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'" " l6' c, Arroyo------------------------by K. C. Brintnall SAN BERNARDINO, CAL., Jan. 14, 1973 - Arroyo Cycle Park scheduled a triple-header featuring a drag hillclimb, CRC MX and trials school. The novelty of T rials riding drew the most interest of the three. . Trials riding has the enthusiastic supp o rt of thousands of riders and specta to rs allover the world, yet many people still think of trials as a bunch of crazy guys trying to defy gravity on funny -looking motorcycles. In an effo rt to clear up a few misconceptions about trials riding and to en courage more riders to participate themselves in trials, Montesa promoted a school ta ugh t by their U.S, trials team at Arroyo Cycle Park. Participating tearn members included Vic Conaway, Xavier J ordi, Rich Delancy and other "dab" speci alis ts . Besides exhibiting their considerable skill by riding up and down sheer walls and lo ftin g their bikes over foot-thick logs, th e team riders generously offered pointers to p o ten tial and would-be trials riders. Since trials is one of the few typ~s of motorcycle competition where M e- Cl M '" " .., " ~ W Z W ..J U >- U a rickr actually turns thc bike rather than just leaning to change direction, the instructors emphasized turning techniques along with lessons on balance and proper throttle co n trol. To enable them to get a real feel for trials riding, many of the participants and observers were given an opportunity to try out the Montesa trials machines: the Cota 123 and 247. The efforts of Montesa and Arroyo Cycle Park to establish a trials club in the San Bernardino area were well received by the locaJs . At least tw enty people signed up to participate in i rials even ts in the area, and many m o re had gained an understanding and a lot of admiration for the skill s involved in trials riding. Those who attended th e exhibition at Arroyo will co ntinue to believe that trials riders can d efy gravi ty, bu t crazy they certainly aren't. The drag hillclimb fizzled since most of the regu lar hard-core hillclimbers boycotted it. Complete res ults on the CRC m otocross will be in next week. Then th ere was the wh eelie contest... ---!Baymare MX {Continued from page T he Open class had a star studded cas t with Jim Weinert, Marty Tripes, Rich Thorwaldson, Bill Payne, Tim Hart and so on. Billy Payne (Mail p ut it to eve ry one in the Open B with three co nvin cin g wins. Bill Clements pursued him in the first m o to and Tim Hart, on a factory Yamaha, p urs ued him in the second. Back in the Open A, Jimmy Weinert on a 450 Kawasaki took the first moto over T ripes and in the second was a long yawn and a strug ahead of Mike Runyard, With convincing wins by Winert and Payne in the A and B and Marty Tripes recovering from footpeg diffifulties the stage was set for a fantastic [male. A fantastic [male is just what happened with the three expected stars playing major roles. At the start., Payne broke into the lead with Wcinert on his fender. They broke away from the pack and Weinert made frantic a tt empts to get by , wi th no success. Meanwhile, Marty Tripes moved through the pa ck an d joined th e fron t running d oo. 22)---------.. .-- Tripes, in putting pressure on Weinert, removed the load from Payne for a few laps and Bill opened up abo ut a fifty foot lead. Marty never got by Weinert and in the last laps Weinert joined Payne again for some mo to rized discourse on th e inheritance of first position. Weinert bounde d around trying most every trick in the book to get by . Payne demonstrated in tense cool, never got flustered an d closed the door everytime. In the las t lap Weinert did get by for a few seconds, b ut his last ditch effort put him off balance and Payne was back by again. After the tunnel jump Weinert made one m ore attempt to go to the insick, but Payn e held his ground once again and this time for the win . First, sec ond an d third were no more than forty feet apart at the checkered. Molly Blu e presented checks, lubrican t and o th er goodies, with so und effects by Larry Huffman. Mar k Spitz wandered .around o ut there so me where looking for more goold ole PRo Wow . EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE! YAMAHA GOlD (If nSTEEPlKHASE & % SHORT TRACK MILE JANUARY 27th &28th 11:00 AM REPEATED AT 4:00 PM Molly Blue Sez... HRL's new FORK FLUID does the job for light. medium an d heav ywei ghts. Let MO LLY BLUE give you a smoo t h ride with HRL 's FORK FLUID. 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