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CONTRARY . T O RUMOR, EI Toro
Speedway will be running a regular
moto cro ss p ro gram every Fr id ay ni ght,
as sch ed uled .
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The Pomona Valley Desert Riders have
rece ived some nice com p liments f or
their hand ling of the weather-aborted
Granny Run II Fam ily End uro. T hey
have resched uled t h e run for June 3
w ith free entry to all who signed up the
f irst t ime . Add it ional entries are also
ava ilable . They went to considerable
effort to keep people from f reez ing to
death in the f o ur inches of h igh desert
snow last t ime o ut a nd seem deserving
of all you family enduro types' support .
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EVEN BETTER THAN IT LOOKED.
Unfortunately om itted during t he
paste-up of last week's story on Jim
Po meroy's fantastic f inish in the
Spanish Grand Pr ix was the fact that
J im and Hans Maisch were actually t ied
for f irst overall on points. J im won the
first 45-minute moto (Another first for
Amerieans , actually w inn ing a GP moto
o utright) and too k fourth in the second
one. Maisch had a second and third .
Accord ing to FIM rules, the of ficials
had to go to t he clock to decide the
ove rall winner since' Pomeroy and
Maisch were tied on points. Hans got
the advan tage by not very ma ny
's e c o n d s . Spea king non-tech n ica lly ,
Pom eroy t ied fo r first overa ll in his f irst
Wor ld Ch ampionsh ip Gra nd Prix and is
the leade r in po ints cou nt ing towa rd t h e
250 Wo rld Champ ionsh ip in motocross.
It's a lso , incid ent all y, th e h ighe st GP
fi n ish for Bu ltaco by any rid er in so me
t ime. His f irst sponso r, Terry Saxlund
up in Se att le , Washin gt o n ca lled to say
h ow p roud of Jim he was and so are we
at Cycle News.
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G unnar Lindstrom will be Husq varn a' s
U.S. Raci ng T eam Manager for 197 3. He
has acted as coordi nator/ transla te r/ fix er-up per fo r Husky's TransAMA racin g
efforts fo r the last ye ar o r so.
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Pomeroy Declared Victor
In Spanish 250 Grand Prix
Th is Saturday night w ill be t he f irst ever
under-the-Iights TT fo r Ascot . There's
the half-m ile as usual on F riday night ,
t oo .
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You may h ave heard so me rumbli ngs
abo ut editorials on th e t ube agains t
bi ker s. Next Monday and Tuesd ay ,
April 23 & 2~ , we're getting rebuttal
time on KNBC, Channel F our. At 6 :5 5
p .m. o n Mo n day and th en again at I : 15
a. m. and 6:5 0 a .m . , Bill Frickie , o f
Huntington Beach , will ap pear to give
that reb uttal. Yo u o ught to t ry and
ca tc h thi s one.
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A test bike fell off its s ide stand
yesterday, without provocation. We fea r
that it is a total. Well , maybe not t ha t
bad . It did get the sh ift leve r, t he clu tch
lever, t he f ro nt turn ind icator , the grip ,
t he head ligh t and brackets, and even the
t achometer. It 's beg inn ing to fee l like
' Det ro it type plan ned in ob so lescence.
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N ick Andrews won th e French Trials on
h is Yamaha. Yo u begin to get the
feeling that any problems with the
Yamaha are getting so rted ou t right
quickly.
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OPEN MEANS "OPEN". An -article in
th e "C hrist ian Scien ce Mo nitor"
co ncerning t he infamous Execu tive
Order 11 644 regardin g in ven to ry and
recommendat ion s for p u blic lan d usage
was generally cri tical of the fac t th at th e
BLM is n o t proceeding fas ter wi th it s
work. On e in te resting p oint tha t it did
bring o ut, h ow ever, is that th e B LM has
un til 19 8 0 to fin ish its invento ry an d
d ecid e on th e sta tus of public lands.
Un til th en , all BLM lands will be
co n si d ere d o pen until . specifically
closed.
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The O rang e County Board of
Supervisors is co nsidering measures t o
im pose noise eontro ls on raceways and
motorcycle Co urses . The ma in irrit a nt
seems to be t he drags at OCI R wh ich go
on into t he night, d ist urbing res idents ,
but they w ill also be loo king at
motocross t racks a nd motorcycle parks
even t hou gh b ikes operate on ly d uring
t he daytime . Th is seems lik e a good
t ime to make sure you have a silencer
on yo ur b ike . Most t racks al read y
require t hem.
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Gene R o me ro has sign ed through
In ternational Mo tor Marketing to dri ve
a Ferrari in the fou r-wheel TransA m
series. He w ill still con tinue to race
bikes.
NEVER
WOULO
HAVE
BELIEVED
t hat t here a re so many people w h o ca n
r id e 4 0 M PH over some o f thesec t ions o f
t he
H i aM o untaln Enduro. T h at is, we
w oul d n't ' h ave be li ev ed it if w e h ad n ·t
It.B u t
seen
t h en
aga in,
l ots
d id n 't
ma nag e t o ma in ta in that speed 'or t o o
l on 9 .
Fo r
t e sta nce.
o ur
f earless
con tri b u t or m an age d t o im pale hi m self
o n a b ranc h , at ab out n os e h ei gt h . No t
onl y d id h e r en d er himself useless, b u t
he cou ldn 't see ei t her. He's o k a y no w .
but
ad mits that
h e w asn "t
too sur e
f orawhUe.
A l so at t he Hi. M o u n tai n Enduro, w e
f oun d out that a DK W Enduro really Is
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" Cycle" Magaz ine has come out w ith
t heir vers ion of those ub iquitous annual
buy ing guides, t h is being the 1973
ed it ion. It is actually a pretty useful
reference book which even has some
new material in it . We particularly like
their short synopsis descriptions of all
the '73 scooters. To our m ind, they
capture what t he bike is all about in a
few sentences. Maybe that's because we
agreed w ith most of their comments.
(Look out for people who agree on
something telling each other how smart
they are !) They could have th rown in a
few more p ictures of t hose spiffy ladies
that are a lways wander ing around their
covers, though ...for di rty old men like
Papa. Heh, heh . You can bUy one of
these gu ide s for yo ur very ow n even as
you read th is.
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Fo r all yo u Northe rn ers (Cal. &
Oregon), there's go nna be a Grand Prix.
Yuba-Sutter MC is putting o n th e
second Sierr a Mesa Grand Prix , on May
5 & 6. Mail six bucks, except if you're a
pro ($ 15 ), to Bo x 8 09, Yuba City , Cal.
9599 I. T he re 's an ad in here so mewhere
wi th an en try fo rm.
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an enduro b ike and really will compl et e
t h e H I·Moun ta in End u ro w hen not eye n
ade q u at el y
bro k en i n.
out t h at f lat trackers
W e al so fo u nd
don ~
get along
w ell with end uros.
Color action co ve r p hot o of e nduro-ing take
by R on Schneider s.
SABADELL , SPAIN , Apr. 12, 1973 American Bultaco rider Jim Pomeroy
h as been declared the winner of the first
World Championship motocross Grand
Prix h e has ever entered. A retabulation
of the points according to the 197 3 Fll\l
m otocross scoring system gave Jim not
on ly the- lead in the 250 World
Championship, as already re ported, but
mad e him the overall winner of the
opening Grand Prix of the' 73 season.
Motocross fans will reme mber that
im and Han s Maisch had tied on p o in ts
with five apiece for the tw o 45-minute
m otos un der th e tra ditional one for
firs t, two fo r second sco ring system
used in in ternatio nal motocross. Po in ts
fo r ove ra ll w o rld stan dings are awa rde d
on the b asis of 15 fo r firs t, 12 for
second , 10 fo r thir d, 8 for fourth an d so
o n . Since th e German an d th e American
ti ed o n
p o ints,
the
w er e
Spanish-sanctioni ng cl ub had gone to
th e clock an d Maisch h ad the lo west
e lapsed tim e . Tech nically, thi s gave him
th e Gra nd Prix victory even th ou gh
Pomero y le d in world po int standings.
T he FIM, w o rld sanctioning body for
in tern at io nal mo to cross co mpe ti tion,
h as instructed tha t , in 19 73, motos will
be sco red with the same pain t system as
th e wo rld cham pio ns hip stan di ngs. Jim 's
23 points with a fir st an d fourth be a t
Han s' second and third total of 22 .
Pomero y is the winner of the Span ish
25 0 Grand Prix.
A feat t hat most Ame rican an d
n earl y all European "experts" predi cted
to be a ye ar o r tw o away has been
ac complished b y Jim Pomeroy, a rid er
wh o has been relatively little touted by
an ybody ex ce pt, of co urse , Bultaco and ,
we roudl no te, thi s p ub lica tio n .
Additional information indicat es tha
Jim got the lead on the first lap of the
first m o t o, af ter breaking from th e gate
in third, and was never headed in the 4
mi nutes plu s two laps of racing. Joel
Robert, reigning World Champ , worke
his wa y up to fifth be fore pulling of
the track. Jim had pulled ou t a 12
second le ad when his pit crew, Sr. F.X.
Bulto himself, told him to thro t tle back
giving hi m the victory by a six second
ma rgin . Jim fell in the secon d mota
fai rly h ard, restar ted , and wor ke d his
way back u p to fourth at the finis h.
LATEST FROM EUROPE
MOTOCROSS
ita lian 250 Grand Pr ix
Serra mazzoni , Italy
Ap ri. 15, 1973
OV ERALL
Ma i
A d ol f Wei I
w. Ge r
KTM U SSR
Pavel Rutev
Hakan Ander sson
Ya m S w ed
J i m Po me r o y
S ui
USA
MOTa 1
F in
H us
H e l k k i Mikk o la
Gu n na dy Mossleev KTM USS R
Hakan Anderso n
Yam Swed
A dolf Weil
Mal
W . Ger.
USA
Jim Po m er o y
Bul
MOTa 2
KTM USS R
Pa ve l R urev
Adolf Wei!
Mal
W . Ger
Jaroslav Falta
CZ
CSSR
Tor lelf Hansen
Kaw Swed
Bul
USA
J im Pomeroy
Adolf W eil now lea ds World
25 0
Champ lonsip standings
w ith 41 p oints. Jim Po m e r o y
is second w ith 35 p o ints.
