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If you missed the Cal Rayborn Memorial Half Mile and still want to make a donation in his remembrance, send it care of Jacky Rayborn. Box 714 , Dana Point, CA 92629. Asco t monies now total 57 .447 for the April series. ND is putting up 52.095 in cash and 54.050 in pr oducts. Bat es is supply ing $1,200 cash and Cattleman's rest aurant on the Redondo p ier is fron ting for $1 02. in steak dinners. By the way the 53.50 en tran ce can become 52.5 0 if y ou use th e Ascot co upo n. - Tired of wa tching netwo rk sports coverage and never seeing your favo rite h ot shoes in ac t ion? Papa has a solution that is genu in e. Roone Arle dge, sports d irector at ABC. goes through all the / mail received by ABC regard ing the previou s month's programming. He read 150 le tt ers in favor of the National Drag Races, and re-scheduled it for the up com ing year. T his is what you've been waiting for. mail th o se letters dem an d ing mor e mo torcy cle coverage to: Ro o n e A rle dge, A merica n Bro ad casting Co .• 13 30 Aven ue of the Americas. New York. New York 1001 9 . Rem ember television and radio stations operate as pu bl ic trustees and therefore have an inherent du ty to th e public regarding what they put on th e air. The April 7 FIM Imola event has been changed from a Formula 750 competition to an open race. Th is change comes in direct result of the FIM's Technical Commission and Bureau Central's meetings concerning the homologation rule and the Yamaha YZR 700. The Imola race therefore will not count in FIM formula 750 standings. Yam ah a in ligh t of th e curren t furor has decided to prod uce 200 st ree t b ikes wit h modified versions o f th e YZR 700 engine. The bi kes will no t be sold in th e U.S. Long Beach Safety Council has been awarded a $10,000 contract to provide training in the safe operation of motorcycles for DMV examiners by the State Office of Traffic Safety. The contract was the direct result of analysis of accident figures and the resultant conclusion that a tighter rein must be placed on the beginning rider. Husqvarna sends its congratulations to Rex Reese and all the people pa rticipating in the High School Motocross, March 31, at Osteen's Cycle Park. Rolf Tibblin comments that 'We were treated Iike royalty.. .it was a pleasure to be allowed to race as guests. .... Peta l u ma ( h o me o f t he world a r m -w re st ling co ntest) Sp eedw ay 's ope ni ng has been postponed du e to heavy rain s, wea th er permitting they will ope n April 2 0. If y ou ride a Sac hs e ngined 125, do not go with the ne w e xp osed co un tersh aft rage. T he coun tersh aft on the Sachs engines ha s a passagew ay right into the transm ission. Dirt doesn "t get alo ng wi th gears and bearings. The Inter-Am qualifier to be held at Spillway Park is on April -21 not as previously noted by our errant Camelander editor. There's a high school MX a t Carlsbad Intern a tional Rewy . ~Iay 27 to (get this) raise m oney to send the Carlsbad High School ba nd an d drill team to a music festival in Hawaii ! Yo u can get info fro m Bob Kendrick , 714/724-8091 or 714/729-6482. The guys doing the Escondido HS MX deal better get a Calendar item in to us, because we don't know where the track is. John Monahan, of sidecar fame, repo rts that his co mpetitor Rick Bell made a boo -boo wh en he told us Monahan had a lo t o f hel p fro m n ice spo nso rs. Monahan is paying for his European GP trip ou t of his own po ck e t. Cycle News West's 1973 Confirmed Bachelor of the Year, M.O.R .E. Southern California Director and Land Use Specialist, CORVA Land Use Consultant, 0-37 hotshot and desert racer is actually going to get married (about May 25) to a bike-loving beautiful lady (that's the only kind to have.! Rumor says the ceremony will incl ud e a church decorated in cactus and puckerbushes, an honor guard on desert bikes, a greasewood bouquet, and the groom dressed in polished leathers with patent-leather lace-up boots. Look for coverage in Cycle News. Th e open er for Irwi ndale's Spring Vall e y High Sc hoo l Moto cross Cham pion ship series will be delaye d at least a week , more likel y two wee ks, Originally sche duled fo r Friday night , . April 6, the first round, Azusa High vs, Duart e, is pu t back on the sche dule to April 19 or possibly April 26. Technica l problems with the lightin g, co mbi ne d with the threa t of over-crowding th e sche dule, force d th e stre tchout. The A.M.A:s on again-off again Trials Championship series is back on again. There will be a nine round schedule of Experts-only events. First in the series will be in Southern California, hosted by A.T.A. More later. 4 Agosti ni may be a he ro at Day tona after winn in g the "200" b ut he was so undly boo ed and hissed by the hom e crowd in his Ital ian debut at Mo de na on the cantilever suspen sion 5 00 Yamaha GI' bike. Fro m the desk of D. RANDY RIGGS 0 Feature Editor CYCLE WORLD J ohnl Here 's th e photo I promis ed. Da ve Gooley captured t h e a cti on a t the Annual CYCLE WORLD/ ROAD & TRACK Kit e Flying Cont est ••• that ' s your s truly a nd Kat hy M artin up s taging t h e kit p. act i on. Our ne xt a s s au l t wi l l b e at Ba l boa Island .•• of cours e, we- de pend on the s afety of our Bell Star helm ets i n s pe ed ev ent s of t his sort always. Use th e photo a t will . Old time hotshoes J im Hunter, Jim - . Sparter, and Bob Bell were seen down in Baja riding on the Baja 500 course recently. Seems they and Ak Miller, an off-road truck driver, decided to have a I ittle match. The bikers took a direct-line short cut, but when they reached their destination, Miller had beaten them the long way around. That's life. Think of all the gas ya saved, guys,. . . Pesky Porsche 91 2's can be b lown off by Hond a CB 200·s. Papa pro ved it, five blo cks in a row . . . and Porsche Pete was serious. Dr: Price Zimmerman, member of the Sierra Club's executive committee, has nominated Arabia's King Faisal "Environmentalist of the year:' Tom Broo ks wo n his class at the Grea t Bear G P on a DKW, not a Honda. It was his Dad's old Horn et, yet. Now is the time to start pouring in the letters to California Governor Ronald Reagan, ask ing him to veto the bill (AB 26451 which would make Red Rock Canyon closed to bikes against the recco mend at io ns of the State Parks and Recreation Commission. Write to Governor Reagan, State Capitol, Sacramento, CA. 95814 and ask him to uphold the Comm ission 's decision inst ead of excluding ORV enthusiasts from en joyment of the scenic area. An Ohio Har ley dealer di dn't like the Harl ey Sportster test we ran recen tly, He is circ ula ting a peti tio n hea de d. " If yo u do not like what was p rin ted in Cycle News West by a so ca lled writer .. . please sign." It seem s that if you ca ll them th e way yo u see th em. yo u upse t at least half of th e rea de rs. and only the angry ones ever wri te in. The other day a staffer was in Long Beach and happened to catch a group of young sailors going into a rent-a-bike place. Minutes later the four swabs. shirts flying in the breeze, screamed by him on the rentals. Our man was quick to note the following; both bikes had very wobbly rear wheels, one had a broken ta il·light, in short the machines looked like junk. In addition the guys riding on them hadn't a clue and within a space of six blocks had several near misses . Papa believes in free enterprise but there's got to be a limit. ..get your act together rental shop.