Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

areas of interest to you - and release of these lands from future consideration for wilderness status. If possible, a copy to us at 3472 Birdsong Ave., Thousand Oaks, CA 91360, would be useful and greatly appreciated. If we can help with your letter, or if you would like more information, please contact u at 805/493-1680. Please don'rjust worry about this one, help us work to prevent it. DONNA CAR AGEY Vice President, CORVA Thousand Oaks, CA WEST America's weekly motorcycle newspaper Editing Sharon Clayton, Publisher Caroline Gendry, Executive Secrer.ary to the Publisher Nancy Danger, Advertising/Editorial Assisr:anl. Editorial Dale Brown, Senior Editor, Lance Bryson, Editor, Kit Palmer, Editor. Advertising Skip Johnson. National Sales Manager. Terry Prall, Sales Manager. Mike Spencer, Sales Manager. Linda Brown, Advertising Coordinator. Tina Bowen,' Advenising Assistant. Graphics and Production Gene Bennett, Graphic Anisl. Lori Tyson, Graphic ArtisL Marion Har.ashila, Typography. Sheila Larsen, Typography. Dennis Greene, Laboratory. Accounting/Data Processing Mike Klinger, Controller. Donna Bryan, Accounts Receivable Coordinator. Geneva Repass, Assistant. Terry Dailey. 'Credit Manager. Circulation Rheba Smith, Manager. Michelle Hanna, Sarah Taylor, Debbie Walker, Lyna Hood, AssislanlS. Dealer Sales and Service Tim Ryan, Dealer Sales Manager. Want Ads L1'nda Milligan. Want Ad Sales Service and Support Chris Aitcheson. Receptionist. Gregory Hanson, S&S. Better than nothing at all I agree with Kevin Park (Voices, JariuaF 25) that the American MOLOrcyclist Association can be tedious, hidebound and exasperating. Still, despite reluctance and misgiving, I renew my membership every year becau e along with the bad we get a little good, and that i better than nothing at all. Also, as Ed Youngblood pointed out in only 400 words (Voices, February 27), it is stupid to drop out of the AMA over a single and separate is ue. WINSTO BEAUMONT Wrightwood, CA West 2201 Cherry Ave.. Long Beach, CA P.O. Box 498, Long Beach, CA 90801,0498 . (21~) 427-74~~; L.A. Line 6~6-8844. East 11J!2.£irsI"Ave., T!,l.Q<.~, QA. P.O. Box 805, TuckeL GA ~0085-0805. (404) 9~4-7850. Cycle News/West (USPS 141-540) is published weekly except the first and last week of the calendar year for S25 per year by Cycle News, Inc.. 2201 Cherry Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90806. Second class poslage paid at Long Beach, CA. POSTMASTER: Sllfld form 3679 to Cycle News, P.O. Box 49B, Long Beech, CA 9OB01-0498. Subscription rates: One year, second class mail. S25; two years. second class mail, S45; three years, second class mail, S68; 25 weeks. S14. Foreign rates available on request. Cycle News welcomes unsolicited ediLorial material including slories, carLOons, photos, etc. Such material, i£ published, becomes the exclusive property of Cycle News. Such accepted material is subject to revision as is necessary in the sole discretion of Cycle News. Unsolicited material which is not used will be returned if accompanied by a self addressed stamped envelope. All unsolicited material will be handled with reasonable care, however. Cycle News assumes no responsibility for the sa£ety, loss or damage to such material. Reprinting in whole or part only by permission oC the publisher. Advertising rates and circulation inCormation will be sent upon request. See S.R.D~ Copyright Cycle News, Inc.\ 1984•. Tredemertt Cycle News regiateriil U.S. Petent Office. All rights ..served. 4 ON THE FRONT PAGE: We put Can-Am's new 560cc thumper to hard work. Impression starts on p. 16. Photo by David Edwards. Thanks Not all children obey their parents all the time! Such was the case at the CRC Candy Ass Enduro. My son Jason, having seen me start the second loop, wanted LO find the finish line LO see US finish. Rather than ask for help, he knew he would find the fini h line at the end of the course and thus proceeded Out alone. The injury he sustained, 12 stitches over the eye, cenainly taught him a valuable lesson. He and I would like LO express our thanks for the aid and comfon of the three men wh-o helped: Dave Lambert. Darryl Kuhn, and the gentleman who came LO get me. It i fine people like these that make this spon a enjoyable as it i . Jason's eye is fine now and he is ready LO ride again some day. LARIE TRIPPET Huntington Beach, CA Double cross If diny politics were illegaJ, SenaLOr Pete Wilson would be in jail. Despite his personal, face-to-face promise to California re~reation and resource organizations that he would not proceed with any Wilderness legislation until he had consulted with us, he has just announced a so-called "compromise bill" to increase California Wilderness by 1.697 million acres. Under wilderness status, no use is permitted on these lands except hik- rng and backpacking; no timber or mineral development is allowed, and vehicle access of any form is strictly proh ibi ted. The biggest loss to southern California off roaders would be the "Domelands Wilderness." a pan of the Kennedy Meadows recreation area of the Sequoia alional Forest. Among the losses will De the popular Woodpecker Trail, the Dark Canyon Trail maintained by the Chaparrals MOLOrcycle Club of.A¥A Dimict 37, and about 50 miles of jeep trails. This area was added to the original bill by Senator Wilson, apparently in response LO the desires of his preservationist friends, even though it does not meet RARE II Wilderness crite- . ria. The apparent reason for including it is its proximity to the Sierra Crest Hiking Trail. . Nonhern Californians will lose even more: The Pincushion Region of the Sierra National Foresl will become the San Joaquin Wilderness; despite the jeep trails in a large area around the Toulumne River, and much more, for equally obscure reasons. COR VA and the other organizations in the Public Land Users Alliance, were deceived inLO supporting Wil on's bill by his pretended willingness to work with land u ers to reach an acceptable compromise. We agreed to suppon the 1.2 million acres recommended by RA R E II, even though some losse to recreation would have occurred, LO obtain "release language" for the areas not lost. Wilson's en vi ron men taJ compromise is completely unacceptable to COR VA, the Public Land Users Alliance, and the California Chamber of Commerce, among others. COR VA asks every member of the of[ roading public; racers, recreation riders and industry, to join us in the effon to defeat this deplorable "compromise," which far exceeds the National Forest and Parks Wilderness additions agreed to by the President and Governor Deukmejian. There are only about. 90 days left in this Legislature, so we must move quickly. Letters must be sent to Senator Pete Wilson (U .S. Senate Office Building," Washington, DC 20510) demanding removal of all non-RARE II lands from this bill - naming specific I've been reading your "newspaper" for the past two years and you've been making the same mistake for those two years. You "edit" and cut down articles to fit in columns without concern for the content of the articles. You've destroyed the accuracy of many articles that have been sent to you that I know of. In your February 27, 1984 issue you chopped and botched an article written by Jeannelte Fisher. She was reporting on the Southland Racing Association New Year's Grand Prix in Carlsbad, California. The article covered each race in the program that is, each race except most of the Vets, and the 250. As I reached the bottom of the page, I figured you would continue the article on the next page - you didn't! In fact, I looked through the whole magazine and found no continuation! By cutting o[f the last part of theartide, you made Fisher look stupid. The article leaves the reader hanging. It is especially disheartening for the 25Occriders who survived one of the dustiest races in racing history! You call yourself a motorcycle' newspaper - hah! You are not driven by a desire to inform your readers, rather, you are driven by a desire 10 promote the few heroes of professional motorcycle racing. They don't buy the newspaper! The common rider who just barely makes it to the finish line buys it. In the future, with the huge influx of motorcycle magazines, if you expect to sell your newspapers, you had betler edit your anic1es for the people who buy them! BOB DAILEY JR. Cerritos, ·CA We'll let you in on a little secret, Bob. Editing and cutting down race reports to fit available space ranks right up there as one of our "favorite" things, right along with flat tires, thrown chains and fifth-gear endos. No publication has unlimited editorial space, so sometimes we have to cut, even as the stories are being pasted up onto the actual mechanical page. And with our weekly deadlines, we have to make such decisions rapidly. The varied demands of our readers, some of whom want to see their exploits in print, while others want to know who is likely to be the next Bob Hannah, Ricky Graham or Kenny Roberts, ensures that we can't please everybody. But we do try. And we do care... 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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