th em . Th e men respond b y helping th e girls with advice and occasio nally. b y lending a mu scle to help load a bike in a truck - j ust like the guy s help each ot her. "M ostly ," said Mary Brooks, " A Desert Daisy is j ust a per son doing something fun." Desert Daisy M.C. is considering putting o n a race in th e future. If they do , it is sure to b e a "mu st" for all de sert racer s to attend. I got a snea k peek a t so me of their proposed trophies and th ey are go ing to be co llec to r's items. As for th e rac e : lik e th e Daisie s, it is su re to be unusual, enj oyable and fun. ; M ary Chris F ields shows some up-o n-the-tank st y le. She does it to get the front end ba~k down . ., , Sandy Terml n