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the BLM for perm1SS1on to ride on existing roads and trails November 24. To my knowledge these leners have gone unanswered. Why doesn't the BLM mark a trail from Barstow to Vegas on November 24 and let the motorcylists know which roads and trails are open? It is time the BLM recognizes the fact that a [Tail ride is imminem and it is wiser to work with the motoring public and make the trail ride come off well. rather than working against them. I find it interesting that we, the off roaders. are asking assistance from the Bureau of Land Management. We are trying [0 help them organize something that will take place. with or without their approval. It is going [0 happen; let's do it right. We are trying [0 work within the system. but our pleas go unaswerecl. We are trying our best to help the BLM but.•they won't even acknowledge that we exist! Show us that you are the Bureau of Land Management not the Bureau of Land Closure. We anxiously await your answer, Mr. Hillier. America's No.1 Weekly Motorcycle Newspaper Sharon Clayton, Publisher Tom CuJp. Marketing Director Caroline Gendry. Sec. to the Publisher Nancy Corak, Sec. to the Mktog. Dir. Advertising Skip Johnson. Sales Manager. Terry Pratt, Sales Manager. Linda Brown, Advertising Coordinator. Editorial SON OF DESERT DUCK Quack! Quack! Charles Morey. Managing Editor. Dale Brown, Editor. Bobi McGann, Editor. Graphics and Production Judy Klinger, Production Manager. Pamela Wood, Production Asaistanl. MRAN B·to-V request Marion Haushita, Cindy Torres, Typography. Dennis Greene, Laboratory. The states of California and Nevada have much in common including the problems of land use issues, however, our methods of dealing with the BLM are not the same. Never have those differences been so evident as in the route of the Barstow to Vegas Race. This lener presents a brid history of Accounting M'\.c Klinger, Manager. jeanne Accu. Receivable, Donna Bryan, Asst. Accts. Receivable. Terry Dailey. 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Photo by Len Weed. 4 Outpost's PDOD offer I am writing to Cycle News, hoping to increase the impact of this action on your readers. regarding the efforts of the Phantom Duck to retain our desen lands for the use of all of the citizens. I am the owner of the Outpost Cafe, which has for many years been a haven for tired bikers on their return from desen events. I am temporarily anyway a retired desen rider, a member of East-West M.C., and I am concerned that we should let a brother rider take the brunt of the expenses of a legal action in which many of us participated - the Thanksgiving non· sanctioned, non·event last year. Now I cenainly wouldn't encourage anyone [0 show up this year, and make another show of support for this ride, but just in case there are some riders that do come out to the desen that weekend. I want to have something to come of their trouble. I will comribute [0 tlte PDOD onehalf of the money we receive on each purchase of food at the Outpost Cafe, from noon Friday, Nov. 2!l through Sunday, 10 p.m., the 25th, based on the desen rider participation. The way we will determine this is by copies of this lener anached to the guest checks paid at the Cafe. Simply stated, tear out this lener printed in Cycle News and tum it in when you pay your biD at the Cafe, and I will send one· half of that bill to Louis McKey, PooD. If you thinIt. that we citizens aren't getting a raw deal with the BLM actions on the Check Chase, and other events, then stay away from the desen on Thanksgiving weekend. but I would like to remind you that numbers of people do add up, and they cannot ignore your rights if you are there. GEORGE E. NEWTON The Outpost Cafe 1m. 15. Hwy. !l95 Phelan, CA Thanks from the Champ We wish to thank all the people who were involved in helping Eric to become the 500cc Amateur Motocross Champion. The following sponsors: Rancho Cordova Suzuki. Hi Poim West. Works Performance, Bosch Spark Plugs, and Answer Products. Thanks Maico for building such an out· standing bike and to the following people for their moral suppon: District !l6 members who almost ruined the roof of their motorhomes while cheering Eric to the checkered £lag, all fans. and fellow District !l6 riders who provided us with the competition th.u made us go fast enough to win this one. A special thanks [0 Chuck Meuller and Frank Blake for loaning us their bikes [0 get a good practice and win'on Saturday. Funher thanks to all the people we can't mention without taking the risk of filling this edition. Thanks again ~o all of youl! [0 ERIC McKENNA JAN HOUTERMANS Orangevale. CA Mann's nine years Just writing [0 get one more record in the books for some rider to try and break. I have never heard oUT knowledgeable Roxy RocIr.wood commem on this one: Dick "Bugsy" Mann was National Number One twice with a nine year gap between his two titles. Let's see some of the Champs try to tie this one. A great majority of the riders won't be on the circuit nine years. RICHARD F. MIGNANO Cot[Onwood. CA Dear Mr. Hillier... It has been several weeks since the BLM/Barstow to Vegas Trail Ride idea was presented to you. In that you have chosen not to reply, I feel it is necessary to ask again. This lener should probably have "second request" stamped across it. Judging from the people I have tafked to and the leners I have read, I feel that it is safe to assume that there will in fact be a 1979 Barstow to Vegas Trail Ride. I do not think that the probability of a trail' ride happening can he overlooked. There has been too . much activity regarding the trail ride to say that it will not happen, especially in light of the Check Chase cancellation. I have been told that people have even wrinen lenen asking oUT efforts. Although Southern Nevada motorcycle riders have used the Jean area extensively since shonly after the war (WW U) motorcycle racing can be traced back as far as 1906. When our numbers increased and other organizations (Southern Nevada Off Road Enthusiasts. Sierra Club. etc.) took a more active imerest. we began to co· ordinate OUT events with the BLM. Accordingly, the Motorcycle Racing Association of Nevada has played an imponant pan in area land use planning. Whenever public comment was required we gladly did our part. Although we work closely with environmental groups such as the Toiyabe Chapter of the Sierra Club, our respective comments about propolCd uses in any given area naturally differ much. Because all groups (motorcy· clists, four-wheelers, environmentalists, hunters, ranchers, miners, etc.) are involved. the BLM is not pressured by anyone group. Hence all arguments (ORV and environmentalists. commerical and non-commercial, etc.) are evaluated and the Las Vegas District of the BLM makes fair decisions. Fair decisions mean that satisfaction and disappointment are felt by all groups. Nevada is traditionally multi-use and that is the recommendation of those lands along the Barstow to Vegas route. This land is completely open to competition events, as j[ was in 1974. The reasons for coordinations of any large scale eveD[ are obvious. A Sierra Club hike up a wash the same day as a Jeep Club Rally would diminish the experience for both groups. a cattle drive and a bird dog club field trials on the same dry lake would be a disaster, a dune buggy race crossing a motorcycle course would be hazardous to say the least, and this leads to me reason and purpose of this lener. Last year MRAN clubs were forced to clean the Duck's cOurse from State· line to Vegas in order to assure the success of our scheduled events and keep oUT desert beautiful. There were no events scheduled Thanksgiving weekend and although it was an