Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

CD I - ... Gl .~ 0( ~ w Z W ..J ~ (.l aJI~1 I ••• "America's No. 1 weekly motorcycle newspaper. You'll always see it FIRST in Cycle News!" WHAT'S OPEN TO RIDE? My family and I ride dirt bikes in the desert as often as possible. We also have many friends who ride with us. We have been informed that several counties are closed to riding off-road. Could you, please, tell me just what counties are completely closed and where we can fmd an open place to ride in the desert? Also could you tell- me where to write to make all our comments and remarks on how we feel about the closing of the desert? MRS. SHIRLY MARK Visalia, Cal. The "MORE from the Capitol" column in a recent Cycle News explains the relationships of public lands administered by different land-use alencie.. As of this time, you can ride on most U.S. Forest Service lands subject to posted vehicular controls; all BLM·administered lands except Panoche Hills; and on those c[tyand county·administered lands which do not have prohibitive ordinances. Also, you should never tresJN.ss Charles Clayton Publisher Editor Sharon Clayton Business Manager · . Tom Culp General Manager Assistant Editor · John Bethea · Rheba Smith Circulation Manager · Marla Tarbet Circulation Ass't . . Lab Technician . . . · . David Swift · Ed Randell Jr. Production Manager Bookkeeper · Dorothea Lang Bookkeeper Ass't · Eleanor Duke · . Larry Groves Delivery . Marion Hatashita Typographer . Barbara Richard Receptionist those pot holes! The dust is choking the riders and spectators, too. 3. Most important, some of the spectators and the less serious riders might think that the rotund starter is hilarious, but the serious riders fmd him really "hurting" and the show that he tries to put on very tiring. It takes him about 15 minutes to get a class off the line, and riders who have problems with "grabbing" clutches find his showmanship starts unnecesarily costly. A rubber band type wouldn't be so time consuming, and is a lot more fair. With only a little more thought, time and money Indian Dunes could really be a top track. Money should be no problem they certainly haul in enough. VICTOR C. BREWSTER Sylmar, Cal ISDT TRIALS ANYONE? Our motorcycle club has been selected to sponsor one of the rider VOICES OF THE WEST on private land without the owner's permission. To be certain (and to stay out of trouble), check out your ridinl areas first by callinl the Patrol Division of the Sheriff's Dept. or your City Police Dept. los Anleles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties do have prohibitive ordinances but you can ride on USFS and BlM~dministered lands in these counties. You should address your letter to the aleney which is responsible for the ordianc:e. We hope that you belonl to MORE which is the orpnization workinl to preserve these rilhts. AMXT OFF TO EUROPE We're somehow in the process of setting sail for Europe; within ten days I expect to have a couple of introductory pages ready for you from Snowflake. Back to my packing; we're all looking forward to keeping you well posted. BRYAN KENNEY Cleveland, Ohio Snowflake, Bryan's AfKhan hound, will be reporting the progress of Bryan's American Motocross Team racing efforts in Europe... Ed. STOLEN BIKE ALERT At the Adelanto Scrambles, sponsored by IOO's M.C. on March 14 my new BOOaka Super Rat was stolen. It was one of four bikes stolen at the race. 3 of them Super Rats, and the other a Yamaha 250 MX. Would you be able to offer any advice to help me find the bike? I've put up a fifty dollar reward for the recovery of the bike. Would you suggest putting an ad in your paper about the reward? My bike was a 1970 Super Rat, with an air cleaner painted silver, a polished aluminum gas cap, Webco head and engine number B37466. DWIGHT SPENCER 488-3067 2813 Mission Blvd. San Diego, Co. 92109 or contact Mrs. B.H. Spencer 402 Morse Ave. 528.{l358 Placentia, Co. 92670 DUNES SUGGESTIONS Indian Dunes has received much praise, and rightly so, for it is a fine motorcycle park aJid has a welliaid-out motocross track. But before they start patting themaelves on the back too much, let me voice some of the many complaints heard around the pits. 1. The "no pit racing" rule should be strictly enforced for all riders. Riders of loud bikes get busted, but the non-racers on quiet bikes tear around the pib as fast as they care to ride. The dust in the pit area is inexcuseable. 2. Track conditions are extremely dangerous, due to the fact that they mult not think it'. necessary to re-pade the track after their Saturday All-J UDior Raca. AU Tom Rapp about some of qualifying events for the 1971 I.S.D.T. We are calling it the Trask Mountain Two-Days Trial It will be held on 22-23 of May, and will be at least 300 miles in length. Start-Finish each day will be in McMinnville (about 35 miles SW of Portland and 25 miles north of Salem). Each day's course will be roughly 150 miles in length. Machines will be set up as for the I.S.D.T., with front and rear lights, an effective muffler/silencer, and F.I.M. oval number plates. All vehicles will be impounded after registration and after each day's Finish. Special tests will be a seven mile scrambles and a timed hill ascent. Classes will be 100cc, 125cc, 200cc, 250cc, 350cc and Open. Club, Trade, or Shop team entries are encouraged, $3.00 extra for ~ach three-man team. Teams must include at least two different displacemen t classes between three machines. Entry is by mail only, $15.00 per rider. Forms can be obtained from the sponsorinll; club. We are a young club, but we think that, with adequate preparation, our enthusiasm will create a truly quality event of national caliber. We have had excellent cooperation and relations thusfar with local government, landowners, and townspeople. This is certainly half the battle. DENNIS J. BERSHAW, Sec. M/C Activities Club P.O. Box 652 McMinnville, Ore. 97128 Cycle News East, Dixie Cycle News, and National Advertising information: Tom Culp, National Advertising Director. Cycle News (West), P.O. Box 498, Long Beach, California 90801. (213) 427·7433 - L.A. 636-8844. TELEX NO. 673-474 Subscription: One year 2nd class mail 2 years 2nd class mail 3 years 2nd class mail Single copy price . . . .$9.00 · $15.00 · $18.00 · . $.30 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. Addressed. stamped envelope assures return of editorial matter. Reprinting in whole or in part only by permission of the publ ishers. Advertising rates and circulation information will be sent upon request. See S.R.D.S. 6,000 swappers meet COSTA MESA, CAL., March 26, 197I - Bargain hunting was the name of the game at the world's first motorcycle Swa!"O·Rama, which jampacked Orange County Fairgrounds' largest pavilion. Nearly every need was satisfied as shoppers browsed among neatly displayed piles of new and old parts, motorcycles, riding clothes, tools and accessories. After six hours virtually every item had found a . new owner and more than 6,000 went : HOW THE M/C AUCTION WORKS : home happy. : The seller sets a confidential: KFOX radio personality Dick Lane : "No-Go" price (the lowest amount: entertained the huge crowd with jokes. :: he will accept). The auctioneer then : : auctions the machine for the:: while an auctioneer gaveled down a scant number of motorcycles. Probably : highest figure he can obtain in : : competitive bidding. Unless: a greater variety of machines will be offered at auction in future : someone offers at least the No-Go: Swap-O·Rams as people begin to figure, the machine will not be sold. : understand how the auction works (See _ The licensed auctioneer charges the : : seller a minimum $5 fee per : Box). Some machines went for as low as $10 and in other cases bidding started : machine offered, and a percentage : too high, so there were no takers. :: of the amount in excess of the : De a ler-swappers unanim ousl y : no-go price actually obtained.":: reported their sales in the one-night : Bidders are required to post a $10 : : "good faith" deposit which is : bargain spree were "fantastic." Huge truckloads of merchandise for virtually : applied to items purchased, or : : refunded if no purchase is made. : every need changed hands at liquidation ::l C prices. Very little went unsold. Sponsor Cycle News and co-promoters Chuck & Sharon Clayton Vic Wilson and Larry. Huffman called the Orange County SWap-O.Rama "a go~ success" and pronused that another one would be announced in the near future. = Fusan wins natl. enduro Bob Fusan, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, led a field of 400 motorcyclists in the Glass City National Championship Enduro in Delta, Ohio March 21. Only 28 riders were able to complete the grueling 100 mile course without being disqualified for taking too much time in a section. Ron Bohn, Pittsburg, won the expert class and Don Sharphom, Zeeland, Michigan, won Class B, or novice division. Street legal Greenhorn PASADENA, CAL., Mar. 29, 1971 - Get a license on your sled! The Pasadena M.C. has made official what we've been hearing as a rumor for months. This year the Greenhorn is going to be for street-legal machines only! This is the 25th anniversary of the country's only 500 mile enduro and to celebrate they are going back to their old stomping grounds, the Angeles National forest fOT this year's Greenhorn. Don't get the idea that it's going to be a road ride. though, just because street·legal bikes are required; it's still a National Championship Enduro. ' The event will be held May 30-31 (Labor Day weekend) and opening of entries will be announced soon. Ad inspires Funny winner "So Can I help it if my kid has tough teeth?" SHADES OF CATALINA LOST Sure hope everyone enjoyed the fourth and last running of the Elsinore Grand Prix. Looks to me like it's going the route of the famous Catalina races. I've seen movies of those island races and wished many times I could've seen them before they were abandoned in the late 50's because of all the trouble. Well, it looks like the general public h as another chance to mess up something really great. It would be no" surprise to me, or a lot of other people, I'm sure, if the citizens (the homeowners who got their lawns trampled and filled with beer cans, not the money.making businessmen) said '~omore.n I won't try to place blame on the chopper riders, the heads, or any other particular group - people are people regardless of their appearance, interests, etc. You cannot pound common sense into some people's heads, nor can you change their irresponsible ways with a "sob" letter like this one. All I an do is plea to the others, who care enough to do something, to help pick up the litter left behind, and mend .ome of the bridges burned down by the jackuIes of society. NORM NICKERSON RedIaDds, Calif. 1 1 ~ - Mrs. John C. Monohan Azusa, Calif. Our congrats and $5 go to Mrs. John C. Monohan of Azusa, Calif., who capitalized on the old saying: "From the mouth of babes come tough teeth,"...or something like that. We told you it was going to be a toughee, but, as usual we were proved wrong. Next time, WATCH OUT. Here are some more close contenders who made the final 14-hour, staff judging contest: "A little tape and bubble gum and it'll be all set." - Pete Fielder, Mill Valley, Calif. "Boy, that drain plug was tight." - Robert Newstrom, Eureka, Calif. "I told that guy in the VW with the sun roof to keep his head down." - Marjorie H. Gillingham, Pasadena, Calif. "I think your trouble is in the suspension." - Cartoonist Derf Hampton. And, here are some from the ineligible CoN staff: "If it was Tuesday, why weren't you wearing galoshes?" - Dave Swift. "Go ahead, just show me a cycle that doesn't leak a little bit of oil and then I'll fix it for ya." - John Bethea. . "Every time you ten that .tory. John, the rock gets bigger and '-'-." - Barbara llicbard. .......~.

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