Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

facts is that every one, including the th at ev~ryon~, th e ultr a-conservat ion ists, agree d that we ultra·conservationists, agr~ed w~ had a right to the use of the public lands had righ t th e th e once they heard our side of the story! h eard By Russ Sanford POTPOURRI The bigg~st probl~m in wri ting this Th~ biggest p roblem writing column is to find th e time 'to get it on ~ tim~ ' to g~t it pap~'. There .is usually at least o ne p ap er '. Th~~ is l~ast on~ 'biggi~' r~port o n ~ach w~~k, th~ 'b iggie ' to report on each week, so th e 'non-biggies' just sort of accumulate and sort o f accumulat~ th~n, ~v~ry onc~ whil~, we then, every on ce in a whil e, w~ sort of of 'put it together' like this... tog~th~' lik~ USE LAND USE The Federal Register of 19 October o f I 9 Octob er 1971 carried this item : it~m: "212.20 Na ti o na l National Forest Fo res t D~velopment Trail System Operation. Devel opment T rail (a) Applicability and scope. Th e Th~ regulations in this sectio n prescrib e th e regulat ion s s~ction pr~scribe th~ prot~ction maintenanc~ us~ use and protection of, and mainten ance of good conduct on th e National Forest of con duc t o n the For est Dev~lopment Trail Syst em on lands, or Syst~m or Devel opment int~rest of Stat~s, in te res t in lands, of the United States, including Forest S~rvice administ~red includi ng F orest Service ad minis t ere d s~gm~nts of the National Trails System segments Nati on al within the exterior boundarie~ of the th~ ext~rior b oundaries o f National Forests. D~velopment (b) National Forest Developm ent Trails. National Forest Development Trails . Devel opment Trails shall be d esignated ' ona map or be d~signat~d'on 'a map th e pl an availab le to th e public at the plan availabl~ th~ o ffice s of the Forest Superviors and offic~s For~st arid Ran gers be d~lineat~d District Rangers and ' shall b e del ineated on th e gro un d by appropriate signs the ground b y ap p ro p ria te sign s which reasonably b rin g th eir location to bring their loca tion th~ att~n tion th e public . th e a tten tio n of the public. protection o f (c) Us~ and prot~ction of National Use Forest Development Trails. Foot Travel F or~st D~velopm~nt or use of motorized v~hicles or of stock motoriz~d ve h icles of on trails may be restricted for public ma y b e fo r safety and for th e prot~ction of th e saf~ty fo r the protecti on o f the trails and resources. Public n otices shall notic~s sh all an d res ources. be lo cations be posted in such locations as will r~asonably su ch to th~ reas onably bring such restrictions to the attention of the public .' A copy of such att~ntion public. o f suc h restrictions shall be kept available to the r~strictions be public in the offices of th e District o f the Rang~rs and Forest Supervisors , Ran gers Sup~rvisors. (d) Maintenance of good conduct. Maintenan ce go od c o nd uc t. The following acts are prohib ited on all Th~ foll owin g ac ts are prohibited o n F orest D~~lopmentT rail s: National Forest D evelopmen t Trails: ( I) Th~ will ful t~aring (1) The willful tearin g down or d efacing of any sign , marker, or d~facing o f sign, marker, o r notice o f or~st S erv ice. n otice of the F or est Service. (2) 1\1 ul til a ting, Multilating, defacing, d efacin g, ( 2) disturbing, rem oving, or d est ro y ing d~stroying di st urb ing, r~moving, objects of natural b~auty of of b eauty o bjects scenic value . value. . (3) Destroying, damaging, or Destroyin g, d am a gin g, removing any livin g tree or plan t, living plant, except brushin g brushing during durin g e xce p t maintenance o perations. operations. (4) Creating an unsanitary Cr eating a n refuse d ebri s, ' condition by leaving refuse,, debris, co nditio n b y garbage, or o the r wast es exposed,, or other wastes ex po sed or permitting the discharge of th e di scharge harmfull p ollu tan ts or obj ectiona b le harm fu pollutants o r objectionable wastes into streams, lakes, o r other was tes or ot her water sources. wat er so urces . 212.21 Pacific Crest Trait. 2 12 .2 1 Paci fic Cr est Trail. The Pacific Cr estt T rai l as d efin ed by th e T he Pacifi c Cr~s Trail d~fined b y ~ Na tional Trails System National Trail s S yst em Act, 82 Stat. StaL 919,, shall be ad mi nistered primarily as a gI g shal l be administered prima rily footpath and horseback riding tr ail b y fo otpath horseb ack rid ing trail by the S~rvice consultation wit h th e Forest Service in consu ltation with the Secretary of th e Interi or. Th e us e of Secre tary o f th~ InteriQr. The us~ motorized vehicles along th e Pacific the Paci fic Crest Trail shall be prohib ited , except prohibited, exc ep t when, in the judgm~n t of the Forest th~ judgmen th e . Sup erv iso r , such vehicles are necessary _Supervisor, suc h to meet em ergencies or to enable to ~mergencies adjacen t landowners or land users to have reasonable ac cess to their lands or h ave reas onable access to th eir timber righ ts. rights. I Interested p ersons are invited to persons invite d submit written comments, sugg es tio ns, submi t c o mmen ts, suggestions, or objections regarding the proposed objecti ons re garding proposed regula tions to U.S. Departm~nt of r~gulations Departm ent o f Agricultur~, Forest Servic e Divisi on o f Agri culture , F orest Service Division of Engineerin g, 1621 North K~nt Street, Engin~ering, 162 I No r th Ken t Arlington,, VA 22209, within 30 d ays Ar lin gton with in days aft~r dat~ o f notice after date of publication of this n o tice Federal R egister. in the Fed~al Register. All written submissions made pursuan t to th is this sub miss io ns mad~ notice will be made available for public be ava ilab le inspection insp ec tio n in the Division Division of of Engineering, ''Room 1101-D, Rosslyn R oo m I lOI -D, Rossl yn Plaza, during regular business hours_ (7 Plaza, h ours. CFR 1.27(b).)" Not too many people are aware th at I that am a member of the Pa cific Cre st T ra il th e Pacific Crest Trail Advisory Council. My appointment cam e from Secr etary of Agr iculture cam~ S~cretary o f Agriculture Clifford M. Hardin for th e purpose of th~ p'urp ose o f Cli ffo rd th e o f the v~hicle representing the interests of th e vehicle enthusiasts in th e thre e western states. the thr~e w~st~rn This may sound ridiculous because the so und Pacific Crest Trail is a n on-v eh icular Paci fic non-v~hicular trail. But my job is to ensure that we th at don't lose an y trails or riding areas don 't or which we now use. I feel th at the foregoing it em fro m that fo rego ing item from the Federal Register is important to all Regi ster of us because it gives the U.S. Forest Fore st Service some degree of man agement and som~ manag~ment enforcement authority which it didn't en fo rcem en t au th ority previously have. ORVSTUDY Perhaps you have n oticed a 'lull'' in Perhap s h ave noticed ' lull the ac tivities of the U.S. Forest Service activities Fores t Servi ce with respect to use and operation of an d o pera tio n off-road vehicle s. If you will recall , just o ff-ro ad vehicles. recall, a few short months ago th e US FS was fe w sh ort m o nths ago the USFS h olding he ari n gs holding hearings in th e Angeles, Los the Lo s Padres, Sequo ia, Mendocino, St anislaus , Sequo.ia, Mendocin o , Stanislaus, and other Nat ional Forests. o the r National But there rather o mi no us, But th ere has been a rathe r ominous, uneasy silence from th e USFS these past une asy the U FS thes~ p ast few months. Upon investi gati o n . it turn s m o n ths. investigation, turns out th at th e US FS h as established a ou t that the has estab lishe d 'Critical C ommittee' fo r the 'C ritical Item Committee' for th e purpose of studying the state wide ORV statewide 'problem'' and will be . developing some 'probl em be developin g ~o me new set of guidelin.es for ORV use in the o f gu ide line s th e Nat io nal Forests. National I have wr itten to the Regional h av e written Regio nal Fores ter in San Francisco requ esting Forester requesting that we be allowed representation on th at allo wed represen ta t io n this committee, co m mi t tee, either through t h rough membership or in an advisory capacity.. membersh ip adviso ry capaci ty It is too soon to expect an answ er yet, so.on answer but we'll kee p you informed through keep this c olumn . thi s column. ram sc~ram6Jin' arouni1r By Maure.en Lee Maureen Right now the AMA's Competition Congress is m eeting and like everyone else, we th e Competiti on me.eting an d lik e everyo ne ~Ise, can't wait to see what develops in both Amateur and Sportin g lines. see dev el ops Sporting Distriet 37 is asking th e Congress to consi der holding the 1973 ISDT Tria ls h ere, District the Congr~ss consider th e 197 3 Trials here, possibly in th e Las V egas area,, and there's n o d oub t about it that our District has an the V~gas are a a nd th ere 's no d~ubt abou t it th at o ur Distri c t h as abundance in form ed o n the subjec t o f ISDT's. many ab undance of informed persons on th e subject of ISD T's. A great m an y previous medal winners reside h ere and would b e only too will in g to help America prove she's J)'I~dal h~e an d w ould be o nly to o willing she 's ca p ab le of hosting a good one. Wouldn' t some of th e old loc ations used on th e Big capable h ostin g go od o n e. Wouldn't so me o f the locations th~ B~ar place, Tha t th~e reall y d iversified terrain Bear runs be a good plac~, too? That way th ere really would be diversified te rrain be from desert to mountains. Anyway, even if the District does not get the go-ahead as m o un tains. t h e Distric t d o es ge t go-ah~ad location, have ask~d t hat th e loca ti on cho~n T rials to loca tion , we h ave as ke d that the location chose n for the Trials be handled in a danocratic fashion b y vo tin g and not jus t handed out. democratic by voting just o ut. Another thing the Congress has b een consid eri ng is making ch anges in District Anoth~ th e been c.onsidering changes Distr ic t boundaries again. I cer ta in ly hope they don't have any ideas about District 37! We aga in.. c~tainly th ey d on't a ny District 3 7! ar~ awfully al th o ugh th~e some larg er when measured pure.mil es, are aw fully big already although there are some larger whe n m easured in pure miles, but do we ever have the rid~s. As it is, I always give a tip of the helmet to club d o w~ h ave riders. alw ay s h elmet representatives wh o drive many, man y miles to attend Sports Committee m eetings repr~sentatives who many mil~s meetings from th~ir desert homes, so just imagine what would happen if they expanded us . I their so imagin e us. have no idea how wide or how far up the coast they w ould want to enlarge us,, but c oast would wan t us can you imagine all our clubs working on a communicable basis and attending a tte ndi ng m~~tings in one pla ce with some coming from Barstow and some from say Salinas? meetings plac~ som e The guys up north would have to make a whole day out of it, and it sure would Th~ hav e da y o u t o f su re cr~at~ a lot of uproar over trying to ride all the District p oint runs. I can't even bear create ov~r point ca n' t to think about it unless the AMA gives us a DC 10 so we can load bikes and ourselves it unl~ss th e Al\IA giv~s DC ca n lo ad into it and make all the District events! mak~ th e events ! Whatev~ th~. o utcome, y ou be o ur Congr~ssman Ad ams Whatever the. outcome, you can b~ sure our Con gressm an Bill Adams will have only the best interests for our District at h eart. If you don't know Bill and eve r get a int~~sts o ur h~art. If d on't kn ow ev~r chanc~ to mak~ acquaintanc~, d o cr~dit o ur gen tlema n ch ance to m ak e his ac q uain ta nce, do so. He is a credit to our sport and a gentleman in every way, plus being a great competitor, ~nduros b~ing his real love. gre at comp etitor, enduros b ein g h is lo ve. eve ry One of my little grapevines wound through the ph on e line with some info this of littl~ grap~ines th ro ugh th~ phone lin e so me th is morning. An other District is seriously consi d eri ng telling th e A1\IA th ey 've had it and Anoth~r considering the AMA they've had an d going it on th eir own.. It's b~en done before and with no loss in quality of events. o f even ts. goi ng o n their ow n It 's b een d on e They police themselves but just don't b elong to the AMA.. themselv~s but d on 't belong AMA Remember the squabbles we h ad with Worthington a fe w years back? Bill Barry Worthin gton few R=~mber had . must have worn out an airplane on his tr ips back and forth trying to'' keep th is a n airp lane a nd fo r th tryif\g to kee p this trips , District from suc ceeding, and we very nearly did. It was a glorio",s tim e, I can tell you , Distri ct succ~eding, and.we d id. It wa s glorio us ti,!,e, ca n you, with ' WorthingtQn trying to hold on to a group of slight!y borunder th e' collar Wor th ingtQn trying sligh tly h,ot under the' co llar W~st~rn~s who had-just about had ·it. Peace (or maybe you should say a truce) was had just it. sh ould tj-uc~) Westerners restored but it marked' the beginning of th e end for the way the AMA. used to be run,, it marked th~ o f th~ for th e th e A:\IA b e ru n andiJtb,e.,£rIlellg>ence of, the ..........y.stwn that still -makes. mistakes [dcu '! we ,\)\ but is and. ,thc.,~ina:gence. new,'Y.st.wn tha t makes. (don't/we , ti), b ut ?jJCiiII¥ ~inifili .ln"alfihe thing abou t " V:> UO '{ DIU .1 UO 'j~ 'i~Dn sro"'l'!l3.H' 2~.frililiitUriil1ibething about it. 'U~ lJO'{ 6iu .1UO ]~ , :>orr 1,,,u '"nd, no-sweat operation. accommodates any wheel an d costs just $150. No dealer should o p erati o n , accom mo da tes a ny wheel and $ 150. be without one, yet Don sa ys sales are slow. says Near Nea r to Cycle City Ltd.. is Bill Brokaw 's Triumph, Yamaha,, Montesa and Greeves Ltd Bill Brokaw's T riumph , Yamaha Mo nt esa store. Behind it. stretch ing for acres. is a paradise o f hills an d tra ils where the dealers Beh ind it , stretching acres, pa radise of and trails wh ere of Motor City, as the section is called, demonstrate their off-road vehicles - cars as Moto r City. th e o ff-road ve h icl es bikes. well as b ikes. Ins ide Brokaw's, Gary. one of the six racin g Palmgren bro th ers, is compiling a map Inside Bro kaw's, Gary, o ne racing brothers, c omp iling of trails in the public lands of Colorado. I am greatly impressed. for this is a project trai ls am imp ress ed, fo r th is pro ject that only the more ad va nc ed land·use conscious states on the Eastern Seaboard are th at advanced land-u se co nsc io us st ates th e y et yet undertaking. Gary urges all the riders of Colorado who know of cycle trails to a ll rid ers Co lo rado wh o corne to' the store and mark 't h em on his map.'The first person to chart a trail gets to come to a nd them h is rnapvTh e ch art name it,, as I understand.. " ",. , it understand Als o a tB ro kaw 's isa fac e fr om th e Also at Brok'aw's is a face from the Ascot elite, Elliott Schultz, a bit long of lock Schultz. , 's ince I saw h im last . Bill'Brokaw has written a ' book ',nam ed "How to Ride.3 Trail h as Ride :a Tra il since, I·savy him I;lst. ,named Bike:' which tells a 19~ , I ,\,ijdJ1'.t ,Jsl)qX" ab H'i YJ6WnlIrIibaQe!ek Blv;.,. "",j} ljilql,}j)liJ;i~I \\i~!j~ n=e ~v.w b~ed fniin,m l:lIttiburWiib.Gf~lra.aJ~ I:I'J~ a It) I" ,... .... en '" g ~ ~ w d >- U u

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