Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

Fox Hunt pins INSI E Viewfinders' GP The May 19 Fo x Hunt fin ish er pins will be m ail ed as soon as possible. Our supplier tell s us th at the shipment ha s been hel d up in U.S. Cus to ms sin ce May 13. We regre t this de lay . T han k yo u for you r p a tien ce. The Dese rt Foxes MC 6 A very special eve n t National Road racing ... . 10 Naked Rover R oberts dial. Atlanta World Championship . . . . 13 T he Rover w ho h ad his sh orts co nf iscate d durin g th e St umpj ump e r s-R o vers Stre ak-Out 5/25 /74 m ay clai m them at th e S t ump jum b ers pi t s . Proper iden tifica tion mus t he show n!! Italian 5 0 0 MX GP 16 Speedway Bast beats Bast ..... ..... North ... .. ....... •...18 Happenings a t higher la titud e Enduro . . . . . . . . • . . . . . .21 ST UI\IPjUMPERS MC Anaheim , Calif. Flinging Spring. TedvU~ ............•22 E.C. and Motoplat 24 Little breezebreakers. . . 27 Test Three into 25 0 goes Who m anufacturers fairin gs suitable for 50-100cc bi kes ? . Education Mr .MXR on MX MICHA EL MOORE 8506 Flower PI. NE Albuquerque, NM 8711 2 Resuhs ..•......... .. .32 Last week at the track Calendar 38 Next week in CN ON THE COVER: john Rice cleans the Viewfinders' Wat erhole No. 3. Dal e Brown Ph o t o. Sharon Clayton; Pu blisher Thomas R. Culp ; General Manager: Edna Mewton ; Secretary to Pu b lishe r. Advertising Thomas R. Culp; National Director Trudi Cul ver ; .~ ssis tan t. Editorial Charles Clayton ; Edi tor. John D. Ulri ch ; Assoc iate Editor, J ohn Hue tter ; Fe ature Ed it or, Lan e Campbell; Calendar Editor. Art & Production Cather ine Lampton ; Art Director. Nancy G ray; Adv ertising Art Director t .H e c t o r Aguilera; Lab Technician , Marion Hatashita ; Typographer. Melvin Phe lps; Assistant Typograp~er . Circulation Rhcba Sm ith ; Manager. Pam Hobbs &: Chris Andrews; Asa st ants, Accounting Gaye Zaionz ; Manager. Chris Kolbet &: Twila Wheeler; Assistan ts , Rosemary Chandlee: Collecti on, Daryl Christian ; Assistant. Checker 's $2 million blues We tho ught i t m igh t be a good idea to warn some of the other D-37 clubs of o ur situation because t hey co uld en d up in t he same boat. Two years ago durin g th e Ch eck Ch ase th er e was a railr oad cr ossing on th e co ur se of the race. For o b vious reasons w e chose to us e a trestle undercrossing rather th an ris k crossing over th e trac ks. Even th ough well m arked an d manned b y a co up le o f flag m en, o ne of th e rid ers crossed th e tracks ins tea d of going unde r the trestle w he re the re was a bottleneck an';j was h it an d kill ed b y a p assing train. T he train in its effort to stop flattened m an y of its wh eel s an d sat one week wai t ing for rep air s. It was going an estimated eight to 10 MPH whe n it hit the rider, who was stop ped on the t racks. We all know that we have to sign a liab ility release to race an eve n t. Unfort unately th is pap er is not very helpful in a law suit. Un de rs tandably the family o f th e d eceas ed rider, a wife and ad ul t so n and daugh t er, w ere upset suffi cien tl y t o en gage a law suit for th e sum of two million dollars nam ing the' Santa Fe railroad, Checker's MC, Ron Sloan and the AMA. If our corporation papers are not in order every member o f the Checker's stands to be personally liable for the judgment, should we lo se th e case . As it stands we have to engage an attorney just to ans wer the summons. Being a non-profit club this will be a problem enough wi thou t going to court, This should point out to an y club throwing a race both the danger of not being inco rp orated and the liability involved should an un fo rtu nate situation happen as in our casco Any member of an unincorporated club is subject to the danger of los ing th ei r personal possessions because of a similar o ccurrence. CHEC KER'S MC Services & Support Colikas, Randy Davis, Bill Runyan , J eannie Dun ivan ; Recep tionist . co ver of your May 7 issue was some sort of silk-sc ree n ed photo , until I read that it was actually a pen an d ink masterpie ce by Dave Grieve of Sacramento. I do thi s so rt o f artwork myself and realize the co un tless hours it must have taken Dave to do this. I th ink he de serves a little m or e ap p re cia tio n th an he got. Le t 's he ar it for Dave Gri eve! T O M BR OD ERICK Pasadena, Cal if. West P.O. Box 498, Long Beech, CA 9080 I (213) 427·7433; LA 636-88 44. East r.o, Box 805 , Tucker, GA (404) 934-7850. D on Swa nson won the Boise Hill climb May 5 aboard a YAM AllA 750 T win , n o t a Honda Four . Swanso n rode a Honda Twin in th e 45cu. in . e ven t. T ha nks! MARTY GR EGORY Central P.O . Box 13245. Austin, TX 78711. SUbscription On e year. second class mail , $ 12.50; 2 years, second clas s mail , $22.50 ; 3 years, se cond clasi mai l, $30.00; Single cop y price, 50 cen ts. CopyriKht Cy cle New s. Inc. 1974. Trade mar k reginered U.S. Pat ent Of fice . All rights reserved. Published wtt kly exc ept the fint and 1000t week of th e calcndM yur by Cycko Nt>WI, Inc., P.O . -us Box 498, Long Beach, California. Second c1 posLtfl:e paid at Long Beach, CA . F.dilori .d Itaria, cer tocns, photos, e tc. are welcome. Add!"CUC'd, . um ~d e nve tcpe uaure. return of unpurcbued tditori.u matter. Reprinting in w hole -or p ar t only by pe rmm.ion of the p ubliaheu. Ad~rtilinA: ra te. ~nd circ ub. tio n infonzution will be lene upo n req uoL See 4 ' .R.D.s. Steve Bast and Dave Grieve... Th is is ge lting co m p letely ridi cul o us . First , in your Irwindale Speed way open e r article yo u have a pi cture of Steve Bast with h is rear tire o ff th e rim an d a ca p ti on reading, "Steve Bast rod e two laps lik e th is." Attempting to correct your error a reader (Sc o t Paul) wrote in and said th at he got a "blowout " on the last t urn, last co rne r , and lo st it, T o m ak e m atte rs wo rse, D. Bendy writes in an d says Bast Rot a n at on the second lap and the tire ca me off th e rim on the " first t um o f th e last lap" and he fin ishe d on th e rim . Alt ho ugh being close r, this to o is false. I kn ow fur su re that hi s tir e popped o ff the rim on th e last t urn of th e last lap and he managed to finish o n th e rim . I a u tomatically ass umed th at th e T he stock T he rmo-fl ow shocks will work with th e Pre-F ab frame . The o n ly modificat ion is th at yo u mus t turn them aro u nd with th e cooling re se vo irs facin g rea rw ard. S & W o r G irling springs and d ecent shock o il m ak e them work really trick. an d fac to ry porting specs allo w yo u to bl ow any 25 0 in th e weeds. SCO TT JO NES Lo s Olivos , Calif. Cherry picking Mamm oth I'm lo oking forward to m y fourth Mam moth MX _ just o ne co m p lain t I wo uld like to regist er. . .abo ut all th e cherry pick ers tha t show-up for the junior class even t s each year. It takes a great d eal of t he fun away whe n yo u know th a t there are a doze n young h o tshoes ou t there who should be in the Su nda y race with t he Seniors. It wouldn't take much extra wo rk t o check the en tries or have the riders sho w th eir "j unior " card s from a san cti oned organizat io n . I f th ey d on 't belong to a sanctio ne d organ iza tio n have them rid e " pie plate" with th e E xpe rts like all the other even ts . JOHN R . CALVERT Los Angeles , Cal if. -New production release Now, from t he sa me Producers and Directors of th e recent pocket book hit, entitled "Commercial License Plates for All - T he Big Rip orr," the California Legislature pro udly presents its newest production gem " A B 14 2 1-Chap pie ," better known as "The Green Stickies Legalized Blackmail," soon to be rel ea sed at your favorite DMV lo cation. Admission is on ly S 15.00 per off-highway vehicle and en titles an yone to transport th eir ow n personal property. Get yo u r t ick ets fast, before th e man gets yo u! Mike Correction " Frame Your Yamaha" correction BOB SCHINDLER Gle ndora, Calif. Suitcase of unmarked bills. , . Lct me make th is perfectly cle ar , there was n o co ns pi racy to co ver-u p A rt "the Blunt Da rt's " id enti ty at o ur May 12 road race , Our ann ounce r has testified th at he didn't eve n know Art was th er e. Second, Art w as late in re -enlisting in the A FM, and b y a sheer co inci d ence MCW's Tom Beesley was given No. 44 (the sui tc ase full o f unmarked b ills pl ayed no part in o ur d eci sio n). As long as Art continues to borrow La r ry Lim's bik e, what diffe rence do es it m ake? Or as AFM Presid e n t Dick Lewis, summed up matters. "(exple t ive deleted) ." Art, in cidentally, finish ed second in th e ra ce , no t third. JIM L ESTER A FM/ L. A. Chap ter Press Secr etary (T rai ne e ) If Art's riding Larry 's bike m ak es him unidentifiabl e, w h y d id the annou nce r call Larry "Joh n Ulrich ,. w hen Larry rod e Art 's bike in the 300 m ila ? Tea m Toad w ill never pr e-en t er again. . .Ed. Ron Pierce I have been a little di sappoin ted lately in not seeing very much about our local Nat io n al No . 97, Ron Pier ce. He is doing well la tely an d wou ld lik e to see m ore about hi m . IJI m y o pin io n he is one of the best and most co lo rful riders, b u t has been p lagu ed wi th bad luc k th e pas t co uple of years. S. ANDERSON Bakersfield , Calif. CMC Talks Back The letter in last week's Cycle News fr om Ms. Venita Bragg of La Ve rne, California was co mp le tel y wrong. CMC does no t run any events at Raw hide o r an y t ra ck that has a mud ho le. Ne x t ti me y ou wri te a letter please ha ve the right info rmation on the sanctioning gro up, Ms. Bragg! STU PETE RS President, CMC Open letter to AMA members I would like to thank AMA m em bers who elected me Class A Rep resenta tive of the ex ecutive committee. I need letters from AMA members, clubs, district organizations, trail and road rider organizations, AMA chartered or not. I want good constructive criticism, not j ust comp lain ts! Well thought out ideas that will help the AMA help you. To help me best serve you on the executive co m m ittee , I request that you write : Bill Spencer, P.O . Box 272, Puyallup, Washington 98371. BILL SPENCER AMA 'Ex C om mittee Puyallup, Wash . Extra cost I'd like to see a long run co m parison on the cost of parts betwee n a Eu ropean MXer and a j apanese MXe r. I 've owned t wo H uskies, a 25 0 an d a 400, for a total of th ree years. I got tired of expensive parts, a lthough t hey were rarely broken: I d ecided to bu y a Ya maha MXer because it was supp o sed to be trick and the parts wer e ec on o m ical . Little did I know that th e repl acement intervals were two or th ree times shorter than the Husky. They may co st less, but I have to buy more. BILL LeLAND Fo u n ta in Valley, Calif.

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