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Cycle News 1972 12 19

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-"'r .., cr: Ii' Go .... '" Cl> ~ Cl> ~ ~ c 3: '" w z W .J U >- U Remember the Eurohackers "A" TEAM Hopetown. In company with Teddy Rikus Lubbers (Driver)-Hollancl Stromberg, Lorenz believes the way to Bart N otten (Passenger)-Holland start the day is with a good slug of Rikus was European F.I.M. straigh t Russian Voqka, although any Motocross champion in 1971 and only vodka will do, if it is free. lost the title by one point in the last "0" TEAM event of 1972. Their very last machine Teddy Stromberg (Driver)-Sweden is a Wasp frame built in England and Hans Georg Peppinghaus (Passenger)powered by a Norton Commando Germany engine.. uB" TEAM 27 ·year old ex-truck driver, Teddy Ton Van Heul\ten (Driver)-Holland Stromberg, is better known in Europe as J an Jansen (Passenger)-Holland Teddy Tedesco or Swedish Teddy. This is Ton's second year as a sidecar Despite his gentle looks, T.T. is driver after riding solo Motocross for 9 renowned as a fearless and hard rider years. Ton was Dutch 250cc and 500cc who gives his competitors no quarter, National champion during this period. and this forceful riding has won for him In 1972, Ton and Jan finished third in the Swedish National Championship the F.I.M. Championships also riding a . several years cut of his nine years of Wasp framed machine with a Norton ridin!!:. Commando engine. If this year's exhibition tour of "C" TEAM Western America is successful he intends Lorenz Haller =(Driver)-Switzerland . to bring the top European teams back Samuel Haller (Passenger)-Switzerland to the U.S.A. in 1973 for a longer and These two very popular brothers more extensive tour. from Switzerland have raced sidecars for This trip to the U.S.A: has been made a number of years, winning the Swiss possible by assistance from Heuga National Motocross and Grass Track Carpets, Norton Villiers Ltd., Cycle Championships on several occasions. World Magazine, Bell Helmets, Castrol, Unlike most competitors,'who favor the Dirtdiggers Motorcycle Club, R.A.C.E. Norton engine, Lorenz uses a Honda Inc. of San Francisco, Puvallup Four in a Wasp frame. His greatest Raceway Park, Inc. and, finally Wasp success this year came with a second Motorcycle Engineering of Great place in the 1972 British Grand Prix. Britain. (That's Rhind-Tutt, Lorenz celebrated his trip to the Wasp·1 overs.) U.S.A. by' leading over the line at sc!ram6Dn' aroun• by Maureen Lee I've said nJlSty things in the past about the Los Angeles Times, but to give creidt where it's due, they gave the Saddleback TransAMA good coverage. I dam near fell off the sofa when [ picked up the Sunday issue and on the fran t page of the sports section was a dam good piece written by Shav Glick. He's the chap who incurred the wrath of all of us on the Elsinore Grand Prix coverage but we finally seem to have a reporter who is fmding out what bike riding is all about. And any time you can make the front page of the vener.able Times' you've really accomplished some thing. SpeakiJ:lg of coverage by the media, a buddy of mine rode the Barstow-ta-Vegas and then called up his local paper to find out why there wasn't at least a small story on it, considering the enormity of the event. The reporter he talked to about fainted away as Mike described it and said that had they' known about it, they would have sent someone to co\'er it. So you see, we can't always blame the media. We know what's going on in our field, bu-t they don't unless we tell 'em. I suggest that every club who .throws a big one, contact the papers. We might get a surprise. But if you do inform them and .nothing comes of it, ATTENTIO DEALER IF YOU'RE NOT SELLING CYCLE NEWS * First with Profit You make 1 ~ on every copy sold. Plus you have full return privileges. The profit maker that cost you nothing. Minimum order is ten copies and we pay shipping (via 2nd Class mail). . Your customers will come back for every issue of CYCLE NEWS. Each and every issue is filled with News of happenings in the two-wheeled sport. Motorcycles from l'(1ini to .monster, coverage of competition events, all the AMA National Championships, local sportsmen events, local fun runs, tests of fact, new products, legislation, want ads, and a voice for readers. This is CYCLE NEWS. ------------------------------------o o o ,I I I Okay, what can I lose. Start my store seiling CYCLE NEWS with the next issue. I understand you wlll bi II l1li month Iy and I have full retll'n privileges on unsold papers,by retlllning the price tag With my check for the balance. -I Cycle News East Cycle News Dixie Cycll! News West (Check one, two, or all three) I wi sh to receive copies of: 10 15 20 25 30 35 OClOODOO'O Send CYCLE NEWS to: Name of store _ Address City National and Regional Authorized by Coverage .(213) 427-7433 or 636-8844 I 0 50 ---:"~-_:__ State Zip _ _ I I I I I I I Mail t~~~ NEWS,W,Ef1! Box.::. ;:.n.i:aCh, Ca. 9080~_.1 . ; then call the sports editor and bitch. If his mind is still on golf scores then go over his head to the managing editor. You'd be surprised what action you can get if enough people do it. At the last minute, we couldn't make the Saddleback Trans-Am so' tuned in on the radio. For the first time since we've had radio coverage on the big races we were disappoin ted. Carlsbad was great and so was Ontario and Talladega but Saddleback missed the mark. Most of the commentary was fill-in stuff, not what was going on on the track and we were sitting there muttering "What's the proto Honda doing?" "Where's Lackey? What's Brad doing?" but we didn't get it, although in the background you could hear the announcer at the track giving a great commentarY. Ah well, it's allover now. It will be in terseting to see what will happen with the BLM now that a club defied them and threw a run without getting the permits. The EI Cajon M.C. in District 38 did just that and CBS Chane! Two gave full coverage of this defiance on both the early and late news. I don't know who the chap is, but the spokesman for EI Cajon was a man any bike rider can be proud of. He was articulate, kept his voice at a proper level and really scored points for our side. The one who was the maddest was Russ Penney. He'd come down from Sacramento when he found out about the race, tried to Ret a court injunction and thejudl(e said "No". Three cheers for that judge! I'd almost given up hope on judges with the Carr case, but back to bikes. Penney was talking about filing a civil suit the following morning which could make it a sticky wicket for the club involved, but'[ know good and well that those of us in District 37 will be standing behind them and giving them whatever support we can. Mr. Penney seemed most concerned that the rou te Of .the run went across an old Indian burial ground. No doubt there are some young Indians buried there, too, but if my studies in archeol'ogy don't fail me, I believe the ancient California Indian buried his dead rather deeply. Coyotes and all that. No, I wouldn't want to ride across a sacred place if I knew it was there. We all have our sacred places, but in this instance. I feel Mr. Penney was really trying to extract sympathy from the general public about what a bunch of rats we were for riding across it. Naturally, it's all right for the BLM or the Department of the Interior or whoever it is to allow strip mining at Black Mesa, one of the most sacred places of the Navajo people. The Mesa is literally being destroyed. But you see, strip mining is O.K. There is lots of money in that. Well, I'm tired of standing on the soap box and besides the suit of armor is a bit heavy (Thought I'd given up those expressions, didn't you? Other_ writers started to use them so I did give up for a while). Because bike riding is still fun, even with all the hassles l we popped into one of our favorite bike shops, Long Beach Yamaha and sort of talked them out of a 350 Yammie for :lj short while. Holy mackerel! I knew the reputation of the beast but wasnlt quite prepared. Gene rode it first and came back grinning from ear to ear and mumbling things like "My God. It's ferocious.. No wonder Carruthers does so good ...best bike anyone could buy ...etc." Then old mum got on the back. Yeah, I'm chicken but I could just envision me totaling out· one brand new bike, and off we went. We did a bit of ear 'oling and then split before the local constable showed up. If we had the bread, right now there'd be one in the garage. From the pillion position you could tell you weren't on a big road bike; a much lighter feel to it but much easier to throw into a tum. When you get into that sixth gear it's as smooth as anything rve been on. No vibrntion. 'There's not much in any other gear, either, but I could just see myself forgetting which gear I'm in with six to use. It's rides like that that keep the fun in bike riding. Like tbe Laugh-In Trials at Saddleback. Being a scorer, it was openly made known that we could possibly be bribed. I'll go on I"'cord righ t now by saying that the AMA Nati~~~ ·~_o.t~cr~!s. ,R.efecee, .J~2.";

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