Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

IINSIDE ~ t San Jose Chic Dear Cycle News Pals What's a mysophobiac? All my love . ROCKET ROBIN Granada Hills , Calif. P.S. Take some more pics of us chics. 6 Way to go, Jay! ' Ohio Trans-AMA 8 Mys oph ob ia is a fea r of dirt ; a disabling illness if ever there was one. A nd we sh oo t lots of chix, but th e pix seem to win up in the darkroo m man 's p rivate collection. Furriners win motos, Co wbo y wins overall Hook & Ladder 10 15,000 jam wo rld's biggest e nd uro Int'l. Dateline Baker bags anoth er, Belgian s win an o th er 12 Does Texas still ex ist? /' West Ever since Cycle News West and CN Central joined together, there's no Central News any m o re. Sure, you have a whole two pages devoted to Central ... (b ut ) you act like racing in Texas does not exist! Why no weekly articles on Mosie r Val ley, County Line, Parad ise Valley, Oak Hill, La ke Whitney, etc.? The only time there is an, article o n these fine tracks is whe n there is a series of so me sort. This is sickening as we ll as disheartening! Fo r so me reason o r other. u s Texans don't get our rocks o ff r eading about what happene d Wednesd ay night, Satu rday an d/or Sunday in So u thern Califo rn ia. [t really doesn 't see m fair to spe nd 20 pages on California and t wo on Te xas. Even the Want Ads have more pages! Please, do so mething .. . 14 SoCal m ob scenes Dez 22 UEA Tuff E' Nuff . North 26 On, 01' T imer s! Riverside reflections 30 Speedway 31 Cologne Show 32 Results ..... . • ........34 Central 38 Calendar , ~ . .40 ON THE COVER: Windows to it's at: San Jose, wh ere Tr~s.AMA, Desert enduroing. T OM McCANDLESS Ft. Worth, Tex. R eason things seem scarce in Texas (and elsewhere) is th at y o u guys have the same two or three good 01' hcrd-t ruc k in " correspondents doing it all alone; and they each can on ly cover one track at a time. By contrast, every alphabet-soup MX in Califo rnia d raws a half-dozen hungry-lookin' guys with cameras who fancy themselues as someday media superstars. They don't just look hun gry, they A R E hu':!.gry:_ The bare m inim u m you need in th is race rep ort business is the use of a . typewriter. If you can ty pe dou ble-spa ced, are hu ngry , and kn ow our address (it's on th is page, eve n) you're au tomatically a po ten tial corr espondent. (Eve n th e camera is optionaL ) Th e more correspond en ts in an area, th e more race reports. A nd that goes for Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas, Neb raska, et c. . . . Ed. Sharon Clayton, Pub lisher Robert L. No r velle, General Man ager Edna Mewton, Secretary t o Pub lisher Advertising Linda Clar k, National Advert ising Sales Man ager Debb ie Wilkin s, Western Region al Advertising Sales Manager Ch ris Kolb et, Ad vertising Assistant Editorial Lane Campbell, Senior Editor, Jody Weisel. Editor. Bobi Scott, Editor. An and Production Barbara Mizuno, Pro duction Manager ; R it a Drcsscn dorCc r, Advertising Pr o du c t ion ; Den nis Co x , Lab T echn lc t an : Ma rio n H at as h i t a , Typographer; Mike Klin ger, Lab a nd Production Assistant. Don't print this, just print a picture! Cyn. . .. The lack of trails will probably eliminate the Red Garter Enduro . The rest of the trails arou nd Mt. Pinos and ML Alamo look O K, except for the closing of "Snowy Trail." Well, it's almost t he end o f the Speedway season a nd yo u st ill haven 't put a p ictu re of Ron Preston in Cycle New s. We could u nd erstan d if he was not doing very good w hy y o u wouldn't pu t a pict u re of him in. Bu t Ron is leading the National Qualifier so far an d has do n e a great j o b with the San Bernar dino Sizzlers this year. So wo uld you p lease put a picture o f him in ? G.C. SCHMIDT Downey, Calif. HIS FANS Costa Mesa, Calif. Right o n, G.C., thanks f or the warning. Closin g dat e on co m ment is October 8; th e address to write is in Papa's column. Get o n it , y ou gu ys . . . Ed. Hey, Dennis Greene - pleas e take a picture of R o n; all this lobbying is really gettin ' t o u s do wn here . . . Ed. " . .. one th ing perfectly clear." Record stra ightening A sligh t cla rificati on is in order rega rd ing an item in you r Sep te mber 21 paper. Mack Kamb ay ash i tunes David Em de 's TZ25 0C , ho wever, th e T Z 75 0 th a t David rid es is o wned and p rep ared by Don . Vesco . Ac tually , i t 's Gene Romer o 's spare bik e ; Davi d rides it in local c1u b even ts. BUZZ BUZZ ELLI For Vesco Yamah a EI Cajon, Cali f. The YaIDaha roadracer ridden by Gary Scott is not a Boge Mulholland Yamaha as Larry Hu ffman called it at Laguna Seca. It is privately owned by George (G EM Inr 'L] Murray of Fullerton - tuned by Mack of Mack Cycle Center of Fu llerton. The shocks were Boge Mulholland. 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Ed itorial sto ries , ca rtoo ns , pho tos ,' e tc. ...,.c we lc o me . Add ressed , s ta mped envelope ass u res re t u rn of un purc h asc d e di tori al m ailer. Reprinting in whole o r p.lrl o nly Ly permission -of the publi she rs. ,\ J\' c r l i s i n ~ rat e s an d t:in'u lalion in fo rm ation w ill be senr u pon reques t. Sec S.K .U .S. . , Thanks, 01' Timer On September 19 my husband, Dick, was seriously injured during a ORA race, leaving him hospitalized. We'd both like to express our appreciati on for th e care and assis tance of Old T imers Ron Hubbard, Dave De ichman, Keith Sae sbe and Mike Dyott, and o th ers who helped during this emergency . DOROTHY AND DICK JOHNSON La Cres cen t a , Calif. Note to the Duck Hey, Phan tom Du ck! Co ncern ing Bars to w-t o-Vegas, NorCal riders are still for it. Le t u s kno w what we can do to hel p . DA VID PICK El l Kaw asak i of San Ma teo 204 9 S. El Cam ino Real San Mateo, CA 944 03 Los Padres closures T he e n tire Mt . Minos Ran ger District (o f Los Padres N. F., Cali f.) used io be o pe n . I t w ill no w be classe d "designated tra ils," excep t fo r tw o small ac res. Ballan ger Cyn. Area is one of th em. Ther e will be on ly o ne b ike trail be twee n Ballanger and Qu at al Cyn. , a nd o nly on e trail between Qu a tal and Ap ache Cyn. There will n o t be any w ay to go by trail between Apache and Dry Happy road race fan Thanks for th e roadrace special. I enjoyed it very much - as all I've r ea d o f late is motocro ss. Also, that was a great story on Johnny's BMW. We all know J ohnny in Bakersfield, and y our writer described him to a Tee ! HAPPY READER Bakersfield, Calif. ANN MURRA Y Fu llerton, Calif. •••••••• I •• I • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • The vie ws ex p ressed in this colu m n ana colu m ns app earing o n the follo wing pages are so lely those of the au thors and do no t necessarily reflect th e official position of Cycle News West or Cycle News, In c, Qualified readers wishing fr ee and equal rebuttal space sh ould contact the Editor. o th er

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