Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

support of Class C racing by AMF. Unless somethi ng drastic happens, we'll fiel d a fu ll tea m. I kn ow who the riders will be," co ntinued O'Brien, "but we (H · D) won 't be releasing any· thing on it until late Nov e mber . Every . body is just going to wait a little lon~er for me to tell them what they think they already know ." 00 ~ .0 S IU ;> o Z (ContinuedfTOm page 7) Team Yam aha and a Trans·AMA w in of his own. The Dirt Diggers North M.C . have informed us that all proceeds from their Dec. 5 Lilliputian hare scrambles at Prairie City OHV Park near Sacramento, CA . will be donated to United Celebral Palsy . We're also told that riders entering the event can deduct riding co~ts as a charitable contribution . Also , the DDNMC says tha t there will be 175cc and fourstro ke classes in the event . • To help clubs decide which riders they're going to send to the Jan. 14 Interclub Motorcycle Olympiad put on by the Dirt Diggers North N .C. at Prairie City OHN Park, the entry deadline has been extended beyond Nov. 1. Send entries, requests for info, ete., to 5517 Helen Way, Sacramento, CA 95822, 9161456-3178. If you're up in the Goleta/Santa Barb a ra area on Nov . 11-12 . be sure to stop in for the open house at .Reg Pridmore Motorcycles . 5718 Hollister Ave . , Goleta , CA . In addition to seeing the new BMWs on display and . the BMWs that Reg builds , folks who stop by can see th<: Prid~ore's Vett~r / Vesco sidecar ng, hIS Superbike Production Cha mpion Vetter Kawasaki Cook Neilson 's R G500 square fo~r Suzuki road racer. Craig Vetter's stream lined skateboard, and possibly Don Vesco's ' double-engined Kawasaki streamliner. The hours are Saturday 9 a .m. to 5 p.m . and Su nd ay, 10 to 2 or 5. T ake the Hollister offramp off Hwy . 10 1 nort h of Santa Ba rbara . Don't forget that after the CocaCola Bottler's Motocross Finals at Anaheim Nov. 11. some of the top MXers around will be competing in the SaddlebacklDG Day After the Night Before minicycle race at Saddleback Park. The li kes of Bob Hannah, Graham Noyce, and Marty Smith plus their mechanics and a press class will be competing. .The action gets underway about noon on Sunday, Nov. -12. Call 71415581584 for more info. Desert star Tom Kelly will be out of action for awhile following an accident the day before the OCI. 22 CRC Golden Bear hare and hound . Kelly was struck by another rider and left with several broken bones in his left fool. We wish him a speed recovery. . Wes Cooley was entered in a Castrol-sponsored six-hour endurance race i n Australia, Oct. 22 along with an Australian partner on a box-stock Suzuki GS1000. They did not finish; the win went to a local t eam riding a Yamaha XS11. • 46 "C ontrary to the rumors fl.oa~ing arou nd like they always do at th is time of the year." sa id Ha:~ey.D,a vi?so~ ra cing team hon cho DIck a Bn en m a phone conversation from ' H · D·s ~ i l. waukee he adquarters, " H arley-David son will still be in racing come 1979 . The budget ha s already been worked out and there has been no cut in the Morbidelli road racers are now available in the U.S. via the recently appointed im porter, Cliff Benson's United Italian Motors, P.O. Box 141, Danville, CA 94526, 4151582· 1329. Their 125cc model has a 39 hp valve t wi n -c y li nd e r r ot a r y power plant. and their 250cc is reported to have a 14 hp advantage over the new Yamahas l Prices should not prove too scary considering everyone 's prices are going up and Morbidelli has managed to hold the line. A re ader passed a long the word that somebody is finally ta king the land grabbers to tas k. More specifically, ~he Mountain Sta tes Legal Fou ndation went to court in W yoming to test the right of th e Secr et a ries of. Interior a nd Agriculture to den y pubhc access a nd use of resources on public lands withou t consent of Congress. Still more s pecifically. w~at they 're fighting is the Forest Servi ce RARE 11 wilderness inventory. British journalist Chris Carter, whose coverage of the Grand Prix road race circuit appears regu larly in Cycle News, has named his top 20 road racers for 1978. The list. which appeared in a recent issu e of England's Motor Cycle, is headed by . Kenny Roberts w ith Steve Baker and Skip Aksland the only other Americans list ed, in 16th and 20th. respectively. The top 10 after Roberts are Sheene, Ballington, Hartog, Hansford, Cecotto, Katayama, Bonera , Herron; and Luccinelli. Bill Bu rgene r is the 1978 Colorado Trials Ch ampion for the seco nd year in a ro w after winning the final event of the season at Christm as Ran ch ne ar Beulah. CO . Bill , rid ing a Bul ta co , ea rn ed $1000 for his efforts from the na tiona l Bu ltaco distributor . Allegations that the British Haynes Publishing Group had been " dum ping" their publications on the American market at below cost price have been withdrawn following an investigation by the Treasury Department. The alleg.ations v:"!,re put in an anti-dumping pennon f iled against Hayes by Clymer Pub lications of Los Angeles. Now the Treasury Department has terminated their inv est igation after deciding that Clymer ~as. fai ~ed to establish a reasonable indication of injury under the anti-dumping act. Sales of Clymer Publications had been hit by severe competition from Haynes who claims to hold 25 percent of the U.S. market for workshop manuals. Ray Hod ges, 39 , was buried .recently in his hometown of. Boonville, In diana . Hodges, a former Marine. sergea n t. was associated with Long Bea ch Hon da a nd Kawasa ki Motors Corp . in Cali fornia before returni ng to In di an a in the 1960's. After racing IT Scra m bles in t he early 1960's, he tur ned his interest to engi ne p rep a rat ion and in the las t two seasons his racing group, Tea m Hodges Suz uki , accoun- . ted for m any wins in Midwest cross country races . Hodges is survived by his wife R ita a nd son Rya n . Condolences may be sent to Mrs . Ray Hodges. Box 176 . RR 15 , Newburgh . IN . 47650 . • -------- - fU Ll I I CHAMPIONSHIP EVENTS Dragbike Drag Racing AMA Championships Toyota Supercross 11/1 1 Anaheim, CA Trans·AMA 1115 Sonoma. CA Baja.CA AME Manufacturers Series National Enduro Series "15 Central Region ' 1/12 S.C.O.R.E. Off Road Events 119·12 Broken Arrow, OK Western Reg ion San'. Maria. CA 11119 11126 1213 Huron.CA F,esno. CA B. kersfield. CA Interclub Motor· cycle Olympiad "15 Redwood Scrambl.. 11/12 1114 Sacr.mento. CA Reckling Dirt Riders National Reliability Trials Series One·Day " 126 Richmond. C'" TIISHORT TRACK Per rIS Aewy ., on Hwy . 74 oH Ellis Ave ., % -mr. west side . Perris , CA. Gates open 4 prn. race 6:30. All classes, Beg. thru E• . 30 % br.... 7141960-2501. o AMA S HORT TRACK tt Freemcnt Rcwy . H·17 at Durham Rd . All c6asses. Amateur purse . Entry M . 1497 8 McVay, ::J S.n J o... CA 95 127. 40819 2346 13. TISCRAM BLES Elsinor e Racewa y, Lak e Elsinore, CA. Hwy. 71 . off ~ t Lagonia St., brwn. Main St. . exit & Railroad Cyo. Rd. FOf Into : 714 /674-2077.676471B. OKLAHOMA ASL SP£EOWAY l imestone Run S pd w y, Okl8homa City, OK. % mi. S . and )i, mi. West of ~ ft CounCI l. 1Sf & 2nd Div. classes. Purse 30% of gate. Entry $5. S~ 8 pm. Mu st fegrs.:er 2 weeks In advance . 405 f68 1 ,· 7102 . Sunday AME NIGHT MINICROSS k'ldian Dunes. Valenc ia. CA EVERY CALIFORNIA SADO LE8ACK SATUROA Y Mll Saddleback Pk.• O

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