Cycle News is a weekly magazine that covers all aspects of motorcycling including Supercross, Motocross and MotoGP as well as new motorcycles
Issue link: https://magazine.cyclenews.com/i/125877
~ ' '. ~ c Septem ber 17,1 9 74 00 -~ r---CjJffi--- --- --- - -l CYCL E N EWS WEST (1 yr .) $ 12.50 CYCLE NEWS WEST t2"yrs.) . . 22.00 CYCLE NEWS WEST (3 yrs .) 30.00 Via 1s1 class mail for on e yea r 40 .00 Via air mai l for one year . . . . .•. . ... . 50 .00 Th is Is a Ren ewal .... • . . • ... . .... . .. . . . Please bill me . ....... . . •.. . . •.... . . .. . I enclose check o r money o rder .,...... . .. Name IPl•• WI pri". 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ~I\I) Address Cil \l Slate - ~ ~-- ----- - Zip Perfectly bi arre In 1973 Cycle News staf fers to tally destroyed 125 pages of press relea ses by burn ing th em at the.stake. Twenty two stakes in all. In the same thirteen mon th s (we do things a litt le d iffe rent ly arou nd here), we boug ht 122 hotdogs at local tracks. Twenty two of th em were not made with ch icken. In betwe en those 247 unnatural acts having to do with absolutely nothing, Cycle News published an equally insane selectio n o f on and off th e motorcycl e editorial leatures. After all , you're eit her on the motorcycle or off . Can't be both, and your relati on ship to your motorcycle is al l that co unts, anyway, rig ht ? Isn't li fe itself [ust a metaphor for racing? . Anyw ay , Cycle News 1974 is mor e 0 1 the same. DE!'T. SU Il. I' .0 . 1l0 X 4'18 I.ON( ; IlEACII . CA I.I FO RNIA 9 11801 J CYCLE NEWS The sa me altered perspective and insanity in motorcvc linq coverage. We're in it for t he fun, j ust like you . It m ust be working . Like th e July 9 issue' s subscription ad', "Making fun 0 1 Cycle World ." . .. or the August 9 issue's" Racing with Deekay ." (After Dave Boido read o ur CMC RR tr eatm ent 0 1 everyone else, he to ok th e time to wr it e us, "How would dirt . rid ers li ke it il I showed up at a desert race on a TZ350 with kn obbi es and won?" ) A Iresh look and good (not to overlook bad) lun are part o f motorcy cling . Getting into bikes is wh at brings peopl e to Cycle News in the first place . . . and made us the only weekly newspaper covering t he total motor cycling scene and making fun of everyone else, too. (Ho , 00 , 00 , and a bottle of fo rk oi l. T h is Ma la· Mon th ly histo ry book subscript ion ad parody o f Cycle Magazine b ro ught to you b y Team Purp le Toad w ith apo log ie s to Cook , Clarola, and all the Ducks. We just co uld n' t resist, and there was peer-group pressure , besid es, but we sti ll lo ve yo u alU Cycle News has a job to do, and we gas it up : wh en it comes to mot or cycl ing, having a good ti me, and seeing what everyo ne else is doing, one weekly leads the way . The One. Read by 3 out of every 3 members of Team Purple Toad .