Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

Everybody does it Exposition Do you sup p ose that th e figure on the Cy clc World Show posters exp osi ng himself is actual ly an arti st's re nd eri n g o f R . Dandy Diggs? DALE IRWIN Azusa, Cal if. wond e red if the o rigin al owner (or Hercules) m igh t want i t. A 9 5 .5% fin~shing re cord isn't real shab by, nor is racin g 86 .5 % of the weekends. A.H. TELLI ER Sun Engineering Prod. 602/968-425 3 Tem pe, Arizo na No ...Ed . Hats off to Team Yamaha It's p retty sad when a man read s abo ut the Cal Rayborn Memorial an d reads that 'o n ly one of the Harley factory team riders showed up to race and contribute to the memorial of the ever so fine man. gen tlernan, racer. tha t Cal Rayborn was. I have always looked a t the Harley team as the ultimate in race teams, however my views chan ged when I see the team who actually showed up and contributed so much with more at stak e than anyone. The Yamaha team of R ob er t s, Castro and Rome ro. I say hats off t o t his fine Yamaha Team . A plug Jim S tewart's article in Cycle News April 9 credited the March 31 D-37 Hare Scrambles to the One Hundreds MC. The One Hundreds cancelled out. The date was p icked up by a few members o f th e LAPD Badgers MC, wh o spent severa l weekends sharing the windy de sert with turtles, sheep, and green rattlesnakes while they laid o u t , !"arked, and limed some virgin territory, in clud in g a death defying downhill for the second ann ual Badgers Cop <:lut. We got everything sunburn , mangled scooters, hema t omas, etc. except the credit. How about a plug? WILLIAM L. LANG Badger s MC JACK JOYNE R, JR. Centralia, Wash. The matter of botanical butchery (th e Sierra C l u b ' s ripping off the cre os o te branch of ord er to get it to the Symp~ sium) -is, in th e purist ' s book, a Viol ation of th e co nserva tio n ethic. But so m et im es a small sac rific e (o ne se vered creoso te sp rig) m us t b e m ad e t o se t a bi~ exam ple o~ dem onstrate a m aj or po mt, T ha t sligh tl y mutilated plant sho uld be p roud th a t a part of it has served such a noble purpose. It is o ne thing to snap off a sp ring o f creoso t e - the: commonest and hardiest sh ru b in the California desert - for c o n s t ru c ti ve display purposes and another to wantonly uproot, crush, burn and 0 therwise annihilate entire plan ts, especially those rare r and more fragile than creosote. The fierce desert wind may snap off twigs, j ust as flas h floods will wash the m away, b u t such ma nifestations of nat ure don't d estroy ecosystems - m an d oes. Man is als o ra ther adept at d efa cing p etroglyph s, s p awni.ng gar bage , va n dalizi n g , pr od u ang loud au t omotive n oise , c o n t am in ating springs, k illi ng off end angere d ani mal sp eci es - all p ar t o f the " onslaugh t" Sierra Club Exe cutive Dire ctor McCloskey was tal kin g abou t and all of wh ich the preponderan ce of recreational and ORV traffic in t he desert has abetted . DO NALD MU RCH IE Sierra Club Deser t Subcommi ttee Santa Monica, Calif. Bob Keys B Rider? I have ru n across som et h in g w hich is p retty un usual , ce rtain ly in Phoenix. In a loc al bike bo neyard, we found a DK W tan k, t he bronze and chrome fat variety . 1L is in pretty good shape excep t fo r th e rear m oun t ing tab which is torn. But th e chrome pan el s have, neatl y vibra-etche d, the n am es and da tes of all (?) the 0 -37 d ese rt events from the Rams' MX Har e & Hound (10-31 .70) to the Buzzards MC Hare an d Hound ( 11-22-71). There are 34 events on th e left side an d lIon the right, a total of 45 events. This is outrageous: 45/52 weekends! There are two DNFs : Desert Knight's MX Hare Scrambles (6-6-71) and the Dirt Digger 's European S crambles (8- 15 - 71 ). Remarkable to say the leas t. Whose Was it? How d id it get to Ph oenix ? The boneyard? (they knew nothin g, an d w e traded so me weldi ng fo r it) . It has no d in gs, and th e en gr aving is exceptio nally done ! It is a -super-con versation p iece, but it was ...... . . _.. ---_.-.. _--_ :\I~wt o n : ~Ianage r Secre ta ry t o Publisher Advertising T h o ma s R. Culp : Nati onal Dire ctor Trudi Culver ; As sistant Editorial Charles Clayton; Editor John D. Ulrich ; Associate Edit or John Huetter; Feature Editor Lane Campbell ; Calendar Edi tor Art & Production Catherine La mp tu n; Art Direc tor Nan cy G ray ; Advertising Art Director He ctor Aguilera : Lab T ec h n ici an Mario n lIatashita : Typographer Melvin Phelps : Assistant Typographer A ddress letters to Voices of th e West, c/o Cycle News IVest, P.O. Box 49 8, Lon g Beach , CA 90801. Please be as brief as po ssibl e. We reserve the right to edi t letters du e to space limitations. Rh ebu Smi th : Manager Pam H ob bs: Assis ta n t Chris Andrews Accounting Gav e Za io nz ; Manager Ch r is Ko lber : Assi sta nt T w ila Wheele r ; A ssis tan t Rosemary Chan dle r : A ssistan t J im Sq uires : Coll ection Services & Support Mike Colikas Randy Davis Bill Run yan Jeannie Dun ivan : Recept ionist West ROBERT GOD w 1N San Francisco, Calif. IlITBllN1L S tarting J ul y I, 1974 all motor vehicles must be registered in the state of California and carry either tnt off-road vehicle sticker (Green Stickie} or a street Of the 115 per two license plate. years charged for the green stickie, 15 goes to pay fo r the pap er work, about 15 goes to th e State Parks and R ecreation Dept. to be used fo r acqu iring and maintaining motor recreation park s and trails, and about 15 is rem itted t o th e county of registra tion for the sam e purpo se. Counties may spend a portion of their Green St icky money Otl enfo rce ment , and some haveelec ted to do so. That explains th e MT250 Hondas with red lights and sirens yo u might have seen. Part of th e registra tion fcc is credited in lieu of pr op ert y taxes which yo u wo uld otherwise have to pay at! yo ur scoot. It s not a bad d eal. Th e i!rst Gree n Stick ie park recen tly opened rn Sacramen to . If yo u want an area near you , paid fo r by Greet! St ick ie f unds, con tact yo ur Cou nt y govern ment and ask fo r it. Th e m on ey is there, waiting. . .CC. ·CA 9 08 0 1 (2 13) 4 2 7·743 3 ; LA 636-8 8 4 4 . Telex No. 6 73-474 _ East-D jxie P.O . Box 805 Tucker. Georgia. (404 ) 93 4 -7 8 [, 0 Central r.o , Box 1324!l. A ustin , Texas 7 8 7 11. (5 12) 444·7 [,48. Subscription One yea r, seco n d class m ail , 51 2.5 0 2 yea rs . secon d class mai l, 5 2 2.50 3 yea rs. secon d c la ss mail, 5 3 0_0 0 Single co py price. 504 Gossip & Rumor Speedway, 3 6 Openers Enduro, 8, 16 Po lka Dot, Scene Trials --_ ---_ Ed n .. 1'. 0. Bo x 4 9 8 . Long Bear-h. It is now time to ren ew th e off-road registrati on on my bike. The q uestio n is, how long until there is going to be an area in or close to San Francisco where I can ride m y bike legall y ? Also, how is the mo ney broken down in my cou n ty? I would like t his in fo rm ation before telling the DMV that I am not goin g to re -register m y bike in 19 74 becau se I feel that I should be getting som et hi ng for this money. I have been told in some areas police departments ar e being allo wed to use this money to .b u y motorcycles and cars to patrol off-ro ad areas. On e of th e reasons that I Was prompted to wr ite this letter was th at a frien d j ust re ceived twelve tickets for riding his Elsinore near my house . --- -.. _-_ Shar o n Cta yt cn : Publisher Tbo mas R. Culp : General Circulation - Northern Enduro A ce, Bob Keys, was acc used of trying to sign up B class in the Dirt Diggers National Red Garter Enduro a t Ballinger Park. Actually this wa s nothin g m ore th an a re cording error b y us. Congratulations to a fin e com pe ti tor a nd spo rtsm an o n h is A He avywei ght win. JACK SHOOK Dirt Diggers MC To stick or not to stick Desert Deek Ame rica's No.1 Weekly Motorcycle Newspaper , 9 ATA Rawhid e Half-Mile , .. 10, 11 Ascot, South Bay Big Time MX , .... , ....12 Spillway Qualifier Desert , ..19,28 O RA, 0 ·3 7 North .... •.•• ••......20 TT : ..•... . •24 ~~~ Copyriltht Cycle New s, In c. 1974. Trade mark registered U.s. Patent Office. All rights reserved. Published week ly ex cept the fint and last week o f the calen da r year by Cycle News. Inc.• P.O. Box 498, Lo ng Beach . Cal ifornia. Second c1U5 postage paid at Long Beach CA Editorial stories, car toons. photo"s. rtc: arc we lccme. Addressed, stamped m~d~pc assures return of unpurchascd editorial matter. Rep rinting in whole or part only by permission of the pub lishe r s . Advertising rates and circulation information · will be sent upon request. See S.R .D .S. Lots, and o ther st uff, too Road Race , . . . ... , . •.. 25 Alas , poor d uck MX Test 30 The very best 250 Results South 32 " ..36 Peru ON T ilE CO V ER : Ivan Mauge r slid es arou nd in fron t of Chris Pusey, Mike Bast, a nd Danny Becker in th e latest (an d only) Ll.S , vs, t he World Speedwa y Chall en ge , March 17. Dennis Gr eene p ho to . _- ..... .. .... - .. _ -- _ .. . .. --.-.- .. ---- 3

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