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The Rovers M.C. as a District 3 7 club
will be supporting the Prairie Dogs in
their first race .
Since it will be the only Desert Point
race event that weekend, we urge all
other clubs t o back o u r sp ort an d be
there. Le t's ke ep it a live.
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Good 01' Missouri mud run
Nat'l . Trials
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Dou bl e rat ion of So Cai ro cks
ROV ERSM.C.
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ROC
Whatever happened to . , :
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Race of Ch ampions
Tonto 100
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Abo u t three months ag o , Scott
Lo yston cru shed his foot and an kle
while practicing at his lo cal tr ack. The
doctors put him together with screws
but only give him a 20 % ch ance that he
will ever have co m p lete mobility in his
ankle again. Scott was leading the New
Mexico st ate cham p ion ship motocross
series in both the 125 and 250 classes at
the time of his accident.
Scott has a lot of friends out-of-state
who mi ght have wondered what
happened to him. His address is 2221
Concord, Las Cruces, N.M. for anyone
who . would like to send a car d. Thanks
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RM100B test
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Ra cing the to y wonder
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From ta rmac t o t ria ls
Dez
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Soggy sand fav ors Mayes
North
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End uro seaso n full -on
Japan
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Journey t o the so urce
Results
Centra l
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ON THE COVER : Clo ckwise
from top - Han nah, Howerton,
Semics , Lackey , No yce, Po m ero y ,
Weil. Just a b unch of the boys out
for a Sunday field meet in'
Missouri. Photos by th at Greek
fell a,
Throw a hammer at 'em
Re: 19 Oct. ' 76 "Helmets , emissions,
etc. "
Hooray! Hooray! Let's have more
laws , mo re regulations, more land
closures, more everything - as long as
what is done gets rid .of the unsilenced
- unspark arrested - 12000 RPM
and
ro ck
throwing
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am-to-midnight pu racer.
PHIL MARSICK
Glendale , Calif.
advertise upcoming races be cause there
are ab so lu tely zero spectators. Track
m an agers then bi tch and co mp lain that
it is too hard fo r th em to pay purses for
the Experts so they ban the Experts
from co m pet ing when they go broke ;
wh ich is quite often.
How do Califo rnia , Texas, et c. tracks
p ay su ch larg e purses and keep the
tracks in su ch good conditi on ? (If you
don 't think the y are, come to Col orado
so m e time and get ready for a laugh)
WAY NE JACKSON
Boulder, Colo.
The next Mayflower
Charles C. Clay t on y Pre siden t
Sharon Clay t on, Pub lish er
Edna Mewton, Secr et ary to Pu bli sher
Advert ising
Ro bert L. Nor Vell c , Na tion al
Adv ertising Sales Manager
Deb bie Wilkins, Western Regi onal
Ad vertisin g Sale s Manager
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Chri s Kolber , Adv ertising Assistant
Ed itorial
Lan e Campbell, Se n io r Edi tor,
J ody
Weisel, Ed ito r. Bobi Scott. Edit or.
Art and Prod uct ion
Just got b ack in from the Las Vegas
sh ow and was reading th e current Cy cle
News an d the " Political Lifelin e. "
I assume you are aware that t he
current case agai nst Califo rnia wh ich the
EPA has go ing in t he Sup re me Court
will - if the Court fmds fo r the EP A among a great many o the r things permit
them to ban the u se of motorcy cles in
th is state. If th at doesn 't upset th e
populace, th en m aybe the fact that
gas olin e sales to Los Ang eles will be
reduced by from 95% t o 100% and that
registration o f all motor veh icle s in t he
stat e will b e cut by 50% will , upset
them.
What t ime does the next Mayflower
leave? .. . Ride Safe . . .
' There is no simple so lution to th e
problem Wayne. Promo ters and clubs,
no matter wh ere they are lo cat ed, hav e
to put th e necessary mo ney and
physical labor into a facility to mak e it
worthwhile fo r riders and sp ectators
alik e. R id ers d o have th e choice of
rid ing a poorly pr epared course, riding
someplace else, or not riding at all. Let
the organization know how you f eel
about track preparation and offe r some
construc tive criticism. Th ere 's mo re
strength in numbers th ough ; maybe you
could get so me of your f ello w riders
together and lay it on th em as a
gro up . . . Ed.
ROGER HULL
Road Rider Magazine
South Lagu na , Calif.
I wish t o express m y sincerest
ap precia tio n for what amou nted to
life saving efforts by several in dividu als
and o rgan iza t ions .
While co m pet ing in the re cent Check
Ch ase near Parker, Arizona, I suffered a
heat stroke as a resu lt of extrrne
dehydration and exertion (no surprise
to those who participated in this ra ce)
' near the end of the ra ce .
Thanks to certain spe ct ators, the
prompt response of Rescue 3 , Bernie
and Jan of Parker Ambulan ce , Parker
Hospit al emergency team , and, not to
be forgotten, m y own club members,
who retrieved virtu ally all of m y
e qu ip m en t and stuck b y me through the
hours of "crisis" at the hospital, I have
not only recovered bu t will be ab le to
race again.
- Camaraderie like this . can't be
purchased at an y price .. . a b ig thanks
to a ll y ou nice people!
Bar bara Mizuno . Produ ction Manager ;
Rita Drcss cnd orfe r,
Produ ct ion : Dennis
Te chn ici a n; Mario n
Adve rt ising
Cox , Lab
Ha t as h i t a ,
T y po graph er : Mike Klinger , Lab a nd
Prod uction Assist ant.
CirQJlation
Rheba S m it h , Manager ; a nd Pam G reen
Assist ant . :
Accounting
Gay lcnc Zaionz , Manager : Ken Lo r in.
Assist ant ; J eanne Hammond, Accts.
Re ceivable; Pamela Dickerson a nd
Carolyn Branham . Assist an ts ; Judy
Klin ger . Cre d it Dept. : Rhonda Van
Do ren . Co llec tio n Dep t.
Service and Support
Mich ael Ccl ik as. Den nis Watts. Juanit a
Blan ton. re cep tionist .
West
P.O . Bo x 4 9 8 . Lon g Beach . CA 9 0 8 01.
(2 13) 427· 7433: L.A. Line 6 36 ·8 844 .
East
P.O . Bo x 805, T ucker, GA 3 008 4. (404 )
9 34· 78 50 .
Subscript ion
One ye ar: secon d class ma il $ 12.5 0 : 2
years. secon d class mail. S22. 50 : .3
years , second cla ss m a il. S30 .00 .
Track attack
Colorado has a serious problem with
it s racin g. In the four years that I have
been
rac in g motocross absolutely
nothing has changed. Po ssibl y it has
regre ssed. For su re there are a lot more
riders. bu t spectat o rs in Col orad o are
ex tremely sca rce and the tr acks a re
always very bad.
Fo r example : o ne clu b feel s t hat it is
t oo exp ensi ve to d isc t he trac k and
water it; con sequ en tly , it is always roc k
hard. As if that wasn 't bad enou gh , the
du st had gotten so out of con tr o l that
t he t rac k w as alm ost shut d own by local
agencies. T his club then ' ca me up with
the com p let ely asini n e id ea o f oi ling it .
The result is a p avement type surface
th at is very slick. The other tracks don 't
use oil, at least, but they st ill h ave hard,
slick. dust y surfaces :
I gu ess the clu bs also feel it is a sin t o
Supre me support
DON WOOLDRIDGE
Ben ch Racers M.C.
DRA No . 130
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SCOTT'S GIRLF RIEND
Las Cru ces , N .M.
Back to timekeepers
People have become so good with all
the trick stuff on the handlebars that, in
an attempt to cut down -on the low
numbers, endures have been turned into
tough desert ra ces.
.
On the Tuff E'Nuff I doubt if very
many people ever 100 ked at their
watches. I have been riding endures for
20 years, and I'm a long wa ys from the
best , bu t I d idn 't get to be an A rider
without knowing so met h ing ab o ut how
to ride. On the C loop of t he Tuff
E'Nuff I lost n ine points. Believe me,
Y u didn 't have to keep t im e.
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The California 100 has to be one of
the best I have ridden in a long t ime,
b u t the y had t o ruin it by u sing a
speedometer th at was way off on t he
first loop. I gu ess they did it to make
the run more challen ging but it didn 't
m ak e any sense a nd I think they sho uld
have thrown the whole fir st loop out.
The rule book say s chec ks must be
accurate within plus or m inus one tenth
o f a mile. I always assumed this would
be
checked
with
an
accurate
speedometer if it was challenged . If the
ro u te card says go 10 .3 miles at 18 miles
per hour, I assume that is what it m eans
and I ride accor dingly.
If we are going to make th e endures
challenging let's be re al professional and
ju st don't hand out ro ute sheets. Make
us use our heads! That is what is
supposed to m ake t hese runs different 1
from other events. I know if you took it
to the Supreme Court they would say
you can't do that, becaus e you are
discriminating against the d ummies, but
so wh at . Until one of the dummies
co m p lain , let 's do it .
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BOBJOHNSTON
San Bernardino, Calif.
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