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2 ROAD CLUBS (from front page) year is the RRC dance and officer installations, January 22nd , then the riding begins. Ca lendar of Road events for 1966: Jan. 30: Golden Rods Poker Run Feb. 6: Highway Kings P.R. 13: Jewel City Diamonds P.R. 26 lk 27: Motor Maids Colorado River Tour Mar. 6: S.W. Chapparells P.R. 13: Monarchs P.R. 26 lk 27: Centaurs Yuma Tour April 3: Pacific Coaster P.R. 9: Channel Riders Easter Egg Hunt 17: Road Ramblers P . R. 30: Peacor Ramblen P.R. May 8: Norwalk Rockets P.R. 14 lk I S: Lucky Wheels Las Vegas Tour 28 lk 29: Pacific Coast McFarland Tour J u ne 11 lk 12: Act of Clubs High Sierra Tour 24 lk 25: Slow Pokes IdylwUd Tour July 9 lk 10: Toppers Big Bear Tour 23 lk 24: S.W. Chapparells Wishon Tour 31: Centaurs Poker Run August 7: Highway Kings P.R. 14: Married Wheels P.R. 21: Rainbows P.R. 27 lk 28: Artesia Pioneen Banner Grade Tour Sept. 3. 4 lk 5: RRC Pine Cone Tour 17 18: Golden State Wishing Wen Tour Oct. 2: Playboys Field Meet 16: Calif. Eagles P.R. 30: Whittier Rejects P.R. Nov. 6: Monarchs Turkey Shoot 13: Coloramas P.R. Dec. 3 lk 4: Pacific Coasten Indio Tour NEW IISAFETY BRAINSTORM" CONTEST " BIG ACCIDENT INCREASE SEE NEW CYCLE L AW S FOR CALIF." Those headlines are quo ted from last Sun day's edition of the Long Beach Independent Press-Tel egr am, one of the better outspoken newspapers hereabouts. They make us wi nce, but the truth is there. Unless we fin d out how to make cycle riding safer, es pecially for first-year riders, we m ay have to cope with new laws t hat take some fun out of it for all of us. Finding how t o r ed uce accidents is the first step. The second step will mean act in g on this knowled ge. To quo t e the article headlined above: "A probe into the re ports of . . . motorcycle accidents shows the causes, in order of frequence as: Failure to yield right of way, excessive speed, improper turning, disregard for stop signs and signals, traveling on the wrong side of the street, failure to hand signal, improper hand signal, illegal passing, speeding into blind corners and following a vehicle too closely . . . Of the 20 motorcycle fatalities this year, compared to 15 in all of 1964. Seven of the victims were passengers riding tandem. "Orange County authorities lay the blame on 'the inexperienced driverone normally in his teens' '' . The article does not specify what new laws will be enacted to curb this toll of youth, but we can expect them to be restrictive. Some steps have already been taken to help people keep from getting hurt on their cycles, 'but the progress, if any, is too slow. Except for brochures and a dull m ovie, little has been ac com plished by us in the industry. Montesa Motors (Viva !) has an imaginative, effective safety campaign in the works. We would like to know of others. American Honda Mot 0 r Co., as often before, has the only campaign large enough to note. This consists, so far, of a movie, a brochure and press releases on safety, with heavy ernphsis on the brand that is paying the tab. And recently Honda's General Manager K. Okwnoto gave a check for $25.000 (twe nty..five thousand dolIan) to the Nanonel Safety Council to use as they see fit. Which leads us to our new contest • • • PUBLISHED WEEKLY EXCEPT FIRST AND LAST WEEK OF CALENDAR YEAR. @W@[1& W&r!ll£5 (Formerly Motorcycle Journal) 1185 Eo 19th Street. Long Beach. Cali10rnia 591-2088 591-6113 Publish ed by C & S Publishing Company P. O. Box 498 Long Beac h, Calif. 90806 liThe Voice of Californial l Charles Clayton Sharon Clayton Gil Brow n Davi d Shaw Dale Boller J oe Lo pez, Roxy Ro ckwood , Robert Ebeling, Carl Bartl ett, Gordon South. . . . . . . . .. Contributo rs Ad verti sing r ates sent on request. Adverti sing prep ared by AR Thompson, 546 W. Colorad o St., Glendale, Calif. Pub lished wee kly except first and t.., week of calendar year in Long Beach. Calif. Any part of thi s ne ws paper ma y be used w itho ut pe rmiuion al lo ng as cred it is gi ve n. Editor ial co nt ributio ns. cartoons, photo. w ill be pa id fo r o n publication, w rit. for our generous contri butor r.te •. motion groups. We don 't know yet w hat the priz es for this contest will be, but we shall ask leaders in the motorcycle business to donate me rchandise prizes, and CYCLE NEWS promises it will be worth the. winners' while. So start thinking, and send us your brainstorms. Use any sheet of paper. Best suggestions will appear in CYCLE NEWS as they arrive. year's subscription to CYCLE NEW S receives P r ize Number On e 50 weekly mailings of our favori te newspaper. You too can still be eligible for first pri ze, if you haven't won already. To enter just fill ou t the coupon on page 12, mail it to us with check or m oney order and start get. ting CYCLE NEWS deli vered by the good old U.S. Mai L Thanks. AMA ROAD RACES FOR CARLSBAD RACEWAY NEW SUBSCRIBER WINS McHAL HAT SAFETY BRAINSTORM CONTEST The question is this: If you had $25,000.00 (tw enty-five thousand dollars) to spend on im proving the safety record of two wheelers, how would you say it should be spent? Would you have all the manhole covers in California knurled? Require side-view mirrors on all cars? Build a training center for new r iders ? Any suggestion, no matter how foolish it sounds to yo u, should be se nt in as long as it might help make cycle riding safer. CYCLE NEWS will publish the best suggestions we receive and all entries will be available to safety pro- Editor Business Mana ger Ad vertising Manager Compe t iti on Editor Chief Photogr aph er - McHa l helmet w inner V . Y. Burlison. size 7 Ve . Varney Y. Burlis on of Red Bluff, Calif. became a double winner this week when his name was drawn from a hatful of new subscriptions to this newspaper. Varney will receive the enviable new McHal competition-approved helmet promised as second prize in a contest begun by the publishers of "Motorcycle J ournal' (subsequently CYCLE NEWS) to encourag e readers to take subscriptions. Everyone who sends in his $5 for a Sandy Belond announced this week that four AMA sanctioned road races are slated for the Carlsbad Raceway in 1966. Proposed plans call for two sportsman road races early in '66. The first will be in J anuary, the second in F ebr uary. Th e first Class C money 'r ace is te ntatively set for April with a national championsh ip being sought for the month of Sep tem ber. Th e 1.5 m ile pe r lap h orsepower course is located just outside Oceanside and is easily reached from both Los Angeles and San Diego by freeway . Further information regarding the corning even ts can be obtained by contacting Belond at (714) OR 3-3985 in Corona Del Mar. Watch CYCLE NEW S for complete details. The J anuary and February events will be open to all riders with machines from 50ccs to 100Occ's. All classes may use streamlining (fair ings ) if they so -desir e. Avoid m aking skid ding stops with your motorcycle as this can start the tires wearing unevenly, which only gets w orse. , IN RIVERSIDE Move up to the 90cc thriller that Is really throwing Its 155 Ibs. around the competitions across America, and coming out on top in more races than competitors like to mention . The HODAKA Ace 90 is a "Giant Killer", and there's no mystery to it. 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