Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

- ~NOR11iEiiNomiiiiEa.hington-l_o-Utah-A1"ka-Canada- Nonhem e . California-Northam Navad...oregon-Washington-ldaho-U_AJas tiebreakers were needed to place the riders. Duke Lambert rode a 250cc bike to the overall to top 200cc C winner Josh Chandler by three points. Five points back of Chandler at 47 points was Dwayne Bansmer (250cc C), followed by the three Open class winners Eric Strahl (53), Denny Hyatt . (54) and Bill Russell (55). Alan Francis also scored 55 points and took second 200cc C honors. The Old Timer and Super Senior rider06 rode hard with the Super Seniors proving to be in the running with the OTs. Stan Stanton nudged Terry Rust for the OT A win on tiebreaker points over Charlie Morgan. First and second Super Seniors, Bob Keyes and Dale Swanson then followed to top OT B winner Ted Bailey and the rest of his class. Gary Estes won the OT C class. The Hayward Motorcycle Club would like to thank all that attended the enduro. The club would also like to ask the enduro riders to remember to always include the three legal-size, self-addressed, stamped envelopes when entering enduros. All of the enduro clubs go through a lot of work to put on these events and they do deserve this courtesy, not to mention the savings in postage, which really adds up. Unofficial Results Tom Webb won the Cowbell and Bad Mountain enduro. the same weekend. time to complete the sections than the riders who stay on time. Judging from the number of riders caught, the check was obviously successfl;ll, but the shocking statistic is that over 60 A riders burned this check! Seems you By Jim Bowman can go a long way riding hot, but it Photo by Gail Weinert pays in the long run to ride cool. LAKE PILLSBURY, CA, NOV. 6 The hot and cold spells continued all day as the mountains never did Dirt Bike Magazine's Tom warm up. Riders were cold when· Webb played it cool today to timekeeping and hot when riding in takea couple of hot wins at the each special test, which is basically District 36 Cowbell enduro, as what the entire second loop was. Most of the over 100 miles were trail, he not only won the overall, but with very little fireroad, and many clinched the Golden State Enduro Championship as well, beating riders commented that they thought runner-up, Husqvarna support rider the event was of National caliber. Dave ·Bertram at the final event. KTM/Hi Point-sponsored Jeff The day was generally hot'and cold Henning was the second hottest rider of the day, riding his 250cc bike to for all of the 570 riders. It was cold in second overall, first A overall with 15 the mountains of the Mendecino Na- points, four points back from NationaI Forest and many of the riders didn't even see Lake Pillsbury until tional AA rider Webb. Southern Calithe fog began to lift about key time. It fornia's Jon Miller was third overall, first Open A, beating classmates Eddie was hot about the time the riders pulled into check one. . Diaz and Jeff Irwin, who were fourth and fifth overall. The heat surrounding check one had nothing to do with the mountain Yamaha-mounted Matt Cullins claimed the 200cc A honors with a temperatures as over 150 riders hit cool four-point lead over second place, this check early, losing far more but the big news here was the tie penalty points than they would h~ve lost for being late. The check was between two brothers in two different placed after the three-mile speedomeclasses. David Fleming' took second ter check at the first possible place in to Cullins, but brother Jim turned in a 30 mph section that was in some an identical 26 point score to top the very tight trees. 200cc B class and take the B overall as The soul purpose of this check was well. As of press time, we didn't know to penalize those riders who make a which brother won at the tiebreakers. habit of taking a head start at the The C class competition was close, tl t 5eaidrls, gMng1h~rh~1 e more I , I .hOt' a -WitH ihtfsi all'df\&e Hc:5S6; no Webb hot and cold at D-36 Cowbell enduro ... OVERALL: 1. Tom Webb (Hus); 2. Jeff Henning (KTM); 3. Jon Miller; 4. Eddie Diaz (Yam); 5. Jeff Irwin (Hon); 6. John Haaker; 7. Rob Sutliff. OPEN A: 1. Jon Miller; 2. Eddie Diaz (Yam); 3. Jeff Irwin (Hon). 250 A: 1. Jeff Henning (KTM); Greg Ferguson; 3. John Poor (Hon). 200 A: 1. Matt Cullins (Yam); 2. David Fleming; 3. Johnnie Beckett. OT A: 1. Stan Stanton; 2. Terry Rust (Suz); 3. Charlie Morgan (KTM). OPEN B: 1. Robert Windham; 2. Mark Locey; 3. Ron Glaubert. 250 B: 1. Roger Delight; 2. Len Nickerson; 3. Glen Carrillo. 200 B: 1. Jim Fleming; 2. Sid Schuetz; 3. Doug Chestnut. OT B: 1. Ted Bailey; 2. Gary Gormon; 3. Bob Creighton. OPEN C: 1. Eric Strahl; 2. Denny Hyatt; 3. Bill Russell. 250 C: 1. Duke Lambert; 2. Dwayne Bansmer; 3. Jim Dube. 200 C: 1. Josh Chandler; 2. Alan Francis; 3. Joe Sauve. OT C: 1. Gary Estes; 2. Harold Sitton; 3. Ivan Johnston. PP: 1. Susan Poor (Hon). Chew, Escalante go the AFM RR distance By Frank Nellis Photo by Bobby Brannon SONOMA, CA, OCT. 31 The American 'Federation of Motorcyclists North met at Sears Point Raceway today to hold their annual four-hour endurance race. The day was cool and the track had been freshly cleaned by two days of rain. This kept track and tire temperatures low and guaranteed that the hard endurance tires would not hook up all day. The day's festivties began with a costume contest. Frank Mazur, who has been almost unbeatable all year on the race track, put out a good e££ort in his "Rocky Horror" costume. He W;lS closely challenged by Joe Montoya as a "Saturday Night Live" killer bee, but these two fierce competitors were to be outdone today by Sue Moein who, in addition to beating out both of them in the costume judging, also finished in front of them in the race. The race started at 12:30. Race director Duncan Blake was very apprehensive about safety conditions· for the last half hour of the race. After 4 p.m. the sun artglitSl d9nger~Mly across the track and Duncan had made plans to end the race early if it proved too much of a safety hazard. The gridding positions ,for the start were made on a first come, first serve basis. This made the first half hour of the race a mad-house of knees and elbows, while the faster bikes that had gridded in back worked their way forward and ahead of the slower bikes that gridded in the front. The winning team of Pe~e Escalante and Tom Chew were gridded in the third row. Chew rode the bike first and after 10 laps he had worked his way into first place. By that time, the race track had become a gauntlet littered with oil patches, bikes and . riders. Broken race bikes were o££ the track in almost every corner. At the one-hour mark, an oil patch brough~ down nine bikes in 15 seconds, five of which were in the top 10 overall. Later, club president Vance Breese admitted, "There were more crashes than usual for an enduro, but less mechanical fail ures. So it worked out to be about the average number of DNFs." Despite the large number of crashes, there were no serious injuries and no transports to the hospital. The race ended with the Chew/Escalante team in front after completing 115 laps. Their nearest competitor was the Anderson/Elliott team which had completed only 112Iaps. They were followed by Harner/Morena, co~ pleting III laps. Results OVERALL: 1. P. Escalante/T. Chew (Kaw); ~. D. Anderson/D. Elliott/M. Petty (Kaw); 3. W. Har· ner/ J. Morena (Yam); 4. P. Laine/R. Beard (Kaw); 5. R. Howard/M. Kenyon (Yam); 6. M. Johnsoll/J. Glover (Yam); 7. G. Furey/J. Lum (Yam); 8. M. Ross/P. Carter (Suz); 9. J. Karp/F. Karp (Kaw); 10. T. Phillips/M. Hinshaw (Hon); 11. V. Costa/H. Barber (Kaw); 12. A. Bessin/S. Dunleavey/W. Bil· lings (Suz); 13. J. Brandt/T. Aguino (Kaw); 14. P. Struys/W. Struys (Kaw); 15. O. Harris/D. Chung (Kaw). OPEN: 1.. M. Ross/P. Carter (Suz); 2. D. Bas· fordlW. Epstein (Kaw); 3. E. AhlstromlT. Hutchins (Hon). 601-750: 1. P. Escalante/T. Chew (Kaw); 2. J. Karp/F. Karp (Kaw); 3. T. Ptiillips/M. Hinshaw (Hon). 451-600: 1. D. Anderson/D. Elliott/M. Petty (Kaw); 2. P. Laine/R. Beard (Kaw); 3. R. Howard/M. . Kenyon (Yam). 251-450 STK PROD: 1. W. Harner/J. Mornena (Yam); 2. J. Lum/G. Furey (Yam); 3. B. Riddle/P. Yasinitsky (Yam). 0-250: 1. G. Overman/B. Lugliani (C-A); 2. M. Fenner/H. Slayton (C-A). Edrington wins Thurston-Grays MX By Susan Brown OLYMPIA, WA, OCT. 31 Over 150 diehard motocross racers and a surprising number of spectators braved the ele~ ments as the Washington" monsoon" season came in full force. In the first 125cc Pro moto, six riders came to the line and it was I-tighland Honda's Dave Froembling that holeshot. With c1oseq>mpetition from Suzuki riders Lance Richotte and Stacy Thorton, first year Pro Froembling fell back to third. Richotte pulled a big lead, but Olympia's own Nathan Pippert was working his way up to the front. Pippert got by Thor· ton and when Richotte crashed he moved easily into first. Pippert got the win, Thorton maintained second, . and Froembling took third place cash. In mota two only three riders came to the line. Pippert's hopes for an overall were dashed when rocks jammed between his· chain and sprocket. After that it was a close duel between Thorton and Froembling. IJF.roe~I:>~hgvtdn;t:down sndJi, Wla~ all

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