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Heavy on the Mayo INSIDE Trans-AMA This past February I saw a kid in the final of the Astrodome flat track that impressed me . I think he was the only one without a sponsor. He didn't come in the top ten, but it was very apparent he did no t have the equipment. , I saw th is kid again a few weeks ago In Baton Rouge. I want you to know it was beautiful the way he rode. If a sponsor is smart, they would pick this kid up . He's national number 81 and his name is J im m y Ma yo, 6 Round One to Roger , Hurricane's heartbreak 8 San Jose Mile Give Aksland an inch . 10 Desert Leprecha un downhill io $-< V .D o .... u o Western Hotline 12 Speedway 16 RMize your Suzuki PE . . 22 R .J. CARLO Los Angeles For more squirt in the dirt Northern Dateline Central Pipeline Results : 23 28 3O Whither two-strokes? Who won what, when Motocross Cat 31 Calendar . . . .. _. . . . . . . . 33 Latest Poop . .. . . . . •. ... . 2 Voices of the West 4 ON THE FRONT PAGE: (T op) Bob Hannah leads the Trans·AMA troupe into the first turn , with Steve Stackable (6), To ny DiStefano (3) and everyone else in hot pursuit. (Below) Mike Kidd (72) shares the San Jose National blanket with Skip Aksland (27), while K. Roberts (2) tries the outside. Photos by Chas, Morey and Felix Adamo . Baja fan Jus~ finished reading you r art icle on Baja Su rvival (with more than ca su al in teres t). I'm rea lly glad that someone too k the time and showed as much interest in the welfare of ot hers as d id Mrs , Hj almarson . My tha nks to her great jobl By the wa y, the roa d off Sie rra Jua rez th a t leads you onto th e d esert - Pole Lin e Road - is p osted no w. AI Martinez and I wen t down in late Jun e and put up enough warning signs tha t no one in his right mi n d woul d vent ure down the mo unta in . We d on't want to see a ny riders in th e spot we were in . HARRY O XLEY San Clement e ,-CA Burned up Charles C. C layton , President Bob i Scott. AMt . to the President Sharon Clayto n , Pub lisher Edna Mewton , Secretary to the Publisher Advertising Debbie wilkins. Sa les Mgr . Jim Ryan. Sales Mgr. Skip Johnson. Sales Mgr . Chris Kolbe r. Assista nt . Editorial Char les Cla yton , Edit or . Dale Brown , Assistan t Edit or . Bobi Scott. Assista nt Editor. Bria n Geo rge. Assistant Edi tor. Graphics and Production Prod ucti on : Ju dy Klinger , Jan Gill. T ypogra ph y: Manon Hat ashha . Don na Gabard. Labora tory Production : Denn is G reene. Circulation R ~eb a Sm ith. M ~ n a g('r. Jua nita Blamon , Diane Felten , Debbie Drayden . Sa nd i McKa y, As..'1istan u . Accounting Mikt> KlinK'("r, Ma nager . Ken Lorin , Assista nt . It-,annl' Ha mmond , Ar cts. Receivable. Pam ela b u:"ker:o;o-m , Assr. Aer-t . Receivable . Rho nda s Van port"n , Collec rio n Dcpr. T risha Burton . C red it De pt. Services and Support J im Pisa rer z, Nan t"I;t" H e-n . rec ep rioni sr. son West 220 1 Che rry Ave .. Lon g Beac h . C A P.O . Box 498 . t.()I1 ~ Bea ch . CA 90801 42 7· 7H 3 ; L.A . Li nt' 6~6 ·884" . (2 1 ~) East P.O . Box H05. Tucker . GA :WOH4. (4 04) 934 , 7850 . Subscription Do t" yea r. seco nd ch•ss ma il S15 ; 2 y(' a ~. seco nd class ma il. $27; 3 years . second class mail. $37 .50 . 4 Copyright © Cycle News, Inc, 1977. Trademark. Cycle News registered U.S. Patent Office, All righu reserved . Publ ished weekly excep t the fine a nd last week. of th e calenda r yea r by Cycle News, Inc. , P.O . Box 498 , long Beach, Ca li. fornia. Second class pos ta~ paid at Long Beach . CA 90801. Cycle News welcomes unsolicited ed itorial ma terial incl ud ing sto nes , cartoons. ph otos , etc. Such ma teri al , if published , bec omes the exclusive copyrighe proJWny of Cycle . ~ eW$ . ~u ch acCC'pte,d ma terial is subject to reV1510n as I.S necessary In the sole d iscretion of Cycle N~ . Unsolicited ma terial whic h is not . used will be returned if accompanied by a self . ~d,dressed ~ t a m pe d e nve lo pe . All unsohcn ed mat erial will be handled with reasonable ca re. however Cycle News assumes no responsibi lity for th e safe ty. loss or da mage to such mat erial. Reprim ing in whole or pan on ly ~r permi ssi on o f th e p u b lishe rs , Advertising ra tes an d circula tion info rm ation will be sent upon requn l. SeeS. R.D .S. •• I am p retty b urned up at this time, so bea r with m e , Recently whi le at the CRC Team Race in Cali fornia Ci ty m y partner and I entered like everyone else with the hop e of rna ybe winning a tro phy. So I wai ted for m y Cycle News to see how we had don e. First of all you had a team th at ou r team had beaten by two m inu tes do wn as first in our class. So I ca lled CRC to find out what had happened. They to ld me there was a m ista ke and tha t we had won our class after all . , This is when the real scorcher cam e . CRC to ld me that th er e would be no ~rophy beca use th ere were not eno ugh In our class: There were two teams in our class . How much does a lous y trophy cost? Four rid ers at $12 apiece . Somebody 's making a lot of mon ey. I really started th inking wh y do we even to go t he races if th ey are goi ng to screw you out of th e gold? We d rove 200 miles, spe nt money on gas , food, drinks, trailer , not to m en tion the $ 12 ent ry fee . I just thin k it's getting pretty sad whe n all they talk abo ut is ge tting good tu rnou ts so as to let the BLM a nd everyone else know th at we care about a place to rid e , the n they tu rn arou nd and tell us no tro hpy because not enough in our class. I think it stinks. Therefore, I will not renew m y Cycle News su bsc ription for your sloppy resul ts and I will not join CRC at the en d of th e yea r , LEO N PRICE Visa lia. CA Standart procedu re is that five entries m ake a class. Perhaps you 'd have been happier t o ha ve been pla ced in another class with more entries, but th en you would n't have gotten class poin ts. Editor. Sanford screwed up It amazes m e th at a n in divi dual of Ru ss Sanfor d's stature could get his info rm at ion so scre wed up. I refe r you to Mr. Sa nford's " Poli tical Poop" co lumn in Cycle News Vol XIV : No. 36 : Sep t. 14, 1977. Mr. Sa n fo rd states that h e is " ind ign ant a bo ut bein g treat ed as a second -class citizen. " He co ntin ues, loggi ng operations, cha in saws, hikers , backp ac ke rs, etc. are still all owed . .. " He is co rrect exce p t for cli ain saw users. They are not all owed in Stage II Restricted areasl He also says " It appe ars th a t all trails are out , unless th ey ha ve such marki ngs , i.e, 33E22, 2 1S11 etc ." All trails have suc h ma rkings and all trails are closed u nder Sta ge II res trictions . He was leading people to think that if a tra il had a tra il number, it was open . No , no , .nol A tra il to be used by O.RV's in th e first place must be posted with an a ppropriate "O pen" sign. You must contact each forest for info on ORV tra ils. BR IAN KL OCK Wofferd Heights, CA Co uld be Cou ld Sidecar racer Dou g Ka litt a be related to d rag-racing great Conn ie Ka lin a , fro m the same to wn ? Connie was a pio nee r with Fords and tu ne d Sh irl ey "Cha C h a" Muldown ey's N a tion als-winning d igger. A , H . TELLIER Ph oenix , AZ I rid e two-storkes on both street and di rt , and 1 am co ncerned about a rumor 1 heard that , st a rt ing the first of ?ext year, th ere is a sm og law going Into effect on motorcycles. This of · co urs e will sto p th e im po rti ng of twostrokes. What bothers m e m or e is th at I also heard th at th e law will affect t he people who alre ady own two-strokes. Is the government sticking it to us aga in ? Please let me a n d the rest of the two -stroke riders know, because they certainly won 't. JOHN CHARICH South Pasadena, CA A cco rd ing t o A lan Isley of th e Motorcycle Industry Council, bik es manufactured aft er Ja n . I , 1978 will be lim ited to from five to 14 grams of hydrocarbon emissions by ord er of th e En ~ironm ~nt~l Prot ection Agency. This unll lim it new two -strok e engine size. Of -road bik es are exe m pt, but it f spe lls th e end of big enduro twost rokes. EPA has no plans to control pre-1978 motorcycle emissions, so yo u won 't be af ect ed as long as you own f your present tw o-stroke. Aft er 1980 a flat five grams limit will apply to all new motorcycl es, which is exp ected to reduce th e maximum two -stroke to about '17.scc unless a t echnological breakthrough happens. CalzJomia has passed a one g ram p er kilometer emission limit ef ec tive in 1982 , which, f unless amend ed, will .affect all two strokes and ma ny f our-strokes. Editor. Not B & S. but San J ose BMW We a t Sa n Jose BMW are avi d Cycle News rea ders. W e are also avid BMW motor cyclin g enthusiasts. As a resu lt , we are parti cularly se nsitive t o comments in your pa pe r a b o u t BMW 's, especia lly when ou r shop is involved , In the Septem ber 21 issue of Cycle N ews , on page 5 , yo u show a pho tograph of H arry Kl inzmann falling do wn on his " first ever Butler & Smith BMW ride". True , Ha rry d id fa ll down in practice, tr ue it was his first -ever BMW ride; indeed it was his first -ever Superbike Nationa l ra ce . T he error in the ca ption is that , a lt h o ug h Bu tl e r & Sm ith wa s somew hat involve d in th e preparation of the bike , we, Sa n J ose BMW own the bike , crew it , a nd su p port Harry 's effort on it. RON LANG SanJose, CA