Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1960's

BooIllle~er. __ ••• liu_ lJIIUda . Lab Techai d• • . . . _ . LOi Lallidl Recepli Ollist. • • • • • • • Irme KetCb • Americ a's leading weekly newspa per coverin g the motorc ycle sport. You'll always see it first in Cycle News.· (,hud I"-Ylon Publish er F.rlc Ralts F.ditor Terry Prall Cldenda r F.dJtor to CI,e f.dJtor. Gael Buchan an Man ager. . Sharon Clayton llu In OffICI' Manager..Gavlenc Thomason lrculauo n Mana~r.. Bruce ~.a ley ProducUon Manager.. DeDllis (;rccnl" Produc bono\ss l. .Dean Cunningham .. r\/Q('rw~' s ~t"ekJv \f%reY l'le Newsp aper" 7 I z z z WHOM DO YOU TRUST? How about some side back act10n in Cycle News? Everybo dy lites side backs. Much 01. DIe best actioo in Dtstrtc t 37 is trom tile side backs. Two backs passing in add-air ? At tile Dirt D1gers AUsl:a tes Scramb les people gasped at three ~ down side by side. Tbat 1llllS riders IIOtIdDc tile people really went wild wbeD lIIey.; " three bacb IQUIc downtb atbUl side by side. Tbose 01. yllll lbat rode, tbink ahoat fIIat bard. SIde 1IKb are DOt 1IO be lakeD 1JCbtI:y. RidIIIc a side back Is DOt a "ride Wre JOII feel" pr'IlIlOGtioo. It 18 two mea as a team. 'I1I8y ml8t1lDow 1Ibat eacbolb er wID do aDd wIleD lIIey wID do it. If 0IIll IIIlUl maIiBs a mJ.aJre tbey could e.ruII or fUp. WoaIcI you trust your best fr1eDd BILL PERDUE Wre u.t? Redoad o BeKlI, Calif. come 1110'S TO START IIIO! I baft always been WIder tile Impres s10D lbat tile starter was tbere 1IO start tile races, DOt tile racers tbere 1IO start DIe stm1IlI' . Tb1s c:1IlIDCe of polley seems 1IO be 1Ibat bas been bappeni ng lately. In years past wben som~ jumped tile lie was pat in tile back row. Aaolber tbinc - if tile starter can't oac. start tile races. I dllII't tIIIDk the aD- blmseU 1IO call tile racers dowIl. as In tile case 01. 0 - Romero aDd his 20 mile an boor starts. If Gene can put ODe everyone wants for tIIeir own use. As tile recreatloo al needs r:4 our pcpuIatloa grow tbese problem s wW increas e. At tile same tlme we bave I1tt1e problems about off-road riding space. These are I1We problem s in the sense tbat they concern small areas of land, l1ttIe machines and mostly, lltt1e people. Buttlley are not oll1tt1e importa nce. They are of ereat 1mpoI't ance because llttle people are of great impocta nce. Mini-bi kes are made and sold In increasin g number s, yet tbey exist in a legal limbo_ juSt as kids exist In a legal limbo: neitber have any genuine legal statu;. The big motorcy cle, once 11censed, bas equal right to tbe streets wllb all otber veb1ele s. (We woo't argue tile pract1c al side of lb1s. equality .) 1be adult, llcensed driver or rider bas equal rlgbts wllb all other drivers . M1Jl1-bilces cannot be I1censed. Kids cannot be 11censed. The oft-stre et areas wbere tbey ride are not theirs and cannot really be given le. At the very bottom of the pOVerty plea are tile th1ngs we need to do for the kids oIlbis country aDd of the world. It's tr-.Je tbat lbis expansiOll came qulctly In the last generatiOll and bas been dUf1cult to absorb in the fiscal picture . But as long as tbere is so mucb money for what is 01. less importa nce, tbere bas to fie a way. In tile past tbree years we have beard a state rovernm ent wb1cb bas raised Its own salarie s, and is contem Platlnr building anotber multl-m W1oo dollar oI.fk:e bu1ld1ng , while callJng for an end to utree" educatlO D.. Our natlonal governm ent justput tbree Americ ans 011 the moon, wblcb I personally conside r an exciting and worlbwhile accomp Usbmen t yet, our nattonal governm ent cannot mate land availab le for riding and camping , andaune -bugcyIng and b1ldng, and just getting away from every one else. It cannot conserve tile old redwoo ds. It cannot preserv e the evergla des. It cannot even save the great lakes and tile San Francis co Bay. It doesn't bave tile money. (Contin ued 00 Page 2'1)

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