Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1960's

• r-liiriiiiifiiDir" 1 ~ .J ByRoxyRockwood __ The Daytona rest period is now over a.nd time to bead for Ascot a.nd the first night TT of the season this coming Saturday night. It shonld be a good oDe as all of the front runners from the 100lapper last month are oD band. Maay were in Daytona, did not make moDey, and wiII be looking for a cba.nce to get· back in the bocks. The point fund that was started last year is also in effect again this season and it wiJI pay plenty to the riders who finish in the top three in all classes. At least ten riders can win the expert final at Ascot this Saturday night-if all ten can fight their way through the heats and semis and actually get into the big money-payer. More Races Than Ever Look for the novice riders to have a ding-doog batde this year ror first place and top point honors. This class is loaded like never berore. It will be the busiest year yet ror area riders with a rutl load of TT, haIr-mile, road racing and weekly short tracking and lightweight TTing. Aggie has also obtained the arena for indoor racing at San Diego and will run down there once a month, starting April 29th. Air conditioned, you know. All the Daytona equipment is back in town and look for much of it to be at the next Carlsbad event on APril 23rd. Teams and riders will 'now start getting ready for Laconia, Des Moines and the national at Carlsbad in September. The April date at Carlsbad is a sportsmen event but the machines don't know that and run just as fast. Gene Romero, who finished 8th at the Daytona 200. gives credit to the Carlsbad sportsmen events for teaching him how to road • race and get used to clip-on bars, etc. There will be many more down there the rest of the season, doing the ·same. They held a road race in Northern Calif. at Cotati, last Sunday and it was a blaster from start to finish in the 250cc final between Ron Grant on a Yamaha and Art Bauman on a Kawasaki. Grant beat Bauman by a wheel. We're looking for both of these riders to be at Carlsbad on the 23rd. It will be Bauman's first time down. Art has caught the eye of one well known dirt track sponsor from the North and may be at Ascot, trying dirt tracking in the amateur class for the first time. Had alot of out-of-state riders asking about Carls bad back at Daytona. It is the only track running monthly under the AMA banner and many riders in the mideast and east will be coming out this way to get into some additional road racing in the coming months. Traveling The Circuit Riders that are planning on hitting the national circuit should start getting ready for the next one, a late entry. it is the l2-mile national on the well known half-mile at Reading, Pa. It is under the direction of Jack Vanino, a man who knows how to put on races back there and they always have a good show at Reading. This one is on the first SUnday in June. AMA in Ohio has the entry blanks. Jack said to extend a special invitation to allCalifornia dirt trackersthey wiJI go out of their way back there to make you feel at home. Next Friday night is the half-mile opener at Ascot. This is always one of the biggest of the year for rider and fan alike. we have a lot of hungry half milers who will be looking for their first payday since last October. Race time is again set for 8:15 p.m. Pit gates open at 6:00 and close at 7:30 p.m. No exceptions. The same applies this Saturday night for the TT. MORP MUsCLe HONDA for your NO SPACERS - RWY TO BOLT·IN HIGH COMPRESSION - BIG BORE (10.5 & 12.5:1 STD. 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Be rode like he was the cock or the roost, and ror anyone else to ride a bike was a great big sin. MY SUMBICHI5! WHAT HAPPENfD TO THEM? I first met him by chance or some lousy twist or rate, tiding somewhere up on the Strip near a bar called 'a go go. I caught sight or and got hung ~ on a chick. ltis eyes were all beady, and slanted like the word cop! Scribbled by some kid with chal k on a board all Black with slate and, I knew by the look on his race he had come bearing a ticket of hate. With a sneer hanging cold on a hard slit of a race, and as he stood there writing a ticket from his lousy Mickey-Mouse Book, I wondered why, as he wrote, why he wrote with such haste. Perbaps, some or the words that I uttered were oot uttered in taste. Now, to this cop I say! This is the end or my story! The end or my tale! U you don't like it, write me a ticket, or send me to jail! -The End

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