Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

Mark Revels d1d some pretty good things at Riverside In the road races. Didn't know Mark went in for thattypeof racing as all be ever talked about was TT racing and at that be's par excellent. Davey Davis is another rider who has By Elaine Jones ~ r.:l This week you wUl have to forz1ve me some parental pride, as my six year old son David has joined the ranks of the Green Platers as a mini-bike ri<\er. rid1ng lately and Toby has been hold1ng UP the family bonor. Dan Kegler, who was out for the first time this season, hasn't lost the touch that made him higb point winner in his claSs last year. Better keeP your eye green pl,.....~I r.......- -1 ........ ~I Thanks to his cousin John M, Davis is now the proud owner of a Honda MIniTrall. Right now be's content with just being king of the neighborhood. While we're tlianklng; Ken Conover deserves a big thanks for setting up a Mini-Bike Club that gives kids the chance to learn how to ride and a chance at competition wbile doing it. Ken has a booming Kawasaki Dealership in Riverside that's almost as big as his interest in young people. The Burtons again have had their noise abatement trial postponed. This time it was due to' the fact the DistI-ict Attorney wasn't ready to go. June is the next projected date so it will be Interesting to see what haPpens next. been branching out into other fields, his bag being Motocross. He' s a good spokes- man for this type of rid1ng, as he came out for the S.B.V.M.C. TT point run and d1d some pretty wild things on that Bultaco of his. Debbie Sanders came out for the day and was making noises like she might start making the Saturday night Perris scene again. on him. Stu Cox got him one of those funny looking cans that holds gas so he had plenty of fuel and won his 250Cc Class. Sorry about that Stu, but can't help rubbing it In. Don't forget it's against the law to run over us people afoot with either a bike or car. Would like to see Lori Fuller from San Diego come out to Perris more often. She really buns them up at Elsinore but hasn't quite found her groove on the Perris track. Terry Stanford got Into the winner'S circle last Saturday. He hasn't been Southern Pacific R.R. and fenced it In. Perhaps one of you mathematicians can figure out exactly bow far a person could ride in a straigbt line without a pair of wire-cutters. Sure would complicate the Barstow-to-Vegas race! Don't sell your macblnes, yeti Read on! Although we may often have our doubts, the BLM is an agency whose role it is to 'protect' the public lands In such a manner that the best interests of all users are considered. And this includes motorcyclists. What I'm trying to do, is to put you, the reader, in the position that the BLM finds itself In. They have the authority to horse-trade with the other private landowners and public land-use agencies. The desert lands hold a lot of values to a lot of d1fferent users, and the B~M doesn't want to horse-trade away any lands that have any value to any segment By Russ Sanford For the past several weeks, I have been 'BonIng Up' on the sUbject of the California desert. My.concern stemmed from the many rumored land closures throughout Southern California and an Invitation to attend the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's 1970 Advisory Board meeting beld In San Bernardino on June 11th and 12th. These are some of the things wb1ch I have learned and wb1ch I have beard. They should be of interest to motorcyclists across the' nation, because as an official from the Washington D.C. headquarters of the BLM indicated, the California BLM has done such a fine, job that they intend to use It as a 'model' for overall application•. 'This will come as a surprise to many of us. The BLM does not have jurisdiction over the entire California desert. Mel and Larry Murphy, the team that got the top ten National Numbers captured In oils which they then presented at Daytona, have left for the East coast where they wUl follow the National Gircult and promote sales of the reproductions. Mel has promised to keep me posted on their wanderings, wb1ch will probably prove most interesting. This leaves only one rem;Unlng category, and that is those afeas wb1ch are 'suspected' to have some other value but have not yet been Inventoried. And bere, the BLM is taking the position that vehicular use must be confined to estabUshed roads and tra1ls until 'sucb time that surveys and Inventories are completed. Now. whether we like it or not, we have In the ranks of motorcyclists, some people who haven·t yet seen the handwiring on the wall. I am speaking of the ten-percenters who wUl not control their 9Jltions and consequently aregett1ng all of us kicked-off from land throughout the State. Because of this, the BLM doesn·t trust any of us to use the desert without being supervised. In essence, the BLM is telling us thattheyrecognl.Ze our needs, they have and are making areas avallable for us, but the general of the public. il• • • • • • • • • • P.U.b.li.Cdoesn't want "'AIT AltS 1910 MONTESA 250 G.P, 5-PORT 2 months Old, super fast, can shUt on rigbt or left hand side, Curnutt shocks, Akront rims, Flltron, showroom condi~ tion. $'799. (213) 835-6907 or (213) 3253061. TRADE A 64VW chassis (complete and cut) for a good two- stroke dirt bike or cement or cabinet work or even shop equipment like bandsaw or dr'ill press. Sell BSA Victor magneto. Call (213) 923-2010. EXPANSION CHAMBER CONES $10.00 set postpaid. Includes two cones plus center section. Rolled to your spec1f1cations. We rollem you weldem. Quantity discounts available. Send d1mensions to: Airco Sheet Metal, 15209 Grevillea Avenue, Lawndale, Calif. 90260 (213) 675-5290. FREE SAMPLE COpy of Cycle News East (the eastern states Cycle News). Send 15 ~ In coin or stamps to Cycle News East. P.O. Box 13 Amberst, Ohio 44001. MECHANIC WANTED - Prefer BSA. and Bultaco, experience not nec., top .wages. Closed Sun. & Mon., 10249 San us;.ou;t~th;er~e;.;unle;;ss;.•.;F;e;r;nan~d;o;R;d;·~·iiP~aciiioiiim~a:.~(~2iilii3~) iii8ii96ii-~liOi4~6. m~~r~e~from theeapRof ; They only have jlJrisdiction over the public lands and approximately one-half of the desert is privately owned. If you will recall your U.S. History lessons, the Federal Government gave the railroads every other section of the public lands as Payment for establishing the trans'continental railroads. Before you get too alarmed, remember that this baPpened about 110 years ago. Which was a couple of years before most of us started rid1ng motorcycles 'out there'. You fellows who ride from Barstow to Las Vegas each year are guilty of a separate instance of trespass about every other mile you travel. The accompanying map depits the current status of public and private lands near Barstow. Now JUSt Imagine for a moment, what would haPpen if the Brand "X" Sheep Company bought all of the private land from the , What really spooks me, is the way In wb1ch the BLM is going about it! But then, I'm not too sure that they have any alternative. In order to protect the interests of everyone, the desert has to be surveyed and inventoried. The survey is needed to determine who 'owns' what! The Inventory is needed to determine the uses to which each piece of ground might be put. Some of the areas have been completed and where 'doing our thing' doesn't Interfere with others, we have been given the green ligbt. And this is the major portion of the 'California desert. On the other hand, there are some areas In which the best interests of the total public ts served by not allowing any vehicular traffic. An example would be the site of some important arcbeological discovery or a pioneer cemetery. we are supervised. And at present, there is no money In their budget to hire and train supervisors. The general theme of the San Bernard1no meeting was that ,"motorcycles are dratically devastating,the desert and this demands drastic remed1al measures". This opinion was voiced by most of the representatives of the other user groups. The motorcyclists' two representatives to the BLM's Advisory Committee were both conspicuous by their absence. Tom Cosgrove (Pacific Coast Honda), Bob Sanford (my namealike from Cycle News), and I tried to hold the line for motorcycling; even though we were only there as part of the lnvited aud1ence. In spite of our appeals to not consider all motorcyclists by the adverse actions of a few, resolutions were introduced and adopted, wb1ch re- quest the state and federal government to enact' off-the-road vehicle legislation wb1ch will: *Require reistration. *Require method of identification. *Require Payment of annual registration fees, the revenue from which wUl be used ,to provide enforcement officials on all pubUc lands. . *Establish rules and' regulations for operation. . Don't dismiss this lightly! There were. several ranking, state officials present who pledged the full support of their agencies In obtaining such legislation this next year • Twenty five years ago, I was a tenpercenter! I changed! What are you doing? Ed1tor's Note: Please direct comments and inquiriestoRussSanford.c!oMORE, p.O. Box 26062, Sacramento, Ca. 95826. r-------------------------------------------------·------------------------..., NOW! You Can Subscribe and get Cycle News 2, 4, 6, or 8 times a month! 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