Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

Open Class for Lunch bunch M unches at Ponderosa and a little .. ...if th at h adn't happened" ben ch racin g, they were p ro bably happy too. ./ , MontY L ee (Yam) comes i n t o the home check t o take f irst 125 and first ov erall at th e Po nderosa. By Mike Kerley _ LANCASTER, CAL., June 4 , 19 72 - It was hot en ough fo r an yone o ut in th e high desert Sunday, bu t apparen tly Monty Lee didn't th ink so. Riding a 125 Yamah a in th e mon th ly bike-breaker Hare Scrambles h osted b y Greyhounds M.C., Monty go t ou t in front and stayed there, b ringing in his bike way ahead o f the pack and far enough in fron t of th e o th er lead ers t o chalk-up his fourth overa ll win at the Po nde rosa. When a rider has won on the sam e course thirty-six times in the p ast six years, you start believing that he h as the thing wired . When he 's eaten up en ough Open class machines on h is 125 to win ove ral l fo ur times , yo u start hearing things like "Very, very fast," and .. t+$%/& *!"· They' re takin g-up a co llection nex t month t o buy Mo nty eno ugh gas to get t o ano the r co urse. T h e ru m o r is th at th e enti re Open class will co ntrib ute. Ph il Elery (BSA) rode a fast , practi ced race o ver the gu t-p o undin g Ponderosa whoop-de-docs to finis h first in th e Open class and second overall, wh ile O. Fink (Bul) took a second and th ird resp ectively. Fink w as the first place finisher in b o th Open an d Ove ra ll ca tegories Satu rd ay , and was one of the happy winn er s of the McHaI helmet award based on both days' results. The o ther helmet wen t to J oe Rousek (O KW), who finished second in the trail class b o th days. T wo helmets are awarded every mon th , one in the trail class and one for everyone else , and sin ce on ly Novices who have n ever won it before: are eligible, the goodies get sp read ar ound pre tty well. The mere mortals among the 125 class h ad a bash o f their own o u t in the sand, with R . Garcia (Yam ) h olding off B. Ballantine (Bul) fo r second pal ce. Garcia won th e class Saturday ft er Mon ty Lee's scooter decided to take the day off midway through the race. In the trail bike class, Sandy Ro bertson (Hod) seems to h ave things pretty we ll figu red ou t, too. Sandy won both days, taking his Super Rat around th e co u rse a lot faster th an some o f th e Op en riders we re ready for. As on e d isgrun tied warrior po in ted ou t after the race : "It sort of ruins you r day wh en you're banging along on y o ur 250, just kin d of enjoying the race , and you ge t passed by a R at. On the dry lak er" War is hell. Lyn n Musgrove was the fir st lad y across the lin e on both day s, an d has apparently trained her own Super Rat to do spe cial things out there in th e pucker bush es. The Ponderosa Hare Scr ambles is a six year o ld , on ce a m onth h ap pen in g, and the Greyh ounds alw ays see m to d o their best to see that eve ryone has a go od tim e . Th is mon th J ack Ross an d friends sp ra ng for 5 0% trophies. so at least h alf th e fin ishe rs wen t horne happy . T he o the r half wer e all told they .1. we re .on'Ybl1bo l1r forty -fiveseconds 'Out of the b rass, so after a few m in u tes rest Some gu ys wh o definitely didn't go home happy were th e ten or tw elve h appy wanderers wh o managed to get off the course an d o n to a gravel road righ t afte r the first check . T h ey were all disqualified. Riders are gene rally warned ab out th is, and the co urse is well marked , but it seems t o h appen every month. Four o f thi s month's lose rs lost out on picking up trophies, including one for third p lace Open. fourth Overall. Probably ruined his whole day . The Ponderosa is a rough, fast co urse , and it produces some spect acular falls every mo nth , b u t they' re usually ou t in the back country whe re the re 's no one to "OOh" and "Ahh" but the buzzards. Generally, the buzzards d on ' t bo ther, becau se th ey 're to o b usy moving rocks out on to the co urse an d licking th eir chops - or wha tever it is tha t buzzards lick . T he only rider who required med ical attention S unday was so me guy who took a header out in the bushes after th e race. Without hi s h elmet. The birds were so surp rised th ey didn't respond until he had already made it b ack t o the ambulan ce on foot . The a t te nd an t lo o ked kind o f surprised LOO . (Re su lts o n p age 40) ~. Hand Washable • Riding • Racing • Street GLOVES Stay Soft Othma n D ist ribut ing Co . 18227 Ludl o w St . Northridge . 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