Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

eran racers downing a couple of brews and where he 'll get the real scoop about the race . LOU PERALTA WOODLAND HILLS, CA Sorry, Lou. Sometimes, betw een running, around try ing to get pictures, scrambling to the finish to get rider interuieuis, and the like , we miss a few things. We'll try to get over to impound after the Baja 500, if you' ll .do us a favor. SCORE maintain s a press room to help we members of th e fourth estate cover the race. Ma ybe the Class 30 and Class 38 winners could take the time to drop by that press office (which in the case of San Felipe ; the Class 22, 21 and 20 riders did; only one Class 30 or 38 rider's remarks could be found among quotes from the winners) and tell your story to the friendly folks th ere, just in case we m iss connections. But we really w ill try and make it to impound what brand of brews should we bring? ..Editor. WEST ...... ...... America's weekly motorcycle newspaper lo-< 0.. < Sharon Clayton, Publisher Car oline Gendry, Executive Secretary to the Publisher Lisa Schorr, Advertising/Editorial Assistant. Editorial Dal e Brown. Sen ior Editor . Lance Bryson, Edit or, Karel Kramer, Editor. David Edwards Editor . Congratsl sort of Advertising Skip Johnson , National Sales Manager. T erry Pratt, Sale s Manager. Duane Joh nson , Sale s Manager. Steve Wilson, Sal es Manager. Linda Brown, Advertising Coordinator. Nancy Danger, Advertisin g Assistant. Graphics and Production Kristin Coope r, Graphic Arti st. Rona Kramer. Assistant. Mar ion Ha tash ita , T ypo gr aph y. Dennis Gr eene, Laboratory. Accounting/Data Processing Mike Klinger, Controller. Donna Bryan , Account s Receiv able Coordina to r. Ge neva Repass, Assistant. T err y Da iley, Cred it Man ager . Circulation Rh eb a Smi th , Man a ger. Mich ell e Ha nna , Sarah T aylor, Debbi e Walker, Lyna Hood, Assistants. Want Ads Loah Co rry, Want Ad Sales. Dealer Sales and Service Na ncy Emde Brogger , Deal er Sa les Man ag er. Service and Support Chris Aitch eson , Receptionist. Gregory Han son , S8cS. West 2201 Cherry Ave., Long Beach , CA P .O . Box 498, Long Beach , CA 90801· 0498 (213) 427-7433; L.A. Line 636·8844. East 4190 First Ave.. Tucker, GA . P.O. Box 805, Tucker , GA 30085-0805. (404 ) 934·7850. Cycle News /W"'t (US PS H 1·340) is published week ly excep t the first and last week of the ca lendar year for $25 per year by Cycle Ne ws, In c.. 2201 Ch err y Aven ue, Long Beach, CA 90806. Second class postage paid a t Long Beach , CA . POSTMASTER: Send form 3679 to Cycle News. P.O. Box 49B. Long Beach, CA 90801-0498. Subscription rate s: One year . second class mail, $25; two years . second class mail, $45: three years. seco nd cla ss mail, $68: 25 week s, $14 . Foreign rates avail able on request. Cycle News welcom es unsolicited edi tori al mat eri al including stori es. car loons, photos, etc. Such mat erial . if p u blished , becomes the excl usi ve pr operty of Cycle News . Such accepted material is su bject to revision as is necessar y in the sole di scretion of Cycle News. U nso lici ted material whi ch is not used will be returned if accompa nied by a self ad dr essed stamped envelope . All unsoli cited ma terial wi ll be handled with reasona ble care, however, Cycle News assu mes no respo nsibil ity for the safety. loss or da mage to such materi a l. Reprin ting in wh ole or part on ly by pe rm issio n of the publisher. Advert is109 rat es and ci rcula tio n informa tion will be sent u pon request. See S.R.D.S. Copyright Cycle News, Inc. 1983. Trademark Cycla News registered U.S . Patent Office. All rights re- Multiple stadium classes I have a suggestion to offer and if you print it in your paper others may agree and something m ight come of it. It has to deal with the problem of factory bikes versus production bikes in motocross races, particularly in the stadium events. Since the AMA has had th e good sense to pu t all the size classes on the same day they have put together a great show of race events. It makes. it worth ·the money and it gives you a whole day of entertainment. And that is what racing is, entertainment. But at the stadium events I do not feel I get my money's worth of entertainment for the time I spend at the indoor events! So my suggestion is to add a new class to the stadium events. It would be a modified production class for . Pros. It would be like the Superbike class at the road race events. That class is made up of modified production bikes with the factories involved as well as privateer riders riding for . big name companies. Both the Formula One class and the Superbike class are just as exciting. The AMA and the promoters are already allowing privateer riders on modified and stock production bikes to race on these tracks against the factory Pros, but only a couple ever make it to the main event. So wh y not give these riders a class of their own? The factories could still be invo lved in hiring new riders to compete in this class as well. This would make more jobs for Pro riders and put back that chance of making a name for yourself in racing. Withoutthat dream of someday making it to the top, fewer and fewer people ar e going to stay interested in buying motocross motorcycles, to try to make th at dream come true! I' m a motocrosser bu t road racing may have something we need . Someone should look into it. GLENN SCOT!" North Hollywood, CA served. 4 ON THE FRONT PAGE: David Bailey soars over the Saddleback ridge. An interview begins on pege 28. Photo by Karel Kramer. We appreciate -th e need to make the privateers m ore prominent, but don 't feel that the stadi um even ts are th e proper arena to feature mult iple classes of racing. Supercross is bigbucks sports entertainment designed to draw John Q. Public to a comfort- able stadium for two to three hours worth of entertainment. Road racing events are generally held over two days, with the spectators making a weekend out of it and often camping overnight at the track. Even putting three classes on in one day of motocross has caused practice and qualifying motos to be shifted to the day before inthe Nationals. We suppose it's all a matter of how much time you have to produce a show...Editor. Remember the 01' fellas just finished reading David Edwards' coverage of the SCORE San Felipe 250 (Issue 12, April 6, 1983). While he covered the basic elements of the race, he certainly failed to cover.some of the more important facts of this unique race . For example: That both, Class 30 and Class 38 had the best finishing perce ntage of all the motorcycle classes (Class 38 being the best). That, with the exception of Class 22, Class 38 had the most entries and that their finishing times were far better than those in Classes 20 and 2 I. The reason I mention this is because I see that in your coverage of the San Felipe race there's only one paragraph dedicated for both Class 30 and 38 (very short paragraph) , while Classes 20 and 21 get far more coverage than they deser ve. The real racers are perhaps the top three finishers in Class 22 and most of the racers in Classes 30 and 38. The SCORE records will bear this out. These two classes, specially Class 38, have the best finishing records for the past four years of any SCORE class , includ ing motorcycles, and cars, and our times ar e usually among the best overall. Yet, we usually get very little mention in an y of your articles, while the young " ho t shoes" of Classes 22, 21, a nd 20 get all th e ink, far more than they deserve. In fact, all that we usually get is the ir "stuck stu bs" hollering for someo ne to come and bail th em out! I th ink it 's tim e that yo u fo lks start gi ving us better coverage. We certa inly deserve it and I th ink that those youngsters cou ld learn someth ing from it and start fini sh ing more races. Wh en next you cover the Baja 500 in june, be.sure to tell your reporter to come to th e finishing impound ar ea where he'll find most of th e vet- Congratulations on your Call to Arms series and instructions about the Alan Robbins bills. The MMA didn 't even mention these two vital issues. I do think that it might have been a good addition to the instruction to tell how to find out who our representatives are locally instead of wasting time writing to M.O.R.E. It is frustrating to have to stop and do research into an unfamiliar political group when you professionals who should give us all that information only give us part. It is only human not to like the idiots and their dishonest, unnecessary antics in the name of "legislation for our own good." I suggest that you get your Pros together and do for us amateurs what we cannot do for ourselves. Give us the names , addresses and positions of every Senator, Assemblyman and Representative in the west. Also you could keep changes in their status current. I think it would be a comparatively simple endeavor for your experts to keep in touch with Sacramento and its efforts to make legislative politicians seem necessary. They are constantly pushing meaningless and dishonest laws designed io control the masses and to make themselves important by seem ing, to be.busy doing something. Three quarters of all the proposals introduced by these parasites are not intended to pass, but to make their constituents and voters believe they are sincere, active and for the good of all. Thank God we got rid of jerry Brown. Perhaps we can now have some peace. KING GREENOUGH San Diego, CA Want to help? It's easy. You can get the address and phone number of your assemblyman's, state senator's or congressman's office in your dis, trict from the local operator. You can write any letters to Sacramento politicians by writing to them care of th e State Capitol, Sacramento, CA 95814. Seriously, though, we do all we can with politicssince we're charged with covering the motorcycling activ ities of most of the states west of th e Mis sissippi, making us "nat ional in scope" as well...Editor. Published letters do not necessarily reflect the position of Cycle News. Inc. Send letters to Voices. Box 498, Long Beach. CA 90801.

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