Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1960's

~ ' ... fo"ler and Assorted friellds... _ ~~~-e-~ , ~ 0: ".1 H...". • Q., By Tom Finlay By the time you read this , the A.F.M. read this, A.P.M. season will have come to a close with ha ve the running of the final event at Cota ti even t Cotati this pas t Sunday , Nov. 13th. The A.F .M. Th e A.F.M. past Sunday, in 1966 enjoyed a very successful season son,, especially in the field of maki ng making road racing known to the rac i ng fan . racing fan. M embership and competition lice nses Membership a nd competi tio n licenses were up in numbers considerably over conside ra bly previous the pre vious year and prosp ects look prospects even brighter for 1967. Next season's e ve n kickoff event for the Los Angeles chapchap" F e b. ter will be Feb. 19, in the state of Nevada . Keep reading and stay abreast read in g a nd Nevada. ab reas t developments of further developments.. W had the good fortune of attending e att endin g We particip a ti ng a nnua l and participating in the 3rd annual U.S.G.P. hosted by the A.C.A. The turnU.S.G.P . Th e tur nexce llent , out was excellent, the crowds were good wer e and the ra ces were run smoothly and races quickly. The biggest ann oya nce was t he annoyance the T he la ck s everal lack of c onsideration s hown by several consideration shown enthusiastic but unloved dirt riders , enthusia stic riders, that s uc ceeded i n mak in g life miserable that succeeded in making mise rable for e veryone in the far end of the pit fa r everyone area . T hes e area. These pseudo-racers cha rged charged arou nd the outs kirts of the pits on their around outskirts di rt dirt machines a nd rai s ed i rritati ng c louds and raised irritating clouds of dust on a n alread y windy day. This an already se nt sent cold shivers down the spine of s hive rs s pi ne anyo ne anyone warming up his machin e, as road machine, racing bikes don't have air cl eaners to cleaners, say nothing about everyone's eyes :md about ev eryone's and lungs . . lungs. While reading Roxy Rockwood's co lcolumn, Finish Line " , umn. "The Finisb Line", recently, we noticed some remarks that we feel were remark s out of place and uncalled for. Mr. Rockplac e unca ll e d Mr. wood said tha t he hopes some good that so me rid ers will ab le mak e American riders will be able to make the racing s c ene soon i ns te ad European racing scene soon,, instead of a group of second rate riders trying to rat e pas s themselves pass themselves off as first class cl ass American tal ent. There are several America n talent. T her e s everal Americans in .England at this time, the i n England a t most outstaodlng of whom no w is Lance outstandi ng whOm nOw Lan ce W . We've been getti ng reports that eil Wei!. be en getting that Lance has beaten many of the English Englis h La nce 'stars· on thei r home grounds and has " stars" their earned himself a s ponso red ride (first sponsored ea rne d (firs t ever for a Yankee) . La nce' s mistake, in for Yankee). Lance's \Ir. Rockwood' s eye s , seems to be that ~. Rockwood's eyes, that lie didn' t be didn't learn to ride under the hanner rid e banner Jf the A.M.A., and thus he simply could thu s not be fast. lOt r.... · i i • · I THIS !"""THIS CHRISTMAS GIVE .......! G lit. . . IVE : BELL HI'mets· ACCURATE & : BELL Helmets'" ACCURATE & •• =: • I AMERICAN SPORT S Acclssorles AM ERICAN SPORTS Accessorie s : : • 50C: SEND 50¢ FOR CHRISTMAS CATALOGS & RUSH CA T A LOGS RUSH ORD ER ORDER BLANK : : : ACCESSORIES UNLIMITED UNLIMlTED ''Everyth.lng for the E verythin g Ride r" Cycle Sports & Road Rider· • • · • . . 5 By W Cooley es Wes We would like to express our appreciW e lik e expres s ation to all those people who attende d thos e attended our third Annual Awards Banquet Satu rBa nquet saturnight, day night , November 12th. Also, our apprec ia tion goes to Coda's Restaurant appreciation Coda ' s Res ta urant th e excell ent for the excellent food and facilities they a nd provided. Dinner was served at a pproxiat approxiimmedia tely following, mately 8:30 and immediately foll owing, prese nted the Awards were presented to the outstanding flattracke rs and standi ng flattrackers in the 50, 100 an d the 250cc classes. These tiders received a Th es e riders rec ei ved wall placque as well as their Champions hip jackets. Th e ship jackets . The top road racers in both ra cer s Pri x a nd Production Grand Prix and P roduc ti on classes also recei ved wall pla cques and Championwal l pJacques an d s hip ship jackets. A special award given to sp ec ial the outstanding Rookie of the Year flattracker, went to Mike Spi tz er. In road flatt racker, M ke Spitzer. i racing, this year's team trophy was year' s racing. again won by Power Research and was P ower given to Power Researcb Team Captain P ower Res e arch T eam gi ven Chief Gal braith, A special award from Chie f Galbraith. a ward from the A.C.A. was given to Mike and c apaute outsta nding Beverly Capalite for their outstanding contribution to the A.C.A.'s growth. It contri buti on A.C.A .'s was also announced that this year's tha t yea r's number one plate in road ra cin g would plat e racing go to Buddy P arriott for his outstanding Parriott for outsta nding pe rformance and total points accumulaperformaoce aod tion in the 250cc and 500cc classes . 500cc classes. Budd,' ac cumulated Buddy accumulated the greatest amount of points for a single tider for the 1966 ride r th e s eason i n P rix season in Grand Prix road racing. 1967 , ,\ C,\ a dd In 1967, the ACA will add one more branch of racing 10 its already full alrea dy bmncb of raci ng to schedule, which will be Molo Cross. Moto Cros s . P oints Points will be gi ven for the Molo Cross yen Moto Cros s e vents cha mpion events and a champion will be select ed. selected. The e vening was concluded with dancTbe evenint: was concl ude d wtth to mus ic J oe RiDS. ing 10 music provided by Joe Rios . ACA' s s anctio ned To round out the ACA's sanctioned eve nts for 1966, there will be a 250cc events i nte rnational event Satur day, international e vent on Saturday, Novem500cc Inte rnational eve nt ber 19th and a 500cc international event on November 20th in conjunction with DlrtDigger s' Hopetown the DirtDiggers' H opet own event. The T he last TT for 1966 will be on December De cember Jast 4th at Ventura, an d the last national and na ti ona l at roa d race for 1966 will be held on Defor road cember 11th at River side International 11 th at Riverside Internationa l Raceway rid er Raceway.. Any rider who needs i nformainformation conce rning thes e e vents is urged to concerning these events call the ACA office as soan as posst ble, cal1 soon possi (area 714) 847-7629 . 847-7629. 1: • "I VALUABLE JUNK Pboto by Bob Kri ps P ho to Bo b Krips . Russ Robinson is the 100cc short trac k champion of AC A , but he didn't Ro bi n s o n th e IOOcc s ho rt track of ACA, :fln the pop art t ro~hY he poses with above for his winning prowess. Titled ;:"In a rt tro~hY abov e fo r his CRASH! 9-15-66 the trophy is a gift from Russ' sponsor Junk Artist CRASHI th e is Rus s ' J un k Frank Danielson. Danielson, who pr op riets th e Sandpiper Art G~llery in West Da ni el s on. Dani elson , propriets the Sand pi pe r Art Los Ang e les L?s Angeles,, welded up the unique award to commemorate the rider's brush t he c o mmemora te rid e r' s wi th t he Sep t e mber 15 . Robi nson displa y s hi s friend 's With the wall September 15. Rider Robinson displays his friend's pop sculpture most. prominently of ,all his trophies. Sa ys Mrs. Robinson, "Russ is very promin~ntlY of hi s t rophies . says Robi ns on, "Rus s ve ry proud of 1t. 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