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( Cnnltnr,,:d Cycle Alley ~ fTORI ' ' IIC I ) pinj! the hike about 20 feet off the line, Fi ne for the spectators, but man that's hard nn the leath ers! Brick turned in his nffjdal time t ickets for the record in E street class. The record now stands in his name at 17.41 E.T. and 74 ..50 mph for speed. The machine? A ' H ond a IBO and Brick is j!rakful fnr the help of Honda. Culve r Cit y. WINNERS AND LOSERS Ther e nrc two sk lcs to each coin, One is win ne rs, the other is losers . I hate to see m en crv hut it ro mps d ose for so me. ,"'my Butl er "is an individual responsible for OU T svstcrn of drOll:: racing and i.'i always run ~in~. Se ldom trophies . but never g iv~ up . Bruce Miller prohahl y holds a reco rd for the number of "kick sta rts for a Harley" hu t ihat is not what he i, tf)'illl: for. John W mme r, James Saller. Bob Crow, each try ha rd and ,ome da y . , . Don ~ lcEvoy, Cm n't' Jonov ich and Ed ~ lcDonald suff("Ted th e ailmen t kno w as "bits am ) pie ces: ' Th ey will all be back ami with Oil(' commnn gO:lI : Speed! Onc of th e ha rdest tasks for a Cycle Pit direct or is to tum down a h ike cn try. Th ree time, lnst week end I had to fact' this prohlem be cause the hikes did not meet o ur simple safe ty requirement s. Each had the same fault: no steerimt damper. The corn- man ar gument was that the bike did not equipped with one. Regan lless,-dam . pcrs an.' required ' and can eusily be installed . We came into tilt' world without clothes on, but they can be purchased! ( Lions results a ll page 12) come • '8: :. f BLOOD WILL FLOW ON VALENTINE'S DAY Operation Motorcycle, the So. California Motorcyclists Blood Bank's quarte rly syringe swi ng will be held Monday, February 14th from 6 - 8 p .m . at the Red Cross BldJ1;., 1130 So. Vermont Ave. in Los Angeles. Th e first bloodshed of '66 promises to be well attended as a new participation contest with cash prizes will be Inau gurated. Jewelled pins ind ica tin j; OP. MC. Support will still be ava ilable at the Valentine's Day bash. NEW MEDAL FOR ROAD RIDERS The Road Riders Committe for Better Motorcycling will award a gold medal for excellent." in the promotion of motorcycling as a sport and hobby to a person who has excelled all others in such efforts over a period of y~ars. Called "The Peacor Memorial Award" in hono r of the late Darrell Peacor and his outstanding work, Robert Fee, co-ordinator of the CBM, ann~unced that the first present ation of the award will be mad e January 22nd at the So. Calif. Road Rider's Annual Installation Dance in Pomon a. ",ir. Fee said that the award is not an annual presentation and , .will be given only to a person whom the chairmen of the CBM numi nate unanimously on the first ballot. RADIO SPOT No. 3 Number three in the radio spots spon sored by the Inland Dealers Assoc., emphasizes a feature which we think could be made a much stranger sellinlot point both for the salesman 's benefit, and the good of the spo rt as a whole. 1 " Make the third car in your family a mot orcycle" seems to us to be a dam good slogan to shout aloud. Americans Are Nccer Satisfied. Cive 'em a Nice Freeu:ay So They Can Zip Into L.A. and See a Ball Came in the Evening and Right Away The y Complain Because It Takes Almost is Milch Tim e to Get in and alit of the Parking Lot as It Docs to Make the Trip. Of COllrse. Parking IS a Problem These Days, anel C elting Wo rse. School Parking Lots Will Soon Be Almost as Large as the Camp us, As a Matter of Fact, College Parking for Cars Is Limited, Lots of Stlle/ents. \VII{} Alm Haec [ob« After Classes, Solce the Problem N~atly with MOT ORCYCL ES. Motorcycle., for Fun, for Ccuinu to W ork, for Ce ttint; to Class. Parking's No ProlJlem at All. Anel if the Tw o Car Gll1Uge at Home is Fnll It 's St ill Easy to Find the Slim Snacc for a Motorcycle in MllllY Oth er Places. .Handiest Set of W heel, the FllInily Ha« .. . lllld Fnn Too. Cost for II New Motorcycle is Far Le.\'S Than a Car. Gu.'oli" c Cost Is \ About On e T enth That of a Car. In. , rallce " Cost Is About Gne-inurth, For Real Conveuieucc . and Fam ily Fun . ,\ fake That Third Car a L aID Co.,t (En,y to Park ) Motorcuclc.« Tom Hoover. NUMBER IN THE DESERT AGAIN IN'66 Mi/(e Polric/( Back ed by A merica's No. I I ndepen den t Distributor BERLINER MOTOR CORP. HASBROUCK HTS" N. J.