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The reconI book IIDW bas lIIar _ _ aDd lhe aIDbers 12.56 E.T. aDd 103.56 mph oa tbe paces. Tbe 25000 two strokes are not idle in tIIis area and Russ Fogelman bas tile haulin' Yamaha out of Cecil's Marine to prove it. Russ has a MD/E class tropby engraved with figures of 12.59 103.21 for the shop's sbowcase. Fresno's next meet is scbeduled fOI November 6 til with the gates opening at 8 a.m. Crystal Ball Did you know that a crystal hall has two sides? Mine bas. and this is the I1rst of two prospective !\ltmes I have seen. stagnation, witll no improvement due to a lack of working individuals for tile spat or motorcycle drag racing. Also created by. complaints and excessive demands upon the drag striPs that still regard us as a lower element of competition. . In one year we have doubled and redoubled the award amounts and sites for competition but we have not raise9 our members in a like amount. The strips must make profit and we are not the profit makers for strip management. We cannot demand more until we find a way to draw spectators to fill the strip's - purses or a failure is inevitable. My Clystal Ball's black shaded side shows failure in the forming of a Motorcycle Drag Racing Association, again due to a lack or working individuals. More people are asking"wby do I have to race him, I'd rather make a single run for a trophy?· A lack of trust in the individuals who direct cycle piis and abuse of the privilege of running a bike at the Quarter mile strips. Only a few faces appear in this dark side but if the image fits, wear it on your conscience. Coming Attractions The rose colored side of the Crystal Ball aDd some exciting racing for records and Tibbons at the different locations. November 13th, the old record book at Fontana Raceway will be' discarded and the day will be devnted to estabUshment of new drag strip records. Every second Sunday Drag racing is being beld at Madera, Calif., witb tbe motto "dedicated to safety". Watcb tbe calendar for Nov. 13th at Madera. All bille drag meet at stardust lnte~ national Raceway, Las Vegas, N!!vada on February 18, 1967 arranged by Reg Sheldrtck. (Results on page 16) If you DON'T LIKE IT TRYING HARD Some drag racers win on a fairly regular schedule but others do not and are just satisfied with an attempt at getting the maximum performance that their personal mechanical ability can deliver. This is most prevalent among smaller displacement owners, but there are exceptions to that as well. Willard Lee, Bob Long, Ken La Plante. Jeff Brown, utterhack & Muller are just a small portion of a big handful of motorcycle drag racers that help make it a sport. •••CHANGE IT By Larry Haley BUZZARDS STATE CHAMPIONSHIP HARE SCRAMBLES All week the wind blew on the desert, it rained. it halted traffic, it blew campers over and just raised Holy Old Ned in general. I arrived on the scene at 5:00 p.m. Friday night and it was dead calm and beautiful, not a soul around. It seems I had the Whole place to myself. The next day, saturday dawned still. calm with a beautiful sunrise. The working crew for the Buzzards have been coming in all through the night plus a few otner desert riders. The Buzzards have already left to work on the run while the rest of us just kind of relax around the camp site, shooting the bull and waiting for the sun to get a little higher so it will take tbe early morning chill off the air. About noon five of us ride over to Red Mountain about 20 miles away as tbe crow flies and the hikes ride, to get a heer and then we take a leisurely 40 mile loop around the desert and eventually wind up back at the pits about 5 p.m. Sunday morning, still calm and beautiful. a real hubbub of activity in the camp area, riders signing up making last minute checks on their scooters and then at 9:45 the riders meeting. Larry Bergquist does the honors about what to watch out for and the do's and don'ts. It's like somebody upstairs watches over us desert riders because at 10 a.m. the wind started to blow which is the thing we all hope for. as it blows the dust off the trail and makes it a little nicer to ride. At 10:10 tbe banner went down and it was fasssst to the smoke bomb which was located 4 miles out. like homing pidgeons over 300 bikes converged on this big pile of burning tires to pick up the traiI.. which went over some low hills and up a gully, over a hill that had quite a few rocks on it. Someone had removed a lot of rocks from the trail and I found myself in some pretty choppy stuff as I took advantage of the downhill to try and pass some riders, and wound up way off the trail in a gully that was all boulders and other junk. Well I lucked out and didn't get off. Once I got to the bottom it was flat. out all the way to check number 1, From check 1 we turned onto a road that turned into the desert and into a sandwash and soon more desert terrain and finally into a downhill sandwash that was as crooked as a snake's back. I finally straightened out and man ·it was fast from there on where it turned out of the wash! We hit the desert again across a road and up this long sloping up-hill clear over a ridge and a turn on top to the left hack down into a valley again and the next 5 miles into the pits was really choppy. I rode on the trail, off the trail, and decided to make one of my own. It didn't help; it was just plain choppy. At last the pits, a drink, some gas and off again for another 4a.mile loop. The course was well limed and danger marked. It was very fast and I enjoyed riding it. I • GET A FIRM GRIP ON YOUR WRENCHES AND LET'S GO •• All you need is the tools in the toolkit(supplied at no extra charge) and a few goodies that you can pick up with the money you save by buying the world's largest seller. Change your new 1967 Honda 450 into any kind of a winner you want, and still have change left over. No problem with parts availability when you race a Honda. Folding pegs are standard equipment. Good California type air cleaners it's already got. and powerl Like you wouldn't BELIEVEI If you don't like bending Wl'eIIc11es, one of the dealers below has just the Honda 450 you want. already set up like you like it. But you'd better hurry in today, they go fast, you know. ED KRETZ & SON CYCLE SHOP LONG BEACH HONDA 11747 E, C.son H.w.II.G ..... 439-0943 160-1354 5105 A lIanUc LeII' B ucIl, Calif. 423-1433 4321 E, Anallelln LeII' Buell, CallI. H..,. 341 W, P.c, C.t. Lon, Beach, C.IIf, 591·1301 HONDA OF GARDENA 15515 S. Westem Ganea, Calif. 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