Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

Californ ia's fo r September I I , same time.. Written co mmen ts should be sent to Docket Section, N\lTSA, Rm . 5 108, i 4 00 Seventh St., S.W., Washin gt on, D.C. 205 9 0. An yone wishing to make an oral sta te men t at th e hearing sho uld co n tact : Presidin g Of ficer , Sanc t io ns Hearing Board, Rm. 52 19, same s tree t add ress at leas t five days be fo re th e hearing. They Tl want an es ti mate of ti me required. Refer en ce Doc ke t No . 75-20 fo r California's case, No . 75-18 for Ut ah's. Ripoff alert Larry Maiers, general manager of Pen ton Impo rts, called us just before we wen t to press to info rm us of a massive rip-off ca mpaign OJ Z OJ OJ a: c '" z z OJ o BOO! Scared ya , didn't I? Bast Brothers and Bakersfield promoter Digger Helm ham it up on unicycles at half-time. Or maybe th is is the Speedway version of tag ·team wrestling. THE LATEST BY PAPA WEALEY Woo ps ! Yo u folks in terested in riding the Cleveland Nat' . Fo res t, get on down to Valhal la High School, 1725 Hillsd ale Rd., EI Cajon, Califo rnia on August 19 fro m two to ni ne p.m . It's th e last of two open house sessio ns on the Forest Service ORV study for th e area. Go and be prepared to co m men t. There will be no more Last Annual Hopetown Grand Prix! But .. , the Hopetown Grand Prix continues ! Yes fr iends, due to a change in management the Dirt Diggen will again bring you the greatest spectacle in racing at its original location ... Corriganville.Hopetown I The Diggers haven 't opened entries yet, bu t we 'll tell yo u when they do. Remember our report on AB 1801 (I ngall s) as relayed from Russ Sanford? Like a lot of others, we got a form letter say ing the bill wasn 't inte nded to prohibit off-road riding, so there. Now it turns out that Russ and the state's Legislative Counsel were right - AB 1801 could give capricious authority to ban ORV activity on various public lands. Thi s wa s called to Assemblyman Ingalls' attention, and he is thin king about it. To help him think, wr ite Walter M. Inga lls, California State Assembly, State Capitol Bldg., Rm . 2091, Sacramento, CA 95814 and express your displeasure with AB 1801 as it 's presently written. It could be amended to get the bad stuff out. 4 Rai n, rain and more rain made the J uly 19-20 24 Ho urs of Nelson Led ges a race fo r san forized rider s on ly . Heavy thu nderstorms delayed the start of th e race and plagued the even t througho ut. Th e team of Sam Williams and Ken Mallison racked u p a total of 1,748 miles aboard their 900cc Kawasaki for the overall win . Ca nadi ans Bederstein /Kirk/Miekelj o n /Betz of the To rtoi se Racing Team placed second on a 900cc Honda. Ron Pierce collapsed in the pit lane afte r the Laguna Seca National, ove rcome by the heat. A cold towel and a little mouth-to-mouth fint aid by a lady friend revived him. M.O.R.E . is calling fo r a gove rnor's veto o f SB 969 (Collier ) wh ich wo uld assess everybody , moto rcy cli sts inclu ded, $ 1 extra on their licen se renew als and use p art 0 f t he funds for building non-mo torized tr ails. Addr ess is The Honorable Edmund G. Brown, J r. , Governor's Office, State Capitol Bldg., Sacramen to , CA 958 14. SB 307 (Wells) seems to be moving well , and if enacted, will acquire the Ocotillo Wells area for ORV use . It's official and signe d by Gove rnor Brown. Both McGill Park an d \Io llister Hills will (finally) open as California Green Stic ky Par ks. Gerrit Wolsink and John Banks are among the first foreign entries for the 1975 Trans-AMA motocross ser ies. Afte r a crash at Troy, Oh io , Sh or ty Sea bo u rn e an nounced his second re tire men t fro m racin g. Giacomo Agostin i, after the Finnish GP (which is not the finish , heh, hehl has only a slim chance of catch ing Johnny Cecotto in the 350cc class World Championship , but Phil Read, defending 500cc Champion has an equally slim chance of catching Ago in that class this year. There is one 500 GP (Czech) to go . Con tary to rum ors we have read in o ur sibli ng pap er, Bultaco has not ordered any reed valve assemblies fro m anyone, and will " defin it ely not" offer reed engi nes in th eir 19 76 lines, and it is "unl ikely" th at they will offer ree ds on the 77 models. Sr. Bulto doesn 't belie ve in reeds. Sez th ey res tr ict p ow er at high rpm. The Anaheim Hi-Siders Hun-eze are looking for girls who are inte reste d in jo in ing a new all girl motorcycle club. If you are int erested contact Linda at (714) 879·2296. The first "Green St ickl e " money park in Los Angeles Coun ty - a 12 acre minibike park in Whillier Nar ro ws - has b e e n approved ' b y the county supervisors. At th e same ti me th is was an no un ced, the co un ty also said it was dick ering with th e state department of p arks an d recreation to acq uire 10,000 acres in t he Gorman area for the big kids . No w th at 's more like it. The same article said the county acted after "Park officials noted a deficiency in faci lities for off-highway veh icles ." After how many years? Boy, you really gotta be patient when deal ing with the Establishment. Don Sweet sat out his " h o me are a " Nati o nal Trials, then won Nationals at Layland, Ohio and Crys tal , Minnesota. Marland Whaley won th e Empire Trials at Beaver Dams , N. Y. and st ill holds a slim poin t lead o ver fellow Californian Mark Eggar in th e National Standings. The top l O in the Championship sta nd ings so far: 4 75 1.3 16 Mar land Whaley Mark Eggar 4 694 . 263 4 586.1 4 7 Lane Leavitt 4 545. 147 Don Sweet 4479.4 01 Steve Darrow Bob Hopkins 420 2.494 3 89 4. 7 12 Mike Gri ffi tts 3 886.126 Martin Belair 3 634. 28 2 Bruce Ryh ti George Sm ith 11 34 76. 3 27 Big doins ' out in the Dez. The Capistrano Valle y and Simi Valley MCs are putting on a Dual Hare Scrambles on August 17, and will be randomly awarding $2000 worth of prizes . Th ings like t ires and other bike goodies. Federal 'bludgeon' hearings set for Utah, California on helmet laws Th e Federal Highway Adm inistration has set public hearings in Washin gton , D.C. on prop osed "sanctions" (i.e., withhold ing of Fede ral llighway fun ds) against Utah and Californ ia. San ctio ns are being imposed o n California for failu re to pass a mandat ory h elmet-use law, an d on Utah be cause that state's helme t law does n o t meet Federal stan dards. Both hearings will be held in the Dep artm ent o f T r a n sp o r t a t i o n Headquarters Bldg., 400 Seventh si., S.W., Washington, D.C. 20 590. Utah 's is set for September 4 at 10 a.m, and be ing waged by one individual. Pen ton Cen tral and Ed Tucker Distributing in Texas each turned ove r $ 10,000 in accessories to this ind ividual with p ay men t fo r same being mad e by cash ier's checks. 111e checks turned o ut to be al te re d S I 0 checks. Maier s requests th at an y deal er o r individ ual who is offer ed IIi-Po in t products from an unau thori zed o r unfamili ar sou rce co n tact Penton Im po r ts immediately by c a lling 2 16/244-4 10 1. Among the p rod uc ts are Hi-Point boo ts, oil , tires and Scoll goggles . • Pierre wins Mexico MX MEXICO, N. Y., AUG. 10 Pierre Karsm akers won the 500cc A..'\IA Nati onal Ch ampionship ~(X at Mote-Masters Park Sunday. Ka r sm ak ers 's factory Honda top p ed Yamaha's Jimmy Weinert ( t h ree-one) an d Husqvarna 's Ken t Howe rto n (t wo- th ree) by claim ing the firs t moto win and following it up with a second place in round two. Su zuki's 197 5 su c c ess-st ory hero, Tony DiStefano, h ad a rough time of it, falling in both mo tos and dropping to ninth in th e overall, Honda wonderkid Marty Smi th edged Maico ace Steve Stackable, fourth over fifth, in the final results. Complete coverage next week, 12-year record falls at Sturgis STURG IS, S.C" AUG . 10 Ric ky Campbell (H-D) d ropp ed a u u 12-year standing record when he set a new fast time of 25 .27 seco nds ·at th e Pacific Regional Half-m ile wh ich ca ppe d off the BlaCK Hills Classic. Mike Kidd ca me ou t of " retirement " to win the Exper t Main , whil e Nov ice Vince Mead and Junior St eve Eklund worked th eir cu sto mary dominance on their respective clas ses. Full sto ry next week (maybe) as our ro vi ng co rre spon de n ts from sister publication Biker co me rollin' home. . . . . Gerencer wins Nat'l. Hillclimb J E FF ER SO N, PA., AUG. 3 Expe rience p aid off for veteran hillclimb er Lo u Ge ren cer in th e Fo rmula A class. Geren cer, 44, ridin g one of only four Har leyDavid sons in the I fi-ma n invitational field , see med desti ned to co mpe te for sec o n d pl ace a fte r Ear l Bowlby of Loga n, Ohio, turned in a 5.8 1-seco nd ru n early in the day. But on his th ird and last eff ort, Gerencerl uncorked a supe rb ride, bre aking th e beam o n the elec tric eye in 5. 79 seconds to win the event an d th e biggest share of th e $6,000 purse. o r ganized by the White Rose Motorcycle Clu b an d staged on a 300-foot hill wi th a 65-degree an gle of '

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