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story continues: When no one else will join the street fight, the gentle hero pulls out a gun and shoots one of the bikers. This slightlyout-at-proportion solution annoys the , club and lands him in jail for a little -BORN LOSERS" while. Meanwhile the heroine Is putt-Ing down from the city in her white bikini. Wllat Did fbey Use F.. Blood! ~ When the Losers notice this phenomenon ~ and decide to check it out, she panics••• ~ By Barbara Adams Dahms locks herself in a gas-station john, calls the cops, jumps on her bike and rides the wrong way to town, tries to run down one of the riders and loses her bike. Then, deciding if you can't (lght It The action begins with a group of choppers riding into town. (Sound fami._etc., she says, "I'll be the best liar?) A VW driver, ogling an "old 'Mama' this club ever had! Who'sgotthe lady," bumps the leader's bike. The acid?" Then she hits one of the guys over riders, in a cheerful mood, tell him to the head with a wrench and rides off on her Yamaha wl,thout turning on the gas. watch It, he replies with a common inWhen the bike quits she runs .through the sult, and the fight is on up and down the woods and gets raped before she gets street. While the locals exclaim "Do rescued. This shakes her considerably something!" and "I don't want to get Involvedl" the driver's face gets pushed and she falls in love with the Indian while they spend the long weekend in the into a car window (with the camera inwoods discussing whether she should side the car) leaving the shattering ImtestifY against the gang. (The entire print of something which resembles strawberry jam. prem ise of the film is that "the law" "It's violent with a capital V," alocal can't ever convict a bike rider of anyreviewer p r oc lai m ed, "not for the thing because no one will testifY for fear squeamish." "More than just another of reprisals. That idea should be good for a few laughs.) motorcycle gang drama.••1t exposes •••in paInful detail how these social outcasts The DA's case fades when, among on wheels have been permitted to terother things, one of the schoolgirls rorize small communities...Ieaves...not admits she digs the scene whenever she a drop of blood to the imagination." can, and the m01da. fades as the story (strawberry jam, maybe, not blood.) drags out this ancient Hollywood- type uBorn Losers" is unique in one way_ formula. The best violence scene was It was the first at its kind of (llm to cut from the film. The local cop (Jack name a club something besides Angels. starrett, again) is so infuriated with the lbe colors are orlginal (designed by Art • prez that he beats him up in jail. This Director Rick Beck-Meier) the ChO~ was bad for police image and was are groovey, the photography (in th~area chopped, leaving a scene where the leader is bumped with the nightstick and of Big Sur) Is beautifully done, famUiar faces appear, as always, among the is immediately crawling around on the floor unable to rise from a bad beating. riders, some of the acting is creditable, and the plot is so ludicrous as to make (What's with these 'batons' anyway?) engaging satire. This and the reviews As long as motorcycle films make which played It stralght (there were money (and they're making a lot of it right now) they will continue to be many at them) gives this film an entertaining quality. (Like Batman, it's so bad made, and as long as they're made by people who don't know anything about it's hilarious.) Take a gentle, woods-colt type Indian the subject they'll continue to be funny ••• as funny as the line in the review which (Tam Laughlin), just discharged from the (check this) Green Berets, arlchcollege reads "based on factual newspaper acgirl (Elizabeth James) who rides a Yacounts." In some ways though, it is said that a maha in a white bikini, a prez (Jeremy public image is created by idiot tales Slate) who likes to put-people- on and a like this and real live people have to live standard club with required bikes and with it. It's not so amusing to be haold ladies, all sharing a beach town on rassed constantly when you're riding a Easter Week with the "terrified" citirna orcycle because the citizens have' zens, high-school swingers, cops who been bralnwahsed by the money-makers aren't sure who to bust, and a DA who into believing that motorcyclist means thinks he's Bogart trying to put away the monster. Mafia; sprinkle liberally with strawberry jam and almost "in" dialogue and the I WHO WAS THE MYSTERY SHAMROCK? "1111 Movie Review: '------------------ HELP ASKED FOR NEW SCRAMBLES TRACK By Maureen Lee A new scrambles track is In the offing. The location is right alongside Highway 395, centrally located between Barstow, Palmdale and San Bernardino. On 40 acres of tand, the layout will be a highspeed track on flat land, s1m liar to our now-closed Prado Park wbere you can turn a 40-incher ON! On December 11th, at 3:00 p.m. the San Bernardino County Board at Supervisors will hear discussion about this on the 5th floor at the San Bernardino County Courthouse. Please attend if you are at all interested to show the Supervisors that we do care as riders and decent members of the community that we have good riding facilities. Those of you living in that area will have a chance to stand up for yourselves and get a track In your own backyards instead of having to drive many mUes to Bay Mare or Perris. Those at you who don't live that close should still stand up and help because we need another track! Plans for this one include the larger scrambles track with a short-track oval included for other types of racing. There will be plenty of facilities for parking, camping and picnicing. Some of your District A.M.A. representatives will be on hand to lend s\lPport and speak if required and we urge all interested parties to be there. Remember, dealers, without tracks to race bikes on you won't sell as many bikes! Motorcycles are being squeezed out because of apathy on the part of too many people. Now's our chance! Let's get another track in District 37! ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• INDOOR RACES COME TO fRESNO OPENER, DE~~i~a~ 17th JA . 7 & 14th :~:::FRESNO SPORTS ARENA Corner of Ventura & M Street (take Ventura offramp from Freeway 99) Presented by Valley Sport Inc., 505 W. Kearney Blvd., r'rE:sno 93706 $900 purse plus 40% oyer $4.000 pie. Also on January 7,14

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