Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

INSIDE Greenies Help! Please help! We n eed form letters presentin g the b iker's position on u pcoming legislati on . Cycle N ews is in the un iq ue sit uation of bei ng able to access a vas t distributio n with timel y and info nned letters. I'm su re that large nu mbers o f us read er s would be an xious to rush such letters t o the people wit h th e power. if they were provided, pre-writ ten. Han d written perso nal letter s are generall y conside red by legislat ors to represent th e greate st vo tin g bloc (I was on ce t ol d 400-800 vo te rs per letter). Unfort una tely we are n o t writing th ese essenti al letters. Your assistance m igh t enable us t o mak e a significan t impact . The Sierra Clu b stuff s t he legislator's 3 Kawasaki's 1975 ta rmac effort Hello, Rudy, , . , 6 AM F 's top scra tc he r an d his fast collection of spare part s leapin ' leprechauns 9 Pre-riding an ISD T Qu alifier with Schneiders and the Shamro cks 00 Damp dirt 10 t Sweet Ass, fist icu ffs an d de sert sunshin e Ask E.C 16 Our res id ent el f ta ckles the TM 250 oil injector Bouncy rears , mail boxes; we must d o so also . I desperately hope th at Cy cle News 18 will assu me the responsibility fo r facilitatin g t his critical ste p towa rd surv ival. Al.ICE LE ROY Sant a An a, Calif. $ 70 an inch is a cheap thrill ? Unbreako , 20 Maico's m o no li th ic 250 Enduro , ..• .• , .22 North Speedway East 27 Cali fornia boys m ake good Hear this! Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Results 32 34 Cat., 1 have just returned from a sh o rt rid e in th e de sert whe re I was stopped by a officer, mounted on a police dirt G reen- Stic ker-Mo ne y-p urc h ase d bi ke , who informed me th at stunt-rid in g is illegal! 1 had held th e fro n t wh eel off th e gro und wh ile nego t iat in g a sh ort series o f whoop- dee-de s. How else d o y ou get ove r them ! Go o d grief ! Anti-mo to rcycling o rdinances in Fremont! Anti-motorcy cling o rdinances in Newark ! Hassle s in the open desert ! The Great White Father is protect ing us into extinctio n ! No w hear th is: Execu tive Order 1 1644 is th e brai n-p rod uct of t he selfis h mind of an admitted felon . How sad. t hat the Am erican public shall ultim ately be ruled o ff the land through the polit ical co n trivances of su ch an unwo rth y trio as Nixon, Agnew, and Mit chell. have in California Th en we opportunists wh o still find a way to mi lk vo te s (and monies in to t heir co ffers) in t he fo nn of Senato rs Alan Cranston and Gene T unney who cater to those same self-interest groups by procl aimi ng all pu bli c lan ds an Enviro nm en tal Preserve; We have also o ur hard-drinking legisla tor, Ed win Zeeberg, who sat out a term in jail convict ed o f drun k-dri vin g, collect ing " per di em " from the citize ns of California while in car cerated ! He also co llab o ra te d with Mr . Cha p p ie to write th e Great California Ripoff - the birth of th e Green St icker . Beh old too: William Penn . MOll Jr. He mouths dubious pl atitudes as he builds his A cultural triumph ON THE F RON T PAG E: Cameras zero in o n Gaylon Mosi er at Saddleback, The man behin d o urs was Mike Klinger. Sharon Clayton. Publisher Edna Mewton, Secretary to Pu blisher. Ad ve r ~ :i ng Linda Clark, Ad ver t ising Manager. Gil Brown, Na tio nal Adver tising Manager ; O1ris Kol be r, Advertising Assistant. Editorial O>arIes C1. yton . Ed itor: Lane Campbell , Assistant Edi tor. Bob i Scott . Secretary and Calendar. Art & Pr od ucti on Catherine Lampton . Art Director; Nan cy Gray . Advertising Art Dir ect or : Aguilera. Lab Te chni cian ; Hector Mari on Ha tash ita , Typographer. CiraJlation Rh eb a Smith. Manage r : Pam Hobbs and OUls Andre ws. Assistants . Accounting Ga ylene Zaion z, ~{anagcr; Twila wh eeler , J ud y Fo u ts . Lane Sien k & Mike Klinger . Assistan ts ; Gary Ginn . Credit :\lanager. Services & Support Mike Colikas: Randy Davis: Bill Ru nyan : Jeann ie Dun ivan, Rece p tio nist. West P.O . Bo x 4 9 8 , Long Beach. CA 9080 I. (2 13 ) 4 2 7-74 33 : L.A . Line 6 36-88 44 . East P.O . Bo x 8 05 , Tucker. G A 3 0084 . (4 ().1 ) 934·7850 . Central P.O . Box 1324 5 , A ust in , TX 78711 . (5 12 ) 444-754 8 , Subscription On e year . sec o n d clas s mail 51 2.50 ; 2 years , seco nd class mail . S2 2.50 : 3 years. second class mai l , S30.00 ; Sin gle co p y. price . 50 ce n ts . Cop yri gh t Cvcle S ewJo, tnc. 19 75. Trad e ma r k regist e red U.S. Pa tent Office . A ll r igh t re se rved . Pu bl ish ed wee kly CXCl1>1 th e firs t a nd last wee k of th e cal e nda r yea r b v Cvc le Xews, Inc.• 1'.0 . Uox 4 9 8. Lo ng Beach . Cal ifo rn ia. Second r1 a s~ lJOst.agc paid a t Lo ng Beach. CA. Ed it o rial stones . cart co m. ph o to s, et c. a rt' w elc o me. Addre ssed , st am ped e nvelo pe .I.S5Ufn re t urn of un p urc h nsed editoria l mau er. Repnn tffig In who le o r Poll' o nly by perrn u sson c t the ! publish en . Ad\·n-t lsin g r ates a nd CIrcul ation mformanon will be sem upon reques t. ~C (" 4 S .R .D . ~ . ,, bu reau c ratic empire - aware o f the traged y th at happened on th e co urse. I feel t ha t if th is ind ivid ua l had been wan tin g to race, he should h av e go ne to a desert race in s te a d of a "famil y" en duro . I know that when yo u get 1400 en tri es , yo u are bound to have so me pi t raci n g and some racin g on th e co urse. St ill, the clubs should do every thing they possibly can t o alleviate th e p roblem . This inc ludes disq ualificatio n for riders fo un d pit racin g. I'm no t p reachi ng disqualifica t ion as a cu re-all, but o nce ride rs fo und out that pit racing was no t goi ng to be tolerated by th e sponsoring club, th en I ser iously bel ieve the incidents o f pit raci ng would dr op trem en dously. Th e U RA had seve ral people o u t " pit racer huntin g" after th e event, and 1 ap plaud th em for t a kin g a step in t he right di rection, but stiffer en fo rcement of anti-pit racin g rules is needed. SCOTT SPEIGHTS Bak ers field , Calif. Motorcycling as an art form This is a motorcy cle sculpture I've been working on for the past couple of months. It is entitled " Sp ee dwa y " and 1 have attempted to capture the spirit of the speedway rider as he sets up for turn one. It stands about nine inches tall and is made from co p per tubing, nuts, bolts, washers, wire, old coathangers an d scrap metal lying around the shop. th e California Department o f Parks and Recr eation s. They get six buck s of every Gree n St icker purchased ! When will we . the citi zens, the taxpayers. we , wh o p ay their bloated salaries - wak e up and wo rk fo r the co m mo n in terests o f Californian s? Make yo u rselves heard at th e loc al Council leve l - Hear th is: More so und - m ore gro und: in polit ics ! ! Hear th is o nce aga in : Legislation a ffecti ng p ar ti cu lar areas o f th is st at e sh ould be co ntrolled by those cit izens Iocal lv af fected. Loc al environ mental ordi nances sh ould be voted upon by local ci tiz ens - not Fede ral o r State appoin tee di ctatorships! Th is is still a demo cracy : we akening perhaps. b u t still yo ur Co untry . If we don't have th e gu ts to stan d up and be heard at Cit y Co uncil m eet ings - we deserv e e xa ctl y wh at we will get - no thing! Get off th e sho ulders of th c Russ Sanfo rds, th e Lane Cam pbells, th e Clay t o ns. Do y our share o f faci ng th e resp on sibil it ies. When does your Cit y Council mee t ? REA L ~I EAI'\ CUS S RO BE RT M. CURNUTT' Rid gecrest , Calif. Disqualify pit racers As a co nc e rn ed rider, I feci tha t the re m ust be so meth in g do ne abo ut the problem o f pi t rac ing and unau th o rized peop le ridi ng on endu ro co urses . Case in point is th e rece n t UR A "Frostv Cact us ' En d uro. I am su re you are ~ r .. ., • A lice, handing y ou or an ybody a sheaf of form letters to copy would be a dange rous cop-ou t. Dangerous because legislators ' staff people arc no t , d um mies ; they con recogn ize form letters. You 're right, th ey do assign values to lett ers: Original, m issp elled , ungrammatical letters that co me f ro m th e heart cou nt 400 to 80 0. Signatures on pe titions, and co pied f orm lett ers coun t one each. Get th e picture ? You kn ow ho w you f eel ab out riding and fr eedom . and you read abou t th e issues in Cy cle News. We also pr int addresses to write to. Don 't be belligerent, rude or negative, and yo ur heart -felt f eelings will co me through. That 's what a gut p olitician un derstands . . _ L C. What's with S.A.M.? Aft er th e alleged MX at Asco t on J anuary 25 th we wonder wh a t is going on with J im Manning and S_A.M.? Af ter stressing safety at th e rid ers ' meeting t hey put every ride r atten di ng on t he co u rse at once for three lap s for TV. They allow ed two different riders to ride the same bike in the 125 Expert rnotos. Who gets the points? They let the kids have a "resounding" four laps in each of the last two motos and the advertised 10 minute first motos avera ged eigh t minu tes. They allowed riders to switch bikes. Maybe changin g from one Honda to another Honda is difficult to pick up but swit ch ing from a Honda to a Penton is not. Do they really have a set policy for qualifying fo r the Super Bowl of Motocross? If they do maybe it would be a go od idea to put it in writing so it doesn't ge t chan ged every week . The id ea most of th e kids have now is th is is just ano th er b ig rip o ff. RANDY HOFFMAN Torrance, Calif. Uh, is it MCM lV. or MlMlV I? Mr. Sch nei de rs is o n the righ t tr ack abo u t tieb reak ers in e ndu res, but h is m etho d leaves a Ii t tl e to be desired. What happens when a ' t ag-alo ng rider pu lls into a chec k and starts scratch ing his head or so mething while trying to gu ess? Some savvy riders mi gh t get held up in th e chec ks if en ough du m m ies show up. This is ass umi ng th at th e che cks will be ma nned by th e usual nu m ber o f pe ople. It doe ~n ' t seem t ha t the re will be 20 people at each chec k, whi ch is abo ut the nece ssa ry numb er fo r this In th e near fu t ure, I pl an to sta rt on seve ral o ther motorcy cles and th e ty pe s of co m pe t it io n they represen t. Am ong th em will be m oto cross. trials, and ro ad racin g. I've b een a rider and en thusiast for t he past 10 yea rs. type of t iebreak er . A better wav would be to ha ve the rid e rs ride th e 'Ias t 10 or so miles with no previou s sch edu le. Just post th em o n th e co u rse as is n o w don e with th e kn own speed cha nges and key tim es. Th ey co uld s till use the second-hand at these c h ec ks an d it w ould se parate th e real tim e ke ep er s fro m the tag-alon gs. Th ere co u ld b e t wo chec ks in the 10 m iles section with no trou ble . A nyho w, it's a tho ught. MICHA EL A. RAY Rosem ead , Cali f. AR T \\' H Il':'\ EY Lo ng Beach . 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