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Delule MDde l S34.00 pair
4" travel w/60
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It seems the re w ere some ro ck s o n th e Light , twi sty course bu t so me guys st ill mad e th ree lines out ot one .
DESERT M .e. HOSTS HARD
HARE & HOUND
S tory b y Al ice -Rhe a
Ph oto s b y Ron J ac obs a nd R he a
LUC ERN E VALLEY , CAL., Feb. 18,
197 :1 - Under th e pleased gaze of
sponsor T ed Lap ad a kis, o f Hercu le s
Distributing, Tom Brooks brought hi s
12 5 DKW in for anothe r ov erall victory.
T om was unperturbed wh en the
Desert :'I.C. referee greeted him w ith ,
"Sorry, T om, y our displacement has
been protested an d we'll h ave to
impound your bike." The bike was torn
d o wn and su re enough, it w as .0 ·lO ove r.
The rulebook a llo ws for .0 8 0 overbore,
so Tom is well with in th e lim it s. (It
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see ms he'd be well within cc limits
any how since he's a 17 5 di spla cem en t
class. ] G u ess tha t w ill s top a fe w
ru mors. Tom gri n ne d wh ile pocke ti ng
th e S J 0 protest fe e, which goes to th e
rider protested if the c h a rge ' is invalid.
Riders who we re e xpecting th e
Desert :'I.C. to th ro w their traditional
tough c o u rse were not disappointed and ,
some of the 890 entrants are probably
, still stuc k on that first nasty ro ck uphill.
Some riders said parts of the c o u rse
Were so tigh t they had to fold up thei r
footpegs .an d hold in th eir stomachs to
get through.
Larry Bergquist ( Bu l) took the le ad
at th e bomb but soon wa s passed by
Mar k Ade n t on h is so mewhere-between DKW . Wh en Ma r k
I 76 cc·and-250cc
lan d ed with hi s knees o n ' the seal h e
d e cided to travel a t a m o re pruden t
speed.
Wh en Brooks, Mit ch Ma y es (Hus)
and A.C . Bakken (H u s) passed Bergquist
an d Aden t and fifteen -year-old Bryan
Brecke r (C Z ) move d in beh ind Adent .
Somewhere between hal fw ay around
the firs t loop and t he pits, Ber gquist
dr opped back fur ther and Larry
Pfutzen rcuter (Bu l) m o ved into, se cond
Iigh tw ei gh t spo t .
Th ro u gh the pits, Brooks had
st retc h ed hi s le ad o u t to tw o minutes.
A .C. d ash ed in for gas and w as passed in
th e pits b y Mitch :' Iayes but Ma ye s h ad
n ot p itted ye t an d Bakken got h im back
an d stayed in sec ond pl ace with :'Iayes,
th ird , and Mar k Adent fourth .
T h e d ay wa s so balmy that Br oo ks
go t 10 d ay dreamin g an d A .C . c rep t up
wi th in abou t tw o hundred yards of him .
Tom gla nced casua lly over h is shoulde r
a nd when he saw A .C . a bou t to put the
swoop on him hi s e ye s go t as bi g as
se we r lids and h e really wicked o n the
little D KW, st retching out his lead in th e
rough . twist y terrain .
No more day dream ing fo r Tom, he
hel d the Dee k wide o p e n righ t through
the ch ec kered , finishing with time to
spare. leaving A.C. in se cond as first
Open Expert with May es finishing third
overall and se cond O pen Expert.
Larry Pfu tze nre u ter (Bu l) has been
out m o st of th e season wi th a ba d ca se
of t he fl u . li e ra ce d h is first of the
season last w ee k , bu t DNF' d w it h a bad
case ' of Mudd y Goggles, a nd G lasses.
Unli ke m o st racer s, Larry c an 'I j ust take
off h is goggles wh en it ge ls mu ddy . He
is blin d as a bat with o u t hi s glasses.
So, for a ll prac t ic al purposes, th is
was his first race thi s year an d he wa s
cu tting in to Aden t's le ad wh e n h is rig ht
rear shock blew o ut. Eve n tha t did n 't
slow Larry down, b ut a t th e third chec k
o n th e se cond loop , when he losl hi s
w hole e x h a ust pipe, Larry did h ave to
slow d own jus t a little, bUI nOI en o ugh
to keep him from finishin g just behind
Adent for fifth overall a n d second 2 50
Expert.
A guy n amed Dav e Laca (Ya m ) ca me
o ve r fr om Las V egas a n d pie -plated this
run. finishin g six th o vera ll. Dave sa id
That . oh m y brothers, is fast!
