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-, - America's #1 weeki y motorcycle newspaper. You'll always see it FIRST in Cycle News!- "THE BIG FARCE" - A REBUTTAL TO EKINS! Give credit where it's due. 1 keep track of girl points and where they finish. Lynn super girl is anything but super racer. Lynn has yet to finish first girl when two or more girls have finished a race this year. 1 don't Ialow where Dave Ekins (Victors MC) got his information on Elsinore Powder Puff but WOWl No way did Lynn super girl (Victors MC) lap any other girls. That's the biggest farce yet. Patty , Clagg won and was not lapped. Members of the Desert Daisy are the aces of the desert girls and Patty Clagg is one of us. As Ekins says, "We racers know where we run and f1n1sh." But who else does? 1 ask? It your reporter, Dick Wright, would at least l1st the first girl to fintsh, we might all get to know who the girl racers .really are. MARY BROOKS Desert Daisys MC Publ i sher•••••.• Charles Clayton Business Manager••• Sharon Clayton General Manager••••••. Tom Culp Advertising Manager•.• Tom Walsh Edi tor •••.•••••••• Bob Sanford Assi stant Edi tor ••..• John Bethea Circulation Manager••• Rheba Smith Production Manager•••• Lili Lakich Lab Technician. Greg Westmoreland Editorial & Prod. Asst. Bruce Braly Bookkeeper•••••.• Edna Williams Bookkeeper•••••••• Eleanor Duke Want Ads •.••••• Jan McCullough Del i very • • • • • • • • • • • • Bob Hi II UNCLAIMED TROPHIES Once again the Prospectors M/C would like to ask the help of Cycle News. We AGAIN have trophies leftunc1a1med; this time from our December '69 European and our February '70 Goldrush Enduro. It the follwing people would contact me, 1 wUl attempt to get them united with their trophies. From our European Scrambles: Tim Scarberr}<-100 Nov., Tom Garre~125 Nov., Greg Hawlcs:-l00 Nov., Wayne Garre~250 Nov., Morris Norman-500 Am. From our Goldrush Enduro: R. Luinfre}<-125 'B', J. Smith-250 'B', G. Mac Elrath-l00 'A', H. Kawell-250 'A', A. He1lan-250 'A' • DAVE SMITH Prospectors M/C 15233 Osage Ave. Lawndale, Callf. 90260 (213) 676-0586 • YOIC• • THANKS FOR THE HELP 1 just want to start off by saying thanks so very much to all the riders, ,their parents, and friends for being so wonderful and kind to my boy, Kenny Cook, number 115, who was hurt last Sunday on June 28 at Saddleback Park. 1, also, want to especially thank the big man who carried him off the track and back to my truck. I'm sorrY,Idon'tlalow his name, but he'll remember and also to Ramond Lopez, number 486, for sticking by my side and, 1 might add, d!dn't race after Kenny was hurt. Instead, he stayed right by his side because of his concern for my son. I'm proud Kenny, his mother, and 1 are blessed with having such friends as these and others in the CMC Racing Club. We took Kenny to the Saint JosePh Hospital in Burbank, Cal1t., where he is now and wUl be for a week or so and tIIen, we hope, home, but, bed-riddenfor approximately two months. He has a cracked pelvis bone, but the doctors say in time, with a lot of rest, he'll be ok. To all the people and rider friends who were asking abollt him, this information 1 pass on to you. And, thanks again to everyone who was concerned. 1 also want to say I've been around people, worked with people, worked for people and never have 1 met such good people as the ones we have had the pleasure of meeting in the CMC races. Thanks again and may God bless you all. KENNETH E. COOK SR. Eagle Rock, Callf. GOOD JOB VIEWFINDERS The members of So. Cal. M.C. who particiPated in, and enjoyed the Third Annllal Viewfinders Grand Prix would like to extend a hearty congratulations to the Viewfinders for a job well done. The course was planned well and tile crowd control was excellent. We missed the old movie ranch, bllt sttlliook forward to the 1971 Viewfinders Grand Prix. DICK GAINES Secretary, So. Cal. M.C. TRAIL BIKE PROPOSAL Doring the past month 1 have polled over one hundred desert tral1bike racers, young, old, male, female and novice to expert on the question whether traIlbikes should go all the way. Only one rider was in favor of it. The largest comp1a1nt is the wear and tear on the bike. The racing Brooks famlly, four traIl bikes, were most vocal on this point. Many other riders, including myself, have a youngster champing at the bit ready to race, but wUl not let them ride flve to six hours to complete a 75 to 90 mlle course, if they are lucky enollgh to finish before the checks close UP. It you are in favor of returning to the shorter tral1bike race, talk to your club and have your Sports Committee Representative vote for it at the August meeting where it wUl be brought lIP. 1 also think that the riders who have earned points on the Hare Scrambles and Hare & Hounds all the way races, should receive at least a 25% bonllS of points for completing the long ODes. WES ANDERSON, SR. Los Angeles. Callf. BUMMED OUT "Grossi Tops Mammoth Pros", and there on the front page of Cycle News is a real nice picture of Tom Rapp..,your coverage of Northern Callfornla riders is pitiful. What ever happened to Phil Jacobson or Brad Lackey? B1U1e Grossi wasn't watching the grass grow all day. Brand can run himself thru the wringer on a 250 in the Open Sr. and get a fourth, but you'll stick in a picture of John DeSoto and some other guy who dictn'tdo worth beans. But there ts a picture, if you'll look real hard, of Bob Grossi in the left hand corner (1 inch by 1 inch, cruising). The South has some outrageous riders, for sure, but both pages, and most of the other contents every week is just smeared with what they did. Why not take a little more time to look into what a few of the Northern boys and elsewhere do, or start calltng this "Cycle News South." DEBBIE SANDERS MID Valley, Ca. Cycle News East, Di xie Cycle News, and National Advertising information: Tom Culp. National Advertising Dir. Cycle News (West), P.O. Box Long Beach, Cal ifornia 90801 ~98, (213) 427-7433 - L.A. 636-8844 Northern Representati ve: Bi II Spencer Subscription: One year 2nd class mail •••• $7.50 Single copy price•••••••••• 25¢ Published weekly except the first and last week of the calendar year by Cycle News, Inc., Post Office Box 498, Long Beach, California, also publishers of Cycle News East; and Dixie Cycle News. Second Class Postage paid at Long Beach, Calif. Editorial stories, cartoons, photos, -etc. are welcome. Write for infonmation. Addressed, stamped envelope assures return of editorial matter. Reprinting in whole or in part only by permission of the publishers. Advertising rates and circulation information wi II be sent upon' request. New Motocr'oss Class GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, July 1, 1970 -It was announced today by the F.I.M., the internatic1nal ruling body for the World Motocross Champ1nnshiP, that begtnntng next year a Junior class for the World Championship will be run. This new class wUl be open only to riders from 18 to 21 years of age. The displacement lImit has been set at 125cc. This should prove to be a good thing as it will allow up and coming riders to gain seasoning in the tollgh world of motocross racing. OKByAMA COLUMBUS OHIO - With 203 copies of the new 750Cc Triumph twin (basically a bored-out rk>nnev1Ue) on U.S.A. highways, two of the machines were given a try at professional racing last weekend. Gary Nixon and Don Castro, attempted to quallfY for Sunday'S Charity NeWSies National in Ohio, but 1acked enollgh preparatioo and had troubie with tractioo. This was the first attempt to race the bike, according to Pete Colman, director of the BSA-Triumph racing program. "It's had good highway use and we've found it to have good torque and cruising ability. But, whether or not it can stand up in racing sttll remains to be seen," Colman added. Indy In Mile WORTHINGTON, OHIO- Take the "tentative" off your AMA championship calendar, racing tans Ind1anapol1s is definitely in! The one-mlle dirt track 2o-lapper on Sept. 7 wUl ~wich in between the Nazareth, Pa. one-and-ooe-e1ghth miler September 6th. Four mlle or mile-plus dirt tracks wUl run within three weeks, with the Championship Trail turning from the SedaUa, Missouri state fairgrounds August 30 to Indy and Nazareth, then swtnging to the coast for the tat 50- miler at Sacramento on September 13. This year Sacramento pays as much money and points as the superbtggtes, Daytona, Talladega and Loudon. The Grand National Champion w1ll probably be decided at these high point mllers. Besides w1nn1ng the coveted #1 designation for the whole U.S., the Grand Champion g~ts gobs of money. ' 75«;) Triples DUARTE, CALIF. - The factory-framed threes of the BSA-Triumph racing program are being refitted for the upcoming series of mlle dirt track championships, says Pete Colman, director of the program. "Geometry is basically the same on the mile and road racing," he exp1a1ns. "We are changing the geometry a Uttle with 19-inch wide-rim wheels on front; and we can fit longer shocks if we need more ground clearnace. The biggest problem is the gas tank, it now appears. The triangulated road race tank is being replaced with a flat, wide job that the rider can lie down UPOIl and really get out of the wind. Confident that "dependability wUl out," Colman predicts that either the Triumph or the BSA 750Cc three willpower the 1970 Grand Champion to the winner's platform. "Don Castro's Triumph 3 has 16 or 17 hundred hard racing miles on it, for example" Colman points out. "He practices on itfrom sun-up to sun-down and can't hurt it. 'With the 500's we used to have to say 'take two laps of praet1ce, no more.' " Jim Rice, currently battllng Dick Mann for the natiooal title, is Colman's pick as the next probable champion. ' Editorial The Amer1can Motorcycle Asspclation is due for remodeling. It was riot designed to SIlPPOrt the strain that vast numbers of motorcycl1sts exert upon it today. To suPPOrt the motorcycle movement througb this decade, AMA needs to seParate the areas of its responsibility, in order to do a better job of flll1ng spec1f1c needs. When the American Automoblle Assoc:1ation was faced with problems similar to the AMA's today, it created USAC to deal with racing matters, freeing the "TriPle-A" to work for the general motorist membershiP. Out of AMA's rib, as it were, form the American Motorcycle Racing ClUb, consisting of the Competition Congress, AMA racing adm1n1strators, racing manufacturer representattves and racing AMA memebers. The $2 AMA membershiP would then consist of road and traIl ridtng and general enthuslast members, pIllS the racing fraternity who would be AMA members in order to hold membershiP in AMRC. This would assure that the acttvities of the racing wheels would not be out of mesh with the non-racing operation. Then tnvtte 'nominations from all members for an AMA General Congress based upon one rePresentattve per 1000 members. This new Congress would elect a member of the Executive Board and make "recommendations" to the adm1n1strative executives regarding the operation of tile Association, much the same as the Competition Congress does now. It would also determine membership fees, subject to veto by the Executive Board. What this plan amounts to is giving more control of AMA to the people in whom and for whom it exists - $2 members. It goes the AM plan one better by tnsur1ng continued coordination of racine and riding interests. Thanks primarily to its $2 members, the AMA is the world's largest nattonal motorcycle assoc1at1on. The opportunities to achieve greatness for motorcycling have never before existed so abundantly as they do now. AMA needs to bring us devotees togetller where we can function at our various levels. On the basJc framework of this proposed renovat1ons, progress can be bI!1lt.