Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

How you can win ~ H ::J a ~ America' s motorcycle newspaper Volume XXIV Sharon Clayton. Publisher Mik e Klinga.Compt~olln' . Skip Johnson. Anoclale Publisherl National Sall"j Manag" Ja ck Mangus, Ajjociate Pubiishert Ed itor Rbeba Smith. Circulation Managn' Ca roline Oend rv. Executive St'c7t'tary to ,hi" Publisher Editorial Kit Pal mer. Assariait' Editor Pa ul Carruthers, Associate Editor Fa rren William s. Anoelal£" Editor Mik e La rson. Assista nt Editor Edwi na Ma ngus. Calmdar Edi to r Advertising - T erry Pratt Salt's Mana.~M' Mark T home . Sales Managn Da vid Metz, Sal t's Managn Mik e Ch urc h, Eastern Sal t's MatJagt'T Mark Mitchel l. Eastern Soles Mana,qt'T Thomas R. Conter, Eastern Salt's Managt'T Ca thy Co rrao W l"j'tt'm Ad COOTd~ n a tor Carla Borden, Eastern Ad Coordinator Julie Cyria cks. Ad vertising A.Uf. Graphics and Production Malcolm Wilson.Proouction ManagN Diana Hil genberg, Graphic Arli.n P«:'gg)'Smith. Graph ic Arlist Stacey GUOl. Gr(Jphic Artist Mar ion Hatashita, Tvp eseuer Ca rolvn Branham. Typ~st'ttn Denn:s G rt"l:ne.l.Ab. Tech . Accounting /Data Processing Donna Bryan. A ccts R «~iv4bl~ COOJd iru:.IOf Geneva Repass. A .s.,istant Fran Hamwev, Cr~di' Circulation Sarah Taylor . Assistan' Alma Anguiano. Ass istant Cheri Chapman. A~.nstD:nt MariLa Adams. ASSistant Want Ads Debbi e Wink ler. Want Ad Salt's A special thanks After attending the 20th Annual Mamm o th Mo tocross and 15th An n ual Old T imers Motocrosss in Mammo th La kes, Cali fornia , rea lity seem ed to have pu lled a plug, or at least until I ret u rned home. The Ma mmoth Motocross ra ce forces me to co mpare many elements th a t make u p a great mo to rcycle event to a ny in the world. Ever si nce the existence o f Mammoth Motocross th e organization, . p reparation, workm ansh ip, and a ll o u t effort th at goes in to the track a nd every othe r aspect o f th e . race IS noth in g less th an to p q ua li ty, The tim e spe nt groomi ng , waterin g, and preparing the track itse lf is a task th at is some times carried long into the ni ght. T hese aspects tak e a lot o f effort a nd sho uld not be ove rlooked by the Ama teu r or Pro racers that participa te a t Mammoth. I wo u ld li ke to congratulate a nd th ank Dave McCoy and Den nis Agee, the H igh Sierra Sports Inc., crew and all of the sponsors for putting together th is great event. O ne las t note, I a lso understand there's a possibility o f a new p ro mo ter working with H ig h Sierra In c., for a 21st Annual Mammoth MX. Lets all try to p u ll together a nd do i t agai n . Than ks agai n for every thi ngl JIM O ' N EAL O 'Neal USA Ch at sworth, CA Reuben Casarez . Draier Customer Rep, Chris Aitcheson. H eadqu arters Re cept ionist Leonard H err in g, SNVIU and Support National Headquarters :tl OI Cherry Ave., Long Beach. CA 90R06. P.O . Box 198. Lo ng Beach , CA 90801·0498 12 \3) 127· 7133; 2 13/ 636-8814, FAX (2 13) 127·6685 FAX (4IH) 93·1·3 112 Eastern Office ·1190 F i r~l Ave.• T ucker. GA . 30084; mailing address P.O. Box 805. Tucker , GA 30085· OMS. (104) 934·7850. Cycle New , (U SPS 111· 310) ;, publish ed weekly exce p t the first a nd last week o f th e ca len da r yea r for S52.00 per year by Cycle New s, In c.• 220 1 Cherry Avenue. LoT! g Beach . CA 90806. Second class postage p';"d at Lo ng Beach . CA . a nd additional maihng o ffices . POSTMASTER : Send fo rm 3579 t o C ycle News. P.O . Box 498. Long Beach . CA 90801 · 0 4 9 8. Subccri p ricn ra te : O ne yea r, seco nd class s mail. 52.00. Cvcle ~t'''w !> welco mes u neohci red edi toria l materia l incl ud ing sto ries, cartoons. photos, etc. Such materia l. if p ub lished.becomes the e xcl usive p roperty of C;:yde N ew s-:Such ac;:cep tcd ma teria l is subJ tt.( 10 ~e\' I'ilon as IS necessarv in the sole discretio n o f Cycle New s. U'Q) lici led mat eri al wh ich is n ot used o wi ll be re tur ned if accompan ied b y a self ad dressed ~ l~.m llf"d enve lope. ~\ 11 unsol icited ma teri a l Will )(" hand led with reasonabl e ca re. h ow ever . Cy cle New s as sumes no respo ns ib ility for th e safery, loss or damage 10 suc h man-ri al . Reprinting in whole o r p .-UI o nly by pe rm ission o f I! U' (~ublisher : Adv~ r. lis i n~ rate s an d circula tio n inf ormation wil l be sen r upon req ues t. Sec," S.R .D.S . Copyr ig ht S Cycl e N ews. Inc. 1987. Trad e-mark Cycle News regi st ered U.S . Pat en t Office . All r ights reserved. BPA Consumer Audit Division M ember· shi p Ap plied For D ecember 1986. 4 ON THE FRONT PAGE; " King " Kenny Roberts pitches a 1200cc Yamaha V·Max street bike sideways near h is Northern California home. See page 34 for an at home-with -the-King interview . Photo by Henny Ray Abrams. SHA RO N BR OWN T o rrance, CA Martone & To sten Dealer Sales and Service Service and Support and his desert worn p ick-up, carried off to the d ump th e shell o f a Volkswagen a nd the rema in s o f a motorho me. Countless o ther tr uc k loads were in dividua lly loaded a nd dumped. It was a good feel in g to see everyone ge t so involved. . It 's u nbelievable how much Ju nk is h idden beh ind th a t bea utifu l desert sunset. I am sure I' m not a lo ne in admitting that I have th rown m y share o f beer cans a nd bottles into th e fire. Un fort u nately th ey don ' t burn , th ey don 't di sa p pear, they jus t contin ue to accu m ula te. Now , af ter clea ning o ut half a dozen fire pits, the o nly th in g yo u will ever see me drop into the fire is wood . I feel I hav e learned a lo t this weekend, as I am su re ot hers did too. It 's time th a t we a ll wa ke up to what must be done if we expect to keep the freedo m to ride and race in th e desert. In addi tion to writi ng let ters to concerned parties, we m ust physically act . If tha t means pi cking up trash , then that's what we m ust do. The next time you leave the desert , I challenge you to grab a trash bag and walk around the cam p for just 15 minutes. I bet you can fill tha t bag up with trash. It ~kes .so li tt le effort and I guarantee It WIll make a difference. We have the power to make needed changes in o ur desert , b u t we are desperately running out of ti me. Dirt track f an Pl ease encourage p romot ers to list th eir half m ile a nd sho rt track races wi th you. I ca n't find a ny d irt track racing si nce I m oved to Kansas. There used to be many races here, includ ing fair races . Please help me out. ROD N EY NOEL O lathe, KS It looks like you'll have to [il] your bike 's tank up and r;,g.e across M issouri to Illinois if you want to see some dirt track races this season, R odney. Neith er 'o ur Calendar nor the AMA 's listings sh ow an ything scheduled in th e way of dirt track races in Kansas through th e month of August . . . Editor. Pitch in A specia l thanks to th ~ . Desert Diggers M.C . and to th e Prairie Dogs M.C. who should be acknowledged for their efforts in trying to change the desti ny o f our California deserts. The weekend of June 21 at Camp Rock Road in Lucern e Valley, these two clubs sponsored a clean -u p / poker ru n weeke nd with the support of Jack Froe lich Troph ies, P ro Cycle , Ka l-Ga rd , American H ?n~a , Desert Racing Supply. AMA DIstrict 37 a nd the BLM, a gro up of 40 en th usiastic desert users worked in the scorc hing heat pi cking up bag a fter bag of tra sh. With th e help of the BLM ra ngers, four dump truck loads were hauled o u t of the desert. In addition to that, the efforts of one man by the name of Shawn Smeltzer I would li ke to ca ll your attentio n to severa l typograph ical errors in your coverage of the Loudon Su persport ra ce in th e Jul y I i ssue. Throug ho u t the entire report, Ch ris Martone's na me is in correctl y spe lled (it starts with an M, not a n N). In addition , the descrip tion of the second heat race mentions a rider named Do ug las Torsten. I thi n k tha t th e author is, in fact, referri ng to Doug Tosten. These guys work awfully hard and rely on publ ications such as yours for what litt le recognition that they get. Perha ps in th e future, you could tak e a little extra care to ma ke sure that th ese little bits of g lory are more co rrectly accorded: MARGARET HARTKA Catonsville, MD P.S. Nice art icle, spelling not withstand ing. T orsten for Tost en was indeed "a typ ograph ical error, but Marton e was listed as Narton e on the AMA en try and results she ets at both Loudon and the following weekend's Camel Pro Series National at R oad America . . . Editor. Publish ed letters do not necessa rily reflect the position of Cycle News. Inc. Send letters to Voices. P.O. Box 498. Long Beach. CA 90801. (Continued from page 2) Honda CR and Honda enduro bike, . a BMW R IOORS "Last Edition" (no wise cra cks, please) resides in m y garage. Now it 's just a bit t~ mu~h when Alan Cranston a nd h IS en vironmental extrem ists say I can 't use m y public lands a ny more. But when I find out that I ca n ' t tak e m y BeeM out for a jaunt through my public lands also. he 's just gone too damn far over th e edg-e. Now I'v e talked with a lot of m y fellow street and road riders out there abou t th is. Some street and touring magazi ne guys. A few pavement aftermarket and accessory peopl e. They j USI don 't seem to eit!ter c:are or believe that sweet Alan IS go ing to do this to them. Well. su rp rise, surp rise. All 'yo u pavement scratchers a nd land yacht naviga tors are abou t to get sucked down with those gr imy d irt riders. T he problem is a com p lete m isconcep tio n of Cra nston's S7 Wilderness Bill. T he pa veme nt po u nders ha ve virt ua lly com p le te ly ig-no red S7 cause they th ink whe re' the di rt ends the hi ghwa y begi ns. Sorry, chaps; you've got a problem too . You see, th e Wilderness ac t mea ns 10 keep everyone who a in ' t on foot or ho rseback not only o u t o f, but a lso away fro m pu blic la nds. Tha t m ~ n s thousands of cam pground campmg areas wi ll be taboo. H u nd reds of thro ug hways and access roads closed to a II veh ides. Now we're talking about a n area bigger than half the land mass in half or' (~ur states - Ohio to New York, Michigan to North Carolina. Nor~h 10 south , th e Wilderness border will run over 600 mil es - Reno. Nevada. 10 th e Mexican border. East to west , a couple hu ndred miles from Arizona to beautifu l (?) downtown Ba kersfield, California, If S7 g-ets th rough committees, slips through the Sena te, clea rs the House an d is in ked by Ronnie, I do n't wa nt to hea r a peep or a sq ueak from a ny of you ca nyon racers or lo ng haulers. I know you just can't stand the m di rt do n ks out th ere 'ca use you thin k they mak e you loo k bad . And after a ll , o n ly a dem ented individua l wou ld lo wer his/herself 10 scrou ngi ng- aro u nd in th e dirt an yhow. But there are o the rs of you that ca me up through th e off-road; ranks. Maybe you don 't ta lk about It th ese da ys with yo u r TT (T a vern - toT avern ) buddies or Big-I to uring ch u m m ies. And there ar e some of wh o you still j ump out o n your o ld clapped-out dirt bike on holida y weekends. It 's yo u guy s and gals that GIn tak e th at moment and zip off a bit ch lett er to yo ur sen ator. You don't hav e to say much . just o bjec t to S7. You see. if you don ' t yo u r friends and neighbors ma y j ust TP yo ur house or th e tree in yo ur front yard. Did you see those lett ers in su p port of" nity" in th e C-rcle N ews Voices sectio ns? That was Ju st a fra ction o f th e response. The message is, let 's pull tog-ether o n this on e. Rem ember . th e big stree t bike investigauon is.gathering steam a nd reportedly will be presented to th e NHSTA (Na tio na l Hig-hw ay Safet y .& Transportation Agen cy) next year. What ar c yo u pavment pou nd ers going to do wh en yo u want the dirt donks 10 write lett ers for vou? Ask them 10 pay backthe favor ? H ah ! Send th at letter o ff to: Your Sen at or or Th e H onorah le Alan C ran st on , U.S. Sen ate, Washington. DC 20510. Rem ember, keep writing 10 keep riding. •

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