Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

Keep those cods and lettuce coming Moto-AMA 6 Gr ogg/ Gr ab be r grabber Thump 8 XLsinore for the Dez Speedway . . _ Opin ion 12 14, 16 Though ts on flunking, co as tin g , and othe r risks Russki Bikeski _ 17 Tavarisc h, yo u do n 't want a machine gun mount? Learning 18, 20 Barst o w-Vegas t he ha rd way, Moto cr o ss m ad e easy Desert 22 A d o uble , dry , on the rocks Endu ros 23 , 34 Puck er up, yo u foo l Trans-AMA 24 Not to he co nfus ed with Moto -AMA, a bo ve North. _ Results _ Calendar 26 30 38 O N THE FRO NT PA GE: T rans-AMA start ac tion at Road Atl anta with J im West leading th e 50 0cc tr oupe in to the first tu m . Phot o hy Ch ar les Mor ey. Brad Lackey fan d ub In th e October 1, 1974 Voi ces , Steve Cornett, p re sident of the SoCal Brad Lac key fa n club wrote in. Did he leav e an y kind o f in fo rma tio n o r ad d re ss abou t a way t o join th e SoC al Brad Lackey fan club? Help would be greatly ap p recia te d because m e and m y b ud d ies real ly want to jo in. J AIM E BOGAN E 14 11 Man hattan Ave. Manh atta n Beach, Calif. 90266 No, but we are printing yo ur ad dress so you ma y be co ntacte d . . . Ed itor. Lammy, Jimmy, Pee Wee & Jack Sharon Clayton , Publisher Ed na Mewton , Se cret ary to Publish er . Advert ising Linda Cla rk , Advert ising Man ager : Chris Kel ber. Ad verti sin g Assistant. Editor ial OJ.ar les Cla y t on, Edi t or; Lane Camp bell, Assistant Editor ; Bo bi Scott, Secretary & Calendar. An & Production Cat he rine Lampt on, Art D ire ctor; Nan c y Gray, Adverti sin g Art Dire c t or; Aguilera ; l.ab T ec h ni cian , Hec tor Mari on I-Iatashita , Typographer; Mel vin Phelps. A ssistant Typographer. Circu lati on Rheba S mith, Man ager ; Pam Ho bbs & Chris Andrews. Assistants. Acmunti ng Gave Zaio nz, Man ager: TwiIa Wheeler , Linda Mallard ,Judy Fo uts & Lani Sienko Assistants ; Gary G inn. Credit "fanager. Services & Support Mike .Co likas : Rand y Da vis ; Bill Ru n y an : J eannie D u nivan . Receptionist . West P.O. Box 498. Lon g Beach. CA 908 0 1 (2 13 ) 42 7· 74 33; 1•.A. Line 6 36 -8 844. east P.O. 1I0x 805 . Tucker, GA 3 0 084 (4 0 4 ) 9 34 · 78 50 . Central P.O. Box 13 245 . Au stin. TX 78 7 11. (512) 444· 7548. Subscri ption On e vea r , second class ma il 512.50; 2 years. second cl ass m ail, S22.50: 3 years, seco nd cl ass m ai l. 530.00: Si ng le cop y p rice. 50 ce n ts . Cup yr il{hl Cyelo:" News, In c 19 74. T rade m.r k ro:"K;sler o:"d U.S . Pat en I Office. All ri Rh t ~ reserve d . ru hli ~hC"d wo:"l"k ly e xr-ept the fil'llt a nd lillIl we ek of 'he r- te-n a dar year by Cydc X('ws , In c . P.O . Box 49K, Lon e Be..ch, Cot. lifornia. Second d U I pOllt;"J:C" paid ;11 Lo ng Be ach , CA . Ednorial sto rici . 1,.",'loonl . photos, e re, are we k omt' . Ad dressed, Il MOpe d envelopt ...su r~ ~lurn o f un pu rch "'St"d ledit ori ;al m atte r , Ro:"prin tin st: in w ho le o r p u t o n ly by permesion IIf thr pubhshers. Advn'lisin/{ ra tes and c irc ulation in form,llion w in hoC' K'n l u pon re q uest. Se e 4 S.R.D.S. Interesting p ic on page 4 (lower left ) of yo u r A . M . A . Anniversa ry suppleme nt. L o o k s sort of li k e W il b u r Lamou re aux on th e left, J immy Ph illips and co uld th at po ssibl y be Pee Wee Cullum between h im a nd J ack Milne on the right ? Lam my had a flin g sla mming a litt le Singer aro u nd the sports car ci rcuit after his bi ke ra cing days; lat er d yin g o f ca nce r , I beli eve. J immy unfortuna tel y lo st h is life in a ra ci ng acciden t. J ac k Miln e is still ar ound. o f co urs e, a nd could clarify th e works in case yo ur littl e ca p tio n attrac te d en ough fla k from o ld gee zers to make it wo rth whi le. J. G. MILLS Sa nta Barbara , Calif. Yo u're right. th e p ictu re cap t ion had Lamrny and Milne reversed . . . Ed it or. appalling, th e never-ending str ea m of asinine drivel a t th e cos t of some co nstruct ive obser vation an d co m me n t. One would think the announcer's firs t purpo se was t o sell programs , secondly to "talk" (his fr iend ?) Mr. McLaughlin to in st ant stardom . He see med to have but a superficial kn owled ge of hi s su bject a t be st. What ever h appen ed to Mr. Ro ckw ood? As I am a n ad ult so me mi gh t feel that my co ndem na tio n of th is nuisan ce was d u e to th e fas h io na b le gen eration gap . Ho weve r, during the second day of t he t a ped " g o ll y g e e woopee enthusiastic school of in tervi ews:' I obtained a co nse ns us of t hose a ro und me for quite a distance. It was un an im ous. L .JI. was a pain in the neck. It used to be that o ne looked at the entries before attendi ng a mee ting, no w it will be be to chec k the a n no u ncer . COLI N LE S LIE FGX Va n Nuy s. Calif. KE ITII TALL EY Co o rd ina tor, Deer Vall ey Cycle Par k Ph o en ix , Ar iz . Lumpin ' Larry Aft r tw o d ays in the Ontario Victpry Circle section I doub t if we will evel return , even if the vo lu m e is de creased o n th e p.a, sy s te m. It was " Lack ing f eeling ?"That hurt! ... Ed . Fan mail I've been intending to write you to compliment th e exc ellen t editorial co n tent o f Cy cle N ew s and its improvement over th e years . And as usual, I kept putting it off, but now so m e th ing has been printed th at requires co m m en t. I'm referrin g to th e pie ce on page th re e o f th e Sep tember I 7 issu e wri tten by R o n S c h n eiders and head ed G A~mlT . T his is one of the best thi ngs I ever read in a specialis t publication a nd su pe rior to 9 8% o f the m a terial a ppearing in th e pe riodicals th a t s u p pose dly h av e hi gher literary sta ndards . Actually , I p ro bably sho ul d n 't single o ut this p articu lar piece becau se it is jus t o ne of m a ny ex cell ent ar ticles that have appeared ove r th e last ye ar o r so . DO UG RICHMO ND Oakland. Cal if. Puff in' Huffman I th ink Larry Huffm a n is th e gre ates t thing th at ever h appe ned to m otorc ycle ra cin g. He is a grea t guy as a pers on a nd a ver y good , e xperi enc ed an no unc er. lIe kn ows a great d eal about all aspec ts of th e sport a nd with his kn owledge, se ns e of humor and iron vocal cords he do es a gre at deal to make a mellow ra ce go o d, a go od race great and a great race bitchin. I re ally appreciate h im. BOB SLOAN San Diego, Calif. Phoenix has a cycle park T he Ph o en ix Parks and Recre at ion Dep artm ent is o perati ng a m otorcycl e park wh ich is a fen ced 240 ac re a rea outsi de o f th e City . The City pays a coord inator an d two part -time staff traine d in first-aid to o perate the p ark. At the p resen t ti m e. th e par k o perates on wee kends fro m 7 a .m .- d usk . The p a r k includes a scrambles tra ck. m ini-m o t o cro ss track fo r bikes from IOOcc o n down ' a nd a full size mo tocross t rack to be cut the first week in No ve mber . Hill Climbs are held o n a large hill in th e north part of the p ar k. T he pu b lic ' uses th e par k on a $ 1.00/day /bike fee in an effort to make th e p a r k p artiall y self-s us tai ni ng. Helmets are re q ui re d and lea th er fo otwear is en couraged . An ad viso ry bo ard of in teres te d cit izens heIps pla n and co nd uc t acti vi tie s a t th e park. Reve nu e sha ring mon ey was used lo set up th e park'initiall y , a nd the Ci ty pa ys an annual lease to th e St at e for use of the land . Even ts c u rre n tly draw abo u t 100 e n t ra n ts each. Over th e past yea r your paper has reall y gone d own-hill. The ed it o rials hav e be come pr o gressively worse. yo u could even say d ry . . . co verage of all Nationals is a bsolu tely te rri b le, i.e.: no co nsisten t poi n t tall y, start to finis h in a d o zen short paragraphs, e tc. Desert races . Bla .. . Speedway , Bla , sa me patt ern every week. The o n ly coverage th at see ms halfwa y well written is m or o-x. The real it em tha t saves the who le pape r is you r " Poo p " page. No w I reali ze that it's very hard to coord ina te al l of t he items th at go in to a weekly paper, a nd even ha rd er t o ha ve th em well edited. Rut having subscribed to yo ur paper fo r the pa st four yea rs and having gone through some of the o ld is sues, I find your present publ ication reall y lackin g feeling. In finishing, I will pi ck up a co p y o f yo ur paper every so often and see if you've improv ed enough t o warrant my rcsubscrib ing. LE IGH HYATT Un ion City. Calif. Here are Miss Speedway and Huffman , announcing his own receipt of " Mo t or Mout h of th e Ye ar Awa rd ." No loaves, no fishes Havin g attende d many m otorcycle rac es o ver th e last 25 yea rs, ( believe I've paid m y dues en ough to be ab le t o sp e a k. We go to Nationals and no n-Nationals a like . So as yo u can we ll , . appreciat e, I spend a considerable amou nt o f mo ney ea ch year for my wife, daughter a nd myself to attend these races. The point I'm getting to is the Golden Gat e Mile held September 20th. Having paid 527 for tickets and then not being allowed to brin g t he food and drink s we had brought with us into th e trac k b ec au se th e cat erer wanted to . flee ce us wi th his pr ices has left a very bad taste in my mo ut h (no pun intended ). I think the promoter should sta te in th e advertisement wh ether or no t food and drin k will be ad mi tted. In you r case , possibly yo u co uld find o u t when accep ting t he advertise me n t. DAN SPENCER Ojai , Calif. Not DuHamel , either Ch eck Cycle News Volume V Number 28 , Au gust 8, 1968 page eight. On July 14, 19 68 Sammy Tanner finished 15th at th e Portland Mile aboard a 35 0 Yamaha two-stroke. I know six y ears is a long time ago but Sammy was the first. STEVE HONEYCUTT Torrance, Calif. Dan's on Husky Dan Dawson. first Amateur at the Prospector 's Hare and IIound h as departed from his usual Ya maha ride and is now on a 250 Husky sponsored b y his uncle Ph il Dawson an d also Phil Ship ley of ~liss i o n Hills Cycle. DAN'S MO M Chatworth , Calif.

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