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co 1J, Attention Dealers Join The Guys With Bugs On Their Teeth '" Cl. ,... en 1971 DISTRICT 36 SPORTS CALENDAR Continued MAY 3:l This may be the last objective report on the doings of the new Motorcycle Industry Council that you get from me for a year or so. Having some spare time and w energy lately, and no place to ride, 1 joined the fledgling M.LC. organization this d week and volunteered to serve on the Land Use Committee. >Whether this is the beginning or the end of the best decade in motorcycle history U depends in a large part on a back-slapping, brainstorming bunch of businessmen that is unlike any other industry association with headquarters in Washington, D.C. Where else would the keynote speaker, a high official in the U.S. Dept. of Interior, toss aside his carefully prepared speech, say "I don't want to bore you for a half-hour with how your motorcycle people have got to stop tearing up the wilds and scaring the rabbits" and relate instead the story of his first motorcycle ride? Or a congressma~ modestly boast of his young manhood spent racing the fool things on the dirt tracks of California? This is a billion-dollar-a-year business represented by men with bugs on their teeth. They don't claim to know all the answers, but they do have a handle on most of the ~estiorn,u~ .. . . M.LC. members include all but the most thoroughly rnsllluslOned great mmds of the industry. About half the guiding board members are successful capitalists who've built thriving businesses out of sheer enthusiasm and no dough. These are y~>ung, irLlOvative, impatient men. The rest are older, hlgh-salaned employees of the billgest firms, with boards of directors to answer to. They tend to tone down the wl1d ,deas and tune up reliable remedies, so the MIC's efforts are effectively spent. Together, they give the council an unusual style: simultaneously wide full open and walk-before-you-run. There is a nice assurance that essential things will get done in time. The challenges that face the motorcycle industry right now have a large head start. But MIC is already straining to pass them up. At the 2nd annual meeting this week, the MIC budgeted a quarter-million dollars more than it's got to fight the current problems and those coming up. They've cooled out Washington already and brought problems on a federal level under control. What's needed is a speedy organization on a local level - of mo torcycle dealers - to bird-dog programs state by state, county by county and city by city. Distributor members have asked their district managers to urge dealers to join the national MIC and form up their own state associations. Even small companies like the tiny Norton/Villiers company have recorded a large dealer response. Ten states were already organized and working last week. But California, with over a third of the nation's motorcycles and all of it problems, is still dragging both feet. Every dealer reading this is urged to call up his distributor and join M.LC. It's only $160 for a dealer associate membership and it's deductible. Give it your best try for a year, as I am doing, and then see if you think it is worth it. Don't wait while the rest of us bust our fannies. It's more fun doing it together. _ Chuck Clayton, Cycle News, Inc. ~ tmberShiP In the I I Full name Title Last Name Mailing address of dealership I I I I I I Middle -::,....-,....-_ _.,.--,-,....- 'ty 1000iai _ Street name and number C, _ _ _ _ _~ State Telephone Area Code Zip Code' _ Number For what brand of motorcycles are you a franchised dealer? List not more than two. 1 2 Do you belong to a state dealer association? Yes No, 1 _ "yes", name of association Are you now an Associate Member of the MIC? I understand that by this application blank I am applying for membership in a MIC-accredited state dealer association for w~ich dues are $100 per year, and also for Associate Membership in the MIC for which dues are $60 per year. I have attached, or enclosed, a check for $160, made out to the Motorcycle Industry Council, Inc. " Yes No It is agreed that the MIC has no obligation or liability of any nature with respect to the $1 00 for state dealer association dues, which it is collecting as an agent only, other than to: (1) turn such amount over to a state dealer association, which has been accredited according to the provisions of the Associate Member program for dealers, as my company's current membership dues or (2) return such amount to my company in the event a state dealer association is not accredited by the MIC within a reasonable time d""mlo"" by lh. MIC. By Dol. (Slgnal",e of AUlhO~Z:~O~;C:I~T AND MAl L TO: Motorcycle Industry Council, Inc. 1001 Connecticut Avenue SUite 1132 Washington DC 20036 5-6- 11- Name of dealership I I I I I Ilf I , I I I I I 1 I I I I 4- Scrambles --iI FirS! Name Attention: ASSOCiate Member Office ..----------- I I I I I I I I I I I I .. Redding Hayward Speedway Chico San Jose Sacramento Cycle Hills Lodi Cycle Bowl Reno, Nev. Redding Hayward Speedway Chico Napa Alviso LaGrange Fallon, Nev. San Jose Railroad Flat Vallejo Speedway Hayward Speedway Santa Rosa Chico Mt. View Ospital Canyon Sonora San Jose Vallejo Speedway Alviso Hayward Speedway Chico Santa Cruz Cycle Hills Stockton Vallejo Speedway Redding Concord Chico Redding Fremont Reno, Nev. Hollister JUNE 5- _[!D;]I Application Blank For Associate 1- Scrambles Shasta MC Scrambles Hayward MC Short Track Valley MC 2- Poker Run C.C. 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Race Hill Climb Scrambles Scrambles Scrambles Scrambles Scrambles Short Track Short Track Rally & Tour Poker Run Scrambles Scrambles Hill Climb Scrambles Scrambles Short Track Scrambles Short Track Poker Run Scrambles Scrambles Scrambles Scrambles Scrambles Short Track Short Track Spring Roundup Poker Run Scrambles Scrambles Motocross Hill Climb American Canyon MC Eastside MC Redwood City Travlrs MC Central Valley Rd. Rdrs. Hayward MC Valley MC Palto Alto MC Richmond Ramblers MC Lodi MC Oasis Scramblers MC Oakland MC Lodi MC All American MC American Canyon MC Shasta MC Hayward MC North Bay MC Valley MC Sierra Road Runners SRRA Gustine MC VC South County MC Nevada Trailblazers MC San Jose Hillclimbers MC Lodi MC American Canyon MC Eastside MC Hayward MC Valley MC Fremont Travelers SRRA Fremont Flames MC Lodi MC All American MC American Canyon MC HaywardMC North Bay MC Valley MC Santa Clara Cavaliers SRRA Sonora Pass MC VC Palo Alto MC Rough Riders MC Dirt Diggers North Riders Unlimited MC Vallejo Speedway Alviso Redwood City Modesto Hayward Speedway Chico Palo Alto Pt. Richmond Lodi Cycle Bowl Fallon, Nev. Carnegie Cycle Park Lodi Cycle Bowl Fremont Vallejo Speedway Redding Hayward Speedway Santa Rosa Chico Carson City, Nev. Gustine Hollister Reno, Nev. 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