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club are doing to them. See that aU bikers are aware of where and when land use meetings are being held. Second. work in the community to change the image the Sierra Club and others have laid on ORV people. Talk up in dty council meetings, PTA, get your club to volunteer for a civic: action program. Give a talk before or high school local groups government classes. Let the general public know what kind of people we really are. Third. educate yo. representatives. Tell them what • going on at a personal level. Make them know how important the land use issue is to you. Fourth. support the people who arc working for you. Help the Phantom Duck (the more money he has the harder he can hit back). Stop supporting dealers and compania whose only interest is in taking yo money. Buy parts and services 0 from people and companies that are taking a finn and active stand on la use issues. This is only part of the answer. working hard and working together we can get back much of what we ha lost in the desert. Please don't quit. a.n M QJ ..c e QJ U QJ Cl America's only weekly motorcycle newspaper S~ron Clayton. Publisher Tom eulp. Marketing Dirc<:tor Caroline Gendry, Sec. to the Publisher Nancy Goralt, Sec. to the Mlttog. DiT. Advertising Skip Johll5On. Sales Manager. Terry Pntt. Sales Manager. Linda Brown. Advertising Coordinator. Editorial Charles Morey. Managing Editor. Dale Brown. Editor. Bobi McGann, Editor. Graphics andProduetion Judy Klinger, Production Manager. Pamela Wood, Production A5Iistant. Marion Hatashita, Cindy Torres, Typography. Dennis Greene. Labontory. Accounting Mike Klinger, MOInaget'. Jeanne Hammond. Aceta. Receivable. Donna Bryan, Aslt. Accts. Receivable. Terry Dailey. Credit Manager. Circulation Rheba Smith. Manager-. Shirley Short. Sarah Taylor. AaailtanlS. Reader/Dealer Service Gin Harper. Want Ad Sales. Harry Fisher. Dealer Sales Manager-. Service and Support Chris Aitcheson. Diclr.iruon. S&S. Receptionist. Sam West nOI Cherry Ave.. Long Beach. CA P.O. Box 498. Long Beach. CA 90801 (215) 427·7455; L.A. Line 656·8844. East 4190 Fint Ave.. Tucker. GA. P.O. Box 805. Tucker. GA 50084. (404) 954·7850. Cycle News/West (USPS 141·540) i. published weekly except the fim and la" week of the calendar year for $18 per year by Cyele New•• Inc.. 2201 Cherry Avenue. Long Beach. CA 90801. Second cia.. pelOtage paid at Long Bech. CA. POSTMASTER: Send form . , . to Cycle News. P.O. Box .... Long Beech. CA . . .,. Subscription rates: Onf:' year, second class mail. $18; two yean. second claSi mail. $50; three years. second class mail. $41; 25 weeks. $10. Cycle News welcomes unsolicited editorial material including S[ories. cartoons, photos. etc. Such material, if publish"". hecnmes the exclusive propeny of Cycle News. Such accepted material is subject to revision as is necessary in the sole discretion of Cycle Nnrs. Unsolicited material which is not UICd will be returned if accompanied by a self·addressed stamped envelope. All unsoliciLated matenal will be handkd with reasonable care, however, Cycle N~s aslUlDe5 no responsibility for Lhe u.fcry, loss or dama~ to luch material. Reprinting in wbole 01' pan only by permission of lhe publishen. Advenising rales and circulation information will be sent upon ~uot. See S.R.D.S. Collyrlght Cycle N_a. Inc. 1179. T..d.....rt< Cycle Newa regl-.cl U.S. Patent OffIce. An rlghta ....Ned. ON THE FRONT PAGE. Mike Baldwin. shown here In action at Daytona 79, has been In the hospital since his Loudon get-off in June. One of America's hottest plIVement &a'8tchers now must consider if and when he'll race again. Photo by Charles Morey. 4 Baja biker thanks Baja Bug Why is Carnegie closed? Last August. the State of California bought Carnegie Cycle Park in Livermore with money from the offroad green stickers. The park has been closed since they took possession. They say they cannot afford to open the park, but they can afford to have anned guards there to stop riders. Is this another rip off, and can we do anything about it? We need help! RONALD STERBENK Fremont. CA P.S. Keep getting the run-around from people in charge. Seems no knows what is going on. We phoned Dave Cox, OR V Coordinator for the Department of Parks and Recreation, and he told us toot he had just gotten "a definite commitment out of our front office to go ahead and get (the park) opened up under a concession-type of agreement. " They have several parties interested in operating Carnegie, according to Cox, and now it's a matter of choosing which one will operate it, then waitingfor them to get their act organized. That, howeve-r, may be a temporary measure. After six months, they'llOOve three alleT1l4tives: (1) The Department of Parks and Recreation wzl1 take over and TUn it like Hollister. (2) Continue the seroice contract with the concessionaire. (J) Make it a regional park. Regardless of what action is taken, Ron, it'll be a whIle before Carnegie is open for OR V use ... Editor. Dear Mr. Cahill ... We recently reviewed the guest appearing in Cycle editorial News/West which reveals what is described as a 'blatant attempt to abolish the California OHV fund and related recreation facilities. Quite frankly, we are outraged thaf the California Department of Parks would even consider reducing their efforts to accommodate off· highway vehicle recreation. California maintains one of the most well funded off· highway vehicle programs in the United States. Yet, it has historically suffered from the lack of decisive. interested. or willing leadership within the Department. The comments attributed to Mr. james Whitehead suggesting that OHV recreation is not manageable or at best premature and ill·advised reflect the type of OHV ignorance that we have come to expect within the Department of Parks and Recreation. It is difficult to imagine the base from which such an observation could be made when the Department of Parks and Recreation in California has done little to attempt management of OHV activity besides the purchase of token land areas with funds provided by the users themselves and erected a minimal number of signs in an attempt to add legitimacy to a program that the Department of Parks and Recreation has shown little interest and almost no management direction. As in the past, the AMA stands willing to provide whatever assistance you feel this association can make available. However, please be advised that any attempt to further reduce the departmental emphasis on the offhighway recreation program within the California Department of Parks and Recreation will be fought "tooth and nail" by this organization and its membership in that state. ROBERT RASOR AMA Associate Director Government Relations Westerville,OH I would like to express my gratitude and commend the fine spirit of sportsmanship of Tim Fitzpatrick and Dennis Keaton in car 1555 during tbe Baja 1000. When the lights of my biur failed about 100 miles from the finislr,: they let me ride in front and lit way. all the way, to the finish. Thou impairing their own race, it al10w me to finish on time, which wo otherwise have been impossible. I would also like to thank Char' Hamill jr. for his excell preparation of the race bike and Dcl& Vesco's Service Department for tb • prompt and efficient help with I11'1i "pre-run" bike. Whet about Steve Baker? I enjoyed the interview with Bemie Schreiber by Len Weed, but in listi. American World Champion, I fouDil it very disappointing that he should forget Steve Baker, our F750 Worl4 Champion in 1977. An embarrassiDl oversight on Mr. Weed's pan I shouIil think ... TERRYDENTO Santa ROlla, CA And on OUTS. too . .. Editor. Four steps It is terribly frustrating to watch everything you care about in the desert being taken away. especially when you know it is being done for no good reason. It's enough to make you furious. That's good! If 10.000 people came to Barstow this year, all of them furious. all of them ready to work very hard next year for a rational land use program; then the fight would be won. Unfonunately. this is not likely to happen. And that is our major problem: too little involvement. What can we do? First. show every bike rider (from casual trail rider to professional motocrosser) how land use issues will affect him personally. Talk up at rider's meetings, club meetings. anywhere bikers get together. Let them know what the BLM and Sierra The Supet1Jikers!