Cycle News is a weekly magazine that covers all aspects of motorcycling including Supercross, Motocross and MotoGP as well as new motorcycles
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I just wan t you guys to know th at you make the best magazine there is and you guys are the best photographers, writers, most skilled competiti on riders, and best technical wizards in th e whole world . You are sure best and I want yo u t o kn ow t hat I buy you r best magazine whenever it happens to co me out . Of co urse, it's a littl e hard to get copies dow n here so, of cou rse, I' m enclosing my check for a 12-year subscript ion so I can be sure not to miss a single, t h r illing, acti on-packed, informative copy of the best motorcycl e magazine in Antarct ica. PAU LI NE PENG UIN DRAKE'S PASSAGE , A NT AR CTI CA \\·e agree, Pauline, bu t are y o u sure a 12·year subscription will be eno ugh? in the midd Ie of the track . Do I have grounds to protest the race ? I. KELSO SM IT H XI SIGNAL HILL, CALI F . Xo way! Don't yo u ever talk about our girlfriend like that again. . . Ed. I just want to tell you what a toad my Excello Bullmotox special is. Here I spent hun dred s of dollars on th is motorcycle, and every damn t ime I ride it I have to clean the air -filter . Every two mon t hs it demands a new plug. I actuall y have to mimually adjust t he chain. I don 't know what BUllmoto x paid you and those 23, 000 people who wro te in saying how great this mach ine is, but we got a real toad ! Where' s our cut , anyway? . ROTT AN D SCAN DEL CARR SCOTTS DALE, A RI Z . The pub lisher need s a new Ferrari. The ashtray's full in his old one. . .Ed. It' s on the way. I am a bo y 14 years old who lives in Sko wb un k , Minnesot a a n d am int erest ed in ta king up moto cross racing just like t hem bigtime Internat iona l heroe s and what I want to know is how to get more power out of my Yamah a 125 Enduro . ' SY DN EY GREE NST R EET SKOW BUNK , MINN . Well, Syd, there are several app roaches to increasing the power of you r Yamah a E ndu ro f or se rious in ternatio nal m o t o c r o ss. The re' s the "Factory engineers have spen t many hours of research and know that motorcycle bet ter than you do , don' t mess with it !" app roach. There's the "Forget it, kid, and start saving yo ur money for a real motocross machine like a 609 Maico" appro ach. T h e r e' s the " Several af t e r-rn a rket parts concerns offer hop-up equi pment for you r Yamaha 125 . WEBCO, for instance, makes a high co mpression hea d. " approach. There's. . .zzzz. . .Ed. You guys sure ar e dumb and besides that don't know anyt hing. Your test of the ATMXR R-Bl was all wrong ! I've had my " Butt erfly" for th ree years and have never had to replace a sparkplug the whole t ime. It on ly uses one cha in per moto and so what if it speed wobbles at 35 on a road race course? A real man can adapt to that and besides that's what the true spirit of motorcycling is all about crashing! The ATMXRR -81 is the best motorcycle that was ever built in the whole wo rld , and I can blow off anybody on the whole block. FRED FAST SLURP , SO. D AKOTA Oh, yeah ? Well, your old lady wears Army bo ots . ..Ed. .~ o You bunch of Comm ies! If I wanted to read abo ut politics and all that crap, I'd buy " I. F . Stone's Weekly," or "Saturday Review," or " Playboy" or the " Co ngre ssi o n a l Record ." A motorcycle magazine is no place for polit ics and we don't have to worry about that stuff anyhow because we can ride our bikes anywhere we want to anytime we want to anyway we want to and . . .and . .. muff Ieggo. . .help, help , help call my lawyer . ..agh... .crack , crunch. Huh ? , .Ed. '"3 0 I was out racing my DKW the other day . I was leading the first Beginner ~ .. Under 16: Nevllr raced class, moto when suddenly th is naked lady runs out and throws Brussels Sprouts all over my new Turkey leathers. As I slid to a halt with bUlging eye 'o rbs. srie shou ted "Avast, ...... knave, knowestthee not that bean oil is ~ the way to infernal combustion?" O 'Z, '"3 ~_ .. 3 . ~OPPed When I moving" she sat on my helmet, kicked me in t he stom ach , and then meanwhile, my archrival, Joseph Decadent, won . I later learned that it was his mother who accosted me R OIl and Scandel!. . .Ed. I recently rode in t he Salty Banana Midnight Endu ro (345 Ex.) and must say that I had a swell t ime. The fo lks from PPDARADRPA d id a swell job excep t for th e course layout , time checks, and lack of tro phies or finisher pins. Anyway, t hat's not why I am writing. I am wr itin g to te ll you t his; while b litzing across the desert floor on my t rick GMC. I suffered a rapid t ire deflat ion. " No prob lem!" said I (to myself, of cou rse). I'll just stick th is can of t ire-foam -filler-upp er in here and I'll be off . Well, o n my wa y from one sid e of th e bike to the other I stu mbled over a rock , fell, and in t he process jammed the nozzle of t he foa m can up my nose. To make matters wo rse, all the foam went whizzing up my nost ril and into my nasal passages! As you can well imagine, I was quite upset over this exper ience. But I want you guys to know that the stu ff really wor ks. I haven't sneezed or breat hed in three weeks now ! How about that? If vou like, I'll be glad to send you a product evaluat ion at you r regu lar contributor rates . F.OU LUP CAM EL B L A D D ER , UT AH At present I am experiencing a problem of immense proport ions. I am an avid cyc list and de vour your publication at every opportun ity . (Yummy !) My girlfriend says that its just growing pains, and my mother tells me that I'll outgrow it. Somehow, I don't believe them . I have to know . What do you put in your paper that makes it taste so good? Honest to God , I can't get enough of it. .. page after page of tastebud erotica. I wait anx iously for your driver to re-fill my loca l vend ing stand, so I can gluttoningly grab a handful of your literary delicacy . What the h~1I is going on ? Am I a freak, a weirdo ; do I have a latent paper fetish ? What am I to do? I need help. PU LP WOODCOCK REDWOOD CITY,CALIF . You sure do. .. Ed. Apparent ly, you are never going to volunta rily comment on what I determ ine to be t he most topical and im p o rt a nt of rno tcr cvc le-related sub jects . I am a young man of what I would call a verage phys ical coord ination , yet I am totally inept when it comes to ridi ng motorcycles. I have been riding now for sixteen years and am st ill having trouble with each bike I purchase. No matter wh ich brand I try, it 's the same o ld sto ry ; get on and fall off . I mean fall off! Again and again. I won't go into th e " Curb Runn ing Into Defect" common to all the bikes I have owned. Simply put , I feel th at it is your editorial duty ' to aid in con sumer protect ion. Manufacturers should not be allowed to sell such imba lanced mach ines. And, as for the manufacturers comments that "It's my fault ." I must exclaim "I mpossible." KI D K RASH TAOS, NEW MEXICO Yeah !... Ed.