Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1960's

.... ~ Q" .............. '01111 'iller ••Dowl Fee By Robert O. Fee T he rai n th e Tbe rain had stopped but tbe storm gathere d the. closed clouds pthered outside the· cl osed doors of tbe SOuthern California Road Rid ers the SOuthern Riders Monday , Noveljl ber Committee meeting Monday, Novelpber 7th . 7tb. the Members of tbe Los Alamitos RainM.C . tw o forbows M.C. were stunned when two fo rmer members of the club informed t hem them that th ey were no longer members of the nO l onger RRC by reason of tbeir abdicating the th eir California Rainbows M.C. cbarter in M.C . charte r favor favo r of a new charte r Issued to the Los charter issued t he L os Rainbows. T he seemi ngly inAlamitos Rainbows . The seemingly innocuous change has completely disrupt ed disrupted the club. The splinter group has renewed the original California Rainbows charter which is recognized by the RRC. This Is th e means tha t se veral members of what is that several now the Los AJ.Jvnitos Rainbows club L os Alamitos Rainb ows who were eligi bl e' for RRC Point A ctiveligible Poi nt Activity Trophi es are now disqualifiecl beTrophies disqualifiecj cause their cl ub does not belong to t he club not the RRC. RRC . The fourteen members of the Los tbe Alamitos Rainbows rushed to the RRC meetin g to protest the action only to meeting onl y fi nd l ocke d. find the doors locked. Normally apen to open any ri der, the RRC too k action at thei r rider, took their October meeting to restrict the November restrict and December meetings in order to deal meetin gs in ord er to wi th the calen dar and el ec tions. Ironiwith calendar elections. cal ly, the representatives of the now cally, representati ves L os Alamitos Los Alamito s Rainbows were present and voting at that October meeting. J .M. Jones, RRC Chairman, was ini nformed formed of the situation just prior to th e the meeting and rule d that as t he Los Alaruled the mitos Rainbows were not members of the RRC th ey could not be seat ed. Ju st bethey could seated. Just fore adjournment the RRC assembly adjo urnment assemb ly voted to allow five minutes to the group vot ed to present th e facts of the situation. The the T he resulting report s fr om both clubs were reports from extremely extremely poor wi th previous few fac ts with facts emer gi ng from the welter of emotions . emerging from emotions. However, However , it appears that the situation is a result of completely legal actions of l egal taken by the entire assembly of the tortak en asse mbly former California Rainbows M.C. Chairman Jones opi ned t hat the RRC Chairman opined that was powerless to inte rfere in the AMA's interfere in t he AMA' s perogati ves procee dures perogatives or proceedures of chartering the individual clubs and could accept clu bs only that charte r heretofore recogni zed charter recognized by the Committee. Committ ee. The evening's main order of busines s Th e business for the RRC was the 1967 Road Riders t he Calendar. At the Oct ober meeting the October RRC adopted a total of 26 point runs fo r adopt ed total for 1967. Two of these, the 29 Palms Spri ng T wo of the se, Spring Tou r and th e Pine Cone Rally were preTour the Pin e l ef t empted by the RRC which left 24 weekends tor th e clubs. f or the The club's order of choi ce for the cl ub's choice caleDClar clatetl was determ1Ded by a calendar dates determin ed throu gh sy ste m sYlltem of points earned tblOul!l attendance anc e at tbe RRC meetilllll and assistt he meet ings aDCe pven on tbe RRC rallies. No one ance give n the rallles. questioned tbe seniority sta ndings as questioned t he standings they were compiled by Secr etary Ames Secretary and verified by the Ex ecut ive Board. As Executive eacb club was called, the representath e each tives went forward , paid the RRC dues forward, tbe sanction their and AMA Sanction fees and picked thei r date on the calendat. th e calendar. dat e The official Road Rider's Calendar Cal endar will be printed by the So. Calif. HarleywUl pri nted HarleyA ssoci ation. HopeDavidson Dealers AssociatioD. Hapefully the calendar "ill be ready to mall cal endar will out wifb the An...al Danc e invitations. with th e Annual Dance i nvitations. A l so to be mailed with the dance inAlso i nvitatio ns are copi es of the RRC Supplevitations copies of mentary Rules . Originally appearing In Rules. in Cyc le News immediately after t hei r Cycle News their adoption, tbe Committee for Better t he Bett er Moto rcycling Motorcycling reprinted t he rules and tbe donated t hem to tbe RRC at tbe Novemthem the the ber meeting. Much confusion has deMucb bas developed throu gh i gnorance of just what tbrough ignorance wbat is and isn't al l owed under the Supplei sn' t allowed mental Rules. Hopefully, wide distribuRul es. Hopefull y, tio n tion of the rules will correct some of the misunderstandings tbat exist. t hat Onl y one event remains on the 1966 remai ns Only Cal endar. Th e Pacific Coasters have Calendar. The Paci fic stresse d gol d... gold ... gold!i! Well over a stressed gold ••• gold.•. gol d!!! ove r bundred trophi es and prizes will be prehundred trophies sented at th e 2nd Annual Indio Date the I ndi o T our December 3rd and 4th. After a Tour Dec ember parad e through downtown Indio, the reparade I ndi o, maining acti vities of the 2 day rally will mainin g activiti es take place i nside the tak e pla ce inside tbe National Date Fe stival Fairgrounds. Festival F airgrounds. The Victor Me Laglin Drill T eam will give one of thei r Team their famous performa nces for th e cyc list s performances the cyclists and townspeople. Following the dress the competition, also open to th e to wnsthe townspeople. the riders will enjoy a hot meal people, tbe e.uoy meal served in t he fairground restaurant. the fai rground resta urant. Dancing and dance contests in th e cafeDanci ng con rests i n the teria and individual contests in the i ndividual th e stadium Saturday night will eventually wUl eve ntually give way to sleepy time with the riders wi th th e bedding beddi ng down on the green grass within withi n tbe fairground walls and under roofs in the fai rground roof s I n cas e case of rain. Sunday morning will bring mornin g games of fun and field events with the of motorcycles. T he P aci fi c motor cycles. Tbe Pacific Coasters are quick to admit that th ey desire to make t hat they the Indio Date Tour on e to rival Deatb th e I ndi o one ri val Death Valley. For t he long range planners, tbe first the ranee planners , t he first om of 1967 will be the 2nd Annual Rainrun th e drop Run promoted by the Sociables M.C. th e Soci abl es Janua ry Sunday January 8th. Th e C enta urs M. C. The Centaurs M.C. will promote a Poker Run t wo weeks Pok er two week s laier on January 23rd. Th e Highway later 23rd. The Kings were quick to snatch the Carson King s snatcb tbe the not City location when tbe RRC decided not to go hack In '67, and will present the back In "Bcnanza Run" over the Labor Day Labo r "Bonanza RunW Weekend in Carson City , Nevada. eek end City, District 37 Sports CO••ttee MeetiRg Committee Meeting By Maureen Lee New Officers: Carter, Wineland Wineland and, of course,, Adams or course Officers for the Sports Committee for Offi c ers 1967 were chosen last Thursday night by vote of club delegaies. The new ofcl ub delegates. ficers are: President, Jean Carter, VicePr esident, Vi cePr esident, Lynn W eland and Bill President, Wineland in Adams as Secr etary-Treasu rer. Elections Secretary-Treasurer. E l ections addi ti onal for an additional position will be held at the December meetin g, that of Recording Dec ember meeting, Secr etar y , whose duti es will be to record Secretary. duties the minut es of the meeting and send the minutes them out to the clubs. The office holder them cl ubs. Th e bolder need not be a cl ub del egat e. B ecau se of be club delegate. Because this new division of duties, Bill A dams di vi si on Adams was willing to acc ept his nomination as accept hi s nominat i on Secretary-Treasurer for the 8t h year. Secr etary -Treasurer for 8th ye ar. 'The Competition Commit t ee will num"T he Competi tion Committee wi ll ber seve n, the body concurring wi th the seven, with del egates' request for thi s i nc rease in delegates' tbis increase i n number earlier in the eveni ng. Those evening. chosen are Dick Kouns , Darwin Ballard, Di ck Kouns, Ken K en Peterson, T om Ready and Cal MakeTom la . Th ree la. Three men tied for the other two posts and anot her vote will be taken in another tak en in December to split the tie betwee n Gary between Weber , T om Maxwell Allen . Weber, Tom Maxw ell and Don Allen. When letters were read there was one l etters read cl ub from a new club called the · St ri ped "Striped Crusad ers " in T opanga formed because Crusaders" in Topanga there was " no AMA cl ub in the area. " "no club in tbe area." Bill Adams said that they would have to they would hav e a charter before bei ng admitted to have being the Di st ri ct, tbe District, and a Crusader presented a copy copy which had just arrived f rom National from National headquarters , headquarters, and so the club was pl ac ed t he placed on the roll. Enduros Discussed End nras Discus sed A long letter was read from the Suolo ng read Sunland Shamrocks in which the Shamrocks land in requested that Enduros be put back on requeste d hack the poi nt cal endar. T hey al so thought point calendar. They also that the present point system coul d be system could be improved by paying points to rid ers for riders their top t wel ve rid es of the y ear. It thei r twelve rides year. costs about 5150 a month to rid e three cost s about $150 ride runs and the present system forces force s riders to compete whether they really want to or not , jjust to keep their points not, ust poi nt s up, the re by taking some of the fun out of some of there riding. A discussion followed with Red Ludfo rd (Checker s) pointing out that Ludford (Checkers) this system would hurt the beginn i ng tbis system beginning rider and that the clubs would not get as that many entries. As t he elections had not ent ri es. the ye t yet taken place, Jean Carter was forced carter was t o table tbe subject until next month beto tabl e the subj ect month of cause of time. No Sale, Chick Sal e, Tbe T he Competition Committee RepOrt Report i nclud ed included information on the lack of sanitary facilities on tbe Checkers Hare and the Check ers Hound. Pr esident Carter said that as tbat Hound . President tbese these had not been furnisbed, the Cbeckfurni shed , Checkers would be required to furnish facilities for t he Rams run Nov. 13th, or l oose tbe loose poi nt runs for all their point run s fo r 1967. A representative aske d where in the rules was sucb asked wbere i n tbe rul es such an enforcement found and Jean Carter enfo rcem ent read from the District 37 By-Laws, Secfrom By-Laws , tion 14, Page 6. However, it was decid ed 14,Page 6 . decided to table this discussion also until the tbis next meeting. A Checkers member asked Check ers i f that that they if tbat meant tbat they didn't have to bave provide th e out houses as the subject pr ovide the outhouses was tabled and Carter replied that it did, di d, bri ngi ng bringing a laugh from the body at Red laugb Ludford' s · Sorry Ludford's 'Sorry about that , Rams." that, Anotber lime on the high way iinfracAnothe r higbway nf raction occ urred on the Buzzards run, but occurred Buzzard s no action was ta ken although all clubs taken although were reminded that a rul e was passed remind ed rule that all posters must show exactly the pos ters exac tly location of runs to making liming unl oc ation necessary. nec essary . Another desert-slanted subject was desert- slant ed that of a late sta rt for trail bikes. Asked that start bikes . what constituted a "late start", the ancons ti tuted " l ate start " , swer was that It could be j ust as soon it could just as the dust had cleared from the bikes from blasting off. The trail bikes would also of f . T he trai l bi kes woul d carry a different tank card as a deterrent diff erent t ank det errent cheaters to cheaters who might try to sneak out wi th e big boys. The wi th the bi g boys . T he body vote d to voted conc ur with this. concur Carter Reports Ca rte r Rep or ts Jean Cart er reported on his trip to Carter hi s t rip Columbus for the National Competition Meeting and read his expense report. He spoke on meetings he attended and how at t he General Business session he subthe General Bu siness su~ mitt ed a proposal for allowing districts mitted di str i cts to petition for variance in rules accordpeti tion varianc e i n rul es acc ordi ng ing to district conditions. He also requested National sc rambles to be requested scrambles turned. Information was given on National tu rned. In f ormati on desert sanctions for '67. ' 67. Befor e the meeting was closed for the Before elections to take place, a lively discusplace , discussion too k place on the Competition Comtook Cornmittee's recommendation that for 1967 there should be three colors for number shoul d thre e plates (Expert, Amat eur and Novice) and pl ate s (E xpert , Amateur tbree th ree plates to be car red, with the comcarred. petition card f ee increased to $5 fo r fee for sc rambles. T he desert fee woul d go to scrambles. The desert would $3. After discussion it was voted on that di scu ssi on tbere woul d be three colors but only one there would plate, with the fee increased to $3 inI ncreased i nstea d of $5. T he desert card will remai n stead of The remain the same. WINS PACIfIC COAST HARE SCRAMBLES TORSTEN HALLMAN CHAMPIONSHIP (3 times Ch_ ion) (11i.s W.ld C",11IIl Open Cia• • Class MALCOLM SMITH 2150 cc Class 250 ccCla• • Them in Action See at H op etown1! 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