Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

INSIDE, Charity Newsies camp and would show up Su nday. With h undreds of people at the race, I still couldn't fin d anyone that had seen KJ. I . stayed overnight Sunday with a few friends, hoping he'd co me back. We chec ked Red Mtn., Ridgecrest, Trona, Four Corners. and a t ranches; Lo nnie my wife and I co vere d 50 0 miles in our pickup. So many people were so nice and gave freely o f th eir time. I can 't thank them all, but a special th anks to J .C . Ray , who I met Monday night. He helped look for several da ys, even t aking off work , with his wife sear ch ed hundreds of miles in their dune buggy. Also thanks to Rescu e 3, Tom Kelly, Jay Orendorff, Wes Anderson Jr. Many other fr iends wanted to co me and help , but we figured if so meone hadn't pi cked him up, KJ co uld n't have su rvived this long without water. Needless t o say, m y wife and I are heart-broken. If an y on e has any info rma tio n o n KJ, pl ease cal l even ing s 56 7-56 97 or days (7 14 ) (2 13) 893- 1766 . JOHN McCOWN Van Nuys, Calif. 6 Springer is th e 12th Camel Pro winner 8 Women's National Fish claim s the title I ntemational 10 Ro ger two-times them in Germany 12 20 West Speedway Team slidin' Jus' fo lks 24 M ary McG ee, Rick Delacy , Vance Bree se , Graham Noyce and Elliot Sch u ltz pro ve people are o ur ric hest reso urce Nort h Politickin' 30 36 DO T floats and Ho llister flie s Ascot's dilemma 38 Will Aggie and the AM A kiss and mak e up? Hope, we hope 39 The Clayton /Kemp plan Cat Centra l .43 44 _ ON T HE COVER: Sue Fish Women 's Na t io n al Champ at last! Photo by Deb bie Wilkins. Sharon Clayton, Publisher Rober t L Nor Veli e . Gen era l Manage r Edna Mewt o n. Secretary to Publ ish er Adven ising Lind a Clark, Advertisi ng Man ager Chris Ko lber , Adv er tisin g Assistan t " Ed itorial Lane Campbel l, Sen ior Editor, J ody Weisel, Edi to r, Bo b i Sco tt, Edito r. Art and Produ ct ion Barb ara Mizuno , Production Manager'; . Pam Grant. Advertising Production Direct or & Assista n t Typographer ; Dennis Cox, Lab Technician ; Mari on Hatashita, T yp ograph er ; Mike Klinger, Lab an d Producti on Assistant. Circulat ion To the rescue Asco t Raceway in Gardena, Cali fornia has been " ho me " t o AMA Pro half-mile mot or cy cle ra cers for years. Every Frid ay, r acer s have co m e from allover the West Coast to co m pe te. T he No vices and Juniors have dreams of victory! Courage , en t hus iasm, and hard work are not enough! These boys must race fo r ex perie nce and to develop t heir own style. When th ey p ut their bikes on the line , they also p ut their lives o n the line. On e sm all error o n anyone 's p ar t co uld be dis aster. Mon ey-wis e, m ost of the boys m us t have a full time job t o su p p ort their bikes. Most Novices an d J uni ors ca nno t affo rd to travel t o the Mid-West and o n to th e East Co ast to earn t heir p o in ts. They must h ave a " ho rne tr ack" here on the West Coast. I t alked to Mr. Agaja nian o n Wednesday for quite som e time by " phone , He does not know m e, an d I w as thoroughl y impressed wi th the man: He has a so ft spot in his heart for motorcycles and would love to run them again at Ascot. He is all for the riders and the fans. He does not want to cheat an yone, I have over 200 n am es and addresses of p eople who want motorcy cle racing ba ck at Ascot! Already several mo t o rcycle shops are t aking n am es and addresses of more pe op le th at want Asco t back , My goal is 5,00 0 names to send to AMA and Aggie, but I feel sort o f like th e " Lo ne Ranger " in t his undertaking. Please he lp me in this gigan ti c cam paign . SHI R LE Y WARR EN Do wne y , Cal if. R ead ers that want t o su bm it th eir names to the growing list can do so by writ ing or calling Shirl ey at 856 4 V.a Amorita , Downey , Calif. 90241. If you wan t to give her a hand wit h her project, call her at 213 /869-9862 (eve nings). Che ck ou t the articl e on A sco t and Aggie in this issue fo r m ore details . . . Ed. Search for KJ Tell all m y friends th at Ko o kie Jr. is st ill m issing. Last seen June 19 . he was in our camp and some club members were sh o ot ing off fireworks . Being afraid of fireworks , KJ ran and got ins id e m y m o t o rho m e, I chec ked and he was on the bed; later than I went back, h e wa s gone. Immed iate ly , we started looking. One o f our Invaders spotted hi m by Cactus Cats signup but co u ldn't c at ch hi m . I searched all night, concerned but not pan ic-str ic ken. I figured he 'd be in so me ~" . "-':- '. Accounting Gaylene Zaiona, Man ager ;Judy Klinger. Ken Lorin, Jeanne Hammond, Assistants; Dave Auld , Rhonda Van Doren, Cre di t Department. Service an d Support Michael Colik as, Dennis Watts. Juanita ' Blan ton, rec ep tio nist. . P.O. Bo x 498. Lon g Beach, CA 9080 l. (2 13) 42 7·7433 : L. A. Lin e 636-8844. (Tel ex 656·330) Eart P.O. Bo x 805. T uc ke r, GA 30084 , GA 300 84. (404) 934-785 0. (Telex 542·777) Subscript io n One year. secon d class ma il S 12.5 0 : 2 years, sec on d class mail. 122 .50: 3 yean. second class mail. 130.00; cu. . . doH:J MEM8£" Copyright Cycle News . Inc . 1976. Trade mar k registered U.S. Paten t Offi ce. All rights reserve d. Published weekly ex cept th e first and last week o f the calen da r , ye ar by Cycl e News, In c.. P.O. Bo x 4 9 8, Long Beach. '~a1 i fo rn i a. Second' class postage pa id at Long Bea ch , CA . 90801. E itor ial stories, carto on s. p ho tos. etc. d Me welcome . Add re ssed. sta mped envel ope assu res re tu rn o f un p urchased ed ito rial matter, Repr int ing in wh ole or part o nly by per mission o f the p u blishers. -Ad ve r t isin g rat e s and circulat ion info rm atio n will be sent upon request. Set:' S.R.D.S. I water ski for a livin g and enjoy doin g it. I also ride a dirty bike for fun . I em p hasize fun ! You kn ow, ride th e hill s, go through th e desert enj oying th e sigh ts. The average dirty b ike r. Gr eat, th at 's wh at turns m e on. Last weekend I was go ing to a ski fin als at Lak e Havasu. I was on Hwy . 95, lis te ning t o Zep, sipping a te q u ila su nrise with m y girl nex t to m e, h avin g a goo d time. Abo ut five miles before the lake , four desert dudes got o n the h ighway , m essin g aro un d, havin g a good time. But, when they turned off the h ighway , o ne threw a hal f empty qu ar t bottle of Brew 10 2 at m y van an d cr ac ked m y win dsh ield. He y , if yo u don't like t hat crap you 're drin king don't take it o ut o n -my help less windsh ield . ST EV E T A R AD ON IA (3 rd pl ace , Men 's Slalom) Long Beach, Calif. To o bad you didn 't have your bike with y ou. Y ou co uld have hauled it ou t, grabbed y our tow rop e and head ed the nerds off at th e pass. Sorry 'bou t y our windshield. Th ere's one in eve ry bunch , even in th e deser t . . . Ed. Good idea - but T he SCORE Baja 500 was done up ju st super . SCO RE had a good idea on Co-O p pits, but they didn't work o ut as well as planned. As p ar t of the Otganized Co -Op Pits , o ur club, "East-West M.C." was in charge of pit No, 4 (San Felipe) . We were m anned well en ou gh to even handle pits for buggie s .as well as bikes. We were info rmed by riders and other peop le that all pits were not run like this. Gas No.2 was real poorly run. Ri ders had to wait to get their gas .an d if they didn't want to wait they gassed up their own bikes. What kind of pit is that? They even gave one person (No. 633), the wrong gas . A lit tle m ist ake , but for the rider a fatal one, because No . 63 3 led the first 180 miles of the race for his class (125cc ). He also set the fastest ti me overall fr om Gas 1 to Gas 2. This kind of pitting is no t needed or wanted anywhere. Everybo dy that was p itting volunteered, they weren't forced to go but they co mmitted themselves to do the job, a good job, with sportsm an like co nduct. Overall, Co -Op pittin g is a good idea , people should care enough about every on e concerned , not just t heir o wn rider. Rheba Sm ith , Man ager ; Pam Green and Callie: Smi th, Assistants. Wert Just what we need <, ' ......... R ICK MO UREK East-West M.C. Oran ge, Calif. The views ex p ressed in th is colu m n ana o th er colu mns ap pearing on the f ollowing pages are solely those of the auth ors an d do not necessarily reflect the official position of Cycle Ne ws West or Cycle News, Inc. Q;

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