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Race Tech & Redwood Engineering AHRMA National

By: Albert Newmann / Photos Bobby Hedge

Taylor Carruthers

Sept 26-27, 2020

AHRMA National racing returned for a second year to this vintage purpose-built private facility, and for the racers in attendance it was another fun-filled weekend of great racing. A friend of mine recently reminded me of when AHRMA racers are out driving the countryside, a certain piece of land catches our eye, and we think, “Wouldn’t that be a cool place to set up a track?” You see some rolling hills, a nice gulch, maybe a little sand, and just what type of dirt would be under the grass that cattle are feeding on? This property is just that. The track is a complete co-op effort of a variety of volunteers with a wide range of skills that include a few who run national caliber motocross and crosscountry race facilities. Most of us in the region and neighboring states to the South-Central region are familiar now with the beautiful, loamy dirt the farm offers up. But to those making their first trek to the Texas Vintage Grand Prix course, one quickly realizes the variety of surfaces we have in this particular region and how each track is somewhat distinct from the other. The gathering is the same as we are all one big family, so hospitality is a given here as well as late September usually offers up beautiful blue skies along with a little heat in the latter part of the day and a nice cool-down once the sun sets. In Texas we call that perfect weather!

On to racing! Our first race of the day featured some very fast racers which are some of the younger racers in AHRMA.

Brandon Glenn, Kyle Kyzer, Travis Shackelford, and Tyler Reed are the bright new wave in our region and the racing was intense as the Sportsman 250 and 500 Expert classes were our first race of the day. Glenn immediately goes to the top of the pack but by lap two Reed went to the lead of moto one while Kyzer, Glenn, and Gary Emerson battled their 250s to keep up with the 500 group. The second moto saw Travis Shackelford recover from his first moto issues and lead the 500s to the win. If anyone questioned the speed of this race, you need to look no further than the super-fast Billy Russell taking a 4-4 finish in the 250 class on the day as the final order was Glenn winning with Kyzer taking second and Emerson third. Shackelford’s 4-1 finish gave him the overall in the 500 group with Chris Richardson finishing second. Easily some of the fastest lap times of the day and we were just getting started.

Shand Garcia and Mrs. Becky Parker

Lawrence Lucia

Race two on the day saw the Holeshot Queen Charlene Campbell kick off what was the beginning of holeshotting “almost” every moto she was in as this race had our Women’s Intermediate and Experts lined up alongside the Vintage 60+ Intermediate group. Eddie Parks made a pass on the second lap to take the lead and never look back, but Campbell held off the stacked group of guys behind her. Wes Wyman and John Fedor hung on to finish second and third in moto one but mechanical issues in moto two put Wyman into last place and Fedor’s second place finish placed him second overall behind Parks’ commanding race win. Race three saw Karnie Wessling make her AHRMA debut into Vintage racing on a CZ for a win as well as Billy Cole won the 60+ Novice group and John Nelson taking first overall in the 50+ Novice class.

The attention-grabbing race of the day though was race six which saw our Sportsman 125 group putting on quite a show. Darren Terry, riding his newly purchased YZ125, had a death match race with newcomer to 125 action this year, Bubba Dennis, on his Ya-Maico 125 in the Expert class. The two swapped positions and places during each moto but Terry edged out the overall with his 2-1 finish over Dennis’s 1-2 finish. The Intermediates were no slouches as the top two in that class finished in front of the third and fourth place riders in the expert group. Honda mounted Darrel Parsons, of Hallsville, TX, held off Gerard “Jerry” Hayes of Alberta,

Canada, to win the class as both showed great speed in the second moto of the day and also gained the crowd’s attention. The eighth race of the day had our 40+ and 50+ Experts lined up with the 50+

Intermediates. Trey Jorski blasted out of the start each moto for holeshots and a commanding lead however it was a duel

going on behind him between Gary Davis, Brian Oakley, and Rodney Reed for the next three spots. All three Intermediates quickly moved past our lone 40+ Expert and never did anyone have more than a two or three bike length lead over the other. Today, it was Davis going 1-1 to win the class and Oakley’s 3-2 earned him second overall with Rodney Reed finishing third. An extremely fast class indeed here with great racing action.

Other racing on the day saw Keith Canfield stumble on the final lap of moto one of the Vintage Open Age Intermediate group to allow Tommy Gates of Junction City, AR, get by, but Canfield dominated moto two for an easy win over some great competition. Ray McFarland won the Sportsman 500 Novice and Bob Lee took the Classic 250 Novice win. Glenn Gallimore and Roger Cross continued their year-long battle in the Classic 500 Novice and this day it was Gallimore with the win. In race ten, Wes Willis battled with Bobby Guilbeau to win the hotly contested 70+ Expert group and it was Tray Blanchard holding off Richard Light for the 70+ Intermediate win.

There were 95 entries for Vintage motocross action on this day which was an improvement of about 10 percent over 2019’s inaugural numbers, so in light of COVID, we were all pleased with the turnout and even more pleased with the great competition from around the country.

For Sunday’s Post Vintage and Next Gen MX race action there were 145 entries which, to date, only trails the Riverport National in Jefferson for overall turnout and again an increase of about 10% over last year’s national event in Donie, TX. Next Generation racing saw a noticeable increase, so it was great to see a turnout of those riders this time around.

In race two we say Cody Barrow and James Damuth displaying improved skills over the last year as these two went to the front of the pack and battled, with Barrow taking the win in the Ultima 250 Novice. Michael Welden won the 40+ Novice group as well as Billy Cole winning the 60+ Novice and Tom O’Kelly winning the 70+ Novice. Congrats to all our Novice winners and more importantly the improvement of skill seen across the board with all our Novice riders in Sunday’s action.

Race three featured the 50+ Intermediates and Expert group and it was again Trey Jorski pulling holeshots each moto to quickly move to the front of the pack and win the Post Vintage 50+ Expert over local fast guy Gary Emerson. In the Post Vintage 50+ Intermediates it was Brian Oakley battling with John Moore but also Keith Canfield mixed it up with this group while racing in the Open Age Intermediate class. Oakley preserved the win over Moore with newcomer Tyler Reed flying his way to victory in the Post Vintage Open Age Expert and Canfield winning the Open Age Intermediate.

Race five was a small-bore battle as the Ultima 125s and Post Vintage 100 Intermediates and Experts gated together. Stonewall, LA, native Heith Parker moved to the front of the group quickly to leave Brandon Hedge, Rick Van Diemen, and Darren Terry to do battle. In the second moto, Terry goes down and drops from third to fifth and Van Diemen has a firm grip on second place in the class. Hedge edges out Van Demien for second place and Parker goes home with the large win. In the middle of all this amazing race action though is Mansfield, TX, native Jamie Adams aboard his 1983 YZ100 slowly moving towards Parker; however it was not going to happen on this day. Adams dominates all the 100s and takes the win in the Post Vintage 100 Expert class. Bernard Murphy and Jason Elder split moto wins in the Ultima 125 Intermediate class as Murphy’s 2-1 edges out Elder 1-2 for the wood!

Charlene Campbell Cole Johnson

As usual, our 60+ group racing was outstanding. In race eleven, the two holeshot champions, Charlene Campbell and Trey Jorski, finally got to square off. The elder Jorski managed to beat Campbell to the first turn each time but it was close still to see these two have a showdown as both are incredible at pulling everyone to the first corner. The 60+ Intermediate racing was great as some of the fastest Intermediates in the nation were all on the track at the same time. Eddie Lee put on a great show in the first moto and on the fourth lap he finally made the pass on Eddie Parks to move from second to first. In the second moto however it was Sean Knaack showing his burst of speed and blowing by all the experts except for Jorski and with his 3-1 he finished first overall and Parks’ 2-2 gained him second. Greg Gordon took second in the Expert class with Edward Hays’s 4-2 finish placing him third overall. Campbell won the 40+ Intermediate just behind 40+ Expert rider, Steve Sanders. Next Generation racing finished our final three races of the day with 30 entries spread out amongst nine classes. It was hard to keep up with who was in each class but clearly Bryce Davis in the Millennium 125 Intermediate will be moving to Expert in the future as he blew past a talented group of riders to win his class. Cole Johnson and Rick Van Diemen are also on a whole other level as their racing was a blast to watch. Jamie Adams put in some extremely fast laps in race thirteen to outpace the gate each moto and win the Next Gen 50+ Expert. Other winners of some tightly contested large groups were Steven Sinclair taking the win in a large Millennium 2-Stroke 250 Intermediate group and the anticipated matchup of Edward Hays and Jeff Hards in the Next Gen 60+ Expert class with Hays going 1-1 to beat out his fellow Texas rider.

As with last year’s affair, there was a special fund-raising event and race to support Cancer patients. This was the second year of the Shock Sox Wendi Jordan 100cc Pro Cup and over $10,000 was raised for one of our own members! Oh, and the 100cc race was incredible. Race one had Taylor Carruthers again taking the first moto win in dramatic style.

The second moto was redemption time for Trampas Parker as he annihilated the class, and the third moto went to Nick Jones. Once tallied up it was Trampas Parker riding the Tom Shackelford sponsored 1983 Yamaha YZ100 with the overall. The riders donated their payouts back to the cause and it was just an incredible race of eighteen 100cc air-cooled bikes racing intensely. The fans lined the track and nowhere can you find this type of entertainment for a $10 gate fee!

Many thanks to all the volunteers and sponsors who pitch in to make this event happen and especially the Huffman family for the vision and use of the property. The track continues to evolve into one of the premier MX circuits on the AHRMA schedule as it is a track that satisfies both Vintage and Post Vintage era racing. Even the Next Gen racers compliment it for the challenging technical sections and loamy dirt that just continues to develop as the day moves on.

Greg Gordon

Karnie Wessling

Jala and Alan Steele

Jason Elder

Sept 25, 2020 TEXAS Grand Prix Vintage XC

Redwood Engineering AHRMA National

By: Albert Newmann / Photos by Kenny Lau - Awesome Shots

For those of you who raced the Cross Country event at the Texas Vintage Grand Prix National last fall, it was a different layout, and the new features added some challenges to the course not seen before. Most of the course was run backwards from previous races and some new features were added in addition to some directional changes that were fun. Since a national motocross event was run on Saturday and Sunday, we went with a late Friday afternoon start for this event. It was a nice turnout for a Friday afternoon event with 52 entries, and the weather was still a little warm for this time of year, but bearable. Trampas Parker ran incredible lap times as did his brother, Heith. AHRMA National Off-Road Director Tony Paul also put in some blazing times as did Greg Gordon, Mark Andrews, and Darrel Parsons. Some notable winners on the day were Billy Murphy in the 50+ Novice group, Greg Conn in the Pre-Modern Novice class, Jimmy Stark in Vintage 50+ Intermediate, David Rozell winning the competitive grouping of the Pre-Modern Intermediates, and Travis Shackelford winning the PV 200 Intermediate group. Overall, we are very happy with the interest that is growing regionally for Cross Country, so thank you all for bringing this to life over the last few years; and I can tell everyone is having fun doing it. The Donie, TX, course is challenging and as we continue to promote regional Cross Country racing, I have no doubt the courses will be near national level quality but our goal is to make it inviting enough for the newcomer to not be intimidated.

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CLEANFREAK

BY: JOE W. KOURY

I landed a job in a Honda motorcycle dealership back in 1972. The place was a scrapyard dungeon with years of dead motorcycles and junk parts piled everywhere. I had to pick at the floor, through years of grease, oil and dirt to determine if there was actually concrete beneath the dark, hardpacked accumulation. After a few months trying to get the ‘resuscitateable’ bikes customers had been waiting on fixed, I decided to commence the cleanup. This was after the Honda service rep at the time, Tracy Walsh, told me, “If you’re gonna stay here and be a Honda mechanic, you need to clean this dump, or pigsty, or whatever he called it.

From that point on, I became a ‘clean freak,’ a moniker my old Honda pal, Travis, attached to me back in the late ‘80s. Clean Freak slowly evolved into OCD-clean and through the years I have found products and methods to clean stuff, from motorcycles and parts to floors and walls, workbenches, tools, etc. Everyone has their go-to solvent or soap, but it’s never a bad thing to discover something new and effective.

I use Hondabrite to clean the race bikes. It leaves a near spotless surface but does require a lot of rinse water. I grab my leaf blower to thoroughly dry the bikes and concentrate adequate ‘blow’ at the brake drums. Honda Spray Cleaner and Polish cleans and shines all surfaces, including face shields. Simichrome Polish and Never Dull wadding polish restore the luster to flanged aluminum rims. The Gloveworks nitrile gloves are the best I’ve found.

Of course, I have a recirculating parts washer filled with mineral spirits/paint thinner, but I preclean heavy accumulations of grease and oil with a pump spray bottle filled with mineral spirits/paint thinner (I call this my ‘mineral spritzer’) over a pan before they hit the parts washer. This extends the life of the parts washer solvent. The ‘spritzer’ has many other uses, from tape and sticker glue removal to tar splatter on the sides of your vehicle. I use chlorinated brake cleaner extensively to degrease parts, remove other unwanted deposits and prep crankcase mating surfaces for sealant. (Sidenote: I only use HondaBond HT for crankcase sealant. It has many other uses and is high-temp, gasoline/oil resistant and ultra-easy to clean up, both cured and uncured.) Chlorinated brake cleaner is mild enough to use on painted surfaces and plastics and a good thread prep for thread locking compound. Denatured alcohol is my go-to solvent for cleaning brake shoe linings.

Baked-on gaskets are a challenge, especially on older air-cooled engines. Premium paint stripper softens these brittle gaskets and makes them easier to scrape. My other favorite cleaner is Mercury Power Tune. This stuff has near-magical cleaning powers. It’s great for soaking years of burned on grease accumulations on air-cooled engine fins. It’s also one of the only chemicals that effectively dissolves carburetor varnish.

I use small stainlesssteel brushes. They have a multitude of uses, including engine fin degreasing. My glass bead blaster doesn’t knock grease deposits off very well, so I make sure all surfaces are free of these globs. After the bead blast, parts are cleaned with hot water and dish soap. I seal all thread holes and oil passages with masking tape before the parts are bead blasted. That reminds me of one other crucial engine part cleaning procedure. After honing a cylinder, the surface must be brush-scrubbed with soap and hot water. You will have time to blow it dry before coating the freshly honed surface with penetrating oil.

Long a ‘preacher’ of workbench hygiene, I’ve seen my share of untidy tabletops. I use layers of newspaper during engine and carburetor rebuilds, for restoring parts and removing paint. Engine and carburetor assembly require sanitary surfaces. When cleaning nasty parts, each mess is quickly crumpled and tossed, exposing another clean surface.

And last, but not least, I never leave home without a can of Tub O’ Towels. They are invaluable at the racetrack and far better than hand cleaner. They remove even the nastiest of all grunges: drive chain gunk.

Before racing in muddy conditions, I always coated the surfaces of my dirt bikes with any number of WD-40-like sprays to repel the mud. I cleaned my off-road air filters in mineral spirits followed by hot soap and water and a thorough dry. The filter then dropped into a large Ziplock bag and oiled. I always kept two filters, one on the bike and one in the bag.

Well, I’m now in the mood to go clean something. I hope these tips make your clean-ups a little more efficient and effective.

Volunteer TM Spotlight

AHRMA MAG Editor and Page Layout Specialist, Kevin McIntosh, met a few volunteers (Marty Strouse and his wife Cindy and Tim Grove and his wife Polly) while setting up for the Post Vintage cross country race at Barber. He would later interview Tim Grove and learned more about these special AHRMA helpers.

Tim watched his first race in Indiana and became an AHRMA member 16 years ago at a Florida race that race was eventually canceled. He enjoys helping people make it out on the track who might be having mechanical issues and always carries replacement ignition parts.

He’s been going to Barber for 15 years and has never missed a year (as of 2019). His dad donated a 1975 RE5 Suzuki Rotary to the Barber Motorsports Museum. Tim tries to make at least seven events each season, does about 20 races and also attends family enduros with his wife (non-AHRMA). He frequently travels from Maryland to Texas for AHRMA events.

He volunteers with his wife, Polly, doing event set-up/breakdown, sign-up, membership, race stats, start/finish and posting results. They work with Becky to set up tents, chairs, generator, TV screens. He’s a general “A.V. guy.” They ensure everyone is hydrated and stays “high and dry” from the elements.

Tim notes that 90% of score keepers are female. They love the quality of people and strong vintage culture with AHRMA. His wife is an avid volunteer, and she has been helping since the Teddy Landers days (he brought AHRMA off-road into the 20th century with digital scoring.) Polly helped with coordinator transitions from Teddy to Lynn Burton to Becky Hayes.

Marty is a strong competitor and workaholic. He owns Paradise Cycle and manages three racers with bike set-up and transport. He was a Husqvarna dealer from ’74 through ‘87 and involved with North Atlantic Racing. His wife, Cindy, is up early, ready to help with spare parts. They are from Reynoldsville, PA.

Know an unsung AHRMA volunteer? Let us know! Send to this address: ahrmamag@ahrma.org

Photos by: Kevin McIntosh

Marty Strouse (Left) and Tim Grove setting up the Barber XC Staging area (2019)

Start of the Wild West Okie Shootout

T&SMXracing Henryetta, Ok November 7 8, 2020 MX Race Tech & Redwood Engineering AHRMA National Championship

By: Albert Newmann / Photos: Bobby Hedge

Graham Foster Premier 500 Intermediate

For 2020, the AHRMA Off-Road Committee set a goal to provide an enhanced championship experience for its members. While many ideas were circulated, one that appeared to be viable was to create a national showdown in the center of the country at season’s end. To bring the nation’s best racers together—who had a goal to win a championship—would require an enticement when typically, championships were decided already in prior months. The trial to double point the race was what was eventually decided on. Now, it was the right venue to have predictably good weather late in the year, and centralized, as well as a proper promoter to handle all the necessities to appease all motocross disciplines. The T&S Race Team was nearly a no-brainer and the city of Henryetta, OK, had already proven over time they would be supportive of our AHRMA efforts. It was a win-win and by the response of those in attendance, AHRMA appears to have hit on something for years to come with this initial event structure.

With over 180 entries for Vintage Motocross and over forty national championships on the line for Saturday, the Redwood Engineering VMX program was off and running. One of our most fiercely competitive classes, the 60+ Expert group, was race one. Like a broken record, it was the J49 Kawasaki of Trey Jorski with the holeshot in moto one with contenders Chet Malito of Marshall, WA, Danny Wirt, Bob Bean, and Californian Robert Bellicitti giving chase to Jorski. Wirt and Malito were battling closely on lap two when Wirt attempts to pass Malito near the finish line corner and the two collide. Wirt goes down and Malito staggers for a second but stays upright and finishes second overall for the moto. Moto two saw a repeat of the start but Jorski falls back to seventh place on lap one and Malito is leading with pressure from Bob Bean. Jorski works his way back up to third but it was too little too late and Malito takes the overall and the championship! Great racing, and the day just started.

Race four on the day featured the Sportsman 250 Expert class which had national contenders Tony Paul and Billy Russell of Redstone, CO, facing off. However, Arkansas native, Kyle Kyzer, holeshots each moto and takes a commanding lead in both motos to fend off a very fast group of riders. Tony Paul and his 2-2 finish earns him the class championship. This will be an exciting class to follow next year as hopefully a full racing season can ensue as Kyzer has been dominating at the events attended this year.

With another championship on the line in race seven with the Vintage 50+ Intermediate—and a very fast group of Intermediates—it was John Moore of Madison, Mississippi, taking on Bill Hester, Brian Oakley, and Perry Hayes of Newnan, GA. Moore was on fire in this gate, had to contend with all the riders just mentioned and managed to hold them all off to win both motos and the overall championship for this class. Race eight had the elder 60+ Intermediates battle and with fourteen racers and all quality riders. It was Eddie Parks taking each moto win and another national championship for the mantle in Fluvanna, TX! Parks announced he is moving

to Expert for 2021 so expect him to make a splash as he battles with some of the top racers AHRMA has to offer.

Race nine turned out to be a barn burner as the Sportsman 125 Intermediate and Experts were lined up. With three racers all in contention for the championship for the Experts and three for the Intermediates, it was going to be intense. With a year under his belt on the small-bores, Bubba Dennis was ready to make his case, but L to R: Trey Blanchard (34B), Keith WIlliams (135), Tom Shackelford (J16), Charlene on lap one he lost his chain guide which Campbell (49J) with the holeshot, Billy Cole (125), Steve Clark (A20), Mike Gray (166), Richard Light (79E), Ole Olsen (69), Michael Welden (462T) resulted in the chain tearing up his cases, and off the track he went. It was long-time win and this year’s championship! Also, on the gate were our 125 racer, Doc Tollet, playing spoiler role though, as Doc rode Premier Lightweight Intermediates with Sunnyvale, California’s his Honda CR125 as well as seen in the last 10 years to win the own Jeff Mullins making the trip over to nail down his class with a 2-1 overall and Darren Terry taking second with a championship and the overall in Henryetta with a 1-1 finish. 3-2 finish. For the Intermediates it was Mike Bickley securing Race 12 produced more national champions in the Premier 500 yet another championship though newcomer to AHRMA this Expert with Beno Rodi securing another championship as well year, Gerard Hayes, of Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada, going as Brian Miller winning the Classic 250 Intermediate class, Joe 2-1 for the win with Bickley second. Klokkevold of Spokane Valley, WA, winning the Classic 250

The 70+ Expert class must be mentioned as the incredibly Expert and Bob Bean winning the Open Age Expert group. competitive group of 70+ riders put on one of the best shows The Sportsman 500 group was up in race 15, and for you of the day. Today it was the BSA rider from Apache Junction, AHRMA racers you are all aware of how competitive and fast AZ, Rick Williams, fending off David Aldana, Wes Willis, and this group can be. Today was no exception. Chet Malito from Bobby Guilbeau amongst others to take 1-1 finishes for the Washington state and Rhett Smith from South Carolina would

Jamie Adams keeping the past fast and looking good doing it!

meet today in the Expert class. Each moto saw Smith pull the holeshot edging out Malito through the first corner of each moto. By the end of lap one each race Malito managed to work his way into first place and fend off the very fast Smith.

The Intermediate group is no slouch as many of these racers find themselves fighting alongside the Experts and today was no different. Kelly Crowley of Fort Worth, TX, found himself in this group in race one. However, in race two, Keith Canfield and Charlene Campbell were out of the gate much quicker and into the top positions along with perennial champ Brian Oakley. Today it was Oakley’s 3-3 earning him the win over

Crowley’s 1-5. Finishing third in the group was another perennial winner, James Golliher, who managed to go 2-6 and win the overall national! The weather was perfect on this day, and with sixteen competitive gates, the racing was some of the best I have ever witnessed at an AHRMA motocross race! Congrats to all the winners and to those who showed up and participated in just simply thrilling racing. Everyone raced their hearts out and it was evident from the crowd reactions each moto. Sunday, we woke up to a slight overcast and cooler temperatures, and as anticipated, the track was holding the water preparations well for the longer travel Post Vintage and Next Generation discipline racing.

To kick off the Race Tech Post Vintage program it was our 60+ Intermediate and Expert classes. Moto one it is Trey Jorski with the holeshot to nobody’s surprise! The fun part of this moto was to see his Oklahoma sidekick, Greg Gordon, hanging with him the first lap, and closely. However, Rhett Smith was also close and by lap two had worked his way past Gordon. But Smith found himself fending off Bob Bean and on lap four Bean makes the pass into second place. Moto two saw Dennis Murphy of Atlantic, Iowa, taking the holeshot and the lead for a lap, and then it was Jorski making the pass on lap two and to finish with a 1-1 and the overall finish as well as national championship. The Intermediate group saw Eddie Parks pull a

Allie Stout, Savanna Stout and Michaela Campbell (lemonade stand owner wearing the cap). They raised money for Loreto House, a non profit organization that provides assistance to pregnant mothers in need of of help.

Rachel Brooks, Sportsman 125 Novice

holeshot in moto one and fend off a mess of other fast Intermediates, and Parks walks away with the win each moto and another championship for the weekend.

Race four had our Grand Prix 125 Expert and Intermediate classes lined up along with our PV 40+ Intermediate and Historic 125 Expert class. Robert Thorton of Atlantic, IA, and Mike Essin of Tulsa, OK, swapped moto wins with Thorton taking the overall. And in the Intermediates, it was Jason Elder and Darrel Parsons running away from the other Intermediates and eventually finding themselves mixed into the first gate drop Expert group with Elder taking the win and the national championship. Look for this Grand Prix 125 Expert class to be highly competitive as many of the top running Intermediates move up. Charlene Campbell, with her 2-1 finish over Joel Bator’s 1-2, gave her the podium crown on the day but it was third place finishing Sam Huggins of Nunnelly, TN, taking the national championship home this weekend.

Race six crowned several national champions as Steve Blakely dominated the moto with a big win in the Grand Prix 250 Intermediates over a very fast group. Brian Oakley secured his championship with a split finish over returning racer Alan Hamilton from Snyder, TX. Charlene Campbell brought home more gold by winning the PV Women’s Expert class and Keith Canfield secured another Intermediate championship in the PV Open Age group. Race seven saw Wes Willis in his first full year of 70+ Expert competition go home with a national championship over John Gott and Bobby Guilbeau. Noticeably fast was Keith Williams in the Historic 500 Novice group taking the win with a 1-1 over previous year’s champion, John McCullogh.

Race ten brought a competitive group of Novices to the national spotlight. It was William Miller of Batavia, OH, running away from some stiff competition, locking down his championship in the Historic 250 Novice class. Bubba Gale took home another Novice championship on this day in PV 60+ Plus Novice and it was future Intermediate, Ray Mcfarland, winning the Grand Prix 500 Novice group. Congratulations to you all and to some, congratulations on future promotions to stiffer competition in the crowded Intermediate ranks! One of the most entertaining races, which caught many of us off-guard, was the intense battle in Race eleven with the Ultima Four-Stroke Expert classes. In moto one, Bubba Dennis and Joe Morgan, both from Texas, had a duel in the Oklahoma range. Morgan prevailed on his big bore Honda over the small but potent 200cc of Dennis’s. However, the most entertaining of this gate was Alan Drane of Spring, TX, aboard his pullstart, mag wheeled, Rokon, in the Historic 500 Expert class. The Rokon rider was ripping the Oklahoma soil apart like a dog with a stuffed animal at Christmas. The other surprise was Rick Owens patiently working his way around Eddie Parks in the Ultima Four-Stroke Intermediate for two moto wins over the new national champion.

Race thirteen featured many of our Next Gen classes which had Randy Howell of Brookshire, TX, edging out Jeff DeBell of Spring Hill, KS, in the Next Gen 1, 500cc big bores.

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Tommy Gates, Vintage 60+ Expert

David Aldana Albert Newmann, Grand Prix 125

Caegan Damuth leads the 125 Intermediate class

Steve Allen on his 125 CZ

eremy Thomas of Stillwater, OK, won the Expert Group of the big bores over Mike Parker. The fastest racers of the day on the gate were the two Intermediates, Rick Owen of Elkins, AR, and newcomer Charles Armstrong of Humble, TX, battling intensely in Next Gen 50+ Intermediate. These guys were flying around the track on the more modern-esque class bikes and Dale Burroughs drove in from Anderson, SC, to win the Next Gen 60+ Expert class.

The final race of the day featured small bore Ultima bikes, and it was Caegan Damuth showing much improved skills during his sophomore year of AHRMA action as he was hanging with the fast guys by winning the Ultima 125 Intermediate and actually dueling with our Expert class national champion, Derrin Terry, aboard his 1984 RM125 Suzuki. Congratulations to Jason Elder as he rode his Grand Prix 125 Yamaha in this class to secure a national championship in the Ultima 125 Intermediates.

The promoter support race each year at the T&S AHRMA National is the Okie Wild West Shootout which features a three-member tag team race of mixed skill racers on 100cc aircooled, drumbrake bikes or XR200 Hondas. This year, the team that won placed an XR200 at the top of the box as Bubba Dennis, Trey Jorski, and Tyson Sullenger edged out seventeen other teams for the Golden Boot! Fantastic racing and always fun to watch the hand-off of the bike to the next rider on the team. The popularity of this race continues to grow, and the names associated are very noteworthy.

The Post Vintage and Next Generation racing from Sunday also was in the 180-entry range. For an end of year race this is quite a feat. As mentioned earlier, this idea to have racers from across the country come to meet for a competition with championship implications or even just the opportunity to test your skills against AHRMA’s best appears to be a success in its initial offering. The many volunteers on hand to help organize and create this massive off-road showcase was impressive and well appreciated. Trampas and Sherri Parker put their heart and soul into the event and their entire family is amazing in all they do to help out, and from this regional coordinator, the entire Parker family to me is the first family of AHRMA off-road as their support cannot be described in words. Thank you, and thanks to Mrs. Jennifer Clason, the mayor of Henryetta, Oklahoma, and the chamber of commerce and parks workers who helped support us. What you do is untouchable by any other city in our endeavor to promote racing of historic motorcycles. Thank you…

Buddy Byrnes brrraaappping to victory in the SPortsman 125 Novice class

T&StrialsHenryetta, Ok November 6, 2020 trials

Redwood Engineering AHRMA National Championship Photos by: Kenny Lau - Awesome Shots