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Don Woods?
to get to them and organize them, get
them into the AMA?
WOODS: If I can, if they want to. I
don't think we should take over every
form of racing and completely dominate
it. 'Cause if we didn't have any
competition, why, we couldn't strive to
be better.
CN: Tell me something about your
riding. When did you start?
WOODS: I got a 125 Royal Enfield
when I was 15 years old. I've been
tw 0-$ tro ke 0 ri en ted every since,
although) never could get that one to
run right. ) paid $40 for it. ) dropped
away from motorcycles for about two
years when I got rid of the Royal
Enfield, until) was about 17 or 18 years
old. That's when) got a 650 BSA, about
a year old, and I started goin' on trips. )
rode all over the USA so I feel I'm well
experienced in road riding. ) ride back
and forth to work every chance ) get. I
own seven motorcycles right now, most
of them are dirt bikes, but I've got two
good street machines.
CN: What about your competition
background?
WOOD: Competition, uh, I've rode a
little bit of all of it. I was pretty active
in enduros in my area for ten years, I've
won my class a lot of times, though )
never high-pointed an enduro. ) did
some drag racing. We didn't have it very
well organized in the South at that time
but we did have the Southeaste"';
Championship Drag Race and I won
that. If that means anything. On a 250
Yamaha. It wasn't t1iatl didn't have any
competition, ) just had a fast Yamaha.
You know, that's what drag racing is all
about, speed. I like that. ) did race cars
for a bit, back when I was 23 or 24. I've
motocrossed some. I've scrambled
never fia.t tracl