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"" " '" '" e, N r-. Ol O· N c " .., " ~ w Z W ..J U >U YDAY By Ron Schneiders Ph o tos By Ron an d Ellen Schneiders WESTON, O R E., June 10 ,11, 19 72 Two q uali fy ing ro unds fo r th e 19 72 ISDT h ave b een h eld in O rego n d urin g the p asLI 0 d ays . According to pre-race scu tt lebu tt the first, held at Trask Mountain wo u ld be we t and mu dd y , wh ile th e second , the Bad Rock Trial he re in Weston , wo uld be dry an d dusty. Ac tually it was j u st the op posite . Trask was dry an d th e Bad Rock was almost as wet as New Eng land's Berkshire T rials. I t rained all day Saturday and in termi tten t cloudbursts d ren ch ed th e riders on Sunday . Bad Ro ck, being held for the first time this year, attracted fewer riders than any o f th e o ther qualifying rounds: only 106 started ; but a good portion of th e serious candidates for the ISDT team slo ts were entered. In the imp ortant Trade Team co mpe titio n, te am s w ere entered fro m Penton , Yankee , Hu sky , BSA-Rickm an Div., Bultac o, Hodak a , H-D, Kawasaki (Pend leton Sp orts Ccn ter) . A lmost o ne -thi rd of th e en try was elimin at ed from co mpe ti tion b efo re th e first check by a long hill w ith a surface of loose st on es, made very slic k by several h ours of ra in . Everyone had to pu sh up th e h ill an d th ose not in shap e quit right th ere . Th ose wh o co ntinued had a difficult time with th e m ar kings between sec tio ns 2 & 3. Po o r v is i b il it y , th e clubs' inexperie nce . so me cows with a taste for Hod ak a arrows, and so m e deli berate sabotage comb ine d to make the job of fo llo w ing t he course alm ost to ugher than riding it. Ho weve r , th e lorig dis tance between th e two check s allo we d mo st rema ini ng ride rs to m ake up th eir lost wandering time. Fifty rid ers comp leted the d ay 's I n ·m ile ride an d 21 retained th eir gold medals o n th e basis of route marks lost. Some of those m ay have been on sliver at th at p oin t due to p oo r special test sco res, bu t at pre ss time, these scores have n ot been co m pu ted. Se veral riders h ad to fin ish th eir ride Sat urday by ch an ging a tire in the muddy wo r k area near th e finish. For tired, co ld rid ers thi s w as th e ul timate test. Cali forn ia's Lyl e T ayl o r p ulled his tire off and pu shed hi s b ike in to the co m pound on th e rim , with o nly three m inu tes to sp are bef o re disq ualifi cat io n. He fixed it th e fo llo wing morning. Northern Calif. Enduro ch am p Ben Bower had to fix a fron t tire , but he managed to stay o n a Gold. Wors e luck fell to th e Yankee Team with a total o f five fiats, three suffered by Charley Vin cen t. All were repaired, h ow ever , and Charley earned a Bronze medal , wh ile te am members David have Eam es, an d Dave Latham appa ren tly earn ed Gold s. S un day 's ride, wi th o nly intermi tte nt rain an d be tter course markin gs, w as mu ch eas ier and only seven of th e 50 Sunday st arting rid ers failed to finish. Sunday 's .sche d ule sp eed (24 mph) was yet too low and m os t of the better riders arrived at th e check s with 2 0-3 0 m in u tes to spare. T he re we re two spe cial tes ts each day, and th ey were run over the sam e terrain. On Sun day , o f co urse, th ey were run in th e op posite dire c tio n. Fro m the comme nts of th e ride rs. the co urses chosen fo r th e special tes ts we re ideal and time kee ping produced no com p lain ts. The Pen to n East Team, learning a sad lesso n fro m las t w eek' s q ualifying even t, j uggled their special test times on Saturday so th at thei r to tal stay ed clo se r t o g e th e r , w ith team man ager / rider Doug Wilford telli ng his tw o m ates Billy Uh l and Bob Grodzin sk i when to speed up and when to slow down. On Sund ay, they attempted to set fast ti me and ap p aren tly su cceeded. Doug Wilford 's score o f 253 7 app ea rs to be best while Billy Uh l's score o f 257 9 is second. Cal ifornia Trials rider Lan e Le avitt (Bu l) is a speculati ve th ird . Th ere arc no off icial resu lts as ye t, but it ap p ears th a t til e Penton T eam and Hu sky T eam we re the o n ly teams wi th all Go ld Medals. T he win ner o f th e Trade T eam trop hy ap pears to be the Pen ton Te am with a total bonus p ai n t score of 7752 . The Hu sky team (La rs Lar sson , Ron Bohn , Frank Piasecki ) accumu lated 808 1 for second. The Yan kee team, with tw o G old s and a Bron ze is p robab ly in th ird spo t. Bulta co Team earned two Go ld s (Dave Ekin s an d Lane Leavitt) but th eir third mem ber , Ro n Murphy, injured h is hand an d failed to finish either da y . They are pro b ab ly fo ur th . In the Club Team co mpe tition, n o teams fin ished intact. It ap pears that th e . '" '. : Lars Larsson. Bultaco "B" Team wi th T om Patto n an d A ndy Richman earning G old s on the bas is o f route marks is in fr on t. Third me mber, Bob Steffan , with a bad knee inju ry lef t over fro m th e Trask , failed to fin ish eith er d ay. No 100cc clas s bi kes finished . Th e h o stin g organ izat ion, Pacific No r th we st T rials Assn. (PNTA ), w ound up the two da y event with a picnic b arb eque fo r all participan ts with lo ts o f roas t p ork, turke y, ham, and fo ur kegs of beer. The rain s abated and by 10 p .rn, everyone felt very, very good . Full results ne x t w eek. Ossa Sweeps Tras~ By Ron Schneiders McMINNVILLE, ORE., June 7, 1972 - In a triumph o f rul es o ver reason , the Yankee Ossa te am (Dave Latham, Don Cutler, and Charlie Vincent) was aw ard ed the Trade Team T roph y fo r th e Trask Mtn . Trials. in ste ad o f the Penton East Team as was annou nced in Cycle News last week. T he Motorcycle Activities Club of McMinnville used part of the com p lica ted FIM Six Days' scoring system to co me up with the rather ..