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Bill Brokaw and Wiltz PO Box 26062, Sacramento 95826 - - - - H O T DOG1---'" Cycle Ne'ftrs HOT HATS Wagner combine their talents to provide an Introductory into the Off-foad world. Should be mandatory reading for all beginner CYClists and recommend reading for even expert riders. Limited edition $3.00. Cycle News PrOdUcts, P.O. Box 498 Dept. CNP. Long Beach, Ca. 90801. THE RIDERS' ORGANIZATION [n the May 16 th issue of Cycle News 1 proposed.. in a rather tentative way, the formation of a riders' organization to act in a concerted fashion for the benefit of all riders, whether they rode dirt bikes, road bikes, choppers or what have you. My intention was that this organization would be composed of imaginative individuals who liked the idea of attacking problems from an unconventional standpoint, and who wouldn't mind doing something for other members of the cycling fraternity whose Idea of the sport was different from their own. It may be that I'm an incurable roman tic, but it seemed to me that a ~hole flock of desert riders showing up m court to support a chopper pilot or a group of road riders helping in a desert clean-up could do wonders for the sport. It also seemed that some of the things we migh t do could be fun, a kind of Yippie movement for motorcyclists. The response was hardly overwhelming. To be precise, there were exactly 12 replies, but some of them represented clubs. This in itself I didn't find too discouraging. People have a te~dency to wait and see if some thing is gomg to go before they get involved, and many organizations that have changed the course of history have started with fewer people. What was discouraging was that several of the people who did respond did so in a spirit that was contrary to what I had in mind. For instance, one fellow wrote and urged me not to oppose helmet legislation. He wanted me to get "off my soapbox and do some honest thinking." Now, many of you who read my column regularly will ~ealize that [ have not been very heavily mvolved, professionally, in figh ting helmet legislation. When I ride without a helmet (about once every two years) I off-balance. I'd feel more feel comfortable riding without my pants. If my boy rides without a helmet, he loses his bike right then and there. It's very difficult for me to get emotionally involved in fighting something that is personally like second nature. On the other hand, I realized that regardless of ~ WARREN PORT_G - $15.00 .ntl Up ALL NEW! OnlY75cent. Cycle News Dept. CNP P.O. Box 498 Long Beach, Ca. 90801 HACIENDA SPORTS CYCLE 1114Jh HACIENDA BLVD. LA PUENTE, CA. /213) 968~971 Boring - Wheel TrUing & LaclngPorting - Competition Tuning 10-6 Tues-Sat. * Closed Sun. & Mon. Bazooka Pete says: ltMmm. Hot Hat good." OMPETITION ~RODU~tington yeLE Moto-X - Desert Enduro. U ••• ....... MONTESA ~ WILSON MOTORS how I felt emotionally, it was very necessary to figh t this sort of thing. If the S tate can force you to protect yourself in one area, it can do so in other areas. This is simply the rule of precedent. Let's assume the helmet legislation passed and after two 'years the CHP could show that deaths had decreased by some percentage. It wouldn't take much in the way of logical argument to show that deaths could be further reduced by banning motorcycles altogether. All the same arguments would apply. A dead motorcyclist leaves a family who must pay bills, eiC. And the principle that the State has the power to make you protect yourself would already be established. The issue then is not helmets but freedom and God knows there are little enough left. So [ wrote letters and "got on my soapbox", not to urge a practice that I personally don't believe in, but to urge that we defend one of our few remaining freedoms, the freedom to risk one's neck in whatever fashion one feels like, a freedom incidentally that is enjoyed by mountaineers, parachutists, freeway drivers and business men who risk coronaries every time they take a step up the corporate ladder. 1 don't do any of these things and I don't ride without a h~lmet, but the freedom to do so is importan t to me. Another fellow wrote a long letter to disagree with my suggeslion that anywhere a horse can go a motorcyclist should also be permitted." He explained that he was a backpacker as well as a motorcyclist and that it is occasionally important to be able to get away from it all, to enjoy solitude, wilderness, and above all, quiet. 1 couldn't agree more. 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