Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

Cycle Ne""sContlngeny Funds Channeled toLand Use Cam paign SPORTRIDER LONG BEACH, CAL., Nov. 23, 1972 -Instead of sweetening AMA professional race purses as in the past, Cycle News will spend its 1973 $8,000 contingency budget to tell the motorcyclists' side of the land use controversy to the general public. Making the announcement, Publisher Charles Clayton said, "When the Cycle ews contingency plan was started two years ago, there were only three or four companies paying contingencies in AMA racing. Now there are dozens. Meanwhile the problem of obtaining public land for off road motorcycle recreation has grown to crisis proportions in some parts of America. With the nation's interest in protecting the environment. it i; urgent that motorcycle riding present itself to the public as a solution, rather than a problem in the preservation of nature. The only way we can do that is by buying advertising in the mass media to present our side. And we don't see anybody else doing it. So, now that the race'rs are pretty well taken care of," Clayton concluded, "Cycle News is diverting its contingency monies, for the time being, into public relations for the dirt rider." Billboards, newspaper ads and radio time will be contracted to show off·road motorcycling as it really is, Clayton added. "We doa't have very much money, but we know how to get the biggest bang for our bucks. The opponents of motor re reatlOn kno", how to get the free publicity, buL 'when you are telling the unsensational truth, you have to pay for it." C de News will c!,ntinue to offer the $750 wardrobe contingency to the AMA Grand National Champio!" which was awarded for the first tim.e this year. N presents ~ z '" ~ z uJ ~ () > () GUARANTEED UNBREAKABLE LEVERS THE ONLY POLYCARBONATE PLASTIC LEVERS AVAILABLE THAT WILL FIT THE ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT HOLDERS OF YOUR MOTORCYCLE! FOR THE FOLLOWING MOTORCYLES- More Talk from p.e MODE.L HONDA HALLELUJAH MilY we use you "Letters to the Edilor" column to contact sporstminded amputees? We're writing a manual about sports and recreation for amputees. We'd like to hear from amputees about what they do and how they do it. A I though professionals are also contributing their skills and knowledge, ampu tees sometimes find very good solutions Lo their own problems and have a lot to offer each other. Your readers can help by asking amputee sportsmen (and women) to write to: Lyla M. Spelbring, OTR M5053 - SPH II School of Public Health University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104 Thank you. LYLA M. SPELBRING, OTR Ann Arbor, Mich. To answer Ron Schneiders "how in God's name - ". Depend's on what the name of your God, is Ronl The Bible says there are many gods - only one true one. Satan is the God of the lie and all cheaters bow to him. The Bible states that the one true god is Jah, Jehovah or Yahweh. He is the God of truth and light. Make him your God, too, and may you never be mo tivated to lie again! GEORGE LEWIS Beverly, Mass. Really?... Ed. A greaL big thanks to all who helped me and my family at the CERA Golden Bear Enduro. I did a number in which 1 kissed a few rocks, (Just love that desert.) Thanks to CERA for seeing that r got in and to Bobby West and Dad at Check No. 1 for first aid and getting my bike hr. A special thanks to Dick Hughes for staying with me and helping the family load up. Came out, luckily, with only a broken cheekbone, nose and several stitches plus the reaffirmed belief that bikers are the greatest people in the world. JIM "CRASH" COLEMAN P.S. Don't eat rocks. They make your face break out. WHY? I read with disgust the article on Page 5 of your November 11 edition about the big road race at Riverside where it said that .. the first row was aU open machines with the exception of Pat Evans' 350 which his father demanded be put in the front row." r would like to know why Pat wasn't put back with aU the other 350's where he belonged and why the referees allow themselves to always be bullied around by Dave Evans? As a Cycle road racing fan it was embarrassing, surrounded by all the car people in the stands, to hear nasty remarks passed around abouL this incident. Most of the remarks were about how the cyclists can't even get along amongst themselves. HURLEY ROCHE Culver City, Calif. The reason that Evans was allowed to remain in the front row was that the the officials chose to allow him to remain there rather than create a ruckus. There was also a small turnout because of the high entr.y fee and the officials didn't want to cut the size of the field ... Ed. HELP. HELP To any Desert club in Southern California that is going to run the Barstow·to·Vegas. Have you got room for another gas can? I'm coming down from Oregon with no pit crew. If you can help. write: T.J. ELLISON P. . Box 38 Oakridge, Ore. 97463 I am writing this to clarify a few facts on your report of the Baja 1000. Terry Clark came into EI Arco leading the 125 class, handed the bike over to Mitch Mayes who proceeded to continued on to La Paz. After a series of mechanical difficulties and having Lo be towed the last 15 miles behind a truck, Mitch did reach La Paz, BOTH LEGS lNTA CT. He didn't crash as the article states but the mechanical problems cost six hours delay. MITCH MAYES 2T Desert Expert Palmd,ale, Calif. Are you really sure about that? ... Ed. STEREO· Yes, friends, Krol has done it again! The Master of Irrationality has set a new standard. In the November 11 issue of CN, I resented Kro!'s consistent stereotyping of Sierra Club members. In the November 14 issue Krol says he does not consistently stereorype Sierra club .members because he doesn't mention them that often. Apparently Krol needs a definition. of "consistently". The Britannica World Language Edition of Funk & Wagnall's Standard Dictionary says consisten t is "Characterized by consistency; agreeing with itself; not selI con tradictory; compatible ..' In essence, if Krol bolds the same thing to be true twice, he is consistent. He thinks Sierra Club members throw fits on command. Sierra Clubbers are conservationists. Conservationjsts, in 'Krol's words, are uBambi lovers", a term mean t to b,e derogatory. Krol is consistent; he is a stereotyper; he is wrong. TOW for Krol's defense of his rationality. Implying that he is a rabid dog is not stereotyping. If I said that all journalists arc rabid dogs, that Krol is a journalist, and thus he is a rabid dog, that would be tereotyping. I did not say this. I said "call off the rabid dogs and return to the journalistic search for truth and rationality." It is obvious that Krol needs a dictionary for Christmas. He simply does not know what I mean because he does not understand the words I use. If he did, he would not put meanings in my words that are not there. He also would be a lot more rational. Evidently, Krol felt the incidental attack on his consisten t stereotyping of conservationists to be more important than the main point of my letter: that McGovern was the thinking man's choice. Anyone who places their bike above their body when facts do not warrant such an action is irrational, indeed. JOHN D. ULRICH La Mirada, CaliI. Y·13 All F2 thru FII models, G4TR, G3SS/TR, C2SS/TR, G5, MTl, .S2 *HIS, *H2 *Clutch side only MODEL YAMAHA Y·ll MODEL All Models - 100cc thu 650cc HODAKA All Models ~~~~~ SUZUKI Y-ll All Models - TSI25 thru T500 TO ORDER - Send $2.95 cash, check or money order to SPORTRIDER, P. O. 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