Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

- - - - - - - - - - - - --- - -Angeles Colieum. I certainly hope 99% of the people enjoyed the opportunity to race in the Coliseum the trophies, the cash, and the level of interest of the people who donated their time away from their jobs to produce the event. Further, I would like to thank Cycle News , the manufacturers, the parents and sponsors who supported th e GNC Astrodome, GNC Superdome, GNC Superbowl and the GNC Good Time National. If the political creek doesn't rise ' I believe that Amateurs will have'· a much better place to perfect their abilities to the fullest and be ready should they want to go to professional motocross racing. . JERRY SURB~ Grand National Championship Friendswood, TX \lIS! America's No.1 Weekly Motorcycle Newspaper Sharon Clayton. Publ isher CaroIinr Oeodry, Secretary the PublishcT Bob i Scott . Executive Assistant '0 Hennen mail Advertising Could you provide Pat Hennen fans with an address where we can send ca rds to Pat or his family? Jim Ryan . Sales Manager. Larry Linle, Sal es Manage~ . Margot Bergman. Sales Man age r . Chns Kolb er, Assistan t. TERRY DENTON Valley Center, CA Editorial Charles Morey . Managing Editor. Dale Br~wn. Editor . Brian Gcorgc. Assistant - Sur e. All Hennen correspondenc e may be sent to Pat, c/o U.S. Suzuki Motor Cor!!., 1J767 Freeway Dr., Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670 . . . Ed itor. Edito r. Graphics and Prod~ction Jan Gil!. Dav Pauli, Production . Marion Hatash ita. T ypogn phy. Dennis Greene Laboratory . . Impaired imbibers7 Accounting Mike Kl inger , Manager . Hammond . Accu . Receivable. Jeann e Holly Hale , Collection and Cred it . Circulation Rheb a Smith, Manage r. Pau i Dc ' Pasqu .. le , Sherry Kaufman, Sand ye McKa y. Chr isty Bell . Assistants. Services and Support Pat Cardenas , Rcccptio ~ ist . Gin Harper. Wan' Ads . Steve McKay, 5 &5 . West 220 I Ch~rry Ay~ .. Long Beach, CA P.O. Box 498. Long Beach, CA 90801 (2 I S) 427 ·745S ; L .A . Line 656 -8844 . East 4190 Fim Ave.. Tucker, GA . P.O . Box 805 . Tucker, GA SOO84 . (404) 9S4-7850. Subscription One year, second class mail, S15; two ye-an. second class mail , $27 ; three yean , second class ma il. $57 .50 . Copyrigh' · Cycte New. . Inc . 1978 . 'Trademark C ycl~ NCW1 registered U.S. Patent Office. All Tights reserved Published weekl y ~x~p' the fin' and la.; week of the calendar year by Cycle News Inc: . P:O. Box 498 , Long B~ach: _ California . Second class postage paid at Long ~ach, CA 90801. Cycle New. ~eI~cs unsolicited editorial matenal mcludlng stories , cartoons. photos, etc . Such ~ateri al, if published , becomes the excfu ..ve copyrigh' property of Cycle .News ".S.uch accepted material is subjec t t~ ~on as is necessa ry in the sole d~lon of Cycle New s. Unsol icited ma terial which is not used will be returned if accompa nied by a selfad~~ stamped envelope. All un solicited material will be handled with reasonable care , howcycr, Cycle New s assumes no responsibility for the sa f~ty, los:s ?r ~ama~ to such material. Rc~nntlng In whol~ or pan only by permission of the publishers. Advertising rates . and circulation infonnation will be sent upon rns , limitations. prohibitions, regulations and the like in our everyday life. We like the desert ~ause it means freedom: no traffic lights, no stop signs, no rush hours and traffic jams, no smog and most of all no bureaucrats, cops or politicians! U~ort~natelr all these arguments are m vain aga.lnst all the demagogic bure~ucrats Iike you who sit in Washmgton and live in a world of t~eir own. You will keep ignoring the WIll of the ~ple for as long as you can get away WIth It. Things are changing. however. We, ~he taxpayers, are realizing that there IS only ~ne way to stop people like you !rom usmg our tax money against our mte.res~. Proposition 13 is only the beginning: .pretty soon you'll have to stop dreaming up new ways of wasting our money and start thinking about· so~e good reason to justify your very existence. I have yet to think of onel You may now proceed to throw this letter in the waste basket together with all the other ones you have so di!igentiy ·S?liciting. Who knows? You might convince your postman to testify ~>n how busy and needed your agency IS. M.M. Granada Hills, CA "'!e GNC Amateur Superbow! reflections I would like to thank Cycle News for their objectivity of journalism in correcting the authorship of a letter I thought obviously erroneous and exaggerated. I might say that it takes a lot of money to put on a race of the magnitude that was staged a t the Los Returned from vacation to catch up on my Cycle News and was d ismayed to find in th e July 12 New Products section your write-up on the Enduro Jug: 1 for one do not want to be racing next te;> anyone who ha s been im bib ing ~nythIng that will impai r h is Judgement and place my hide in more danger than it already is. I I th ink you owe all of us in general, ~nd . your younger more Impre~lOnabl readers in particular, a e retraction that does not occupy some obscure comer of the paper. MARK COOPER Tempe, AZ Just joking, Mark. Sorry you didn 't realize it . . . Editor. Saddleback'~ situation . In reference to John Larson's letter \ m your July 26 Voices column: Yes, 'it's summer at Saddleback Park. We're sorry you 've been having trouble negotiating through the dust. Without being technical, o ur motocross track consists entirely of California black adobe. hard as rock when dry and like multi-purpose grease when wet. Each summer we bring in heavy equipment and deposit enough coarse limestone sand to cover both motocross courses about one foot deep. The sand is then worked in with rippers and hydraulic discs. We also add a biodegradable enzyme to the waterduring track preps each week. We have tried sawdust , wood chips, sh:edded foam rubber, and other SOils, but to no avail. Ideally, a foot or two of DG would be the answer, but costly curbs or bulkheads would nave to be built to contain it, making course change impossible. Saddleback has suffered with tnese difficult soil conditions since our March, 1968 opening. Our crew works extra hard during the hot summer months, and they use over 50,000 . gallons of water each time the .tracks are prepped. Bear with us, John. While we all wa it for winter showers , we at Saddleback want you back. And wnen the gate drops, grab a holeshot and stay in front of the packlJ

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