Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

th e o ut ho uses of the European circ uit ( Is it f lowere d, o r just plain n ewsp rint?) , the alkaline con te nt in th e first turn o f t he French GP co urse , wha t brand h ot dog buns they sell at the concession stands. or the type of underwear CZ team rider Vladimir Khoudlak ow wears while tr aveling from co u rse to course, Brad Lackev is one o f the neatest, fastest a nd sw e'lIest all -a round American cy cl e riders ever. STEVE CORNETT Presiden t. SoCal Brad Lack ey Fan Club INSIDE Nat'l. Half-miles 6, 8 Terre Haute, Toledo . . 10 Nat 'l. Tria ls Old America . Desert 12 , 17 D-37, DRA 14 Op inion ...... ... ~ ..c o ..... u o BLM blues again ,16 , Nat'l. Papers Pat on the back for Jorgy! Proxy Ascot North Tax deductible fun Ontario Preview , 18 22 23 With the fences down, you'll see them Honda '75 , ,27 Keys where they belong Speedway . . , , Results Tech , 28 30 , .. , .34 Funny p ip es Crash test , .36 Suz uki 38 0 GT Calendar , ..38 FRONT PA GE: Rocket Rex Staten th u mps around the Honda 4 I 0 fo u r-stro ke bulld o zer at Eve!'s money -cross. Pho tographic voyeurism by Charles Clayton. • Sharon Clay ton, Publisher Thomas R. Culp , General Manager; Edn a Mcwton, Secretary to Publisher: Advertising Thomas R. Culp . National Dire ct or; Linda Clark, Adve rtising Manager: Chris Ke lber. Advert ising Assistant. Editorial Charle s Clay to n, Editor :John D. Ulrich . Associa te Ed ito r; Lan e Campbell. Calendar Editor. ~ Art 8i Production Catheri ne Lamp to n, Ar t Dire ctor; Nancy Gray, Adv ertisi ng Art Dir~c~or; Hec to r Ag uilera; Lab TC'c hmcl~. Marion Hatas hita , Typographer; .Melvin Phelps. Assistant Typographer. Circulation Rheba Smith. Manage r ; Pam Hobb s & Chris: Andrews. Assistants. Accounting Gave ZaiOIU, Manager; Twila Wheeler & Linda Mallard, Assistants ; Rosemary Chandler . Collection ; Lani Sienk, Assistant o Serv ices & Support Mike Col ikas : Randy Davis ; Bill Runyan; Jeannie Dunivan , Re ceptionist . W est P.O. Box 49 8, Long Beach, CA 908 0 1 (21S) 4 27 ·74H ; L.A. Line 6S6-8844 . East P.O. 80x 80 5, Tucker, GA S0 0 84 l4 04) 934 ·7 850. Central P.O. Bo x 1324 5, Austin, TX 78711. (51 2) 444-,7548. Subscript ion One: year , second class m ail $1 2 .50 ; 2 years. second clas s ma il, S22 .50 ; 3 ye an , sec o nd class ma il, $3 0. 00 : Single co py pr ice, 50 cen ts. ' CnpyriKht Cycle N~ I . Inc. 1974 . Trade m.ark registered U.S. Patent Office . All right s reserved. rut:tlilbed weekly except the firs t and last week of the calendar yeM by Cycle NeW1l , lnc., P.O . Bo x 498, Long Beach. Californi a. Se cond dOL.. postage paid a t Long Beach , CA . Editorial storie., cc-roons, photoa, e tc . an: we lcome . Addr6led , . t u n pe- envelope alJurn return o f d cnpcrchased editor ial matter, Reprinting in who le or pari onl y by penniuion of the publisher.. Advertisins: rale. and circulation information will be Kn l upo n request. See 4 S.R.OS. Enduro for burn ward For the past tw o years t he Woman's A ux iliary o f th e Pasaden a Fire Dep ar tment has been working to pur ch ase badly need ed equipmen t for th e Los Angel es Co un ty, USC Med ical Center bum wa rd, t he third largest in th e United States. In 1972, wh en the burn ward p roject was started, it took o nly 10 mon th s to raise $6,000 for a n Air Fluidized Bed used iii the treattnent of severely burned patients. When we started the project for the bed, we became aware of a woman who was badly burned and in great pain. In addition, her family had , rejected her because of her appearance . By the ti me the bed was delivered, thi s woman's one arm and one leg had been amputated. By th at time th e woman was in so much pain that she h ad absolutely no will to live. After a short time on the bed her body began to he al and t he pain subsided. Sh e now ha s an arti ficial arm -and leg and lives a full life with her family. , In 1973, Dr. Zawacki, he ad surgeon of the burn ward; expressed an urgen t need fo r surgical instruments to be used on the hands and face. At that ti me it was ne cessary fo r him to borrow the instrumen ts from another hospital. If th ese ins tru m ents were in use D r. Zawacki did without th em . After a y ear of fund raising ac tivi ties, we were ab le to p urchase the ins trumen ts at a cost o f $1,60 0. Because of an unexpected disco u nt on the instr uments, w e were left wi th extr a money . With this money we bo ught co lo r te levisio ns for the patients in th e .in ten sive care u n it at t he bum ward. These are the only diversion the b ur n patien ts have fro m themselves and their pain. This year, 1974, our goal is to provide eight badly needed isolation units of which there are none at t his time . One of the main problems with severely burned patients is infection. These units would provide a sterile atmosphere and alleviate the problem . Readers of Cycle N ews ca n help by entering our fund raising enduro October 27, the SRA Hook and Ladder Enduro . The $8 .50 entry fee is tax deductible. WO:'IAWS AUXILIARY PASADENA FIRE DEPARDIEl\'T Pasadena, Calif. Terry who? Regarding A~ IA ' s President Terry Tieman 's remarks , co nc ern ing NASCAR in h is September 17 issue of Cycle N ew s interview, quo te : "NASCAR has one pr oblem. Politics . One of th e be st things AMA has are co mp etiti o n people . They've bee n there , et c., and have had di rt th ro wn in the ir face s and have fallen down ." I suggest President Tiernan do his homework better. Here are the facts on NASCAR personnel: Bill France, Sr. - An ex -race driver who drove on many a dusty dirt track. Bob Sail, Eastern Dire ctor - One of t he ail-time AAA greats back when men were m en in auto racing. Bob Barkhimer, Western Director Veteran of more than 1,000 au to races, seriously inju re d t wice, et c . A rt At kinson, So uthe rn California Dir ector - Former California J alop y Associa tio n Ch ampi o n , d ri ver in m an y e v en t s a t W e st ern an d Ga rdena Speed ways . Bill Amick, No rt h Western Director Another all- t ime grea t in th e ranks of late mod el stock car raci ng, one of the fines t. An d the list goes on and on. Now to A.\ IA. Terry Tiernan, Who? Ed Youngblood . What? Bill Boyce; perhaps a race or two. , And the list goes on . Mr, Tiernan, as one of the to p men at Yamaha, should not be Preside nt of A.\IA as he has a direct. co n tli ct of interest. Yamah a signs up top riders then refus es them permission to ~o mp e t e in the smaller even ts th at are th e basic backbone o f A:\IA racing. By this action they o p e ra te in restraint of trade, so to speak, as the y deprive the paying public of the services of A:>.IA's finest. This action hu rts A:\IA, t he publ ic , the pr o mo ter who does play an important par t in t he building of AMA , and the co mpetitor himsel f. I, perso nally requested the services of Kenny ,Rob erts las t year fo r o ur races at th e Co w Palace in San Francisco and was willing to pa y extra fo r Kenny. J im Do yle, Ken 's agent , turned m e do wn with th e state me n t th at Yamaha had too mu ch inv ested in Ken to allo w him to run indoors (t he safest fo rm of moto rcycle rac e ye t devised ). A pol icy li ke th is makes a mockery of hav ing Yamaha 's to p man as President of A.\IA. I suggest a neutral p ers o n , possibly a di st ributor of mo to rcycl e parts as past President Mr . Kelly . 1IIr. Tiernan is wi thout q uestion a capable pe rso n , intelligent, but he is lacking in the d o w n -t o- e ar th knowledge of racing, be it cars o r motorcycles. BOB BARKHIMER Scotts Va lley , Calif. A .I1A Presiden t Tiernan is a f orm er A ma teur racer . . . Ed. MXing for Mom and apple pie I'm writing in reply to Mr , Davis' un called for voi ced o p in ion s abo ut Brad . Lackey. He is diss atisfied (o r ma ybe jealous) of th e immaculate co verage which Cycle N ew s has given th e United States' sale entry in the 500 Worl d Cham pionship. It j ust so happen s t hat Brad Lackey is o ne of t he top ten 500cc motocrossers in the worl d . lie 's o nly 20 years old and already rid ing with the best of them. Besides th at, he's all outasight dude doi ng his thi ng fo r M orn and apple pie . All us kid s ba ck in the states li ke to kee p t ra ck of what he's up to, and as a ma tt er of fact, h is right profile loo ks a bit like Pe ter Fonda. We reali ze t ha t there are mo re impor ta nt things to repor t o n a t internat ional MX th an th e American Team, suc h as the type of pap er used in I sure would like to know what kid you have writing th e colu m n on Ascot . lie o r she see ms to neg lect the biggest Junior winner a t Ascot this year. I am speaking of Alex Jorgensen No. 62z. Asco t is not the o nly track he has won o n; he won two in a row at Ch ula Vista befo re th ey discou ntinued the Al\IA lIal f-mi le th ere, no t to m ention the mil e at S tockto n . Anyone pi ckin g up your pa pe r and readi ng i t fo r t h e first tim e would think Alex just lu ck ed out and won o ne . Few if an y . would kn ow th at th is Junio r rider was unbea ten in th e mon th of June and th at he is also unbeaten by any othe r J unio r rider in th e mo n th of July . !lis T riumph is stic tly privateer. I kno w , fo r I am owner and tuner of t his b ike. • We both buy yo ur paper every wee k hoping that t he re will be a p icture or wo rthw hile article about him wh ich would be a far bigger purse th an they pay for hi s wins at Ascot. Let 's no t forget tha t t hese Jun io rs and N ovices are the co ming stars of to morrow and a little pat on the back can go a lo ng way . J TONY GUTI ER REZ Santa Paul a. Calif. Attention wives of has-beens Wh ere was the man of the h ou se last Sunday ? Did he lie in bed until. ten, then move to th e co uc h for another one of th ose "fun" Sundays with the t von all day . Are you st ill sweepi ng up the crumbs from around his favorite chair, or did you h ustl e him out to the garage fo r a good cleaning? Why no t give hi m and the fa mily a brea k? Just because he's thirty or over does n 't mean he's all washed up ! Yo u can load up his b ike and bring him on over to us, th e Over th e Hill Gan g. We'll mount th e ol d war ri o r o n his st eed an d see tha t he gets all th e fresh air , sunshin e and exercise he needs. The co uple of p o und s he'll lose will. be good fo r his heart and riding with men his own age will be a tonic-to his ego . Besides, you'll mee t other nice famil ies and probably enjoy the day yourself. li e can leave the crum bs at th e par k and you can go ho me to a clean livin g roo m. Think of the wear an d tear you'll save on the boob tube ! Over the 1Ii11 Gang for Men Thirty and Over - Riding, Racing and Family Outings . We meet at Santana's , Topanga Canyon Boul evard near Sherman Way in Canoga Park at 8 p .m . on the first Wed nesday of eac h month . For more information, ca ll Rotten Ric k at (2 13) 455·1945. "ROTTEN RICK" HALLMARK Topanga. Calif. Nice letter I just wan ted to sa y thanks for yo ur super trial s co ve rage. I re ali ze yo u h ave a space problem, but thanks for giving us trials riders a littl e ro o m an yhow. Yo ur fri end and loy a l subscriber. DO N BUXTON San Diego, Calif. TV sponsors know I.ets he ar it for all t hose television sponsors who are usi ng bikes as the ir theme in thei r co m m erc ia ls! Guess they are finally reali zing that th ey h ave a very large au dien ce in us poor littl e b ike types. MARI E KING Lo mita, Cali f.

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