Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

~ w Z W ...J U >U aJI~1 I ••• America's Number weekly motorcycle newspaper. You'll always see it first in Cycle News. MOTOR~~'C~e~ INDUSTRY COUNCIL (Mfic:) Charles Clayton Sharon Clayton Tom Culp .. John Bethea •. John Huetter . Art Friedman Ed Drechsler Kate Thorpe Rheba Smith Marla Tarbet Bruce Diamond Paul Boudreau . Howie Fowler Larry Groves . Marion Hatashita Melvin Phelps Randy Dietzel . Barbara Bebeck .. Marilyn Kirk. . Squeeky Haynes .. Hector Aguilera .. Beverly Townsend . · Publisher · ..Business Manager . . General Manager .. Managing Editor . Editor . Assistant Editor · Advertising Manager · Advertising Assistant · Circulation Manager · Circulation Assistant · Circulation Assistant · Production Manager · Production Assistant . .Lab Technician . Typographer · Assistant Typographer Bookkeeper · Bookkeeping Assistant · Bookkeeping Assistant General Secretary .. Computer Technician . Receptionist National Advertising Director (Cycle News West, Cycle News East, Cycle News Dixie): Tom Culp. Cyefe News West, P.O. Box 498, Long Beach, California 90801. (213) 427·7433; L.A. 636·8844. TELEX NO. 673474 Subscription: One year, second class mail 2 years, second class mail 3 years, second class mail Single copy price $10 $17 $21 $.35 , Published weekly except the first and last week of the calendar year by Cycle News, Inc., Post Office Box 498, Lon9 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. Reprintin9 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. Copyrigh t © Cycle News, Inc. 1972 all rights reserved 1000000000000000iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii;;;;;;:l TO 'RULES COMMITTEE, GRAND CANAL JUMP CONTEST: I would like to enter your contest. but at present I cannot jeopardize my bike. as I'm using it to get to work, daily. And so I ask to be permitted to select an alternate mount. If approved I'll jump the canal in Bennie's 1961 Ford station wagon, that he sold me for 20 dollars, after he split to live with John Creamcheese. I'll be removing 1 front wheel as I'll be running in the enclosed three wheel class. Also wish to know if I can leave the back window open to act as a spoiler. Please reply rapidly as my wife is going to have a baby soon, and I need the prize money. DIRTY DAJ'\I Los Angeles, Calif: Major Inside Reports COLUMN: LATEST POOP ; 7 FEATURE: SHOULD WOMEN RACE , 8 TEST: CARABELA CALIENTE .......................•........10 DRAGS: SANAIR CANADIAN NATIONALS , , 12 TEST: THE GELBKE SPECiAL ....................•...... , 14 FIRST IMPRESSION: HONDA MOTOCROSSERS .....•...•.......15 INTERNATIONAL: THE LAST GP AND HOTSHOE , 16 DESERT: DUAL EUROPEAN SCRAMBLES , 18 TRIALS: ATA RUNNING SPRINGS ....................•.......20 INTERVIEW: AL GUNTER, ALIVE AND WELL ...•...... , 22 SPEEDWAy , .25 SHORT TRACK: CHALLENGERS' CUP , 26 NATIONAL: INDY MILE , ......•...... , 28 EDITORIAL - OPINION , , , 32 SECTION: NORTH , , ,., , •..•......38 SECTION: CENTRAL , ..........•.. , 44 RESULTS .46 CALENDAR ...........•...•.............•......•..........52 --'\ The rules committe has returned a split decision and will have to re-vote. They will let you know what they decide by January - Ed. the last half.mUe National - he's a dummy too as the last half mile National held in the Southeast was the Holiday Downs, April 19, 1970 rig!)t here in beautiful Atlanta. Jim Rice was the winner of that event. Bob Lenk, upon returning from the Lasagna .Sicka race told me '. "Those Californian's have all had their bralns baked out in the sun." I'm startin' to believe him. Y'all take care. BILL Y BADRAGGER Tucker, Georgia GRAVESTONES RULE! [ would like to see a correction on the results from Laguna Seca. Rohbie Cadawaller (Novice No. (41) was riding a 196<1 Greeves Silverstone instead of a Yamaha, This was Rob's very first road race and we're very proud of his 15th place finish, consideri.ng he was riding a bike 20 to 30 miles an hour slower. Look for this young man in the future. DON KEATHLEY Santa Cruz, Calif. How far into the future? - Ed. PUFFER POWER After glancing through your Calendar section, I found that several organizations and tracks are now offering more and more Powder Puff classes. Myself, as an enthusiastic Powder Puffer, would like to see directions prin ted to various tracks and/or parks such as Rawhide, Corona, EI Toro, Carlsbad, and Escape Country. I realize that I could probably call all of these places to ask for directions as to their location, but ( feel it would be to their advantage if they'd include directions in the Calendar listing or the advertisemen ts. I know that more "puffers" would show if they knew how to get there! Keep on puffin '!! JEANNE ALLEN End Does M.C. Modem Cycle Mag. FULLA WHOLES I demand a retraction; your paper is fulla holes. Amos Cardlin's first mount was not a Henderson but a Moto.·popo and what uplummetted" 'him to notoriety was his endo at the f Tooshey Speedway. A precision inSJjection of his trash cans shows him ta be a wine and ketchup freak. Let's !get things straigh t for a change. T.J. MORAN Long Beach, Ca. SUPREME'COURT HELMET CASE \ Thanks for your second $100 donation. You and Lou Kinzey are the only ones from the coast to have helped. The price. of one gallon of gasoline from half the riders who don't want t9 have to wear helmets all the time would pay fpr this case. They would rather pay fines than afford justice. . I have been trYin~ to get professional help from "friendly" motorcycle editors. The monthly magazines have an eight·week lead tim~, and old news is worthless. Yours is the only good weekly publication and "that could be of immense help in reaching the riders before the case is come and gone. I ad mit that [! am not too sophisticated, just a bike rider for 30 years, who knows nothing else. But I cannot understand this r.esentmenl and animosity between rival magazine editors. We all face a common enemy in this instance, and if you will forgive a timt:-worn cliche, "united we stand divided we faiL" CHARLES V. lMON [21 North St. Foxboro, Mass. 02035 Most magazine editors that we favor of helmet laws... Ed. kllOW are in TURN IN YOUR STICKlES VOICES OF THE WEST HOW ABOUT SKILL? It was interesting to read Clunk Clayton's report on the Aqua Festival Road Races at'Austin, Tex. Especially his comments on Joe Patton's ill handling Honda on which he won the stock production and open Grand Prix races, quite handilY,1 might add. I wonder how Joe managed to do this. Also his lap times were better than anyone else's on any size motor on a race course that was by far a small motor course. GLENN PATTON Midland, Tex. Do you suppose rider skill had anything to do with it? - Ed. WHO'S SIDE ARE YOU ON? A rather large group of riders had a distressing and disappointing experience this past weekend. We had gone to ride on land located on South Main Street, in Carson, on which we had been given permission to ride by Tom Krumbholz, the owner of American Rider Supply. We were approached by an L.A. County Sheriff who told us we were trespassing. We told him we had permission and from whom. lie then stated he could not cite us for trespassing so he cited us for riding a motorcycle on private land to the annoyance of others. He further stated that "those people down at American River Supply told us to get those bikers off our land no matter what you have to do to them." About that time a Tider went by on a Yamaha and we asked why he also was not being cited and were told that he was one of American Rider's sponsored riders and the Sheriff was instructed not to cite him. Why was he not annoying others as we were? After being cited we went to American Rider Supply and were advised that we were breaking the law, and they didn't really care what we did about the citations. \Ve can ap'preciatc their position that perhap' it got out of hand bu t why take such a drastic action. Why nut just tdl us. post a siKn or fence off tht, entrance') \"lith aU the pll'c:;sure \\ wen: gelling abou'l l.Ind u~c ·o.m I the go\-("rnmentaJ agencies, we really don't need this kind of harassment from someone who's supposed to be on our side. There are a bunch of us who are going to have to shell out $25 each to pay the fine and aren't any too happy about it. FORMER CUSTOMERS OF AMERICAN RIDER SUPPLY P.S. We now find that, although Tom Krumbholz told each of us he own.ed this property when he gave permission, he does not. MORE FOR MOREYour one page ad for Mr. Russ Sanford was really too much. He should get MORE than two dollars but our club knows to give a little one must take a little. We schedule an annual event to support the AMXT and MORE. We donated $1,000 to the AMXT. I'm sorry to report we could not equal that amount to our only individual that will get up and speak au t for the motorcycle rider/racer. Mr. Russ Sanford should get all the motorcycle clubs' support, especially financial support. We look forward to our second annual MORE benefit. I did not notice that in our last ad we (us) failed to include the date of the race. Maybe we should skip this each time as we had a record turnout. We broke our yearly record, hope it happens again. WILLJAM P. CZERW[NSKI President Lompoc Sio-Pokes ORAGGIN' OEM BAGS [n you August 22 issue Voices of the West can tained a letter from a Dan lIeadrick questioning the accuracy of your editorials particularly the National Papers. While he was "righ t on" as cOllcerns privateers winning the 'umber One plate he was "dead wrong" on the las .. ational held in the Southeast. Hob Read I"

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