Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

.... '" ..... a " til ~ W Z W ..J U >- U IYIII I ••• "America's No. 1 weekly motorcycle newspaper. You'll always see it FIRST in Cycle News'" ~ I Publisher Charles Clayton Business Manager Sharon Clayton General Manager Tom Culp John Bethea Managing Editor Assistant Editor David Swift Circulation Manager Rheba Smith Circulation Ass't Marla Tarbet Production Manager Steve LeH uray Ed Drechsler Production Assistant Advertising Assistant .. Barbara Richard Bookkeeper Dorothea· Lang Bookkeeper Ass't. . Eleanor Duke Lab Technician Larry Groves 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 publishers. Advertising rates and circulation information will be sent upon request. See S.R.D.S. ~===========::::::::======= Dept. of Clarification "Now is the time . .. to take the bull by the tail and face the situation, "-w.e. Fields. After last week's blunder on the front page, that's just about how we feel. We stated that only the Harley-Davidson Super Glide was manufactured in America. To that list, please add all the other twins, the Sportsters, XRs and Electra-Glides. Those H-Ds manufactured outside the U.S. include the Baja, Rapido, 350 Sprint and 65cc mini. of the Penal Code will not be used in Point Richmond until after the civil case, brought by the Richmond Ramblers, is litigated. We still have a long battle ahead in the civil case against the property owners, bu t yesterday's action appears to allow the use of the Point Richmond hills in the interim. THOMAS G. SHELBY PelJetreau, Gowen, Moses, Porlier & Larson Attorneys at Law they've been holding races there, I don't remember anybody being taken away in an ambulance until good 01' Chuck and his Tri·Am marched into town. Thanks a bunch. DON HIRTLE 100 Novice SALINAS MORE Was a bit disappointed in the northern writer's coverage of the Elks Club Salinas Ramblers Annual Cerebral IN PLACE OF BRASS I have come to the conclusion that some riders do not care about" trophies. It seems that a plan could be worked out so that an individual upon learning that he had trophied, could notify ~he sponsoring club as to whether he ·wanted it or not. He could have the club send him the name and position tag and donate the money the club would have spent on his trophy to his favorite charity, or Rescue 3 or M.O.R.E. GARY B. CHARTERS Boron, Calif. 578 Trail Los Coyotes M.C. FILMERS' THANKS As some of you' know, our film company, Stanley-Hayden Productions, has been invading your desert for the past seven months. The main purpose of our project, entitled "On The Line," was to get into the lives of three men: J.N. Roberts, the best in the desert; Menter Williams, a man who has never raced before, and Lee Stanley, a man who crashed badly four years ago and has decided to get involved again. We have tried to capture what it is that makes a man commit to one of the most physically demanding sports in the world and how it affects his personal life and the people around him, and further the action and personalities of the people involved in desert racing. We have had nothing but cooperation from everyone involved. Competitors have given us much needed on camera interviews. Promoting clubs, of the races we have filmed, have been more than helpful in getting our camera crews into difficult parts of the courses. A few times we asked riders to run over certain parts of the course after the race, where we felt we could capture the action better if it was planned, and 'we always had more riders show up than we needed. When our crews were out on the course and had to move the equipment a hundred yards or more for another angle, volunteers quickly came to their aid, asking for nothing, only making a difficult job become an easy one. For the past month we have had a film crew riding with Rescue 3, so that we could capture them in the field. Their co·operation was outstanding, making it possible for us to get the coverage we needed. And this seemed to be the attitude of everyc'Oe we became associated with. N ow that we have completed filming, I want to thank all df you for your co-operation, understanding, interest and concern. H. THOMAS HAYDEN Van Nuys, Calif. RIDING AT PT. RICHMONDWe are happy to inform you and your readers that the Richmond Ramblers Motorcycle Club had been successful in their criminal case. The charge of trespass under Section 602(m) of the Penal Code against a Richmond Rambler who was arrested during the hill climb on the Point Richmond property was dismissed yesterday at the request of the. District Attorney's Office. It was dismissed at the> time set for a jury trial on the charge. It appears now that Section 602(m) VOICES OF THE WEST NOT A TT TRACK After riding on the IT scrambles track at Muntz Cycle Park for the Dirt Diggers district points race, I have to say that that was one of the worse tracks I've been on! The track had so many ru ts and holes in it, plus it had loose dirt, asphalt, etc. I fQuod my skid shoes more of a problem than a help. I felt it resembled a motocross course more than a scramble track! After reading tile build up about the 80 mph-plus straightaway, maybe I was expecting too much. MIKE STEWART Seal Beach, Cal. Granted, the track was not really a TT style track; it was more of a Rough Scrambles track in which rider ability and not horsepower determined the finishing position. The Dirt Diggers were promised by Muntz that the surfacing would be as they wished, but road closures in the local area milde transporting the granite to the park almost impossible. They attempted to prepare the track with what they had and it iust didn't stay together; they realized their error too Iate... Ed. Palsy Benefit IT at Salinas Aug. 22. I'm sure the 650 and 250 Expert races were most interesting, but they were far from the only races in a long day of great racing. The organization was, as usual, fantastic. Most professional promoters should do so well. Southern Californians may have been rare, but sixteen Sidehack Assn. members travelled about II,200 miles (man miles) field eigh t top IT sidehacks to put on a thrilling, crowd pleasing show. The Sidehacks have made a point of backing this worth y charity event every year for the last four years at fair expense to the riders and with nothing more than the satisfaction of having helped a good cause (plus a bitchin' IT and some great trophies.) The treatment by the people in Salinas is always outstanding. Too bad some of the northerners didn't show up to challenge the "Southern Supremacy". The hacks ran three five lap motos, all characterized by close competition and much place changing. The final results (as opposed to the prelims in the paper) were Roesch/&kip Parti/Jamison (Tri) and Masella/Krohn, (Tri). The following day I talk~ to some of the people who had been in the stands and they all remarked about the sidehack race and its special excitement. My wife even though t the hacks were "grandstanding" to put on a show, until she learned it was indeed serious. That's how the action was. GARY WEBER Tujunga, Calif. LOOKING FOR A GIRLOn August 23, 1971, at Huntington Beach Hare Scrambles, Bruce McCord crashed past the first check in a sandwash. I would appreciate it if the girl that found Bruce would contact me. Bruce has amnesia and I would like to know any information I can about his accident. -, I would also like to thank the girl that helped Bruce. Thanks also goes to the Huntington Beach member that brought Bruce's motorcycle in. As always a special thanks goes to Rescue 3 for their help and concern. MARTA McCORD 18618 Grove PI. Bloomington, Ca. 92316 Lenks With The Past To Chuck Ferguson: This letter conerns the Tri·Am benefit series which you promoted and directed; if you can call that directing! You had a huge advertisement in "Cycle News" that told everything about the race. Only you forgot to mention a few details, such as the 4 mile course, the 3 water crossings and the dead engine start out in the middle of the river bed. Well, I didn't do too well in that race at Indian Dunes, but I still qualified and all it cost was 10 bucks - and a little grief. Then came the final at Rough Rider Cycle Park in Simi. I thought I might be able to finish pretty far up, because I knew the track well and I had done pretty good in -a couple of previous races there. Then you started in again. You only changed a couple of things, but it was enough. One of the changes was the starting area. It was a good idea, hecause 50 riders going into the first turn on the old start would have been hairy. Only one thing wrong: the new starting area has a shorter run and a' tighter turn than the old one! One more thing, have you ever tried racing a IOOcc bike on a track that's just been disced and watered down? Try saving all those goodies for the 250's next time! The race, for me anyway, was more of a bummer than qualifying was. This time, it cost me a broken collar bone and 6 to 8 weeks of no riding. In the 45 minutes I was at the hospital, 3 more victims of the thrill'packed Tri-Am arrived - two broken legs and one broken wrist. You know, it seems kind of a shame that Rough Rider's record was marred on August 22; in the three months that By Bob Lenk This ready to go racing young man posed on his new Crocker in the forecourt of ~is Inglewood, Calif. gas station was known of the speedway circuits at the 1930's as "Glenn Malcolm," alias Glenn M. Anderson, who hung up the handlebars after a successful racing career and entered politics. He was the youngest mayor ever elected, and served as Lieutenant Governor of California. Now he is the U.S. Congressman in Washington from the 17th District of California (Gardena, Torrance, Carson, Inglewood, San Pedro, etc.) "

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