Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

'. ..... <' ~---------• ... :~ 1 N .... '" ..... ti o I I I I I Chuck Bower won the 250 class on a 175 Penton. CMC Lions by Buzz Baty/Creative Images WILMINGTON, CAL., Oct. 6, 1972 It's sad, but you will only be able to see those Looney Lions' Fast Cats perform for less than two months. Nov. 24, Steve Evans informs me, will be the final night of CMC Motocross at the "beach". For that one, CMC officials Stu Peters and Kelvin Franks are offering a guaranteed $1200 purse for the Experts, broken down evenly for the three classes. The only stipulation is that you must pre·enter by Monday, Nov. 19 to race for the bucks. Besides that, everyone will be getting some sort of free goodie for participating in the final nigh t of Lions. But that's on the future' calendar and tonigh t the action continued. Charlie Bower (You've heard of him, haven't you?) did his thing again: two (COllt ·d. from page 51) this'~e ,overall wins on Pen tons. He had no trouble winning the first two 125 motos, but had to breathe Steve Gerber's exhaust in the final, while ,moving from fifth to finish second. Then, he put a 175 Penton between his legs and put it to Joe Johnston all three times of the 250 program. If Penton ever makes a competitive 500 class machine, perhaps Charlie can challenge the Tim Hart/Bill Payne "show"...but they don't and be isn't. Nor is anyone e~e. ' I t was a "show" ~s Mike's Racing Team ran away from everyone including eventual third placer, Robert EIJiott (CZ). These two Maico riders are getting so good at putting on a "show" that they should be made to join the Screen Actors' Guild. OK, OK. just don't throw tomatoes. the society to something they (the riders) would find unappealing. The Days was held in Kroknosse National predictable reaction to this would be an Park and that Czech environmen talists unconscious drive to .lose to Uprotect" are trying their best to see that it never our socie ty! happens again. Some things are the same Three riders that I know of have had the world over. either greater exposure to other societal Czechoslovakia is a country with values or greater education which both significan t problems and assets. should have the same effect. These were Repression, yes. In some ways, it is Larsson, Berggren, Cannady and ,almost an occupied country. But many Lathem. AIJ of them finished weIJ. of the things American polititians had Lathem, treated very shabbily by the been yammering about for years, (but AMA, had a positive reason to reject at not doing anything about) are realities least that aspect of American culture in Czechoslovakia. Full employmen t, and he succeeded in spite of very great equitable distribution of wealth, law odds. and order, gun, control, even a rapid Another interesting point: If the transit system. There are few cars, but riders believe that only a cadre of an e xceJlen t bus and trolley system. I super-trained military athletes can don't know that I would care to pay the compete successfully, how do their price they have paid for these things, minds react? Since the prospect of but it's extremely interesting to see that undergoing that kind of regimentation these goals can be realized. cannot be very appealing, ag.ain their Most of our American bunch seemed unconscious minds will 'supply the to notice only that much of the country answer: they must (will)lose.. seemed drab, that material goods were Rain is a psychological depressant. not on a par with American equivalen ts, Several of our riders have told me that and that there was much repression. riding in the rain doesn't bother tbem, John Penton was obviously very but over three-quarters of the riders depressed by Czechoslovakia. He spoke who dropped our, or had trouble which of the strain on the riders of having to caused tbem to place lower than they compete in such a repressive society. I'm sure that his (and others) depression /" should have, were affected on the first and last days of the trial. It was raining and unease were communicated to the very heavily both days and only on, riders, those days. The depressing effect of the What does it do to a rider's rain could easily combine with the psychological outlook ,!,hen he sees that depressing effect of the societal the best competitors in the world (the concep ts to provide an overwhelming Czechs and the East Germans) come psychological handicap, from a society that he views as vastly If these hypotheses have any validity inferior to his own? Even if his - and I would not state categorically conscious mind refuses to deal Wit/Lit, that they do without a lot more study his unconscious most surely will. by more qualified people than myself Incompatible sets of facts are always, then one way to give our teams a better resolved in some fashion. One set of chance in the fu tu re would be to give facts cannot easily he denied. The them a better understanding of the Czechs and 'East Germans. have been places in which they are to compete. winning for so long now that it would With better understanding, they 'be very hard to deny that they are the could resolve conflicts more easily, have best. The other set of facts, that the .less psychological tension and be able to cultures are vastly inferior, is also hard shut off that little transmitter in the \ to reject considering the massive back of their heads that keeps repeating indoctrination of the past 20 years. uy ou must lose!" One resolu tion could be that winning This, of course, is only one aspect Of was an indicatiion that OUf society was the psycholical battle in the Six Days': about to become like theirs, even that Next, we'll discuss some of the others. \ winning could bring about a change in I'd 'I " . t· I I I I I _ ~ It is interesting to note that the Six ~ther Before you read this ad, look on the side of .. and read our offer for the new and exciting 1972,:; MOTORCYCLE COMPETITION GUIDEBOOK FOR';' CALIFORNIA. Dig it? Good. Now all you have to do is fill in the handy coupon (on the other side), clip out this whole mess and fold it up so the mail panel shows. Then staple, tape or glue it all t?gether with, your mO,ney inside and 'drop it in your local mall box. That s all. 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