Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

"America's #1 weekly motorcycle newspaper. You'll always see it FIRST in Cycle News!" WONDERING ABOUT W.W. " What's with th1s wonder woman? I thougbt that all "SuPI!r girl" racers were supposed to be Idnd of mean aDd nasty looldDgl •• .and th1s lady Is tenth In Dlst. 37 point standings? The portrait you ran In a rider review was one at the most enthusiastic I have read yet. . You know, I am strongly against girls racJng motorcycles, but If they want to race, It suredoesn'Uookllke "anything" can stop theml I just got out of the Army two weeks ago, and am now looldng for a good E.S.O. rider, I am anxious to get back to class "A" speedway racing. It anyone wants to contact me, call 886-4972. JIM NICHOLSON Northridge, Callf. • Publisher.••.••• Charles Clayton Business Manager•••Sharon Clayton General Manager••••.•• Tom Culp Advertising Manager•.• Tom Walsh Editor.•.. ". . . • . • . • Bob Sanford Assistant Editor••... John Bethea Circulation Manager . . . Rheba Smith Art Di rector •••••... Li Ii Laki ch Lab Technician. Greg Westmoreland Advertising Asst•.•.• Bruce Braly Bookkeeper•••.•.• Edna Williams Bookkeeper. . • . • . . . Eleanor Duke Want Ads•••••.• Jan McCullough Delivery•••••••••..• Bob Hill sometimes found as PRS meaning Power Research Special. This machine "as undercone extensi ve alterations so the Irand name Is not civen. The same Is true with Oce. an altered bike out of the Occlote Enc1neerinc firm. In your July 21 Issue, you were quick to point out the error that the AMA had made In Dave Aldana'S points. I catight this mistake, too, I also found a few mistakes In your "corrected" Ust. They don't really mean too much, but as long as you at Cycle News are Jumping to correct the AMA, I thougbt I would jump In to correct you. Cycle News My count 174 Lawwill 175 Fulton 129 131 Rockwood 70 72 Odom 65 66 Darr 46 43 Burres 7 6 -alsoYou don't have any points listed for B11l Elder, who picked uP three points at Castle Rock...and the man who got three points at Reading, Pa. Is B11l Lloyd••• not B11l Floydl DIGGER HELM Thanks for keeping us on our toes. True. Mert did have 175 at that point, and our 17 4 was a typographical error (see results paee 22 and we have his correct total there). We rechecked our totals and called the AMA to verify. Hats off to you: Fulton does have 131. Rockwood 10 (now 18 after a 6th at Ascot). Odom 65 and Burres 1. However, as we printed Darr does have 43. Also, we are sony we lost Bill Elder in the sbume. Anybody want to buy a "slighUy· used adding machine? $1,000,000,000,000 BET Last week I was pleasanUy reading my latest Issue of Cycle News, when I bet my sister one trUllon dollars or a mlnlenduro (ber choice) that she cou!dn'tnnd a motorcycle In the race results that I had never heard of. Well, she found three_,she tblnks. At the ACA Road Race at Willow Springs, In the 50Cc Class II, two "Vam's" came In first and second. In the 125cc class, a "P-S" came In third. In. the 200Cc class an .. Oce" placed fourth. What Is an Oce, what Is a P_S, and what Is a Vam? I don't have a trillion dollars. JEFF STENSLAND Woodland Hills, Callf. We suggest you skip town until your sister foreets the bet. Vam is a Vampire. a model of ftal-Jets motorcycles. P-S is Subscription: One year 2nd cl ass mai I. • •• $7.50 Singl e copy po ceo •.••••••• 25¢ Published weekly except the first and last week of the calendar' year by Cycle News, Inc.. Post Office' Box 498, Long Beach; Cal ifornia, also publishers'of Cycle News East: and Dixie Cycle News. second Class Postage paid at Long Beach, Calif. EditQ.rial stories, cartoons, photos, etc. are welcome. Write for information. 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. Barbed Wire Trap F01Jnd NEWHALL-SAUGUS, CALIF. July 26, 1970 - SO: separate strands of neck-hIgb barbed wire were discovered by MotorCyclist MagazIne contributing ed1tDr, JIm Davis, while testing bikes In a saDdwash just olf the AnteloPe Valley Freeway th1s Sunday. 1910 NATIONAL NUM8ERS Back In March you published an incomplete Ust of the National numbered riders for 1970. Having received Cycle News each week, I've been waiting for the complete Ust to be republished. I'm now wondering who Is carrying Gene Romero (20) and who was assigned to the late Joe Messaros' 85. Also, Is Dick Hammer still assigned to 16? I realize it's bait-way through the season, but would you see about completing the list. I have been keeping a YOlces FIGURES DON'T LIE Cycle News East, Dixie Cycle News, and National Adverti sing information: Tom Culp. National Advertising Dir. Cycle News (West), P.O. Box 498, Long Beach, california 90801 (213) 427-7433 - L.A. 636-8844 record for some years, now, and would like to keep It uP. TOM BRYANT Cypress, Callf. The AMA has finally released an UPdated list of National Numbers. See page 16 for the list. GET ON THE STICK On page 20 of the June 16th Issue of Cycle News, there was an article annouclng the government's closure of a publlc land area to bike riders. 33,000 acres worth of publlc land! It's exact location Isn't Important, What Is, Is the fact that this Is the sori of tblng that will have every one of you trail and desert riders, all uP and down the state, eventually taking oil the knobbles aDd putting street tires on your dirt bikes. 'Iblnk of ItI No more dirt rld1ng1 The .author of the article solicited answers from Interested bikers. Since the article appeared he has had - would' you belleve - two rePlies. One of them mine. Guess how It's going to look next time the government thinks about possible opposition from dirt riders when they consider closing another so called public land area. Get on the stick, guys. Pleasure riding w11l be gone If you don't get off your duffs and take a bait hour to write a letter, aDd maybe even send a buck to SUPPQrt th1s guy in Sacramento. You'll spend that buck on beer on your next bike trip, I'm sure, but th1s buck w11l go a lot further unless you'd rather just drink your beer In the house, maybe taldng uP the sport of T.V. watching Instead of riding. The man's name Is Russ Sanford. Write c/o M.O.R.E., P.O. Box 26062, Sacramento, Callf. 95826. GARYGRANATH Oakland, Callf. DANGER TO RIDERS The last race we attended at Bay Mare the East-West thing, was great but we were so worried about the heavy steel posts used to mark the track. They worked nne for keeping the people off of the track but seemed to be dangerous to the riders Ii they hit one. Thank you. MARGIE WILSON Woodland HUls, Callf. Davis said the wire was obviouslY an Intentional trap for unsuspecting bike riders, as It was not part of a fence nor any other mean1ngfu1 structure. According to Davis, the wires were brought to his attention by a friend of a rider ' who, at ,the last second, avoided almost certain death by blocldng the wire with his arm. He did, however, break his arm. Suzuki MX Stars Here LOS ANGELES, CALIF. July 22, 1970 - Joel Robert, Sylvatn.Gehoers aDd Ole Petterson - the phenomenal Suzuld factory motorcross team that currenUy holds down first, second and flfth place In 250Cc World Champlonsh1p competltlon- along with a BSA works team, led by Englishman John Banks, have agreed to ride In a new series of AMA National motocross champlonsh1ps later th1s year, It was learned today. TentativelY titled Trans-AMA, the series w11l begin on October 18, shorUy atter the present Grand National Championship series ends. Eight events are scheduled through December 6, with purses ranging uPward from $4000. According to a spokesman for Suzuki, the series transpired - at least In partas a direct result of high entry fees for the Suzuki team to compete in the Inter-Am series. Inter-Am promoter Edison Dye, wanted "several thousand dollars" (unoft1clally reported to be about $15,000) for the three man Suzuki entry. The BSA factory Is expected to send a number of works machines over for the event and w11l reportedly make them avatlable to BSA American factory riders, Dave Aldana, Jim Rice and Ken Pressgrove. Banks- who came witbln a spoke of winning the 500Cc World Championship, twice- Jeff Smith, Keith Hickman and Dave Nicholl , will repres~nt the Engllsh factory. Results Changed PASADENA, CALIF., July 20, 1970 - The official results for the AMA 500-MUe National Greenhorn Enduro have been revised and the changes are Important. Due to an error by the computer, five heavyweight A riders were listed as B riders, while one B was Usted as an A. John Murrin now second, Joseph Kulek third, Lyle Taylor fourth, Larry Freeman nlth, and Marvin Parry sixteenth, were all Usted In the orlg1na1 results In the B class. Phil Patton, Usted as the 26thAf1nIsher, has been dropped back to his correct class and Is not Usted as the 20th B f1nIsher. . These changes have affected the trophies as well. OrlglnaIly listed as obtalnlng troPhies 1'n the A class were Bob Ewing, Jack Heln, and Jon Thomas. With the newrev1sedUst,however, these three lose them. However, In the B class, five are awarded troPhies now. Albert Drake, Dick Harvey, Chet Kohler, MIke Harper, and Joe La Porte all receive trophies as they move uP Into the pos1t10ns vacated by the A riders In the B class. ·'Hap' Alzina Dies OAKLAND, CALIF., July 22, 1.970 - L.R. "Hap" Alzlna, one of the pioneers of the American motorcycle Industry and sports, passed away July 21. Death came suddenly for A1zIna, who died In the evening at his Orinda, Callf. home from an apparent heart attack. He was 76. He retired In 1965 after a successful career of 56 years In the motorcycle business. During most of the first bait of which he was the Western States DIstrtbutor of Indtan. In 1949, forseelng the eventual collapse of the Spr1ngf1eld firm, Alzlna droPped Indian and signed on with BSA for the West. Over the next 15 years he built a dealer network that started with three and ended with nearlY 250 dealers. In 1965 he wold his bllSlness to BSA and retired. Alzlna typlf1ed the traditional story of the successful American businessman; Ute one who started at the bottom and worked his way to the top. He Is survtved by his wife, LUllan, his son, Howard, and his daughter. ShIrlee Bagnall. Hansen Wins In Series XENIA, OIDO, July 26, 1970 - On a rolling course where the Europeans could show their best form, Husqvarna rider Torlelf Hansen again put together an overall win by taldng nrst place In two motos. The third heat went to Greeves mounted Arthur Browning. 5000 spectators watched under cloudy sides and through light and brief showers, as the international stars placed overall In the order of Hanse, Browning, and Mikkola (Hus). John DeSoto, taking a fifth as his best heat showing of the day, again was the first American rider In the standings. DeSoto took a sixth and an eighth In the other two. motos. The 250 National class went to Ohio rider Jim Kerns on a Husky; the 125 National to Jack Penton. Rice After Sixth Nat'l TULARE, CALIF. _ Twenty-two-year-old Jim Rice at Palo Alto, last week's Santa Rosa mile winner, Is the lnItial entry for the 20-lap AMA National Championship flat-track races at the Tulare County Fairgrounds on Saturday, August 1st, at 8: 15 pm. Rice w11l nnd Tulare's loose surface lets the rider slide full throttle through the turns, with a "roostertaU" of dirt blowing behind him. Over 100 of the nation's top riders are expected to battle for the more than $16,000 In prize and contingency money offered for the only motorcycle title event In Central Callfornla. . Gates w11l open at 6 p.m. with time trials at 6:30 p.m. and the first of ten races at 8:15 p.m. Advance sale tickets can be ordered from H.E. Murrell En!., 505 W. Kearney BlVd., Fresno, Callf. 93706. Box seats are $6.50, with reserved grandstand seats $5.50. General admIssion tickets w11l go on sale race day at $4.50 for adults, with children under 12 free. Parldng Is free at the fairgrounds track. ,

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