Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

II SDE ~ t to push for restrain t of the BLM. If y ou are interested, yo u may try con tacting the La s Vegas Reuieur-journal for t he straight scoop. They are at I1II W. Bonanza Rd., Las Vegas, Nevada 89106, o r call the m at 702/385-4241. Thanks for listening. ~-------, Winter-AMA 6 Han nah co n tinues un touch ed 8 BO B RIDOSH Las Vegas, Nevada 14 16 A nd thank y ou Bob, f or k eeping us posted on info that might otherwise have gone un-noticed • . . Ed. 18 One down - one to go Northern Date line 20 26th Hi Moun tain . CZ mod ificat ion 26 Many th anks to those who go t on th e ball an d wrote o r cal led San Diego co un ty sup erviors. We won a battle when th e Board of Supervisors, on January 2 7t h , ad o p ted a wor k program for c o u n ty st aff a nd the ORV Committee. The end result is to be an ORV plan for San Diego County which I hope will include both tr ails and are as ! fo r vehicular re creat ion. The County's · mo ney from th e "green sti ckie " fund will be used to cover the co st of salaries for co unty planners. This sure be ats the Sheriff getting it all, doesn' it? A major problem, still, is facing a March I starting date with inadequate ' re prese ntation of ORV people. Mo st of " the members of t he co m m ittee repre s en t conserva t io nist in terests. Please take th e t im e now to write and le t me know wh at you want included in the final ORV Plan. Better ye t, co m e to a m eeting and ge t involved: Room 335 A, County Ad m in ist ratio n Building, 1600 Pacific Highway, San Diego every second and fourth Tuesd ay at 7:30 p.m . The plan the committee and the co u nty will be workin g on will be for y ou! Western Hotline Alphabet soup Peter Starr All-American film fro m a Limey Desert Hotline Sobod a Gr and Prix Husky Automat ic A shiftless Swed e Chay -Zed R&D Cent ral Pipeline 18 Twenty -four hours in th e snow Italian forks 32 Marzocchi and Ceri ani Political Lifeline 36 Adv ise and consent Calendar MX Cat Want Ads 38 41 43 '., ON T HE COVER: J oe Kubicek's So u t h Bay CZ t a kes a d ay at t he beach . Photo and sun bu m b y J o dy Weise l's pier shootin g Olympus O M-I. PA UL HEFFERLIN San Diego Off-Ro ad Vehicle Advisory Committee Oceanside, Cal if. 92054 TV and " Cheese" fan I would like some in fo o n how to see Peter Starr's DeCoster documentary. Also would like to sec more coverage of mo tocross GP in Europe. I would like to see MX more on TV, too, but can 't have everything. I liked Dr. Endo & Cheese very much. Please call after six . Sharon Cl ayton , Publisher Robert L. ;"I;or Ve lie . General ~Ioin a i(cr Edn a Me wton, Se cretary to Pu bli sher Ad vert isin g Linda Clark , Ad ver t ising M an a~C' r Chril; Ko lbe t , Adv er tising Assist ant Editorial Lan e Ca mphe ll, Sen ior Ed itor. .Io d y We isel , Edi tor , Ho h i S cot t, Editor. Art and Prod uct ion Carh cnne Lamp ton, Art Direct or : It .lrhara Mizun o , Adver tisin g Ar t Director : Den n is Cox , Lab Te chni cian: Mar ion l la tashi ta, T )' p o~r a p h cr . Circul at io n Rhe b a Smi th. l\1 a n a ~ e r : Pam G ree n and Calli e Smi th , Assis tan ts. Accou nt ing Gay le n e Zaio n z , Man age r: Jud y Fouts, Mi k ~ Klin ger. j ean ne Hammo nd , Assist ants: Tom H un ter. Rhon da Van Dor en, Cr edit D epartm ent. Services & Suppo rt Bill Run v an , Tom Luehm ann , J u an itd Blan ton . recept ion is c. III > « o T ERRY BECKERING , Long Beac h , Calif.. 'O " « L.J How do you hand le a hungry pan? Larry Langle y 's vision must have been a little blurred afte r finish in g th e 26th Annual Go ld Rush Enduro. My finis he r pin wa s shaped more like a go ld pan th an an o ld pr ospector 's frying pan as h e d es cri b e d it. Prospectors M. C . /Gold Ru s h Enduro /go ld pan . . . get th e idea? Larry was right about o ne thing, it was fast ! KEN CATER Anaheim, Ca lif. West P.O . Bo x 4 9 8 . Lon g Beach. CA 9 0XO I. 1~ 13 ) 4 2 7· 74 33 , L.A . Line 636·8844. [Telex 6:;6·330) --J Picky, picky, p ick y . . . Ed. East P.O. Bo x 805 . Tu cker, G A 30 084 . G o'\ 300 8 4. (4 0 4 ) 93 4-785 0 . (T ol<, Gillespie Benefit results H~ ·77 7) O ur recent Fr ank G illespie Benefit race at the Co w Pala ce ne tted Frank a chec k fro m us for 52 547, plus he received ano th er S400·500 from fans . We hope to do better fo r Mark William s at th e AMA Pro Ra ce, April 4, at t he San Jose Co u n ty Fairgro u nds. Incidentally, our AMA Natio na l o n the d irt half-mil e , under ligh ts, J uly 10 , at San J o se, will be named th e Ho y Odo m Memo rial. Sec yo u there. Subscript io n On e year, second class mail 5 12 .50 : 2 year s. se con d class mail, 522.50 ; .3 years , secon d c1ass m ail , S30 .0 0 : Single co py pri ce. 5 0 cen ts. Copyrigh t Cycle News. Inc. 1976. ,Trade mark regist er ed U.S. Paten t Of rice. All right s reserv ed . Publ ish ed weekly ex cept the firs t and last week of th e calen dar ye ar bv Cyc le Ne ws, Inc.• P.O. Box 4 9 ~ , I.on g Beach , Cali forn ia. Seco nd class po stage pai d at Lon g Beach. CA. 90MOI. Edi to rial stones, carto ons , phot os, er e. are welc o me . Addressed, stamped envelope assu res ret urn o f un purch ased edi to rial matter. Rep rinting in who le o r p;U1 o nly oy permission of the p ub lishers . Advertis ing ra tes and circu la t io n informa tio n will be sen t upo n request. SC'~ S.R.lJ .S. 4 BOB BARKHIM E R Scotts Vall ey, Cali f. Open to dispute Your referen ce to lIi gh Sch oolers (O pinio n, February 17, 1976 issue T he St ad ium) has u nd o u b te dly set High School Moto cr oss back at least ten years. The High Sch o ol MX 'r s at Anahei m we re all Experts and, in my o p inion , co n d ucted th em selves accordingly . The two injured riders (on e fa ta lly) were no t doing wheelies, crossups, er c., or anything else of a 'showoff' n ature . I was seated ab out 3 0 feet from the spo t where No. 125 br oke hi s arm an d w ithin good visual ra nge of th e other. In ne ither instance was t he cras h du e to sho wo ff tactics. These (an d all the o ther) bo ys were riding hard. Perhaps a little t o o hard. Bu t , I rese nt the inference th at t heir injuries we re cau sed from 'showoff' racing. I feel th at it wo uld be t o our (MX'rs) advan t age to set the reco rd straig ht. J IM MO NTGOM ERY Culver Cit y , Calif. H o w can on e writ e r's opinion " u n d o u b te d l y set H ig h School Motocross ba ck at least t en y ears ?" .. . Ed. Cowtrailer combo As an ex-So Cal moto cro ss freak transplanted to Las Ve gas, I st ill keep up with th e bike scene via a subscrip tio n to Cycl e New s. I th ought I'd drop a line to mention a " happening" in Nevada. Mo st o f t he following is based on fac t but may ne ed verification. It seems the BI..M has info rmed Nev ada ca ttle ranch er s that no mo re low co st f ederal land will be opened for ca ttle grazing. The ran chers wen t beserko! They are in th e n ews and on T V hounding st ate officials, a nd threatening to sue BLM to have th eir powers cu rbe d. Also (I th ink) th ey have had a protest aud ience with Pre sid ent Fo rd . All this in the span of about three weeks. Maybe bikers co u ld learn some pointers or even (he aven forbid) ally ouselves with the ran che rs of t'le. w st Gee , Terry, if y ou weren't at th e Ride -On Enduro camp th e evening of Jan. 31, you missed " Port rait of a Champion ". Now you'll have to wait until th ey sho w it on TVagain. To see more (and better) MX on th e tube, call up each of th e So Cal channe ls in order and read th em th e rio t act. Oh, and we can 't make that aft er six phone call we go ho me at five. . Hang in there, baby . . . Edit or Southern terminology -In reference to the le tte r in your J anuary 20 issue, wri tten by Mrs. Gr ay, Warrior, Alabama; sh e st ated th at Su ns hin e Yamah a held her so n 's mo tor fo r the m u ntil they go t o u t here to race in the Anaheim MX Fin als. Now, if Sunsh in e Ya maha held her son's m o t o r, where did Mrs. Gray and he r son get the o t her parts (frame, tires , tan k. e tc .)? Did t hey b ring th em here in su it case s , crates. or what? LA R R Y DIXON New ha ll, Ca lif. Are you puttin' us o n? In case you aren't, motorcycles (tha t includes th e f rame, tires. tank , etc. } are comm only re f erred to as Hmo to rs" in th e sou th . . . Ed. The vie ws ex p ressed in this colu mn and a t h e r colu mnS app earing on th e f ollo wing pages are solely th ose of th e authors and do not ne cessarily reflect the of ficial po sition of Cycle News West or Cycle News, In c. Q;lalified readers wishing fr ee and e qual reb uttal spa ce should con tac t the Editor.

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