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THE BARSTOW TO 'VEGAS WINNER IS AVAILABLE FROM THESE DEALERS Arizona BISBEE Bisbee Cycle Center Lowell Piau FLAGSTAFF Flagstaff Cycles & Acces. 106 West Santa Fe LAKE HAVASU Havuu Honda 1665 Mesquite PHOENIX Arizona Sports Cycle 2102 W. Peoria County Cycle Sales & Service 17238 North Cavecreek Road Salems Motorcycle Inc. 3839 N. 7th Str.eel SIERRA VISTA The Bike Shop 100 Fry Blvd. Box 714 LAGUNA NIGUEL MissioR Honda 26082 Getty Drive LA HABRA B& V Motorcycles 159 Eut Imperial LANCA5TEJit Lancaster Bultaee Inc. More LeUers BENEFICIAL TO ALLI am catching up on my. . correspondence and reading and 1 've just had an opportunity to study your story in Cycle News of November 11 on George McGovern. I would personally like to compliment you for being persistent enough to obtain these results. The stand that you took in your article where you stated that the motorcyclist should use the political clout emphasizes 100% the message we were trying to get across. No matter what the voter's choice, at least the motorcyclist had to emphasize that right in order to be respected. Those of your staff who achieved the statement from Senator McGovern certainly deserve the highest compliment. Please express to them my sincere thanks for this achievement on their part. We were never able to obtain from the McGovern forces a public statement recognizing the motorcycliSt and his rights to land usage. I feel that your office worked diligently to obtain a statement that will certainly be beneficial to all of us. RUSSELL E. MARCH E xecu live Director American Motorcycle Assn. PARAMOUNT Norm Rellyes Inc. 15745 Lakewood Blvd. It took diligent persistence and a measure of luck, thanks to Ron Schneiders, Mr. & Mrs. John Clausen, Jess Unruh, and, of course, Senator McGovern, it made the deadline.... Ed. Precision Cycle 4573 W. ArtesIa PASADENA Mason Motors 3360 E. 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Hill Street WESTMINSTER ~2enm~~~:i~~o.7~!~~e GLENDORA George Dye Motors 723 East ORANGE The Bike Shop 4418 E.Chapman Ave. HESPERIA Cron Country Cycles 9065 Outer Hwy. 15 OXNARD Omo & Sons 1421 S.Oxnard Blvd. Nevada IMPERIAL BEACH Beach Cycle Center 730 Hi9hway 75 PACOIMA Casey's Cycle Repair 10249 San Fernando BOULDER CITY Candyland Cycle 55 I Nevada Hwy. INGLEWOOD Crowells Cycle Shop 10427 Prairie PALMDALE Ray Bevans Motorcycle Shop 36153 N. Sierra Hwy. LAS VEGAS Vegas Cycle Center 1500 South Western he sign of the winner! YUCCA VALLEY Hi·Ce-Ho Sports Center 5493429 Palms Hwy. . [ wish to publicly acclaim the anonymous "fireman from San Bernardino" who rescued me from a freezing night in the desert during the Barstow to Vegas Run_ Also much thanks to "Foothill Hawkers" Nick and John Porno and Joe Wesselman for braving the cold and coming in after me. Shivering no more t NORBERT MONOHAN , 327T 0-37 Desert MO R E ON AN ENDURO CHAMPIONSHIP AND WHY IT'S HARD Ron Schneiders' recent Gambit column on National Enduro Champion selection started my though t processes and ['d like to make a rew commen ts. Many thought provoking ideas were brought out that merit consideration by the AMA. The locations of the National Enduros really do, as Ron says, preven t the serious California enduro riders from competing successfully. I 0 ften wonder what kind of people have been given the responsibility of decision making when they are made without any common sense. Ron also brough t out that there has been a recent upsurge in the number and quality of Western enduros, and on this point I would like to offer evidence td the contrary. The District 36 Calendar lists only nine enduros in the Northern and Central California area for the entire year of 1972. [ am personally aware of some eight other enduros that were never listed even though they were AMA sanctioned. Some of them were never listed in the CN calendar either. With that sort of publicity effort on the part of the organizaing clubs one migh t suspect that enduro interest is on the decline. [ rode the Spring Fever Enduro last June and in spite of two inquiries since then I'm still waiting for the list of finishers. The frequency of enduro bottlenecks, poor course markings, and checkpoints with inaccurate timekeeping makes me really wonder if we're capable of setting up an enduro worthy of National status. Regarding the quantity of enduros, in the months of June through September, no District 36 enduros. October hit a high with two, and November, with two listed, came up one short when the Slo-Pokes decided not to have their run this year. One November enduro not shown on the Calendar was cancelled four days before it was to take place because of inclement weather. I always thought that was one thing that made enduros a challenge. Another club decided to run a H&H instead of an enduro this year. Now [ fmd that the District 36 Calendar is barren of enduros for the months of December 1972 through February 1973. Quantity, eh? We need local change as well as national change. A good part of the problem could very well be due to our friends in State and National government harassing and Continued from p. 4 limiting clubs to an extremely small number of enduros. The form of competitive riding 1 like most is being cut off, and my green off-road stickie hasn't bough t me a place to cow trail. Most of the areas I used to ride are now posted no trespassing, and those that aren't yet posted make feel like getting in there and riding like made before they're closed too. Thus, the Parks and Recreation Departmen t and the BLM aren's just restricting my competitive riding, but one of them is sitting on my off-road fee and the other is using its recen t1y discovered land manage men t power with all the grace of a gorilla. Those bozos might consider spending the portion of off-road fees allotted to land acquisition with the same abandon th at they spend the portion to administer the "program". I'm not one to rebel, but as a paying member of the users of the public domain [ expect the same concern as aU those non-paying backpackers, horsemen, and birdwatchers. GARY GRANATH Oakland, Calif. LETTERS FROM IOWA Got a surprise for you; this is written on paper rather than dried-up cornhusks. (Partly because it's been a wet harvest season and over alf the com crop is still in the fields - bad scene, that). Honest, there are motorcycles up here - lots of. them. What with me being an expatriate Florida sand-slinger, these guys around here can ride circles around me in the Iowa mud. Our black soil i.s world-reknowned when it comes to its . com-growing abilities; but when it tu.ms to mud in the fall and spring, it has to be experienced to be believed _. how anything could be so sticky and so slippery all at once. We just wrapped up the District 22 AMA meeting in Des Moines Nov. 19 at the Holiday Inn South. The schedule's a good one; 102 events packed into a season that runs February to November. [n all, there's 54 motocross, 15 amateur hillclimbs, . 6 Class "C" hillclirnbs, 10 Hare Scrambles, 9 enduros, 5 Trials, a short track and an ice race. My home club, the Burlington Valley Dusters (B.V.D.'s for short) kicks off our season with the traditional 2-Hour Marathon Hare Scrambles the first week in February. Basically, it's sort of an ice race - no chains, no studs, 2 hours on a 2 mile circuit through fields, deep woods, ravines, half-frozen creeks, the whole bag. The ground, when not snow covered, is frozen solid. It often gets down to 20 below around that time of year. You fall down about 3 times a lap; and you work so hard picking the bike back up you don't notice the cold until it's over and you find you're catching trip Ie pne umonia. Being full of anti-freeze helps. It's a gas. [ ran it last year on my Sherpa T and it almost killed me. Hardy stock, these Iowans. With a little urging from Westerville, District 22 took the first steps towar>! building a grassroots district <>rganization. After the regular sanctioning meet broke up, representatives from 7 clubs met to lay the groundwork for a district-wide organizing meeting. Tentatively, that's scheduled for Jan. 14 in Des Moines. On the legislatjve scene, the helmet law is still a very open question in Iowa, with the governor and Safety Commissioner Mike Sellers gearing up to try to stuff it down our throats again. There's a public meeting scheduled for Dec. 7 in Des Moines which Mr. Sellers has promised to attend. Hopefully, it's the beginning of a two-way dialogue between Iowa motorcyclists and their state government. At this point, a lot depends on the attitude of Mr. Sellers. We'll know when we get there. I'm sending something else along as well, It's the addresses of all the AMA clubs who attended the 1972 district meeting, and who will be sanctioning 1973 events. If you'd run the list in, say CYCLE EWS West and Central, it would help alot of guys maybe fmd a club to work and ride with. As 1 get deeper into this district organization thing, [ should be able 10 come up with meeting nights and news of each club's outstanding activities. LANE CAMPBELL Look for the list of Iowa upcoming issue... 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