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October 23,1973
EI Cajon M.C.
V5.
tile BLM- factol)' team
Courtroom qualifying series
for future desert riding
goes into round one in San Diego
By Luke Potter
"To say that twenty-five members
of a small motorcycle club in a
little town in southern California
will take- on -the might and power
\
of the United States government has got
to be a little bit ludicrous."
Kevin· Midlam, "spunky attorney who
bloodied the nose of the Bureau of
Land Management - the gevernment's
first string cyclops on the ORV counter
defensive - in a swift and not so
decisive court hearing in a San Diego
federal court, isn't giving out
complacent quotes in the wake of his
victory.
The overnight hero of off"roaders
foil owing- the case statewide has
effectively shown BLM that the 12
million acres of desert land here won't
be virtually closed off to motorcyclists
without a fight.
But he knows this is no time to
celebrate. Blowing a hole in the
government's injunction request to halt
one Oct. 21 race under the skirts of the
.defiant EI Cajon Motorcycle Club is no
reason for widespread optimism. The
jaws of Phase I of the California Desert
Plan and accompanying guidelines
which magnanimously deal out a few
snitches of desert to motorcyclists while
padlocking the rest, temporarily, for the
use of nature lovers and kindly campers
in Broncos with fouT, sand
