Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

HUSQVARNA Perris Lightens Up By Elaine Jones PERRIS, CAL., Sept. 25, 1971 - Perris ride with the big boys. has gone to automation with the Terry and Toby Stanford and Skip addition of a traffic light for starting Gallagher, all Buddha Bultaco riders, purposes. The riders haven't quite had a whole different thing going in the decided about it yet and are pretty 250 Amateur-Expert class. They rode evenly divided. The next few weeks the track like Siamese triplets if there is should tell the story. such a thing. The places changed so fast Stan Bateman and pizzas equal you needed a score card. When all the trophies or at least it looks that way. dust had settl~d it was Ten>: Stanford Last year Stan was given a hard luck second and Skip Gallagher thU'd behind trophy by the Pizza Hut for always consistent Doug Mason: . being out there but never making the . ~~e Byers who IS, a whiz on a win column. Saturday rught Stan won a mlm-blke proved he am t too bad on a big machine as he won the 250cc Novice free pizza in the weekly drawing and then proceeded to go out and make it I class ~n Skip Galla8:her's Bultaco. three for three over Jim Morgan and Don t forget . sdencers are now Greg Green in the Novice Motor. !t sure ~andatory at Perris, You better throw makes a believer out of you. In some warm, warm Jackets cause Rick Bair picked up another win in winter has come to Perris and it's not the Novice Moto II but along with it he fooling around. got his graduation papers and gets to (Results on page 32) Management Seminar Set PALM SPRINGS, CAL. - With an eye toward bringing modern management techniques to the nation's motorcycle retailers, the first annual Dealer Managemen t Seminar will be held here Dec. 6, 7 and 8 at the Spa Hotel, it was announced by the Seminar's director, Miss Vena Garrett. Miss Garrett, the former business manager of the nationally circulated Motorcycle Dealer News, said that the seminar will "borrow a page from th e Army's Monterey School of Languages" and try to give delegates "an A to Z course in the basic fundamentals of efficient retail business in a very short period of time." "We have invited,' among many others, some. of the best management, advertising, legal and accounting minds in the country ," the director continued. "And we believe that after three days of instruction, discussion and workshops, a dealer will be prepared to return to his shop in, say, Pocatella, Idaho, and stt;eamline his operation for efficiency and increased profits." HOf course we realize," Miss Garrett added, "this this is a vast undertaking. But it's something that needs 10 be done, and, in fact, should have 'been done a long time ago. People shouldn't have to operate a 20th century business using 19th century techniques." Doug Toms, director of the National HJighway T'raffic Safety Bureau, has accepted an invitation to keynote the Seminar's banguet on Dec. 7, Miss Garrett said. Toms, a motorcycle enthusiast who rode in last year's Mexican 1000, is scheduled to taJk about upcoming federal legislation that will effect motorcycling. Additionally, Ralph Rentz, an accountant specializing in motorcycle shop accounts, and Joseph J. Weissman, an attorney with experience in handling cases dealing with motorcycling, have accepted invitations to instruct dealers in the legal and financial aspects of motorcycle retailing. Other speaker-instructors will cover such areas as in temal and external security. personnel management, service department problems, customer relations, advertising and bank/loan company financing. "Essentially," Miss Garrett said, u we have invited people who are big and successful and can tell us how to be the saI1le. " The Seminar's director said that she has already approached numerous national distributors and described their reactions as "fantastic." "Yamaha and Kawasaki both think that this (the seminar) is one of the greatest things that ever happened in the industry and promised us all the help and support we need." Miss Garrett stressed, however, that individual distributors are in no way officially connected with the Seminar. . The entire Spa Hotel, which features modern rooms, three outdoor hot mineral pools, sauna and swirlpool baths, gymnasium, dining facilities and nightly entertainment, has been reserved for the Seminar. The registration fee for the four days, three nights affair is 5200, which includes a room for two people, admission for one person to the Seminar's business sessions, two tickets to the final banquet, use of the hotel's facilities, and, as Miss Garrett puts it, "access to the best resort town in the whole world, where the average December temperature is close to 90 degrees." Check-in begins Sunday afternoon, December 5. Direct f1igh ts to Palm Springs are now available from such major cities as Boston, Chicago and New York, and connections can be made from almost every other point throughout the U.S. "We honestly feel that the Dealer Management Seminar will be a real boon to the country's motorcycling retailers," Miss Garrett said. "Plus, perhaps just as importantly, a chance to get away from it all a few days before the Christmas rush and meet with other dealers from throughout the country." Registration is limited to 400 dealers on a first-come, first-serve basis and will be closed when the quota is filled. For further information, send inquiries to Miss Garrett at 2073 W. Pacific Coast Highway, Lomita, California 90717. DOZING THE 'BIG O' ONTARIO, CAL. - The roar of racing engines has been replaced temporarily by the rumble of bulldozers as workmen at Ontario Motor Speedway rush to complete a rugged motocross course for the Champion Spark Plug Motorcycle Classics, Oct. 13-17. The half-mile course of jumps and jousts will L bel the. site of tile AMA sanctioned Champion National Motocross on Saturday, Oct.. 16 at 2:30 p.m. The course is located on 10 acres of land in the Turn 3 area of the O.M.S. oval. "We've tried to incorporate all the na§ty things that make a motocross course competitive," said Bob Graham, O.M.S. Director of Racing. "For instance, in one section of the course the riders careen off a steep bank, make a hard Tight turn into a mud-filled ditch, and roar out of the mud over a three-foot jump into a sand pit. Later, there is a six-foot, blind-sided jump and the bikes land without a landing ramp on a hard-packed surface." A FUN RUN CHALLENGE E.C. Birt and John Rice have gotten together and have set up a nifty program of racing in Mexico, called the Mexican Invitational Motocross Race set for Nov. 21. "!t's going to be just a fun type thing," E.C. speCUlated, '''just for play. We'll leave from the Precision Cycle Shop Friday nigh t after work and caravan our wa.y down to Mexicali, Mexico. "There we'll camp out and set up the motocross course on Saturday after which we'll practice. We race Sunday/' he said. Entry for the event is $4, "But that will go toward trophies and an especially neat Mexican Bar-b-que Saturday night," the tuner added, "plus some great Mexican beer." In addition, a challenge race has been set up whereby a five·man American team will take on five from Mexico. ''To keep things as close to even as possible, we'll select the five best Juniors to ride lOOcc machines," he explained. "Anybody and everybody who is a Junior and who wishes to try out for the American squad should get in touch with me here at the shop as soon as possible." Give him a call at 213/370-8822. NORTHWEST ADVENTURE. The only cross-eountry in the Northwest, so they say, will be held October 24 by the Cascade M.C. Start is located 20 miles east of Bend, Oregon, on Highway 20. Rider information sheets can be picked up at Tom Tom, a 24-hour restaurant, north of Bend on Highway 27. Med-International 4790 Palm Ave" La Mesa, Calif. 92103 lJ) ~ Ge;ifofo;~s * Come In or call: ~' IN STOCK - NOW! 'l; Importer-Dist.-So. East-Midwest-West O,)t., Nidi N,c.,ohon Molon, 'nc, 1l~1J VoIno...tn. 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