Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

. • ... Q. N (l) N ~ w Z W ...J U > U I Chorl" ClaYtd}l •..T • • • , • • • • • ~ ~ ~ .Publisher Sharon Clayton Business Manager Tom Culp General Manager John Bethea Managing Editor John Huetter . . . . . . . . . . . . Editor An friedman . . . . . • . . . . . Assistant Editor Ed Drechsler Advertising Man8ger Kate Thorpe Adyertising Assistant Rheba Smith _ Circulation Manager Marla Tarbet Circulation Assistant Bruce Diamond ..•..... Circulation Assistant Paul Boudreau Production Manager HOWle Fow)er . . . . • . . . . Production Assistant Larry Groves Lab Technician 'Marion Hatmi Typographer MelYln Phelps Assistant Typographer Randy Dietzel Bookknper r aJI~1 11111 America's moto!cy~le Number 1 weekly newspaper. You'll always see it first in Cycle News. (Mrc) MOTOR~~~t'lf INDUSTRY ~iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii;;;;;C;O;U;N~C;ILii: ODE TO A TOAD This is a poem that Linda Lutz and 1 wrote. We've had various people read it and they told us that we should send it in. DENISE DAUPHINAIS THE SAGA OF CZ AND D.D. The Story of a Bike (and her love named Mike) When he first saw her brigh t silver body Then to me, he began acting snotty. He takes her to a race, He takes me no place. Her gas tank is full He fills mine with bull! He's in a panic, when she needs a mechanic Yet he broke my heart, to give her the part! She takes 1st in 4th gear, I take last, and it's clear. Barbara Bebeck Marilyn Kirk Squeeky Haynes Hector Aguilera Wendy Trinpte . . Bookkeeping Assistant Bookkeeping Assistant General5ecretary Computer Technician . Receptionist National Advertising Director ICycie News West, Cycle News East, Cycle News Dixie): Tom Culp. J Cycle News West, P.O. Box 4.98, Long' Beach, California 90801. (213) 427 ·7433; L.A. 636-8844: TELEX NO. 673-474 Subscription: 0 ne year, second class mail 2 years, second class mail $10 $17 .$21 3 years, second class mail Major Inside ReportS COLUMN: LATEST POOP ' 7 TEST: CZ400 MOTOCROSS 8 PICTORIAL: NATIONAL HILLCLIMB CHAMPS 10 FLAT TRACK: ASCOT AND TROJAN 12 SCRAMBLES: 395 ...............................•..........14 MOTOCROSS , 16 INTERNATIONAL: AU REVOIRE, AMXT ...............•...... .23 TECHNICAL: BULTACO TRICK STUFF 24 FEATURE: BONNEVILLE 26 ROAD RACING: VACAVILLE, FINLAND, ONTARIO 28 NA.IONAL: TALLADEGA 200 32 SPEEDWAY: CALIFORNIA CHAMPIONSHIPS 36 SECTION: NORTH 38 SECTION: CENTRAL .. : ..........•.........................44 RESULTS .46 EDITORIAL - OPiNION , .......•..............51 CALENDAR ............................•.............•....52 MX CAT MAKES OUT 58 NOT TOO BAD SQUID INVASION Wh 0 is Larry Langley, Safety Director of the URA? Did you read between the lines of "A Beginners Guide to' Enduros"? Was his article intending to educate beginners and novices or to increase the waiting lines at URA sign up? The only true way to learn is through experience, and that is to ride with experienced riders. AMA and District 37 do have provisions for beginners. Being a beginner myself I would rather compete with the likes of Bob Steffan than try to evade the antics of Sidney Squid. INVADER VICKIE District 37 Rider While you _ entitled to your own _roach to lami.. there Me those who prefer to stay _ay from District runs and out of the way of the -"ous riden. The AMA doesn't really have a belinner class. Rather, first ~ are lumped topther witlI the 8 riden. A true ('tnt tim... is better off and has a better chance of a respectable (and therefore, erocouracl..l finish if he is deallns with riden of his own . caliber. 80b Steffan ebYiously had thou"lts somewhat alo.. these lines since he tooll his son to a URA enduro for his first run...Ed. MORE FROM DIRTY DAN (& CLEAN MARY)· Copyright© Cycle News, Inc. 1972 letter on July 15 stating that we could expect the pictures in three to four weeks. Now that time has elapsed and _we have' written another letter asking this photographer to reply by return mail. We desire the pictures we ordered. MRS. BURTON ANDERSON Redlands, Calif. WHO'S A DRAG? After reading the recent articles by Alice Rhea, I'm wondering if my friends aren't right when they tell me that "she" is really Archie Bunker in drag. Are they righ t? DONALD ROGERS Sacramento, Calif. ENDO To all the motocross friends of my son, Mark Crawford, let it be known he did his number one endo while practicing on a dry lake bed - and is now lying in traction in a different bed in Ward 32A Naval Hospital, Camp Pendleton, California with a dislocated hip and fractured leg. Dad is left tending the shop. ARCHIE CRAWFORD Twentynine Palms, Calif. WOOPS!!! Well, now we are done, Your CZ has won! DAVlD FRIMDIG (Where else but) Pasadena, Calif. upon request. See S.R .0.5. .~~~iiiii~iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiSiiiiniiig;liiieiiiciiiOP;;y~Piiiriiiiciiieiii·iii·;·;·;·;.;.;.;.;.;.;.;.;.;$~.~3~5~"_iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiilliiiriiii~ghiiits~r~e~se~r~V~ed~iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiia 1 love you, Michael, But I lost you to your cycle. Your article on Jack Knebel was too funny to be true. Being a former student of that junior high school 1 can tell you a lot of nasty things, but I won't. Meanwhile yours truly has been criticized by him. He made fun of my Kawasaki. All in all, he isn't as bad as the officer who caugh t me riding on private property. Published weekly except the first and last ~eek of the calendar year by C"cle News, Inc., Post Office Box 498, Long !'leach California. Also publishers of Cycle News East, and Dixie Cycle News. Se!=ond Class Postage paid at Long B ch C I'f Ed' . ea , a I . Itonal stories. cartoons, photos. etc. are welcome. Addressed stamplld envelope assures return of ecf • Itonal matter. Reprinting in whole or in part only. by permission of the publishers. Advertising rates and circulation information will be sent VOIC.ES OF THE WEST 95% of the entry fees referred to in Pete Szilagyis' letter, the number of entries will increase, in proportion, to the general festive atmosphere, and lack of good sense and total disregard for personal safety, that usually accompanies these gatherings. DIRTY DAN Los Angeles, Calif. INVADERS CZ 1227x During the 250 Novice portion of the Gripsters European Scrambles August 27 you gave some spectators an idea of just what District 37 desert racing is about. Just before the rmish of the first loop you came upon an unconscious rider, not in your club, in the middle of the course.. You quickly stopped and placed your motorcycle between the injured rider and the one.,told ~¥~t wo~ b~ another month. When that time elapsed we wrote a letter and in answer received a The Disl. 37 Calendar race (Greyhounds M.C.) being staged by the Invaders M.C., Sept. 17, 1972, at Red Mountain has out posters plus the Cycle News ad stating that Rescue 3 will be in attendance. This was an error on the Invaders part. We will have the International Radio Resuce Crew working the race with us. They are well qualified and experienced group. There will be a first aid station at the Invader pits as with a Rescue 3 worked race. We will do all that is possible to give each rider a secure feeling during the race. DEL PRAGNELL Secretary The Invaders Motorcycle Club BOOK-RmEW Ace: The Dick Mann Story Motorcycl~ by Dick Mann with Joe Scalzo Reviewed by Maureen Lee Just bas a chance to read the preview copy of the Dick Mann Story before it comes out in print in November. It is one beck of a good book and I recommend it to any motorcyclist, racer or not. Joe Scalzo, who did a great job on the careers of Gary Nixon and Bart Markel was the co-author on this one, differing from the first two books. (n the Mann story you can tell they are Dick's own words describing what it is like to be a professional motorcycle racer and his efforts to become Grand National Champion. He pulls no punches in telling what it was and still is like to race without help or with just a little from a sympathetic dealer. What it's like to have a full sponsorship one year and then have a factory cur in to their racing program the following season making you a privateer all over again. What it's like to travel back and forth across the cou'ntry to ride all the Nationals. Back in the antediluvian days'of the '50's, riders didn't have the vans racers scoot around the coun~ in now. Usually it was a rather ancient car that usually blew up at the most inappropriate times, and you pulled a trailer which sometimes came off. Times have changed and racers have more of the comforts of home, yet wben you •read about traveling in those d;lys you ' f r " ; J - r "'---;·r:-; I ~ get the poignant feeling that something has gone (for the better) out of the life of the itinerant motorcycle racer. Mann himself puts the point across beautifully. He doesn't miss the old way of life but be wouldn't have missed the experience. Living in California and knowing so many of the people in the book made it even more enjoyable to read. A lot of writers think Mann a bit "taciturn at times. He isn't unless be wants to be and this book has captured the real Dick Mann. He has a great sense of bum...., can poke fun at buddies and at bim.elf with great style. The books is full of anecdotes about individual people so important in our sport that are a treasure to read and will give you a good laugh. Like the tale about Sammy Tanner's crash in what had to be the first camper on the road. Mann's bumor comes through in these tales, and it's not always what he says, it's wbat he doem't say, leaving you to your own imagination. The two chapters entitled Travels with Albert (Gunter) are worth the price of the book itself. Albert is a BSA man too and a fiercely' independen t as Dick is...even to the point of getting worked over, along with Bugs, by the local constables in Troy, New York. Then the pair arrives at Daytona and gets into trouble all over again. The descriptions of racing incidents, bandling characteristics of bikes and the (Please turn to page 51) .. " t f" - (.. .

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