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Ul 51 IKlI Ii!= IKlI ..:II g DKW or Sachs? I SIDE Nat ional TT =- 7 Peoria 7- I have a DKW and myoId lady has a S a ch s. Wh at 's the differen ce ? Everything on hers says Sachs. and except for the tank and sid e cases al l th e parts (like the brake hubs) on my DKW also sa y Sachs. What's the deal ? Who owns or manufacturers wh om ? Sideways Desert g eCl Nation al MX ~I e xi co 9 CARLE & CATHY NICOLETTI Bo ulder. Col o. up north? 10 12 Fic htel S a c h s . m a n uf a c u r i n g DKW . .. Ed. 0 -3 7 New 13 e- Trials .. . Opinion Norte Sur SaCal Honda CB3500F National Drags Tech gian t German co ncer n , owns Yam ah a Mo n os N ~ ::: eo :r. ~ < 15 16 19 22 23 24 26 27 : E.C. Birt Not one network • Lady 29 Nan cy Payne Results Down Under 30 34 Go Faster ? World Champ. RR 35 F.LM. 750 s? Husky 175 WR 36 What 's woods ? World Champ. MX 37 Mikkol a a nd Moissei ev Hotshoes on stock bikes Barstow to Vegas Sitti ng aro u nd bench raci ng one night we came upon o ne hell of a n ide a. Why not have one in te rn ational race a year where all riders must race a showroom stock bike? Fo r exam p le, Roger DeCoster wou ld Iry the same Suzuki that ''Joe Public" buys fr om hi s lo cal Suzuki Dealer. Would Ake Jonsson be a b le to sta y on a stock Yam ah a ? How long would an ou t of the cra te Bultaco st a y to get her for J im Pomero y? I kn ow all of us wee kend riders wo':'ld love t o see how th e professiona ls do o n the bi kes we buy ! T here has been so me conf usio n ove r this year's race date. T he District 37 Spor t in g Calendar sho ws o ur ra ce on Novem ber 23 rd. T his is an error. The COrrect race date is Sa tu rday, November 30th, which is the Saturday after Thanksgiving. SCO TT W. HEVLE General Man ager , Honda House Ph oen ix , Ar iz. Enduro freak Sharon Clayton. Publisher Tho mas R. Culp. General :\lJ.nager : Edna xte w t o n . Secretary to Pub lisher. Advertising Tho mas R. Cu lp. Nati onal Direct or : Q ui! Kotbet , Ad vert isi ng Assis tan t, Editor ial C ar les Clay to n, Ed itor ; Jo hn D. Ulri ch . h Asso ciate Edito r; Lane Campbel l. Calenda r Ed itor. . Art & Product ion Ca therine Lampt o n. A rt Direc t o r ; Na ncy G ray. Adverti sin g Art ' Direct or : Ag uil era : Lab T echn ician . Hect or Marion Hatashita .. Typographer: Melvin Ph elps. Assist an t Typograp her. Circ ulat ion Rheba Sm ith . Manager ; Pam Hobbs & Ch r is Andrew s. Assistan ts . Accounti ng Caye Zaionz. Ma nager : T wila Wheel er & Linda Mallard. Assist an t s ; Rosemary Chandler , Co llectio n: Lani S ienko Assistant. Services & Support Colikas ; Rand y Davis : Hill Run ya n; Jean n ie Duni van , Re cepr io n is t , ~Ii ke West P.O. Rox ~98, Long Beach, CA 9080 I (2 13) ~27 ·74 33 : L.'\ . Line 636·884~. east T his is an ope n leiter to all cl u bs and organizations putt in g on e nd uros . Being an e nd uro freak , it makes me wonder abo ut the spacing between end uro s. The URA Early Banana en duro to o k p lace Jul y 14 . The n ext sched uled SoCal e nd uro t a kes pl ace o n Au gust 24 (C RC ni ght run ), and t hen there is a run on the very next m orning. ho st ed b y th e SRA . Why ca n' t cl u bs ge l to gether a nd schedule the runs so ther e is not such a lon g in te rval between en d uros? In May there was a wee kend th at typified this ; five enduros he ld o n one weekend, w ith a long interval until th e n ext o ne . Not only would sp acing the runs out so there was less of a n in te rval be t wee n them be good for the rider. it would also be very good for th e cl ub s, allowing more riders to attend their run. Also. to the an ti-enduro man who wr ote in saying th at enduros wer e as ex citing as watchin g 9 0 year o ld people ma ke love, yo u o ugh t to tr y it before yo u st art bad-mouth in g it. Are you afrai d tha t yo ur l\IX·trained body, used to running 2 -20 minute m oto s, could n' t ta ke a go od fo ur- ho u r enduro ? (I d on 't know th at you're a moto cr osser, but I figured you were , because m otoc ro ssers ar e the fir st 10 bad m ou th so me o the r form of co m p etit io n!) P.O . Box 805 . Tuc- ker , GA 3 0 0 8 ~ (404) 934 ·7850. scott SPEIG HT S Ba kersfield , Ca lif. Centr al P.O . Bo x 1324S, Au stin . TX 78711. (51 2) 444·7548. Subscript ion year. second c lass mail SI2 .50; 2 seco nd class ma il, 522 .50 : 3 yea rs. seco nd class mai l. S30.00: Sing le On e years. co py pr ice. 50 ceo ts. COll y righ l Cvcle :"oO('WI. In c . 1974. Tr ..d e m..,. k r('IC I~ I ('r('d U.S. Pal ('n l Offi ce. "'~ II r;lChh reser ved . Publi shed we ekl y ex ce pt the Iir st and lout wee k or t he ca len d ar yea r by eyelt' ~C'w s . Inc .• 1'. 0 . BOl( 4 9 K. Lo ng Ue,u"h. ~ Iirornia. Second dltu . p Olloi$Ct" p aid at Lon ll' Bea ch , CA . Edit o rial sto rio . car too ns , p hut ol. ('I C. ;lI"C' welccme, AddrC'UC"d . I l ;un~d e nve lope allurn retur n o r un p urchase d edr torial man er, Reprinl inlC in wh ole or pMt on ly by pamiuion or the p ub lishtTs . I\ d wo ti l ina: u ln and ci rculauoe r in rorm ..tio n wi ll be' enl upo n req ue at . St'C' S.R .O.s. 4 High prices Bill Saltzman, o f Imperial Mo tor Sp ort. go es ver y fast a nd must p ossess big " h uevos." If th ey ar e ~ high as his pri ces th ey a re lo cat ed under hi s chi n . 1 paid him S20.00 for a Husky gear and then found ou t the lis t price is S 13. 20. I called him and his rep ly to asking why was "Becau se that's what I c ho os e to d o." Fr ee Enterprise, et c., sa ys he has this choi ce . T o pr otec t inn ocent buyers I as k for a voi ce. O th er Husky o wn ers ha ve told me th a t he do cs good work, bUI I find them divided as to th e propriety o f h is pri ces. JI ~ I W I LLIA~ISO" La Mirad a. Ca lif. BOB MILLER, Referee Sa n Gabriel Va lley MC Hacienda Heights, Calif. Road racing enduros "OW I kn o w ho w th e US AC felt when they "restricted" turbi n e-powered race ca rs. Somebody in fo rm John Ulrich th at dirt bikes bel ong in the d irt. not on a ro ad race track ! People like myself b us t th eir asses to prepare a production racer from a stree t bike and then see Ulric h an d Larry Lim on end uro bikes ta ke o ff an d leave our nin e sp eed, 4 0.00 0 RPM ' t wi ns . Next thing yo u kn ow, everyone will be buying Kaw asa ki 175s for 20 0 Productio n ! How would dirt riders like it if I sho wed up at a desert race o n a TZ3 50 with knob bies and won ? It 's jus t not fair. Maybe I'm just jealo us . DAVE IlOIDO C~IC No. 40 Burba nk, Calif. A sso ciat e Editor Ulric h 's leading -link eq uip ped DKII' 125 has bro ugh t home brass i n eve ry road rac e it has been en tered in . . . Ed. Hotshoe in mouth d isease I'm a gu y wh o race s the 20 0 Novi ce clas s in A~IA District 35 . You kn ow , win a few. los e a few . Every time I do go od racing, 1 look through your p aper from t he front co ve r to th e Husky ad in back t o lo ok for m y na m e in good 01' bl ack a nd white. No go. 0 ·35 events a re not covere d , . Now as much m oney as we in 0 -35 put into the m otorcycl e industry and the 50 cen ts we she ll o u t for your paper, we sho uld be in there , right ? I ask mysel f " why n ot? " I ask my buddy " wh y not ?" he said as k yo ur District Referee " why not?" So I d id . a nd he sa id bec ause n obody t ur ns in th e resul t s to yo u guys at Cycl e Xew s, So I cam e o u twi th a real smart remark like , "Man, is that e ver lazy . " That 's when I stuck th e 0 1' steel shoe in my mouth. He snap p ed ba ck and sa id . "OK, Hotshoe , becau se you 're so full o f energy, you ca n d o it!" After I crawled o u t o f my MX boots for a 1 ksee , I said "Sure, I' ll d o it (gulp )." 00 Anyway , th at 's how I got 10 be your new 0 -3 5 rep orter. Please send me an ou tli ne o n how yo u want it done so I d on't mess up and s lic k m y s tee l shoe in any further, OK ? BOB Del\IUTH Strathmore, Calif. O K! Cont ribu tor pack et 's on th e w ay. Go to it . y ou 'ue go t a wide open field . . . Ed . In th e s to ry by Rex William Ree se on the news media, he said not one networ k sa id a thing about the U.S . GP. ~ut ABC did. They said DeCoster won and Wolsink got sec o nd and t hai t hey would have film Monday and they did. Even though they had t he winner "Tong they did say something. Not that I'm st icking up for ABC but co uld yo u hear Stu Nahan say on TV " We covered a m o t o rcycle ra ce and they're saying we didn't JIMMIE RA Y Maywood, Ca lif. r: Angry mom I co ul d take up a ll of Vo ices of the West telling y ou what has been going on here over the May 5 race at l\lcGiII Cycle Park in Sa cramento , California. . The main thing is that the race was n ot co ve red by insurance! Two riders were injured, one requiring a plastic su rgeon. l\IcGiIl ·Durbin Pro m o t ions re fuses to pay their medical bills. The riders involved are in th e process of filing suit agains t them. Now to the point. One dollar m ay be insignifi cant t o some, but that isn 't the idea. This outfit has been extremely un co operat ive about the whole thing. They did not a ns wer a letter I wr o te th em inquiring a bou t the insuran ce coverage. as I had two so ns racing that d ay. I have the proof th at sh o ws th er e was no co verage tha t d a y. If I didn't I certai n ly would n ot be writing th is letter. Do you wan t to b a c k up some fe llow riders as, if yo u were in t he ir place, you would a p p recia te? Just write McGiIl·Durbin Pr omotions, Box 1302 7. Sa cr amento , CA 9581 5. and demand you r S 1.00 insuran ce fee back. If enough of us do this it will get the point across that you don ' I do that to bi ke riders . By the way, if you' re rea lly interested, there are a few othe r races PUI on b y t hem thai were not co vered, altho ugh everyone pa id their 51.00 insuran ce fee. (Chec k Helvetia Park, or Cal Arn., whatever you ca ll it.) Last but not leas t , be sure t o check recent Flyers from this o u t fi t. The entry is still 56 .00 . but , nowhere is there an y th in g about insuran ce whi ch can be de ceiving to the "unknowing." AN ANGR Y 0-36 ~IOTHER Pla cerville, Calif. Ensenada fiasco After expe rie ncing th e fias co ca lled the En sen ada Grand Prix , I'm co n vinc ed th e popul arit y o f th e Sierra Club is now sec ond to th e CRC. KEN McTAGGART The th inke r If you ca n m o ve up the shocks o n the re ar for more travel. how a bo u t o n a leading link ? T IlE TIll"KER 1Y,·'l1 ref er it to uur resid ent ad dict and see . . . Ed. 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