Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

in as a part icipant for the Du ck's B to ilNSIDE ~ E Trans-AMA V. Havin g tri ed to do it by BLI\'1, Sierra Club , San Berdoo , an d any other " so -calle d enviro n menta list " group's standards , he ll would free ze ~>ver b efore we would get to r id e it agai n . An y body t hat cares abo ut o ff-r oa d rid ing should get 0 ff thcir ass and get o n t he gas to help the ca us e! Te legra ms, letters, phone calls: let th e civ ic leaders kn ow h ow you feel. It w orked on th e Califo rnia DOT Helmet Repeal , an d it w ill work again . The on ly way ' you will get a pl ace to ride is if you hel p yo urself. Do so mething besid es co mplai n! Right on Duck ! 6 Give ya one guess who won Speed way . ' 8 Number One wins areturn mat ch 10 CANAM MX Stormin g castl es at Carlsbad Nat'l. Trial 12 Do bbing u p Donner Summit West 14 All t he MX that fi ts ; Ho nda 's 12 5 road rac er debuts at Willow DAV ID G . PICKETI Kawasaki of San Ma teo San Mateo. Calif. Dez .... .. . . . . . ... . . .•22 Balentine/B roo ks best DRA tea m North Results . , Spring- ,. , 26 30 33 Famous correspondent tells all steen . And everythin g you wan ted to know ab out the . Camel Pro sec on d half Central Calendar Cat 36 38 45 ON THE COVER : Mike Bast. Super Star! Photo by Dennis Greene. Sharon Clayton, Pub lisher Robert L Nor Velie. General Manager Edna Mewton, Secretary to Publisher Advertising Linda Clark , Nat ional Advertising Sale s Manager Debbie Wilkins. Western Regi onal Advertising Sale s Manager Chris Kolber, Advertising Assistant Editorial Lane Campbell, Senior Editor. J ody Weisel, Editor. Bob i Scott . Editor. Art and Product ion Barbara ~tizuno. Production Manager ; R it a Dr es sen d o r f'e r , Advertising Produ ctio n : Dennis Cox. Lab Te chni cian : Ma rion Hat as h i t a , Typographer ; Mike Klinger, Lab and Production Assistant. CirQllat ion Rheba Smith, Manager ; ana Pam Grcc~ Assistant . : Acco unting Gay lenc Zaion z, Manager ; Ken Lorin, Assist ant : Jeanne Hammond, Accts. R e ceivable ; Pam ela D icker son and Caro lyn Branham, Assistants; Judy Klin ger . Credit De p t. : Rh onda Van Do ren. Co llec tion Dep t. Service and Support Mich ael Cot ikas , Dennis Watt s, Juanita Blanton. receptio nist . West P.O. Box 498. Long Beach. CA 90801. (213) 427-7433; L.A. Line 636-8844. East • P.O. Bo x 805, Tucker, GA 30084. (404) 934- 7850. Subscript ion One year,' second class mail 512.50 : 2 years. second class mail, S22.50 ; 3 Hopetown postphoned Thanks from " Haggis" The Dirt Diggers Grand Prix at Hopetown is postponed until December 1 1-12 . Your tickets, pit pass, etc ., are good for those days. . . This postponement IS due t o permit problems with the Environmental Resource Agen cy . We urge y ou to st ick wi th us on this. Without y our help and money we will lose another classic race in .So u thern California. Please do not go t o Hopet own at any ti me prior to race day. This wo uld jeopard ize the event. If y o u have a probl em, please do n ot call! Wri te t o : Saturday Riders DDMC 8228 Sale Aven ue Canoga Park , CA 91 304 By the t ime this co py of Cycle News hits the news-stands, the U.S. Sp eedway season will be well and truly over and I will be en rou te for Britain an d a British winner . .. I m ust be nuts! Before I leave sunny California, I wou ld like to t ake this opportunity of say ing " th an k you" to some of the folks who have helped m e during the season : To Bell Helmets, who h ave been terrific to me ever sin ce m y first trip to Ame ric a, b ack when Christopher Columbus wa s a boy. (A nd Sonny Nutter too !). Also thanks to " Don McGoggles ," (that other we ll-known " Sc ot sm an" at Scott , USA), to Bakersfield promoter. Digger Helm an d his wi fe, Theda, who reall y helped the Bandits to win the Le ague ; Torco Oil, Just ice Bro thers, Ken & Judy Mae ly , (who "su ff ere d " u s for six months !), Malcolm (Go ld Medal) Sm ith an d t he boys at Malcolm 's Riverside motorcycle shop. They tried hard to get me to speak 'American ', but I think that customers at the shop are in for a big su rp rise when they hear all the staff now talking with Scottish accents! (Och , it's a Braw, Bricht, Moonlicht , Nich the noo!) Finally, a big "Get Well Soon," to injured Bakersfield Bandit, Brian "Thumper" Short who sustained a badly broken right leg in a crash at Irwindale. "Thumper" was in top fo rm at the time of h is accident an d wo u ld defmitely h ave qualified for the Nationals, had it not been fo r th at injury . Still, t hat 's Speedway ... a very hard way to make an easy living! Whilst I am at it , co u ld I also say " Merry Christ mas" to everyone ? It sure would save a lot of cash on postage stamps and cards! Who says the Scots are m ean? Bye for now. May your bagpipes never have a puncture and y ou r Torsten Hallman 's never crumble ! Sun day Riders DDMC 12051 Kirkcolm Court Northridge, CA 91 3 24 DIRT DIGGERS The rea l thing Lane Campbell's report on the Ascot National (October 19 edition) had a few very offending remarks on the motorcycle that is still very de ar to my and many o ther of your readers' hearts. Three lonely independen t Norto ns were there that night and they all managed to make the Expert Main event aga inst all those fancy XR 750s and factory Yamahas, plus all the bif bu cks sponsors (ex . Evel Knievel, et c. and dam near won too! The buck passing st atement as quoted one observer, "Gee there 's more Nortons here in the p its than there are o n th e street." Evidently his ob server doesn 't get up to Griffith Park Observatory or the Ro ck Store on Sunday or many other places where motorcycles are on the st reet. That leads me to wonder how many Harley-Davidson XR750s and fact o ry Yamaha OW 72s his observ er has ever seen on t he street . Those Norton engines are the clo sest thing th ere t o something that is sold to the public in a sh owroo m. TOM MESSER Glendale, Calif. BERT HARKINS Herts. WDZ 6 3X, England Se vera l times lat ely there have been letters as king wh y t her e are n ot more reports from in the Cen tral region . I thought that may be if o ne of the fa m o us Cycle News co rrespondents t old abo ut all t he benefi t s o f rep orting it mi ght motivate more p eople t o go to work . To begin you have a perfect o p ening for asking riders what makes their b ikes faster than yours. Sometimes they will give aw ay sec ret s just to get their name in the paper. It is also a way .to get your name in print if yo u don 't win a lot. You also receive a bi g chec k for each report sen t in [ha, h a). . If there are peo p le in the Dallas area w ho would like t o report on the events they go to but do not h ave access t o a ty p ewriter o r do not know ho w t o type I would try to help if they will co n tact -me. DI ANE POLLEY Dallas, Texas (2 14) 33 7-7534 Goo d show, Diane, you deserve a b onus. Note t o accounting: Double Polley's salary send her 50 cents this mon th ... Ed. Get the message? The Hook and Ladder Enduro drew upwards of 15 ,000 people. Eve n the mini-enduro drew 300 entrants, which according to your own reporter, Ron Schneiders, is more than a normal D-37 enduro. This proves co n clu sively there are thousands . of people here in Southern California who want and need family riding eve nts like this, arid what 's more, th ey are willi ng to pay fo r it. There is certainly a lesso n here either for the C. E. A. or some savv y promoter like Ro n Burpo. The more people we involve in our sport , the better off we 'll all be . And what better way to figh t the Sierra Club than with family events like this. Besides, I'm just getting too old for those killer down-hills. BERT LEIN DRA 1860 tf'.-.-•.•.,.-.....,,,.-•.•.•.•••• ..........., ...y .... The views ex p ressed in this colu m n ana a th e r colu m ns appearing on th~ Dear Duck-and everybody else At first , I thought the Phantom Duck Barstow t o Vegas ride would hurt San Gabriel Valley MC 's ch an ces of having an other Bars tow to Vegas. Now that the 1976 "race" will not be ron, co u nt me following pages (J1'~ solely those of the authors an d do not necessarily reflect th e official positio n of Cy cl« News West or Cycle News, Inc. 0Jalified readers wishing free and equal rebuttal space sh ould con tact the Edi tor. years . second class mail , $3 0.00. 71fIJ ONC's A 't/I:P',J HeJT' 4 Co py righ t Cv cle News. Inc. 19 76. Tr..d e m ar k registered l l.S •. P... tent Of n cr. All righ ts re served. Published weekl y e xc e p t th e firs 1 and las t week of th e c ale n da r ye ar hy Cy cl e Ne ws, Inc.• P.O . Bo x 4 9 X. I.o n g Beach, Califo rni a. Se c ond cl ass p os tage p aid 011 Lo ng ll(·;,u:h . C.\ . 9 (J~O I. Edi lu r ial s to ries , c art o on s, ph otos, e n-. .11(' we lc om e . Add ressed . s t .l m ~ (" c..I en velope as s u res re rum of unpurc h.rse- d ed itoria l m .n te r, Rcp einri e g in whole o r p.lfl o n l"" hy pe r mission -of th e publishers. ,. d n r t isin l( \ r.lles and c ircu la tio n in fo rm a tio n will IX" scnr upon reques t. Sc.'t.' S . R.Il.S . r£MI /flIP 17IAT oNE IS A'C!iEEI'/N6 C HA;:J.IC:. . ( HI m£R£. CAN I HEll' YCll/ Wl1l1 SOMETH/NG? \i NO, MAN, I'M JUST INTCl PIRT. ) FAR Cliff. ... (ClV/..P / -rH&N, tpS5IBI.Y, 1/0/1£/1.£.1 rOil IN A BAGOFSIlLCINDf11lKQ. l.

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