Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

INSIDE Poop Mo dez! I would like to see m o re th an a co lu mn of sp ace given to the District 3 7 de sert races. J im Ste wart seems to be doing a good job . .. 2 PHI L LIP VICTOR Hun tington Beach, Ca lif. Papa babbles away . Voices 4 A letter a week Pot sho ts & t han k yews. Dallas Nat'l ST 6 Guess who? Yawn. Imola 200 -.. ..- 0.. -< 8 Ce co tto ta kes European Daytona. Sr/Am Match RR 10 British burned playing with American mat ches. Ascot H-Mile French GP 12 14 Multi mix up. ATA tria l local issues North Calendar Sultaco MK VIII Results Span ish GP 16 18 24 26 30 32 35 Something o ld, so m eth in g new , Bimbos bl ue. Want Ads 36 ON THE COV ER: Chargin out of the bullpen. Pho t o wizardry by John Hu etter. Sharo n Clayto n. Pu blis her Edna xtewt on . Secre tary to Publish er . Adverti sing Lind a Clar k. Ad vertisin g ~l a n a gC' r. Gil Bro wn. Nat ion al Ad vertisin g Mana ger : Chris Kolb er , Adve rtisin g Assista n t. Edito rial Richard Cre ed . Edito r ; Lane Campb ell. Editor, Jef f Pec k. Assist a n t Edi tor. Bob i Scott . Secretary and Cale ndar. Art and Production C a t her in e La m p to n. Art Director; Nancy Gray . Advertising Art Direct or; H e c t o r A guil er a . La b T ec hn ic ian ; Mar ion Hatashi t a, Typ ogr a pher . Circu lat ion Rhe ba Sm it h. :\tan ager ; Pam Ho bbs an d Ch ris An drew s, Assistants. Acco un ti n g G a v len e Z a i o n z , Man a ge r : Twila Whe eler. J ud y Fo uts. ~ like Klin ger. J e a n n e H amm o nd , Assista nts : T om Hunter . Lan i Sien ko Cred it Depart men t. Serv ice s & Suppo rt ~li k e Colikas: Bru ce ~1a cC re go r ; Bill Run yan; J eanni e Duniva n. Rece pt io nist. West P.O. Box 498 . Long Beach. CA 90801. (2 13) 4 2 7-74 33: L.A . Line 636·8 844. East P.O . Bo x 8 05, Tucke r. GA 30084. (4 04 ) 934·7850. Central P.O . Box 13245, Austin. TX 78 711. (5 12) 444-7548. Anonymously distressed To CN's soothsayer As a subscrib er , a cycle parent, a Ch ris tia n, and a good m o ral ci tize n, I feel co m pelle d to writ e my co m plain t o n you r Ap ril 1 issu e. I thought by m ist ake we h ad received an ad ult trash newspape r or u nd ergro u nd literature of so m e kind . From time to t im e yo u have had so me dis tasteful ad s for a fam ily type newsp ap er, b ut you re ally went all the way in this issue. No d oubt you must have some of the se so called gay people on y o u r sta ff to co me u p with this k ind o f trash a nd perversion. In t he p ast we ha ve loo ke d fo rwar d to yo u r pap er to read abo u t cy cle ra cing and well deserved riders . Why should we have to read ab o u t mixed -u p perverted people and t hei r sex lives. We have spent a lo t o f our ti me a nd money to try and keep o u r y o u n gst ers o c c u p i e d, in t ereste d in worthwhile activities, to develop their m inds a nd bodies into o utstand ing normal and well adjust ed human beings. and we resent yo u r advertisement an d encou rag e men t o n ho mosexual and bisexual habits. J ust be c ause there are a few o f these weakminded degraded perverts, don't tr y and infl uen ce and co rru p t others. I realize th at this is a movement in this cou ntry to d o wn grade an d break down our yo u th and thei r mo ra ls, but I p ray th at th ere are othe r parents who will kee p fightin g to try and b ri ng u p ou r offsprings t o grow t o beco me good self res pecting ci tizens who will o ne d ay be t he leader s of th is still gre at co u n try . Altho ugh it is tr u e that t he 4ger End uro has never go ne fo r need of riders, wh en the limit is fille d (t his y ear 75 0 riders ) we like to be the o n es to p u t o ut the word. Af ter giving th e en t ire Po lka Do t m embe rship t he third, fou rth an d fif th d egree I was unabl e t o fi nd the s o u r c e of your infor ma tion of ap proximately Mar ch 15, th at all e n tries were fille d. Su re ly yo u wouldn ' t prin t hearsay. The o nly co ncl usio n tha t I c o u ld co m e t o, was that you r informati on ca me fro m so me d evin e so urce , i.e, so o thsa ye r o r possibly MX Cat. At a ny rate it's of ficial, en tries for this y ear 's 49er National En du ro are closed and th e drawing has been held. For your readers who wer e a d ay or so late , drop us a line, we will be m o re than ha p p y to p lace them on next yea r's mailing list . Keep u p th e good wo r k Cycl e News, yo u r slip-ups are fe w an d far between. A V ERY DISTRESS ED AN D DI SAPPOI NT E D SUBSCRIBE R What do you say to an anon ymous mo ra l Ch ristian ? P e a c e , bro ther . . _ Editor True Grit Charley Ro llins and 1 have been riding to get her fo r abo ut th re e years. lIe was involved in a bike-car accident and now is paralyze d fr om the chest d o wn. Well, Charley wan ted to ride his bike agai n - it's a Ya maha 2 50 MX. We t oo k h im out a nd he got o n t ha t bike with a little help fro m me. He rode th at bike jus t like he used t o, except a lit tle slower, All I have to say is hats off to Charley , he has guts . . . G EN E NO RTH RU P La Cr escen t ao Calif. Subscription One year, second class mai l $1 2.50 ; 2 years. sec o nd class mail, $22 .50: 3 years, seco nd cla ss mai l, 530.00; Singl e co py pri ce , 50 ce nts. CoJ)yr ight Cycle ;\Iews. Inc. 19 75 . T ude mar k registered U.S. Pat ent O ffice . All right rese rved . Publ ish ed wee ki> ex cept the first and last week " 1 o f th e cale ndar y ea r by Cy cle New s. Inc .. 1 .0 . Box -49 K, Lung Beach. Califo rnia . Seco nd c1.Uli po stage p aid at Long (leach . C A. Edi to ria l st o ries , ca rt nuns. p ho to s. e tc . arc wdco me, Ad dressed , st a mpe d en velo pe ass ures re t u rn o f unpurchased ed uo rial matter , Rep rinting in whole or p ar t only b y perm issio n o f th e publishers. Adv t"rtising ra te s au d c rrr ula riou information will be sent upon request . SC' e S.R.D.S. Ooohh, the pain ! A t the May wood MC ha re scrambles March 29 , Chris J ohnson was struc k whil e t ry in g to re mou n t his bike afte r a fall . The acci den t resulted in a b roke n rib, a bruised pa ncreas . rem oval of t he sp leen and a bru ised left kidney . li e was operated o n March 30 a nd is st ill in in tensive ca re. An y ge t well ca rds would be greatly ap p re cia ted b y Ch ris. He 's at 2 703 1 8 2 n d P Iac e. Redondo Beach, CA 90278. ~IlKE & DENNY VORNDRAN Red ond o Beac h . Calif. G ENE H ERNDON 49x Secretary, Pol ka Dots MC Sacramen to , Ca lif. Cash withdrawal To foll ow-up o u r co nve rsation o f Marc h 2 3, 19 75 , I'll ex plain m y reasons for withdrawal of our cas h award for yo ur six ho u r Productio n Even t (at On tario) . Ou r crew , alo ng with m o st o th ers, had t o wait al mos t on e half ho u r in line sim p ly to pay o ur entry fe es. When " allo wed" to pay we we re co nfro nted wit h a co m p le x sc he m e for ad m issio n. When we e ntered the trac k we were forced t o sta y outs ide th e p it area unless we paid an additio nal fee fo r en teri ng th e pits wi th our m ach ine. . While we real ize the A FM was no t the ins t iga tor o f th is petty nonsense, it is you r responsibility to st age th e eve nt. We ma y allo w ourselves to be treated poorly (an d fed poorly - the co nc essio n stand is a st ory by its elf ) and co n ti n ue to r ace . We will no t vo lu ntarily co n trib u t e to a n eve nt held under these circu m stan ces. JAMES G. DICKINSON Presid en t , Act ion Fo urs San ta Ana , Calif. "Class" of the South I would lik e to take this opportunity to prais e two o f the most co nge n ial m en I've eve r m et , St u Peters and Kel vin Franks of C.M.C. South . Twelve o f us left the San Fr an cisc o Bay ar ea Mar ch 2 1, 1975 for a we ekend o f raci ng in th e Los Angeles are a. We 'did n ' t know what t o e xp e ct when w e invaded th e So ut hland b ut th ese t wo m en took us unde r th eir win g and hel pe d to m a ke o u r wee ke nd much easier an d m ore e njo yab le. . The "class " of these two gentleme n is shown by the way t hey run C.M. C. South. We had neve r seen an y ra ce run so sm o othly. EMIL RADLOFF Alameda, Calif. What woul d happen if every 0-3 7 cl ub member wro te a l e t te r to Sacra m en to every wee k? Bi kers would have m ore land to rid e on t han Carters has pills, that's what! Every m em ber of t he Dir t Diggers does it. All we do is ca tch everyone together at our club meeting. Pass o ut three o r fo ur differen t sizes of pa per and e nvelopes alo n g with various pen cil s and pe ns so they all loo k d iff erent. T he n place an ad dress and letter with a m odel co ntent up fro n t whe re it 's easily visibl e. Everyone then wri t es the letter down in th eir o wn words an d signs it as a n ind i v i du al (b u t not as a cl ub me m ber) . This way , th ey 're not for m letters but in stead ha nd wr itten, rnispe lled, fro m th e heart letters which rep resen t 500 persons to th e po lit ici an. That m eans th e Diggers alo ne are cranking o ut 20 ,0 0 0 vo tes wor th a wee k. This is th e way the Sierra Clu b do es it , so get goi ng. GARY WOODLING Dirt Diggers M.C . To clarify the correction In yo ur Ap ril 8 issue the letter fro m the cr owd at Berkeley Yamaha stated Eddie Lawson 's win (Asco t TT March 2) was awarded to John Pro to. The reason fo r this was a technicality o n the pap er work in getting the Cooper Eddie rode AMA approved. which has since been done. This is only to clarify th e re ason the wi n was ta ken away fro m Eddie. AN ED DIE LAWSON FAN Ontario, Calif. "Teddy Bear Grand Prix" I rode t he " Great Bear GP" Ap ril 6 , and co ul d not b elieve th ey would st op th is kind o f ra ce because of a little rain. We d ro ve down from th e Bay Area to di ce it out with the SoCal riders and go t b u r n e d fo r a cru m m y fiv e laps .. . Thumbs down t o OCMC fo r th is race and t han ks fo r no th in g. DAVID G. PICKE TT Weazel Racing Team San Carl o s, Cali f. Mota-psychology Fra nk Conner's article on Sex and Cycles, I feel, was a was te of time fo r your paper . . . If I eve r wa nted t o read this kin d of article, I would expect t o b uy a copy of Psych ology Today , not Cycle News . . . I fail to see th e rel evance of the sex lives of three homosexuals and the sport o f motorcycl in g. KAY CORPE Richmond , Calif. Nobody's safe any more Apparently the ne ws co vered a short o n a motorcycle rider that had adop t ed a protective air-bag General Moto rs use d to use in their dashboards. He strap p ed the pack onto a d u m my, who ro d e the cycle into a car an d m easu red 9 5% pro t ect ion . .. . wh atever t ha t m eans. I need to know who this m an is and where he can be lo cat ed. It is getting t o be re al ly im porta n t that the hot-dog hang glide rs here be given a cha nce to recover from a crash. There is no reas on why t h is co uld n 't serv e as a co un te rpart to the parachute. JON W. WALBE RT, J R. 11 25 Youn g s t., Apt. 70 9 Ho nolulu , HI 9 6814 The views ex pressed in this colu mn and o t her co lumns appearing on th e fo llo wing pages are solely those of the auth ors and do no t nec essarily reflect th e official position of Cycle News West or Cycl e News, Inc. Qualified readers wishin g fr ee and eq ual rebuttal space sho uld co nta ct th e Editor.

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