Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

... '" :. .... Cl ~a~JIII , ~ .. > :0 ~ w Z W .J U > U I I - .111 ~II_ "America's No. 1 weekly motorcycle newspaper. You'll -always see it FIRST Publisher .. '.' Business Manager General Manager Managing Editor Assistant Editor Circulation Manager C;,,",..~ ""', Charles Clayton Sharon Clayton Tom Culp John Bethea David Swift Rheba Smith M,,'. T""~ Production Manager Ed Randell Jr. Production Assistant Steve LeHuray Advertising Assistant .. Barbara Richard Bookkeeper Dorothea Lang Bookkeeper Ass't Eleanor Duke Who enjoys the beauty and the freedom of the desens more than we do; who spends more money and hours on desert recreation than we do; who's children have more rights to the deserts than ours; whose children do THEY want the deserts closed and save for; who's going to kick Gen. Patton off the desert next time he's training his kids in the use of land savin' Sherman Tanks in preparation for another friendly little police action across the seas? I can see it all now -_this summer, on the top of Red Mountain, a World Championship Ping Pong match. GEORGE GRIFFING Redlands, Cal. out those who reflect badly on most of the reputable motorcycle businesses. SB 51 is popularly known as the "Auto Repair Fraud BilL." Senator Anthony C. Beilenson introduced it in past years and it has been defeated, it is claimed, by major oil companies and new car dealers. This year it includes protection for the motorcycle repair ,customer! With our urging, the help of Russ Sanford of MORE and Senator Beilenson, it was amended for motorcycles. NOW IT'S UP TO YOU. We support it, MORE supports it, good and reputable dealers support it, Southern California Automobile Club suppons it. SB 51 will create a new, self-fmanced, state bureau to license repair dealers, DON'T WRITE & YOU WON'T RIDE Attention Riverside County Resments: On April 30, the Riverside County Parks Advisory Commission met to consider, among other things, the off road vehicle problem. After hearing several workable suggestions, the Commission voted to have a survey of six operational dump sites as possible riding areas and a survey of ecological effects from off road vehicle use. They then decided that they would not have a meeting this month, so it will be at least two months before they can recommend any action on even these unsatisfactory measures, which means that about 100,000 Riverside County residents cannot pursue their off road vehicle hobby, for at least that period of time. If you riders from Riverside County want to change the situation, you must make the Board of Supervisors aware of your desires. Personal contact with the individual Supervisors is best, but barring that, personal letters are most effective. Form letters or petitions have little effect. A thousand form letters or a petition with 10,000 names gets almost as much consideration as one brief personal letter. The thinking is that anyone will sign a petition, but if you care enough to sit down and write your own letter, you mean it. After you write your own letter, take the trouble and effon to talk at least two of your friends into writing theirs and promote the cause with your clubs and dealers. You will show the Supervisors. etc. that there is too much interest in off road vehicles for the situation to be ignored any longer. Clubs and dealers will have to do some work on this, the little fellow can't and won't do it ail. Write before June 15, please, no letters from out of Riverside County. REMEMBERS - IF YOU DO 'T WRITE, YOU DON'T RIDE! Board of Supervisors meets May 17, 1971, 9:00 a.m. at Riverside County Court House, 4050 Main St., Riverside -COME. HARR Y WHALEN Special Representative for Land Use District 37 AMA Culver City, Calif. Riverside County Board of Supervisors, 4050 Main St., Riverside, Cal. 92501. DISTRICT 1 North Elsinore Glen Ivy etc. MR. WILLIAM JONES. DISTRICT 2 Rubidoux Pedley, Glen Avon MR. PAUL ANDERSON. DISTRICT 3 Beaumont-Banning, North Riverside, University, Norco, West Coroni, Prido, Miri Loma MR. NORMAN DAVIS. DISTRICT 4 Salton Sea, Palm Desert, Mecca, Blythe, Palm Springs, Indio MR. A.A. McCANDLESS (Chairman). DISTRICT 5 Lake Mathews, Hemet, Perris, Goodhope, Pomoni, Idylwild, Anza, Sun YOUNGLOVE. 636..... 42].7433 - LA TELEX NO. 673-474 Subscription: One year 2nd class mail 2 years 2nd class mail .59.00 . $15.00 _h, "'",. """'0'"""" ~rt,,~, photos, etc. are welcome. Addressed, stamped envelope assures return of editorial matter. Reprinting in whole or in part only by permission of the publishers. Advertising rates and ~~ NICELY PUT to: Cycle News (West), P.O. Box 498, Long Beach, California 90801. (213) 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 Single copy price. . . . $.30 upon request. See S.R.D.S. f~~)~==L:ab=T:~=:n:~:i:a:n=.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:L:a:r:ry=G:r:~=es==3=Y:ea=rs:2=nd=C:~:s:s:ma=i:I====:':$:1:8:~:0=:C:i:~:U:I:a:ti:o:n=i:n:f:o:rma=:ti:o:n=w=il:l=b:e=s:~:t: in Cycle News!" Write Cycle News East, Dixie Cycle News, and National Advertising information: Tom Culp, National Advertising Director. City MR. NORTON STOPPING FRAUD A new California Law is pending which could be important to motorcyclists - both off-road and road cyclists. It's called SB 51 and will protect the individual motorcyclist from r9',,!r ~~~d~d~<;lp'_c~C;~ !!P...!!': '!!9Y~ •.• the upholstery and used naugahyde for the seat with 3" of sponge rubber over plywood. The whole inside of the car is lined with floor mat materiaL t I took your idea and installed black walnut top rail which really sets it off. Installed a stainless steel foot rest to finish the inside. I carry 40 pounds of air in the back tire of the cycle and 12 pounds in the car. It's so comfortable and rides so smooth it's hard to make people get out when the ride is over. The total material including paint and upholstery, side panels and steel came to $80.00 - the labor took about three weeks, nigh ts and weekends to complete. We have such a ball with it around town that it was well worth the effort to build it. I have been riding buggy, hunter, fisherman, camper, horseman and hiker are next. The motorcycle being in a majority, when it is lost, the rest will be easy. Of course laying on the beer drinking, loud, rowdy, fun-loving Hell's Angels image associated with motorcycles, they have a lot going for them. Also the fact that they have us fighting among ourselves is another strike against us. I gran t you that a pot party or sex orgy has a lot going for it, but what else is left for the youth to expel their thing? I wonder if the barren, hostile desert or a rock-strewn dredger pile is more important than a child's opponunity to release pent-up emotions in this day and age. It is a fact that would rather be pushed aside than coped with by society. The reason is, it's easier to keep the motorcycle off the din than the dope out of schools. The criticism that motorcycles rape the Land, then wanting them confmed to a restricted area brings to mind the kiddy rides on the pony around a circle and what kind of mark this makes in the earth. Every year there is a horse race from Squaw Valley to Auburn that almost destroys the environment and does destroy the trails. If before and after pictures as the answer I would Like to have these published. In fact, if the motorcycle didn't come along and pack - the trail down, in two years it would look like someone had a placer mine in the area. This may not be so bad though, they're making National Parks out of the placer mines now, because since I was 15 years old, I'm now 42 they can't even grow a pine tree on and have had 42 different cycles. them. BILL BAUGHMAN It is obvious the one that will suffer Coos Bay, Ore. most from stopping the dirt bike will be the organized events. This is the easiest, PERMISSION GRANTED of course, unless we just tell them to I thoroughly enjoyed the cartoon on stick it in their ear and run anyway. page 4 of your- May 11 edition of Let's follow the trend set by the radical CYCLE NEWS concerning the hiker and students who get their way by flagrant the horseman. I feel that this cartoon violation of the law and as much has "a lot to it", and so I ask you if I violence as necessary. Instead of burning may have the reprinting rights to the a bank, maybe we could stan with the cartoon so that I may distribute copies forest. of it to various agencies and possibly One parting thought - how much reprinting in other newspapers. horse manure is washed into our streams I congratulate Reisner, the cartoonist, and reservoirs to be pumped into the on the excellent workmanship of this water system and drunk by the cartoon. I feel that this cartoon and populace - I wonder? other cartoons of this nature may have a SLIM CLINTON remendous impact on many Fair Oaks, Cal. We know you're joking about burning the congressmen in Sacramen to. forest- .. Ed. CRAIG HAMPTON Edt. of KNIGHTLIFE Foothill High School MORE 'WHERE IS HE?" Anything appearing in Cycle News, except In the Last issue I received, there was copyrighted material, may be reprinted... Ed. a "Where is he?" letter. The other night I was watching some films of Hopelown 1968, and I saw a rider who could IN NAME ONLY always be counted on in any big event. The only connection between the He used to race desert on his Greeves, Huntington Beach Motorcycle Club and and I believe he was No.2 Lightweight, Huntington Beach Cycle Park is or at least that at some time. His name similarity of name. I hope this will put is Gary Conrad. Is he still around, and if an end to the many inquries and so, is he still involved with racing and misgumed correspondence that has bikes? plagued our club and, I am sure, the RICHARD SEE management of Huntington Beach Cycle 6013 Green Glen Way Park. Sacramento, Cal. 95842 BRUCE BAYSINGER Secretary HBMC VOICES OF THE WEST conduct spot inspections of repair shops and investigate complaints from citizens who feel they have been cheated. Shops violating the law will face loss of their licenses and be subject to prosecution for fraud. Letters to representatives supporting SB 51 are imponant now. We urge your editorial support of this bill and hope you will advise your readers to write Sacramento. Letters to Russ Sanford of MORE, our motorcycle lobbyist, can also be passed on to legislators. BILL ROBINSON Preisdent Four Owners Assn. IT WORKSlIn the March 30th article by Cliff Boswell titled "Build Yourself a Hack" - I used my daughter's new SL 125 Honda and proceeded to buil t a "HACK" which I have named "Town Car". Coos Bay, Ore. is a town of 15,000 people and I don't know of another operating side car here, so we get an awful lot of looks whenever we tour around town. The over-all length of the car is 51", width is 20", height 28" - outside wheel to wheel 42" - ground clearance 12". I didn't use a camber adjustment, instead I set both bike and side car wheels plumb. I did use the toe in adjustment which works great. I hooked up the side car brake and Can use either or both to stop. The two top braces are bolted the same as the article shows. The bottom brace bolts on the outside of the bottom front motor mount. I can take it on or off in about 5 min. and you can put it on an SL-I00 also the upper frame is I" sq. tubing, .065 thick. The main frame .125 thickness. I sealed up inside of the frame work with pre-finished white marlite hard board 1/8" thick, the bottom is W' exterior plywood, wheel and cycle are from Harless Outdoor Store, Coos Bay, Ore. the local Honda dealer. Paint work is by .Tq\ll.&.•Oii:$ ABOUT THE FORMULA EVANS'INJURIES My son, Pat Evans, will be unable to ride road races for approximately two to three months. He has five broken bones in his left arm and one of these is a compounded break. He nearly lost a fmger on his left hand as a result of wearing a ring. DAVID G. EVANS Grossmont, Cal. AFTER US, THE DELUGE Been sitting here with the wife, discussing this ecology thing. We feel that we are just the fIrSt to go and if the Sierra Club (disguised as an ecology group) is successful in outlawing the Qf.cQP~.I~~y,.S.t):~eeta.fLdid •.• -.-ydoe u-dM' lbe;eep,.dw>o-.. Your article concerning expansion chambers in February was very interesting and informative. The author mentions that the Jennings and Blair fonnulae are "published" - I would apprecicate very much either a lead on the Jennings fonnuLa or, if you have such information, the formula itself. I would like to construct a number of pipes myself for evaluation on my OTt-B. M.e.MILLER Fort Morgan, Colo. Perhaps you missed it when this information appeared several months ago. Cycle World Books is the only known distributor of Jennings formula in a book "Technical Manual". Since that time, the book has sold out and the publishen have not decided ..............._ t e ft!'Pftnt.:A;d.

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