Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

-------------------~_ . as help goes . W e've got a bunch of little help, but no th ing really major. We're working on things now someone who 'll pay some ex penses and everything. We're working on it ; we'll just h ave to hope something co mes along. Expenses are getting up there, so we defi ni tely go tta h ave som e help. Lik e I said, Mario's working on it , so I' ll just h ave to be pa tient and ho pe for the best. Of all the riders on the National ci rcuit. who a re your toughest rivals? Na tu r a lly Sp ringstee n he's so cons istent and aggressive on just about all the ra ce tracks. I'd have to say he's the to ughest. He's number one a nd super· aggressive. Of course Kenny's ou t of it now , but I'd have to say he was, too . As far as the rest of th e com pe tition, th e top five or six riders are a ll goi ng to be righ t there . Boody's on the factory team a nd Ga ry Scott - he 's got the experien ce so he's going to be tough , too . H ow do the r id ers ge t a long off t he race track ? We get a long reall y good. T om and I cha t with th e Harley gu ys, we're really good fr iends with every body. I don't have any p roblems with any of the riders, al thou gh I do h ave m y opi nions of some of th e riders. I'm not going to mention any names. I th in k it's nea t that whe n you' re off the track and you know the guy, you can ta lk to h im and when you go on the track it's not like you 're racing against so me ene m y. IIo you reall y like r a ci ng? I ~ke to race. That's basically why I stu: k with it. When I first started out I n er realized that I'd get into it this hrivily. Now that I a m into it this heavily, it 's kind of a one-lifetime cl!l nce so I im agi n e I'll be doing it for as long as I can. I don't thi nk I' ll be wing it say , five yea rs from no w. I' d lie to do it , d o well at it , for an other tfo:Oor t hree yea rs. ~ I'd like to be doing it as long as ~i b l e and mak e good money at it. I something I like to do , a nd if I ca n rm ke good mo ne y at it , all th e bett er. y'p,u ge t invo lved with it and m a ke g60d mo ney and get a g oo d sP.2nsorsh ip , it's just as good a job as . any. Are you making good money now ? Yeah, I'm makin g d ecent m oney. Can you tell u s how much? I don't know. It's hard to say. I' ' well off enough to have whatever I wan t. During the winter I ca n j ust kick back and do whatever I want and have money to spend . I think I am doing well enough to wh ere if I had a no ther kiDd of job I don't th ink I would ha ve as,:nuch as I do no w. I wouldn't own as rniich as I do now if I h ad , sa y a stea d y cafp enter's job. H Ive you thought about what you a re going to do when you decide to quit racing? I think about it a ll t he time . My father is a carpenter , he's been a carpenter all his life . My firs t job was working with h im . I' ve bee n work ing wit h him ev~ since I was ' 12 yea rs old. I like cai e ntry , it 's good work and it 's promising . I think when I get out of raci ng I'll get into carpentry. When I get around to getting a house I'd like io d o most of the hou se mYself. Ek lun d, who's proven his dirt tra ck prowess wit h f ive Grand Nationa l wins to dat e and by making all but two of the dirt track ma in eve nts last year , will be pitting his road racing skills against t he very best fo r the firs t time a~ payt ona . If h e do es well, it will be a big boost, since t h e man wh o lies behin d him in th e Cam el Pro Series points, Jay Sp ringst een , will n ot co m pe t e in th e p oints-payin g 200· . w-n. miler. '" . ,. THE SACHS/Hercule s 7-SPEED ENDURO "We Can't Imagine You Getting Any More For The Money" imtI As s la le d In J an ua ry . 19 78 J SJ This is the best pure enduro offer of the year. Ta ke a dvantage of it now! To commemorate the medal winning performance at the 1977 • IS OT. 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