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Cycle News 1967 07 13

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-THE VOICE OF CALIFORNIA' SlnlIII all ... lest Publisher and Advertlsinc Manacer Editorial stories, cartoon, photos, ••••••••••• Charles C. CIlIYton etc. are welcomed and will be paid Business Manacer•• SbalOn Clayton for upon publication (except press Circulation Mer. • • Gaye Thomason releases and -Voice- letters. AdEditor••••••••••• Rudi Hartmut dressed, stamped envelope assures return. Photo Editor••••• Dennis Greene 6411 N. Llig Buell BI,'" Editorial Assistant.Robert Bradford Slncte copy price ••••••••• 2:1t AdvertlsiDc Asst. • Lynn Lanca ter SUbscriptioa: One year 2nd class L•• calif. " S Mall •••••••••••••••• 57.:10 Or. Bel 418, L. . B.acll, Calif. Published weekly except the first One Year First Class Mall•• 51<1.00 and last week of the calendar year 42H4U. (SUbscribers please allow three by C&S Publishing Co., Post Office (Area CH. 2ll) weeks for address chaaCe.) Box 498. Long Beach, California. Advertising rates and circulation Second Class pOstage paid at Long F. . L.A. P.... 63&-lII44 information will be sent upon request. Beach, Calif. lea" P"'c s: 1. He Never Boasts 2. He Never Quits 3. He Makes No Excuses 4. He Ahrays Plays Fair 5. He Is A Quiet Winner 6. He Is A Cheerful Loser 7. He Is Willing to Leam 8. He Has Conrage 9. He Plays tile Game According To The Rnles 10. He, Above All, Is Honest We are not in agreement with the hiring of a -District 1/37 Co-ordinator-. We are hiring a man to fill a position we don't need with money we don't have. All the duties listed on the memorandum sheet are actually the duties of our elected officers of District 1/37 and/or any rider or person who has the interest of spOrtsman events at heart. Sporting events in the past few years have deteriorated because of commercialism within the district. We will be further discouraging the individual rider with another raise of rider's fees, sanction fees, etc., to support a co-ordinator. We know that as conscientious member clubs of District 1/37, you will carefully consider the facts and figures and take a stand against this matter before District 1/37 buys itself out of existence. Respectfully yours, GRlPSTERS M.C. Francis Petty, President Jim Foxe, Secretary By Chuck Clayton -WINNING THE WAR' TO the Supreme Editor: Have made the circuit of Vietnam, we are winning the war but it is just going to tum out to be another Korea. Set up a DMZ, fart around and shoot at each other over the fence and spend a billion more dollars trying to show that the billions we have spent were worth while. And that is show biz. so I am cutting out for Europe the 16th of this month, picking up my true-love and I have to be back to work in Burbank at Volt Technical by the 26th of June. Have you hired an Editor yet? Columbus, Ohio? Isn't that where the elephants go to die? Having laughs in Viet Nam is like taking a trip on LSD with the Desk Sgt. at the L.A.P.D. Hard but possible. Can I be a"Arts· critic for Cycle News? Cover all the fashion shows etc. And you don't even have to pay me•. DANNY LISKS & MY BMW & WIFE alias "CRASH-TRUESDALE Boy Adventurer Viet Nam "We canceJled plans to sLarL a ColumbUS, Ohio paper. Too many dead elephants in the way. Cycle riding is an art. Who needs fashion?- DEPLORES FISTICUFFS AT TULARE NATIONAL Fans who came out to see the Tulare National were treated to a spectacle of speed and skill but were also witness to one of the most unsightly incidents that has ever taken place at an event of this size. Gentlemen, please think with your heads instead of your fists! ROBERT PARK Wilmington, Calif. FELLOW MEMBERS OF DISTRICT 31: The members of the Gripsters Motorcycle Club have unanimously decided it is time to make a stand on some of the issues the governing body of District 113 7 is trying to slide through with little thought of the eventual results. MY TRIP TO THE CAPITAL OR: HOWl LEARNED ABOUT POLITICS AT THE AGE OF 31, When the Hell's Angels embrace a cause, you can be certain it is a losing one. And judging from the tv and dailies it appears they've taken up the Anti-Helmet banner. Sensing that the sport was 99 and 44/100ths percent unrepresented with only the H.A. 's in attendance at Senate Transportation Committee hearings last week, I elected to fly up to sacramento and say a word against the propOsed -Motorcycle Danger Bill-. (A.B. 978 See page 5.) Now, this publisher makes no claim to elOQuence, or forensic prowess. But I ride motorcycles, and anyone who rides and likes motorcycles should be ahle to reasonably explain why the Danger Bill should be killed. Right? Arriving early for the hearing, I paid a visit to Assemblyman John Francis Foran, the chairman of the committee who drew up the Danger Bill. He accepted the copy of Cycle News that I handed him and leafed through it. taken dangerous drugs either, but I've voted on matters affecting their use. Does anyone on his transportation committee have experience as a motorcycle rider? ·One, I think Mr. Townsend once used one.- What about the new class 4 li· cense that your committee created in A..lmblymanJohn F. For.., Democrat, San FrancIsco. Chairman of Assembly Tran"" porUllon Co_Itt. and chiIf propoa.m Of A.B. 971. this law? Why does it reQuire a new rider to get a car driver's license before he can apply for a license to ride a motorcycle?" -Oh, that won't affect you. Anyone who already has a license of any kind can go on riding a motorcycle and he won't have to take the test until his license expires."Fine, but what about the new driver who wants a motorbike for low cost transportation. and doesn·t have a car?• Surely he could borrow one, just for the time it takes to take the test replied Foran. ' • Some Hardships" "Still, would you not agree it might cause some hardship, especial- ly in the low-income groups, to come up with a car for the time it takes to learn how to drive and to take the test?"Yes, - Foran conceded, -It might be hard on some. But the Federal Department of TranSpOrtation requires a special license and a compulsory helmet law for motorcycle riders... otherwi se we don't get the money. "Does the Federal government require the automobile license before the state can issue the special motorcycle license, - we pursued, at the risk of sounding tedious. "I don't know the exact reQUirements, - Chairman Foran admitted. "They only just came out and I haven't seen them yet.I was about to ask why his committee was determined to pass legislation before they knew exactly what it had to cover. But a be 11 rang and Assemblyman Foran placed the green phone alongside his face and began speaking into it. The interview was obviously over. And I didn't even get my 25¢ for the paper. On the way to the hearing the elevator was buzzing with excitement. "Do you think they'll come?"I saw them last week. Did you?"No, I missed them I could almost die!The girls aboard were even more excited over the chance of pOssibly actually seeinc the real Hell's Angels, stars of tabloid, screen and television, in the mouldy fie sh. Nut Week: The Hearin~ Ride· •· Into the Winner's Circle! No Drug User Mr. Foran is a short, pale man with receding chin and hairline and a pussycat smile. He seemed to feel that every California motorcycle rider should feel proud to sacrifice a little freedom to keep the federal government happy. (If California doesn't pass a helmet/license law the Feds won't give her the $35 million worth of highway funds that they collected from us in the form of taxes.) Now, Jesse Unruh (another pOlitician. but we don't hold a man's job against him) he says heck, you can't make driving safer by taking away our highway money. What's Uncle Sam saying, anyhow? We assume that Mr. Foran thinks he is doing right by the voters. But how does he know what is right? His advisors tell him, he says. Well, how does he know they're right? Were they not wrong about crashbars? -Have you ever ridden a motorcycle?I asked. -No,- replied Foran. "I haven't SOUTH GATE TT JUNE 29, 1967 Whelll, Coatest Gary BaillY HOD l00cc MaIn Gary Bailey HOD ELSINORE TT JULY I, 1967 SPROCKETS PARK, BAKERSFIELD JUNE 24, 1967 lDOcc Novice 1. So Larson 2. K. Wilson 3. P.-Yrlpliia l00cc Explrt I, G. BaillY 90cc Nov. HOD HOD HOD HOD Slutb. . Calif• Ana R.,nSllhtlYl H.A. -.ELSI IIELSOII P 61 (2ll) 241-1111 calif. Ron Tobey • HOD 9Dec Am...Ex. 1. Avery HlasllY 2. Jlff Jolmson 3.lIlh La. HOD HOD HOD N•• Calif. Dlstrlllltlr LEAVITT POWER TOOL CO. INC. Sa.t .. BI-. ms •__ c...... ~tf. ....... (U,) JlI DeII..-a ,,,.,,, By PlBATCO

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