Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

Square off BINSIDE ~ t l.D 14 Why do you people get down on people who don't like motorcycles? Ever been camping out and have a desert rider co me screaming through your Cam p at 6 :30 a.m.? Ever see what the 10% bad riders do to the people, animals and this beautiful co un try of ours? I o wn a di r t b ike and love to ride it, but I don't t hink they should be allowed everywhere in the country. There ar e people who do like peace and quiet also. Le t's consider them too. 18 FRANK N. STEIN Weed, Calif. Double Nationals: Indy Mile . 6 Kidd/Springsteen swap wins night & day r--. 125/500 Nat'l. MX O"l Good times for Howerton & LaPorte in Luzzianne -< 10 International Mikkola's Swedish 250. Baker's (alm ost ) British F750 Western Hotline Our -'\Vest " editor moves her tail for you Dez double Unfortu nately, the p eople wh o. don't like motorcycles are not very obj ective to th e f act that there are a lot of p eople th at do enjoy offroad riding and will go to an y extreme in preventing this form of recreation. Pick up a cop y of the OR V Monitor, published by th e Sierra Club, and y ou 'll see what we m ean. We don't "ge t down " o n every one, just th ose wh o wo uld like to see m otorcyclists wiped off th e fac e of th e earth. Weed, California huh ? Is that n ear Costa MeSlJ ? . . . Ed. 26 Balentine didn't win! Speedway 27 The Eagles didn't eit her North .. ... ......•....28 Suzuki RM100 32 Grass roots gasser Results Central Calendar Cat 34 38 , .40 44 ON T HE COVER: Mike Kidd and jay Springsteen we re never far apart in two back-t o-hack National Miles . Photo by Van Voorhis. . Sh ar o n Clay to n. Publish er Robcrt L. No r Velie , Gen eral ~ Ian a ~cr -Edn a Mew lon , Secr et ary to Publ isher .... Advertising Linda Clark . Ad verr ising Man age r ~ Chris Kolbe t , Ad ver t ising .. ssi stant Editorial Lan e Ca m pbe ll, Senior Edi to r , Jody Weisel. Edit or. Bohi Scott , Edilor. An and Production Barbara Mizuno , Producti on Man ager ; Ri ta D r e s sendorfer, Adver tising Produ ction; Dennis . Cox, Lab Tech nic ia n ; Ma r i on Hatashita, Typograp her; Mike Klinger . Lab an d Pro d uction Assistan t. ' Circulation Rheba Smith. ~Iana~er: Pam G reen and ~ Callie Smith . Asvistants. Accounting Caylene Za.io~z . Man ager; Ken Lorin. assistant; J eanne Hammond. Acc ts. Receivable; Pa mela Dickerson and Carolyn Branham. assistants ; Judy Klinger, Credit Dep t .; Rhonda Van Doren. Co llection Dept. Senice and Support Michael Colik as , Dennis Wat ts . Juanita Blanton. re ceptionist, West P.O . lIo x 4 98, Long Beach, CA 9 08 0 I. (21 3) 42 7-7433: L.A . Line 63 6 -88 H. east I . P.O . lIox 8 05. T uc k er. GA 3 0 084. GA 30084. (4 04) 934-7850. Subscription One year , second class mail $12.50: 2 ye ar s. second clas s m ail. $2 2.50 : 3ye ars , seco nd class m ail. S3p .OO: cu.ss . ~ I own a beautiful section of land 12 m iles from Big Bear in San Bernardino County. Due to th e fa ct it's difficult to sell an en t ire section now days for sub-dividing it occurr ed to me perhaps a group of cyclers might want to form a syndicate and buy my property. : My section is completely surrounded by San Bernardino Na tio nal Forest, Usin g the property would not bother an yone because the Nat io nal Forest won't le t anyone build or live on their property. JOAN HAYES Beverly Hill, Calif. A section of land is 640 acres or on e square mile, equa l to 1/36 of a to um ship. If the ide a ofp urchasing y our oum privat e riding area afrPeals to you, contact Ms. Hay es, PO Box 1282, Beverly Hills, CA 90213 . • • Ed. Se~ing Headin' west We ar e planning a trip out west th is .September. Can you please: inform us ?f any professional motorcycle races m California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Ut ah, Washington and Wyoming? J OE & MEL HUTCHINS Co llege Park, GA You forgot to mention what typ e of races you are interested in, dirt track, , MX, speedway, etc. On September 26, the AMA San J ose Mile National will be he ld at the San ta Clara County Fairgrounds, San J ose, Calif Stop at some of the local motorcycle deal ers along the way and ask them what events are taking place in the area during your staY. Th ere will probably be more events taking place than you 71 ever be able to take in, but they will most likely be Sp or tsman races . . . Ed . ~ MEMIIII!:A Copyrigh t Cycl< News. Inc . 19 76. Trade mar k registered U.S. Paten t Office. All rights rese rve d . Publishe d weekly except th e firs t and last wee k of th e calendar year uy Cyc le News, Inc., P.O. Box 49M, Lo n g Beach. California. Second class 4 Make an offer postage pa id at Lo n g Bea ch. CA. 90801. Edi torial stories, ca rto o ns, ph o tos , e tc. arc welcome. Add ressed . stamped envelope assures re turn of un purch ascd ed ito rial matter. Reprin ti ng in whole o r p;uot only uy permission -of the publ ishe rs. Adve r tisi ng ra tC's and ci rc ulation in formation will be, sen upon request. See S. k .U .S . Happy side slider 'I'm really glad to see a U.S. publication print mo re than a sm all picture and a caption about a co u p le of "nuts" on a three. wheel " thing." Bein g a sidecar rac er myself, (motocross) I find it hard to understand why more people aren't in t o sidecars. We ar e no longer lim ited to balin g wire and an gle iron turkeys. With Yamaha 750 twin and Jlo nd a 750/4 en gin es, power is no question ' anymore a nd fram es are n o problem either. You can buy a Wasp or E.M.L. ch assis ready to go, and there are a dozen guy s in the SoCal area that possess the knowledge to build gOod handling frames. They 're more than glad to help someone out with either building or buyin g a sidecar. Also, one other thing has developed in th e last year, wh ich is the " ligh tweigh t" rig. These ar e powered by Open class MX engines such as Yamaha, Suzuki , Bul taco or Hu sky . Eve n the old T M 400 Suzuki has fm all y found its real purpose. They use a lot of standard MX b ik e parts, and w eigh fr o m 150 to 200 pounds less than a Ho nda 750/Wasp . They cost about half -as much t o build an d to top it o ff, the y go ju st as fast . (except maybe at T alla dega) . _ One th in g for sure, it's a real gas. When th e two-wheel motocr oss blu es set in, try three wh eels . 6 0% of the people we let try our rig, have decided t he n and there t o race side cars. The others just mumbled a few words and stared in to th e air. One guy quit the U.S . Parachute T eam to ride passenger on a Honda 750/Wasp. G EORGE HARRIS SQ. Cal . Sidehack Assoc. Sylmar, Calif. P.S. I wrote a letter sometime back, challengin g you guys to a ride on the track of yo ur choice. Yo u wanted to do it at the Nuremburgring but political complications won't allow it (also it's too far to drive). How abou t th e Lame Camel at Indian Dunes on th e Shadow Gl~n track? Er how ab~u t J ody Weisel at Saddl eba ck .. • LC Uh - Ho w abou t Bobi Scott at Escape Country . .. J W /low abou t both you guys sittin ' on it! .. . BS · it strai ght Pops Yoshimura is doing research and development work on the Yamaha XS750D and Suzuki GS750; the results of which, for the time being, are to be used in the production of Yoshimura high performance parts. Pops will be campaigning . the Yoshimura Kawasakis next year in AMA roadrace - competition and will use the AMDRA Hot Bike Nationals as the initial test-bed for the newly introduced Z-I drag race components. YOSHIMURA R&D North Hollywood, Calif. Trick but trashed Yes , Papa, there is another cafe-type Suzuki in captivity. It's a 'I972 550 and we 've been racing in local CMC and A FM races. Most of the pictured handiwork was performed by Bob Basso of the Cycle Works. Unfortunately, I trashed it at the July 17-18 WERA races at Ontario. However, we shall return, TOAD La Habra, Cal if. The vie ws ex p ressed in this colu m n ana a t h er co lu mns appearing on the following pages are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect th e official position of Cy cle News We. t s or Cycle New s, In c. Qualified readers wishing fr ee and equal rebuttal space sh ould can tact th e Ed itor.

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