Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

I SDE Pro Flat Track The high school finals at the Coliseum should be renamed "cherry p ic kin' at its best. tt D. COFFIN Inglewood. Calif. 7, 11 Decent DIC's Stockton Mile & Ascot American lnt'I. MX 8 What hav e you people got against Doug Winchell ? And why? This man is one of the best riders around and it would be nice if he got a decent write up, for a c ha n ge. After all, when you're Dist. 37 number 2, you try harder! Red-hot Widowmaker Trials , 12 Little dabbers 13 Desert . . , .. , Brush Busters & DRA , .16 Speedway , Local Action World Champ. MX 20 , .26 CONNIE SCHRACK Lancaster, Calif. 29 Too many people think "a decent write up" is a fuU page on what a great guy so and so is. We'll just keep reporting what happens. .. Ed. The fight goes on Preview U.S. round of World Champi o nshi p MX Test ' .30 " Su zuki Exact Trials Results , Political Enduro ,32 Yo u di d it! North Calendar , 36 38 You can d o it! ON T H E COVE R : Floating turn on th e RL25 0 b y Su zu I . Lan e Campbell Pho to . Sharon Clayton; Publisher Thomas R. Culp; General Mmager: Edna Mewton; Secretary to Publisher. Advertising Thom.u R. Cul p : National Director Trudi Culver; Auium t , Pasadena MC joins Ron Hey you guys in District 37 We as a club thought long and hard about what wo uld be the worst thing that co uld happen to Mr . Sc hneiders. Somebody said make him a member, and so it's with great pleasure that I announce PMC's first honorary life member. Mr. Ronald Schneiders. Of course we don't expect to see him at any of our meetings, but in one fell swoop we've solved two of his problerns.: one, he can really keep an eye on the d rawing, and two. he 's ineligible to ride something above and beyond his abilities anyway. We at P:'IC know we have problems with the Greenhorn (anything that big and of that nature is bound to ), and next year our follow up crew will make it th e last 60 miles and our clock rider Neil Fergus won't break his toe. Mike Hinshaw told us Tuesday following the run that he was recommending it for National status next year. BILL DEAN Pasadena MC Although the actual gat heri ng of the Al\1A Congress is not unt il this fall, the standing rule s re q uire that all propo sals fo r new or amended ru les must be placed on the agenda not less than sixty (60) days pr ior to convening . For t his reason we are soliciting yo ur suggestions for mod ification of the c urrent Sportsman rules, to be made in writing and to reach us no later than the fifteenth of July . Time is short! This year the Congress will not be involved with professional competition rules as in the past, but will concern itself with Sportsman rules . legislative and public relations matters . Please write or type your ideas as clearly and concisely as you ca n and mail them to us as soon as possible. We'll be in touch with you soon after to assure we have fullest understanding of what you want us to do in your behalf. Address all correspondence to : AI\IA Congressmen Lynn Wineland and Tom Center, Box 4 I 00 I, Los Angeles. CA 90041. LYNN WINELAND L.A., Calif. Charles Clay ton ; Editor. John O. Ulrich: Associate Editor. J o hn Huetter: f eature Editor, Lane Cam pbell ; Calendar Editor. The Greenhorn is a nice ride. but. as th e scoring hassles and pro tests prove, it isn't good e n o ug h to be a Nat ional. . .Ed. Art & Production Bob Steffan on the Greenhorn Editorial C..the rine Lampto n ; Art Director. Nancy Gra y; .Advertising Art Director. H ector A guil era; Lab Techn ician. Mari on Hatashi ta: Typographer, Melvin Phel p s; Assistant Typographer. Circulation Rh e ba Smith: Manager. Pam Hobbs & Chris Andrews: Anis. tanh. Accounting Gaye Zaio nz; Manager. Ch ris Kolbet &: Twi1a Wheeler ; Assistants, Rose mary Chandler: Coll ection. Daryl Christian; Assistant. Services & Support Mike Colikas, Randy Davis, Bill Run y an . J eannie Dunivan; Recep tio nist . West P.O. Bo a 498, Long Beach, CA 90801 (213) 427.7433; LA 636·8844. East P.O. Box 80S , Tucker. GA (404) 934·7 850 . central P.O. Bo a 1324 5, Austin, TX 787 1.1. Subscription One year, second class mail, 11 2.5 0 : 2 ye an, second class mail, 1 22. 50 ; 3 ye ar s, seco nd class" mail, 1'0.00; Single cop y price, 50 emu. I am sure everyone is sick of hearing about the Horn by now, b ut I feel compelled to comment on some ru mors whi ch might appear to put me in a bad light. I am speaking of course of my receiving the number two starting position. I heard on the grapevine prior to the drawing date which appeared on the official entry form that I had received the number two position. I am told that they actually had the drawing a week prior to the date they advertised. Whether this is true or not I don't know. What I do know is that I had nothing at all to do with getting this number. Any knowledgeable enduro rider will tell you that number one or two is the "kiss of death" in Western endures, particularly Greenhorn. These numbers practically guarantee that you can't win. You spend your day breaking trail, overshooting corners, getting lost and jumping in on inexperienced checkers who are n o t set up o r ready to properly record your position. If there were any shena nigans connected with this drawing it was an attempt to make me lose, not to assist m e in w inning. If I we re to choose an ideal numbe r to ride on it wo ul d be be twee n ten and twenty but never , never o ne or two . BOB STEFFAN L.A ., Ca lif. Copyrigtn Cycle News, Inc. 1974 . Tude mark ulntued U.S. Palmi Office. All ri.hll re.e~d. Publiahed weekly ex cept tbe rrnt and lUI week of th~ calencbr y~ar by Cycl~ NCWI, lnc., P.O . Box 498, Lonl Beach , ~lifomi.a. Second d.ul potUl:e paid ~t LonK Beach , CA. E.ditori .al &lorita , cartoonl, . photOl., etc. aR welcome. AddrelKd, ltampc'd envelope alaurn return of unp wduaed eddori~ malin. Reprintin« in whok or pan only by pc=rmiu.ion of the publiahen. Advn-ti1inl ratn .and circubtion information will be lent upon requei L See S.R.O.5. No Sense This doesn't make sense. It IS contradictory . DICK ALLEN YAMAHA Newhall, Calif. This not e came in on a Yamaha 175 specifications and parts pri ce list we printed. Th e listing by error said th e 71; I, n r-¥IA h f l ; ... Ir: J:'A Racers I am in the Navy and stationed on Okinawa. However, on September 3 I will be stationed at Long Beach ; California. My wife and I are very m uch in terested in racing motocross as soon as we arrive in Calif. We are bringing two Ho nda CRl25 Elsinores from Japan. If you have any readers that would be interested in wri ting us and helping us a little in getting started there, my mailing address is : Howard Bennett PAW-I Det NAHA FPO Seattle, Wash. 98770 My wife would like to hear from any Powder Puff racers that might be interested I have also tried co n tacting Districts 36 and 37 for applications for competition licenses, race schedules, and any other information available that might be of help to me. I have not heard from either district. Any help you co uld give me would be greatly appreciated. It has been 3 ~ years since I have been in the states, so I don't know very much of what's going on. HOWARD BENNETT Okinawa ] am a second class cmzen an d m o t o rcy cle enth usias t beca use I did not en te r the Po lit ical End u ro . Ex cuses a nd reasons are no t pe r ti ne n t to the issue, which is th at zeroing each End uro ch ec k shall p u t in cogen t info rmatio n t o all th ose governing bodies wh o bear upon m o t o rcy cling wel fare , t o say nothing o f their new awareness of our burgeonin g identity. I wonder if the q uantity/quality fee dback and responses received by participants would not be a basis for another prize. That is, that he who would submit to Cycle News the most or best respo nses to Enduro letters written, that you might p ublish them, and he re ceive some published recognition also. The issues, the Enduro letters best written, the responses that may come : Were they all to be abstracted and co llated into a chronology subject by subject, gleaning the different observations, reasons, and persuasions put forth and answered, there would indeed be some pithy reading and a text-book interest for many like myself who may also be "out of it " as none-too-active enthusiasts who are trying to catch up on what is what. Really, my four teen-age sons wo uld have to fight me for those copies of Cycle News, provided that they had not already beat me to them, and typically bent them out of shape stacked in th eir rooms until Ole Dad disco vers that the damn t hing was not mail ed o ut late afte r all. JACK VA RGAS San J o se, Cali f. Wc'll work on it. .. Ed. Clean air Ex-Bultaco racer and Bu ltaco team manager Dave Rodgers, might be opening a motocross train ing center at Mammoth Lakes. Wouldn't that be n ice in that clean air and high altitude ? JULIE Yes. . . Ed. They all have 3 engines Wealey, old man, you don't know your 727s from a hole in the ground. Playboy's "727" is a DC·9 , made in Long Beach. J .H. SAID,JR. Tustin, Cali f. Moto-News In re p ly to Craig Johnson's letter. you said, "space is the problem." If you can find space for Brad Lackey mod eli ng a mo ustache, you can surely fit in a p ictu re of a II, mil er or a T'Ter, I mean I kn o w you guys worship Lackey, b ut t hat's going a litt le overboard . Cycle News used to split motocross, nat track , an d ro ad raci n g even ly, b ut now you shou ld change you r name to Moto-News. TERRYSTATUl\1 Mission Viejo. Calif. Cherry picking I hope Masty Smith got a kick out of blowing-off the more or less ama teur Springf ield 125 GP Being an avid motocross fan and having a father working for the airlines I am pla nning to atte nd the 125 G P at Sp ri ngfield , New Yo rk, on July 28. H o w e ve r 1 have n't see n any advertise ments or indication wh o the pro moter is so I can p urc h ase tic k ets. Also, do you know if th er e are accomodations in Sp ringville o r othe r towns nearby? If you can tell me where or from who ti ckets arc available and if there are accomodations it would be greatly appreciated. FRAN K BRYAN 1120 Valencia Wa y j • Q4

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