Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

Pat r ic k , Tom Wh ite and Steve Stricklin . Since m ovin g to Sacramento, I have become involved in riding motocross a nd hav e been and active mem ber of the Dirt Diggers No rth M .C . for the past four years . 'I NSIDE Street Is Neat. ...•... .. . 3 Bitchin's second strike (out) Anaheim Supercross ... . 6 FL OYD LEW IS Sacrament o , CA The Hurricane hits the Big A Baja 1000 9 Wallingsford, Harden wipe up the 1000 ..Works C(") (N ~ v ..0 S v ;;. o Z Doug Mockett Interview.. ... " .•. . . .. 14 Rappin ' with the new AMA Racing Czar Western Hotline Northern Dateline Harley Davidson's Factory MX'er 17 24 26 Riding the only USfactory Mxers in the US Central Pipeline Results Motocross Cat Calendar WantAds Shape up, CMC! 12 How to keep your MXer from going topless 29 30 31 33 36 ON THE FRONT PAGE: Randy Ho llgnbeck gets sideways after kissing a Baja ditc h. and Marty Smith (9) is chased by "Magoo" Chandler (594), T ony DiStefano (5) and Graham Noyce (156) at Anaheim . Photos by Dale Brown. Chand ler thanks ya I'd like to extend my thanks for all the phon e calls and get well cards I received whi le in the hospital and at home recovering fro m my accident at the Michigan Trans·AMA race. It 's a very slow healin g process on the hips and spine, and the doctor says I'll be out of work for a while. We'll be about n uts a roun d here b y Thanksgivingl Bu t the get well wishes fro m all our friends are making it easier , and I thank them sincerely. CA RROLL CHANDLER AMA MX Starter Toledo ,OH And we thank you, Carroll, for all you and Kar en have don e for motocross. Lookingforward to seeing you back on the circuit next season! Anyone who 'd like to make Chandler's recovery time a bit more pleasant may writ e him at 6042 North Summit, Tol edo, OH. 4J611 . . . Editor. Name the park Cha rles C. C layto n . President Bob i Scott . Asst. to the President Shar on Clayton, Publisher Ed na Mewron . Sec retary to t he Pu b li. her s Advertising Debbi e Wilkins, Sales Mgr . Jim Ryan , Sales Mgr . Skip Johns on . Sales Mgr . Chris Kelb er . Assistant . Editorial Charles Clayto n . Editor. Dale Brown . Assistant Editor . Bobi Scott . Assistant Ed itor . Brian George, Assist ant Edi to r. Graphics and Production Production : Judy Klinger , Jan Gill . T ypo gra phy : Ma rlon Hetashi ra . Donna Ga bard . La boratory Production : Dennis Green e. Accounting Mike Klinger . Manager. Je anne Hamm ond, Aceta Rece ivable. Pamela Dickerson . Asst. Accts. Receivable. Juanita Blant on. Ccll ecelcn and Credit Ci rculation R be ba Smith. Manager. Dia ne Felton . Debbie Dr ayd en . Kat hy Nefrcney. Sandi McKa y, Assistants . Services and Support Jim Pisarere . Linda Baca . receptionist. West 220 1 C herry Ave. . Long Beach , CA P.O . Box 498 , Long Bea ch , CA 90801 (213}427-7433: L .A . Lin e 636 ·8844. East P.O . BOl 805 , T ucker, C A 30084 , (404) 934· t 7850 . Subscription O ne year. second class mai l. S15: 2 yea rs. second class mail . 127: 3 yea rs. second class mail. 137 .50. 4 Copyright © Cycle News , Inc . 1977. Trademark Cycle News registered U .S. Parent O ffice . All righ ts reserved . Publ ished weekly f'xcep t the first and last week of the calendar year by Cycle News . Inc.. P.O . Box 498 , Long Beach , Cali fornia . Second class postage pa id at Long Beach , CA 9080 1. Cycle News welcomes unsolicited editorial material including stories, ca rtoons . ph otos . et c. Su ch ma teri al, if published , bec omes th e exclusive copyri ght pr opert y of Cycle News. Such accepted mat erial is su bject to revi sio n as is necessary in the sole d iscretion of Cycle News. Unsolicited materi al which is not used will be returned if acco mpa nied by a sel f-addressed st a mped e n velo pe . All unso licited material will be ha ndled with reasona ble ca re , however Cycle New s assu mes no responsibility for th e safety , loss or da mage to such ma terial. Repri nt ing in whole or pa rt o nly b y pe r m issi on of t he p u b lis hers . Adve rtis ing rates and circu latio n informa tion will be sent upon requ est. See S.R .D.S. As t he new ly appointed Park Ma nager of the Sacramento County Off-Highway Vehicle Park , I thought I'd drop you a line a bout our facility, future development and operation plans , and a little about myself. The county has just purchased 40 I acres of land next door, b ri ngi ng the park to 836 to tal acres. Co mpetition events are run year round and include motocross. hare scrambles a nd auto m o to c r oss , T he park is open Wednesday th rough Sunday for day use , 8 a .m . un til 6 p .m , Use fee is $1 for motorcycles 100cc and under and $2 for all other vehicles. To sti m u late user interest and participation in th e park . we will publish a m onthly newsletter , and begin sche duling of special interest classes and activities for OHV enth usiasts . The newsletter will in clu de informative and entertaining m ateria l for the user , including a sch edule of- u pcoming events. In the first issue , Decem ber I st , we hope to begin a Name the Park Co nt est , to shorten the existing title. Specia l events will incl ude such things as a b asic firs t a id, how to ride an enduro and su rvive, and p ublic playdays. As for m yself , I began r acing m oto rcycles in the Los Angeles area in 1936 , competing m ostl y in scrambles, but also riding several Elsinore GPs and Ho petown GP , I was a charter member of th e original Lightweigh ts M, C . , feat uring such ou tstanding me mbers as "Mad" Mike R ad ner , Kei th Mas hburn , Ga ry Scott , Ca rl On Oc tober 30, 1977 I atten ded The Richard All red Memorial R ace at Argylle Pa rk in Dixon, Calif. The race was prom oted by Boss MX. C. M .C . Lately I h a ve b ecom e very disa p poin ted in the organization of the races . A number of t hi ngs have rea lly got ten ou t of h and. I'm usin g th e Oct. 30th ra ce , in pa rticu la r, as one example , During the 25 0 ExpertIntermedi a te race , it h ad just started , there was a wreck in the firs t tum of the first la p ; a rider was injured and im m obil e . The rider had to b e taken off the tra ck by ambulance afte r 15 la ps of the race. riders goi ng ~t a normal "Ex pe rt· Intermedia te" speed . No cau tion was yielde d even though th e yellow fla g was waving in clear view of the riders. I was surprised that th e riders did not yield to the ca ution sign al and the p romoter did not hing to ins ure the safety of the injured rider or the First Aid pe rsons who wer e trying to administer aid to the inj ured rider. , T he peo ple that were trying to aid the rider and protect him from an y fu rther inj uries were hit by the riders as the injured rider was on th e "ho t lin e" and the riders show ed little or no ca ution . How can these riders and promote rs get away without being penalized ? T he re was no excuse for this . I feel the race shou ld have been stopped due to the lack of caution the riders were showing. It got ridiculous whe n the promoter tried to flag riders to yield to the ca ution flag a nd he was almost hit by riders and h ad to j ump out of the way of the racers. DWIGHT " MATTY" MATHEWS Danville , CA Paul Conserriere dies Lo ng-time race fans and friends will be sadden ed to hear of the death of forme r AMA E x p ert 9r , P a ul Conserriere. H e succumbed Octob er 29 to inj u ries rec eived in a fre eway accident near h is ho me in Sim i Valley , California , T op Novice in the n a tion in 1964 , Yam a h a -m o u n t e d , C o n ser r ier es p rofessional ca reer spanned 10 years . T ruly an all-around er , he com peted successfully in half-m ile , mile, short track, drag racing, sc ramb le s, speedway. TTs and road ra cing . Few men have ra ced as many brands of bikes as ha rd as Conserriere did . Starting witli scrambles in 196 I , his m ou nts inclu ded Matchless, H · D , Ducati, Yamah a . Trium ph, Bu lta co 'an d Hu sky., be fore turning pro . For Class C ra cin g he rode T riumph , BSA , Ro yal Enfield , H ·D and , finally , a rapid self-tu ne d Norton. Pa ul's off-track profession was that of custom painter, His work was su perb. He had recently gone into pa rtnership with another former racer, Claude Maples , in a custom p ai nt a nd engi ne tu ni ng shop in Sim i Valley. Al th ou gh ' Conserriere set one -la p records at th e Tulare a nd Clovis ha lfmiles , his ho me track was Ascot Pa rk in Gardena . He won trophy dashes there. he won m a in events there . and - now - as he would h ave wished he's buried a t Roosevelt Park ac ross th e street from the race tr ack , Paul, 35, is survived by his wife" Ela ine . a son, two d augh ters, three step-daughters, his mother a nd his fat her. Messages for th e family ca n be sent to Elaine Co nserri er e , 1354 Ahart , Sim i Va lley , Ca lif. 93065 . Their loss is great, as is that of all who knew Paul Con serriere. CA R O L SIMS ASH WO RTH Los Angles , CA, Ascot Sioway My friends a nd I got together and went to the Speedway Long Track C h a mp io n ship a nd I was very d isgusted. The races finally started around 9 p ,m . and we left about halfway through because it was getting close to 11. _ Well . I don't think Ascot has anything o n Inland Motorc ycle Speedway, or any other tra ck in sou thern Californi a , so count us out next yea r ].C . We'll let somebody else buy your cowboy hat! Mea nw hi le . ke ep tw isting tha t throttle, Bruce Penhall because you are going to make it; he can't win... th em alii J Also I think Cycle N ews is the next best thing to bra less fem ales and brakeless motorcy cles . U TONYKING Moreno , CA z You m ean t hat lot? . . Ed ito r we fall down a" r ~n VVho,us7 rl Just read fu ll page race re port in ~ Cycle . Ne ws Novem ber 9 iss u e.~ regardin g AMA speedway races a t ) Asco t. Co n gra tul at ion s , you j us t" ruined two years of hard work. AMA SPEEDWAY CONTRO L BOARD W ESTERN DI VIS IO N BILLBENC K. HAROLD MURRELL , STEVE BAST AND RICH Ma cM URRY Riverside Raceway discrimination 13 d " I encou nt ered a sit uation which I J feel a ll Southern California motorcyclists should be made awa re of. J Upon arriving at R iversid e Raceway ~ for the IRO C and Can-Am races, 1£ was to ld tha t my Yam a ha XS750 would h ave to be left in the im pou nd Ii area near the gate since m oto rcycles , were not allowed inside. I went to the j ticket office where I was informed that

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