iZ===\~===Z=::;;:;;Z===:Z===:Z===::::::2~==::::::2~==::::;j~==::::::i~==:::::i~==::::::iZ:::===Z::===z:===z===z
'"
Q.,
You'll
Always
See II
FIRST
in
Publisber•••••••• Cbudl aaytoa
Editor• • • • • • • • • • • • Eric Raits
AssistaDt EdilDr••••• T~ Pratt
8usiness M....a I:"er. • Sharon Cia} ton
OrIi£e Manlger••GayJeae Thomason
ProducUoa MaAager••Detlnis Greene
Produclic. Asst. .Dean eum.....:batn
·/~~---.
..America' s Week! y
Motorcycle Newspaper"
z
z
z
z
Circalatioll Manacer•• Bruce F.asl"y
800J(JLeeper•••• , • Susan lllIilelaw
Lab Technician. • • • • • LUi. Lakicb
Want Ads••••••••• Sandra PurSI
c/o E.C. Hyland
Reg1strars House,
Moor Lane, W1tton
Blrm1ngtlam 6, Eogland
RAlTS TO THE DESERT
After reading your July 15th ed1Iioo.
where you bad one column on the results
page with no p1ctures for the desert
event 10 Hi- Vista, we bave come to the
conclus1oa that the person wbo sets uP
your paper does not rea11Ze that the
desert racers pull 400 ar more riders
each SUBda.y, with a plt 11ne of spectators
and plt erew stretching out over a m11e
across the desert.
Our po1nt 15 tbat 'we 11ke your paper,
but somehow we are not gettlng our fair
sblIre of your space. Maybe ltwoli1dbeJp
If your new Asslstant Editor, Er1cRalts,
came out to the· desert to see tor blmself wba.t our desert races are alI about,.
24 DESERT RACERS
NOT WARREII,BUT KLOCK,KLOCK,
KLOCK.
The flUItastlc pilato of MacDoutfe in
the .July 22 issue of Cycle News was DOt
taken by DaY!! Warren. He 15 IncapaNe
of sucb a tpmastlc pbotograpb as that.
I, Brtan Kock, took the pboto aDd was
us1ng It as a d1sP1aY 1IIIb11e se1110g 1117
1Iz10 coIoF pbotos to deseri racers.
I.lav1l4 1IIIb11e beJp1Dg me out. sold it to
Cycle News representatives. Please let
It be Ullderstood tbat Brtan Klock was
the pbolDgrapber.
"CODCel'IIIld Scramble& Rider" (.July
15) raises a good point. If a personl11les
to ride aT.T. Scrambles lUIYIIlore be
~~ look to aootber area lIIan D1str1ct
'Ibere used to be a Jot of people wbo
bad a lot of tun at PradoPark.Acc1dents
aDd such were few and far between. The
tract was fast, but you could go off to the
pole ar outside If you got in trouble.
Tllere were DO people in the m1dd1e.
wIlere !bey dldD'tbelollg. The secood turn
a1ter the jump was the only bad spot, If
you could ca1l1t tbat. If1tbadbeen bBnked a llttle more 1t would bave been o.k.
I don't reea1l anyone ever be1Dg Idl1ed
tllere in as IIllUIy years as It was alive.
What baWeDed to tb1s type track? The
onlY answer I ever bear coocern1Dg Prado
was that the club just didn't renew the
lease. It was said you couldn't make
mOlley tllere, but somehow our club always managed to make out.
Now the dea115 to slowdown the tracks
with as IIllUIy curves as possible, and as
rough as possible. 'Ih1s does not slow
down the racers, but tires them out'and
makes for bigger and mareacc1dents.Of
course, tb1s15 the new "European Style" •
The best (far once a year) T.T. Scramb1es track 10 Ca.1IforDla DOW runn1ng 1s
at Sallnas. Once a year a road ridlng club
puts on the best eveut for mare riders
and more spectators than I bave ever
seen: over 600 riders and over 10,000
spectators.
'Ibere are no bI.kes under 200cc.
SIgn uP 15 from 8 till 10, pract1ce from
10 till 12 DOOD. Durlog lunch they dress.
~e atta1r uP with real festivlties, from
an introductlon by the Mayor through
best dressed rac1ng macb1De/rlder aDd
wbee11e contests. Then all of these
riders race between 1 aDd 6. There are
DO second row starts, with uP to 35
riders abreast 10 the frOllt row. I bave
never seen the ambnlanee leave the
track 10 the three years I've raced
there. It 15 a benefit run--last year
they turned over about $10,000 to the
Cerebral Palsy Fum.
Tllere are other great TT tracks st1ll
around. You could put Prado in the 10tleld of Soufh Bay Speedway in San Diego,
wblcb runs at least once a month.
Sprockets Park in Bakerstle1d runs every
~ DIgbt throuCIl the summer.
Ditto Madera Fairgrounds.
Tbere are good tracks arotIDd. aDd
they do well. The EuropelI.D tlck15 "in",
and tllere's no questloo that 1t's tun and
BRIAN KLOCK
caJ..
W,e Liked Geezer Emick
.
By Eric Ratts
We 11J¢
Subscription: on" ~·,,;oIr 2nd d .. ss
",,,,iI ••••••••••••••••• S7.;;0
NATIONAL ADVERTISING DIRECTOR••••• Thomas R. Culp
CycJe News IWestl, P.O. B~x
4.98, Long Beach, Calif. 90800
Tel. (213) 423-0431.
EASTERN
P.,I Co...,
ADVERTISING
Slale Cycle News (Easll
P.O. IBol 13, Amhersl, Ohio 44001
Tel. (216\ 984-2433
z
z
7
I
produces good riders, but the old tasb100ed TT Scrambles 15 as American as
apple plel Few of the current European
heros could Ireep lIP on our traditional
courses. Distr1ct 37 riders need aDd
want tb1s type of smooth, fast and wide
track. How 'bout 1t, promoters?
GARY WEBER
DAVE ROESCH
La
