Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

bike, not in competition, on display in Alphabet's booth. The entry form stated tbat an entry mu.t have a display (posters, background, etc.) in order to win a class trophy. which mine had. but the other dido'L The Corvair bike not only won the class trophy, but aI.o a special award for best engineering. I can't swear that I was cheated, but I sure wonder. Dav Pauli Long Beach, Calif. INSIDE Poop Hot stuff from Papa 5 . 6 Indoor Thumpers are alive Road Racing 7 Pumpkins Enduroing 8. 10 Colton Speedway Read it again ... It has come to our attention that there are people trying to get the four-strokes .tarted in the hack row at the Grand Prix. We feel this would be unfair and dangerous for these 200 lb. traction aids. If anything, we feel all the real bikes would start ou t front. P.S. Would all Honda four-stroke desert riders please sign up as BSA'. so we aren't confused in the re.ults with the new Honda playbike.? Tax deductions for your junk I would like to expre.. my appreciation to you and the involved members of Cycle New. for the article which appeared in the poop column in the October 23rd is.ue concerning my motorcycle class at my high school. Many of my .tudents saw the article and were properly impre.sed with the cooperation given to u. by the media. A. to the result•.....weU. not bad, but I guess being an optimi.t I had hoped for more. We did manage to acquire three bikes, old and in various state of sad neglect, and a couple of engines, a<\d one set of forks. Inasmuch as something was far better tban nothing. I have to be enthusiastic. I bad really anticipated many calls (more) from guys with basket cases, and miscellaneous parts, who just needed the excuse to clean out the garage (and also pick up the tax deduction) that I wonder if another hypothesis is in order, i.e., give a cycle rider a bike part and he will hoard it forever, f"rrmly believing that he will someday need it, or will own the kind of hike that the part goes to!! DAVE PHELAN Jame. Monroe High School 9229 Haskell Avenue Sepulveda, Calif. 91343 Your useless bike bits can be milde into money... Ed. Speaking of MORE Jim Manning of MORE came to one of our club meetings recently and discussed the BLM'. ..desert plan, motorcycle legislation, MORE and a number of other things. AU. the cluhs in the district ought to have this guy come to a meeting. If you don't, you're missing out on some good information and an interesting meeting. Call him at (213)461-7373. BOB MITCHELL Sec'y. SGVMC This Year. Ride Your Turkey For some years DOW we've been holding Thanksgiving Rides. They used to be held in Baja, hu t now that Baja is overrun with campers, dune buggies. Yellow Busses, and overlaid with pavement~ we've switched to Central Sonora. You know. Yaqui Country. And as we're always running into riders who say, uGeez, bUl I'da made that run if I'da knowed about it," we'd appreciate it if you would mention it in Cycle News that anyone is welcome, that the run is unstructured and can be left at any time, that the country is so seldom travelled that we've only been over a small part of it ourselves. And perhaps most important, nohody but nohody makes a toston out of it, just cycli.ts riding along more or less together. The run will leave from the Hotel Los Angeles, Cananea, Sonora, Mexico, at High Noon on November 20. We suggest anyone seriously interested in the trip .end a SASE, si~e 10 or larger, for the final poop, including map informa~on, by November 10. We'd appreciate it if you would mention this ride in Cycle World because ju.t about everyone we know read. Cycle World... DAVID & DANNY MURRAY & DOUG RlCHMOND 583 Mira Vista Ave. Oakland, Calif. 94610 (415) 893-6647 Yeah, we know a lot of guys who read "Cycle World", too, but those monthlies aTe awfully behind the times, don't you think? Anyway. they'dnever be able to get it on the stands by Thanksgiving. We'll just mention it in Cycle News•.. Ed. The name of the game With reference to the letter in the October 30 i.sue from Gale Evans where he .tate. "My idea of color in reporting is maybe a picture and a mention of a long time Novice making his fir.t point ride after years of trying." Perhaps he would prefer the article in the October 23 is.ue on the Indian Dunes MX where it teU. about one Novice rider and nothing else about the other riders. You can't please them all, but credit i. earned. A lifetime Novice should have a lot 'of fun, but the credit goes to the rider with the mo.t determination and his willingness to give his all whether he was in a Novice, Amateur or Expert cla.s. The name of the game is to win, and the winner has earned the credit. , I have a hushand and a 12-year-old son and a powder puffer. They all ride . and we don't quit the paper ju.t because they don't print our pictures. I am all for seeing if the complainers can do better than what you are doing now, but I don't think they can. PEGGIE KLINE Northridge, Calif. Minding Minis I would appreciate it if you could tell me who I could contact to f"rnd out all I can about the "Mini-Mint". RON MOSLEY Covina, Calif. FAST PACK CHESTNUTT ALAN TIDELMANN RICK THIELMANN DAVE HARVEY Everyday guys, like DeSoto Opinion 1-0 16 From the back of the soapbox North .. .,.,.,.,.,., .,20 The fir.t guy won Gran Pree 23 Mixing it up Trans·AMA C(j SoCal Racing .12. 14. 19,22 .26 Il.I .D E Il.I > o 2 Weinert - He European? Test: CB·360 .....•...•28 It may not be fa.t, but it sure doesn't handle BlM Blues Dept. . ...•..30 The great land grab Technical •............32 The trickest thing since pit tootsies ...One more time Products Papa Wealey's column, like most columns of its type, are based on fact, rumon, and a lot of hot air. The .tatements about the Dirt Diggers in Papa's column of October 30 was a good example of hot air. Seem. that Papa think. he knows more about running our Grand Prix than we do. Papa's statement "the last time the famed event will be run at Hopetown" is new. to us. The last Dirt Digger. Grand Prix at Hopetown? Don't bet on it. 35 Putting them on JIM PETERSON Dirt Diggers M.C. Last things first. The Dirt Diggers' own advertising claimed it was our "last chance to ride Hopetown. " We hope the DDMC will have a calendar date every year for a D-37 GP but you're telling us this is the last time at Hopetown and we believed yOlL In the "Poop" item referred to. Pafla didn't say anything about starting four-strokes in the back row or tell the DDMC how to run a race. There was a mild suggestion to the effect that staTting flosinons on the grid be assigned in order of receiflt of entry, just like the rules say it's SUfJIJosed to be done. Go back and read it again, carefully... Ed. Overt Intelligence Operations We shall be glad to put you on our mailing li.t for the Southern Sierran, which i. published on a monthly basis. You will start with the November issue which is about to be published. I think Cycle News would be useful to us. and we appreciate very much your effort to communicate with us. MARY FERGUSON Administrator Sierra Club-Angele. Chapter Los Angeles, Calif. Write to the Mint Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada to determine dates, eligibility and whether they and the Jackrabbits M. C. will be involved this year. The Mini-Mint was run last year the day before the Mint 400... Ed. You havedto get to the negotiating table before y u can hammer out the fJeace treaty... Ed. Custom Collusion I'm sure that all mosickle racers have, at one time or another, wondered uWhat's it all for, anyhew?" Here's something to ease their minds. Jean Paul Sartre, 'paraphrasing Pascal, wrote, "In an activity which would be absurd if reduced to it.elf, there was a meaning wnich transcended it; that is, an indication which referred to the reality of man in general and to his conditi9n." A few words of advice to potential en tTants of "Canning Production" motorcycle shows. Don't rely on the merits of your bike alone to win a class trophy! I entered my rotary engine-powered BMW (Cycle News Vol. X - No. 32) in the recent Long Beach .how. It was one of only two entries in its class - two wheeler, non-bike engine-powered. Judging was done by Joe Alphabet's Custom ,Cycles. The other entry, a Corvair-engined custom was ll)echanically virtually identical to a 11 Gardenas Sharon Clayton; Publisher Tom Culp; Gl"l1c.'ral :\Jan:lj,tcr Edna Mewton; St'nClary 10 Puhlishc.·r Catherine Lampton; Art l>ireclor Tod Rafferty; ~Jana~in~ Editor Art FJ'iedman; EiJilor John O. Ulrich; :\ssOt'iatc Editor John Huetter; h';ltun: E.dilor Wendy Blanton; AdvcrtisinK l\ssiSlanl Rheba Smith; Circuhllion ~Ianal(er Pam Hobbs; Circulalion AssiSllml Cheryl Steinberg; Cin'ul;llilln As-:islanl Nancy Gray; '·rno\u·lion Assistant Hector Aguilera; Lah Tc.·dmid"ln Marion Hatashita; Typo... rapher r Melvin Phelps; :\ssi:aan I Typo~raht'r Gaye zaionz; A(TOUnling ~lanaKt"r Twila Wheeler; An:ounlinK Assistant Chris Koibet; :\('('ounlin~ Assislanl Rosemary a.andler; :\c.Tounlin~ Assistant Jim Squires; Collet·tion i\lanaKcr Chris Hom; Servit"es & Sup!->orl Michael CoIikas; Scrvic.·es & Support Oft Pauli; Seni('cs & Support Bill Runyan; Servircs &: Support Jeannie Dunivan; RC'l"(~plionist Nitional A:dwenising Director; Tom Culp West: P.O. Box 498, Long Beach. CA 90801. (213) 427·7433: LA 636-8844. Tel

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