Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

Le r- ~ :; :' C ~ '" ~ ne~ws t: w ~ U ~ 'A ., ~ N .. 1 kl to J ~ c1e 'n~~speralpcaers YOOu' 'II aWIWeaeYSYseme ~t ~~~ST ~.. . in Cycle News!" (Mf"c:~I==:R:e:c:e:p:ti:o:n:is:t====. SIMI'S HIDDEN PARK I am writing about our no-where-to-be found "Cycle Park" that was to 'have been promised to us by the City of Simi Valley. It is getting so that a majority of cycle riders are either getting fined for riding on private property or they are selling their dirt bike because there is no place in the valley to ride. Some non-cycle riders complained to the City Council that outlaws on choppers would invade the cycle park, Uust think, choppers in the dirt). Simi Valley used to be small in population, but it is a growing town and growing need of a cycle park. It's getting to be that when you ride you just have to keep looking over your shoulders. The local paper has got people all excited about the cycle park. Many cyclists are looking for their cycle park, but it isn't anywhere to be found. Maybe with a little pressure we may get our "cycle park". PATRICK JOHNSON Simi, Cal. EXHAUSTING PROBLEM The Ford Motor Company's answer to motorcycle dealers protesting the Laugh-in commercial contrastin.g Ford quietness with mo torcycle nOlSe was verrrrry clever - but irrelevant. Today's relevant subject is air pollution, a large portion of which is attributable to the consumptIOn of motor vehicle fuel and Fords consume as much as any make. No wonder they cast the spotlight on quietness and risk antagonizing all motorcyclists to keep it there. Instead of quibbling with auto makers over noise, mo torcycle dealers should launch a campaign against excessive fuel consumption, especially since politicians, car makers, petrole'!m companies and newspapers are fostenng the idea that cleaner air must come from greater fuel consumption (a smog device currently being considered for installation on all used cars would increase fuel consumption 10 to 15%). The tirst step in such a campaign might be an expose of the fallacy in isolating specific toxic petroleum byproducts such as hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and oxides of nitrogen, and claiming progress in the smog battle each time these substances are further reduced. It was not too long ago that hydrocarbons were the great bugbear of air pollution. Then it was reported that reducing hydro~arbon emission increased oXldes of mtrogen emission; then carbon monoxide was identified as a health menace. Presently these three toxins are all we hear about, but reducing them 10% - 20% - 50%, etc., does not reduce total exhaust emissions one bit. It still flows 100% out the pipe. Or, are we to believe that elimination of three pollutants would make exhaust fumes perfectly harmless? The best method to reduce exhaust emission is to· reduce fuel consumption, something motorcycles do very w~ll. -Motorcycles - and small cars With motorcycle type engines, such as the Honda - used in greater numbers would significantly improve big city air. Actually a noisy motorcycle should be a welcome sound - it means someone is pumping one-third to one-tenth as much pollution into the atmosphere as a big, quiet automobile. ' WINSTON BEAUMONT Wrightwood, Cal. GET ITON What is wrong with the clubs, officials and what have you in northern Calif? They have plenty of racing events every weekend, but you never see the results in Cycle News on most of them. 1 know of 4 moto-x races held since Jan. 1st that never had the results printed. Not only is this frustrating for the Scrapbook Pasting Man's - but don't 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 (West), P.O. Box 498, Long Cycle NewCs East, and Dixie Cycle News. Beach, California 90801. (213) Second lass Postage paid at Long 427-7433 - L.A. 636-8844. ~ Beach, Calif. Editorial stories, cartoons, TELEX NO, 673-474 photos, etc. are welcome. Addressed, '. • stamped envelope assures return of Subscription: editorial matter. Reprinting' in whole or One year 2nd class mail ..$9.00 in part only by permission of the 2 years 2nd class mail . $15.00 publishers. Advertising rates and 3 years 2nd class mail . $18.00 circulation information will be sent p :B:a:r:b:ar:a:.R=ic:h:a:rd==S:in:g:l:e:c:o:p:y:p:r:ic:e=': '====:':.=$:.3:0=:u::o:n=req=u:est=.:s:ee=s:.:R:.D:.:S:. Publisher Editor Charles Clayton Business Manager Sharon Clayton General Manager .. Tom Culp Assistant Editor . John Bethea Circulation Manager . RhebaSmith Circulation Ass't ". Marla Tarbet Lab Technician " .. . David Swift Production Manager . . Ed Randall Bookkeeper . Dorothea Lang Bookkeeper Ass't . Eleanor Duke Delivery .. Larry Groves Typographer .Marion Hatashita they know about the Professional? He needs th ose results published to verify his wins in order to collect from his sponsor. If he is trying to make his living this way it adds up to this - no proof - no dough! So come on fellows, if the southern folks get theirs in, why can't we? I've read where some of you think Cycle News should be called "Cycle News South" - well it's up to YOU to change that. GET IT ON! JOHN EDWARDS Santa Cruz, Cal We couldn't have said it better, Cycle News has several paid 'correspondents in N. CaL, but they can't be everywhere. We do print all the race news we get... Ed. Cycle News East, Dixie Cycle News, and National Advertising information: Tom Culp, National Advertising Director. ===== Indoor Sportsman Flat Track program this last winter in the big new Sports Arena at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds near the town of Monroe, Washington. This was arranged, and we Middle Aged Squares were on our way! It has been quite an experience, and after a winter of weekly, very intimate contact with racing, many of us find ourselves quite hooked on the sport. Some, of course, do not, but support the program because it is a Lions Club fund-raising project. However, you will not find those of us who have become fans participating; we will get our thrill vicariously! Personally, you wouldn't catch me dead on one of those things. VOICES OF THE WEST "U CHECK" I read with a great deal of interest the article in the Feb. 16 is,

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