Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

Donations should be sent to Bood y T rust Fund, A ccount #015-2603, Secu rity N ational Ban k, P.O . Box 1290, Sapulp a, OK 74067 . . . Editor. Pub lished le tt e rs do not necessarily reflect the position of Cycle News, Inc . Send le t t e rs to Voices. P.O . Box 498, Long Beach. CA 90801 . America's motorcycle newspaper Volume XXV Sharon Clay ton , P ublisher Mike Klin ger,Com p trolk r . Skip Johnson. Associate Publisher/ National Saks-Managn Jack Man gu s. A s.fOciat~ Publisher t Editor Rheba Smi th. Citculaiion M4nagn Caroli ne Oe ndrv. Executiw Secretary to the Publisher Editorial Kit Palmer, Associate Editor Paul Carruth ers, Associate Edi tor Farre n Will iams. Associate Edi tor Na te Ra ub a, Associate Edi tor Bria n Cauerson. Associate Ed iun Edwina Mangus, Calm dar Ed itor Advertising Mike Church . Sen ior Sales Manager T erry Pratt Sen ior Sales Mana gn Mark Thome. Westt"rnSal es Managn Don Stoeber, Western Sales Mana ger . Mark Mitchell, Eastern Sales Ma nager Thomas R. Gerner, Eastern Salt's Mana ger Ca thy Corrao Western A d Coor di nator Car la Borden . Eas tNTI Ad Coo rdi nator Toni Doneske, Ad vertising Assista nt Graphics and Production Mal col m Wil so n.Prod uction Ma nagn' Dian a H ilgen berg. waphic A rtist Sta cey G uest. G rap hic A rtist Jim mie O 'De ll. G raphic Artist Nlari o n Hatas hita, T yp e.se ttn Carolyn Bra n ham. T y pesettn' Dennis G reene. Lab . Tech . . Accounting /Data Processing Donna Bryan . Accts R eceiuabte Coord iniuor Geneva Repass, A ssistant Fran H a m wey, Credit Circulation Sarah Taylo r, Assistant Alma Anguiano. A ssistant Ch er i Chapman . Assista nt Manta Adams. Assistant Circulat ion Development Ron Davidson. Managn Hall, not Bray I wo uld like ' to bring to your a ttent io n that I stopped Scott Russell's win strea k, no t Pa ul Bra y as the hea d line of Larry Lawrence's report of the recent Roe bl ing Road Raceway event in the May 18 issue sta ted. Lawr ence ca lled me to apologi ze a nd said he had confused th e order of even ts that da y. Sco tt is a very resp ected com petitor. It is a grea t pleasure to race agains t him and the C Prod ucti on race was a grea t one. T hank you for allowing me to corr ect th is mis understand ing. . KURTHAL L H ilton Head Island, SC Spectro clarification Re your May 18 issue of Cycle News: We would li ke to clarify our position in regard to a letter you · recei ved ' (a nd pri nted ) fro m Mark Waddle of Mari on , O hio. The local deal er purch ases hi s Spectro oil from an inde pe ndent distri bu tor . Both we a nd th e distributor have a su ggested retail price, but the dealer is free to establish hi s ow n retai l price. Obviously, the dea ler is en ti tied and needs to make a reasona ble p rofit in order to better serve hi s cu stomers. This ena bles him to ha ve a variety and dep th of in vent ory ' in order to serve his market. H owever, as was sugges ted in your editoria l com men t, the fina l decision is th a t of th e reta il customer. Want Ads Debbie wi nk ler, Wa nt Ad Sales Service and Support Ch ris Aucheson . H ead quartn s R ecep tion ist Le nard Herrin g, Serota and S up po rt o National Headquarters 220 1 Cherry Ave .• Long Beach . CA 90806, P.O. Box 198 , Long Beac h , CA 9080 1·IH98 (2 13) 127·7-133; 213/636·8811 . FAX (213) 427·6685 Eas tern Off ice 4190 First A ve.• Tucker. GA . 30084; mail ing address P.O. Box 805. Tucker . GA 30085080 5. (401) 934·7850. FAX (401 ) 934·3112 Cycl e News (USPS 14 1-310) is published weekl y excep t the, firs t a nd last week of the ca lendar yea r Ior $32.50 per -year by Cycle News. Inc.• 220) C herry Avenu e. L ong Beach, CA 90806. Second class pos tage pa id a t Lon g Beach , CA. a nd additiona l mailing offi ces. POS T MAST ER : Sen d f orm 3 57 9 t o Cyc le New • • P.O . Box 49B. Long Beach . CA 90801 ·049B. 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Pat ent Office . A ll ri ghts reserve d. ~ aI S ~ , l 4 JOSEPH E. SALLUZO Sales Mana/?er Spectre Oils of Amenca Brookfield, CT Lasting impression T he bea u ty o'f h avin g a bad memory (like mine) is that most of o ur dai ly lives aren 't worth remembering anyway, bu t the one thi ng th at tho usands will remember Ted Boody for didn 't tak e pl ace a ta race track or on T V or o n Roxy Rockwood's sh ow or in a Cycle New s mterview . Ted left a lasting impression on the school kid s we talked to about mo torcycle safety! Most of the school kids he spoke to never ca me to a race, proba bly never will, bu t odds are they will throw a leg over a mo torcycle in their life time and there's no doubt in my mi nd they will remember seei ng o n film we showed Ted crash so hard at T erre H au te that it became a symbol of th e "agony of defeat " for ABC-TV and a lastin g rem inder that hi s helmet saved hi s life and one mi ght also save th eir's one day . T ed li ked talking with th e kids a nd exp laini ng how he cared for his eq ui pment, and how he buil t hi s racer to be safer. T ed worked on his approach to the su bjec t of sa fety . a nd hi s public speaki ng and con fidence imp roved with every sch ool visit. Ted wasn't th a t much older th an some of them in those days, and they rea lly listened. Kids in th e a udie nce in near ly every school wo uld raise the ir ha nds when he asked, " Has anyone ' here toda y been inj ured ridi ng a motorcycle?" H e would the n drive home the point of how the purchase and use of sa fety equipment like hel mets, leathers, boo ts a nd gloves was a lot chea pe r tha n just o ne ambu lance rid e and less painfu l a nd less ern barrasing than the cast a nd cr utches they would need for weeks. Of those school visi ts, o ne th at I remember most was a unique experien ce for both of us. Up to that remem orab le vis i t, m ost o f th e groups T ed spo ke to co nsisted of 300 to 400 school kids at a time. Bur o n this da y T ed spoke to 800 kids in j ust o ne school near Kal a mazoo, . Mich iga n. H e was rea lly nervous for tha t one, bu t it was hi s best tal k ever! It is going to be ha rd, rea l hard, to th ink about raci ng and no t think good things abou t Ted and wonder where he wo uld have fin ish ed as th e results of future Na tio nals a nd loca l races a re written u p in Cycle N ews . STATION LO R EN Z Traverse City, MI Lorenz is a race promoter and th e schoo l visits he refers to in h is letter too k p lace in th e late seventies. Th e above is an excerp t from a letter L orenz w rote to T ed Bood y's fath er, T ed Boody Sr. We'd lik e to tak e this op po rtu nity to ap ologize to T ed Boody's mother, Ma ry Sams, and to h is sis ters, Vic ki and L ynda, for fai ling to mention them in ou r obituary notice and in a subseq uent editorial . . . Editor. Thanks from Mt. St. Helens M.e. The Mt. St. H elen s M.e. wou ld like to tha nk Budweiser . Bob La nphere, th e cities of Longview a nd Cas tle Rock, a nd all of the grea t fa ns an d riderswho mad e our recen t 600 Na tio nal TT a success. PAUL SIMONSEN P resident Mt. St. H elen s M.e. . "Mt. St. H elen s, WA If we can, so can you! Ted Boody is gone. Tha t we can not change. What we can do is mak e a diffe rence for Ted Bood y's fam ily. Ted knew the dan gers of the sport and so di d his fa m ily. H e chose what he wanted to do and all of us were just a li ttl e better off beca use he did. Now it's o ur tu rn ! I challen ge each and every firm in the motorcycle a nd related industri es to match o ur check of $50 to th e T ed Boody Fu nd. There are well over 4000 of us in th e U.S . If only half meet this cha lle nge the S100,000 will make a difference. Don't be grumbling a bo u t " busi ness bein g bad " and " it' s not u p to me." If you wo rk in a shop or parts department a nd you read th is, circle it and leave it on th e desk of your boss . We need to meet th is challenge. We need to prove we can ta ke care of o ur ow n. If we, wh o are not a t all invo lved wi th motorcycles, can do it, so can you! . CLIFF JONES j etco Sacramento, CA ] etco is a personal wate rcraft dealer and manufacturer of aft ermarket products for p erson al w atercraf t. California Parks Commission seeks OHV ban By Mike Bishop SAN L UIS O BISPO, CA , MAY 20 ~ A recen t vo te by the Ca lifornia State P ark s Comm iss ion to ban off-high wa y veh icle use in a ll sta te p arks was blasted today by O HV Commissioner Ed " Wa ld he i m du r in g th e regu lar monthly meeting of th e Ca li forn ia O ff-Highwa y Motor Veh icle Recreation Co mmi ssion , held in San Luis Ob ispo. " It was a set u p," said Wa ldhdm whe n reporti ng to the 'O H V Co mm ission o n th e Parks Co mmission meeting held in La ke Tahoe on May 13. ' . . Wa ld heim rep orted tha t the Parks Commissi on vo ted to ban OH V ac tivity in all state parks excep t where provided for in the genera l p lan (which limits O HV use to two sta te parks). The vote was tak en afte r the commission heard severa l hou rs of a nti-O HV testimon y from every env iron mental organizatio n in the sta te, incl ud in g Earth First }, the radical environ menta l group which blocked a tu nnel (part of the course) with rai lroad ties during the 1987 Barstow-to-Vegas desert race. Represent a tives of th e Sta te Pa rk Rangers' s Un ion a lso testi fied in favo r of th e ba n, and Eart h Firs t! representati ves rep orted ly called offwa de rs, " No isey terrori st s with flam eth ro wer exhausts a nd buzz saw tires." . Only fou r OHV representatives were a t th e Par ks Commission meetin g, includi ng Waldheim a nd Rick Bat es, president of th e California Off-R o ad Veh icle Associ ation (CO R VA). Becau se th e Pa rks Commission is facin g charges th at th e Ma y 13 mee ting was ill ega l, a no ther meeti ng to di scu ss the vo latile issue has been sched uled for j un e 9 in Morro Bay. Bat es said the action was taken with ou t sta n da rd p u blic no tice, which wo uld mak e th e vote a violatio n of th e Ral p h M. Bro wn Act, California's Open Meeti ng Law. Ba tes added that a n opport uni ty to consider the proposed policy was not provided to th e public before th e meeting. The O H V Co m miss io n vo ted unaniously to oppose the ban and to sen d representatives to Morro Bay to prot est the Park Co mmissio n's a ction. T h e OHV co m missio n encouraged off-roa d riders to a ttend the Parks Co mm ission meeting since it' s almost assured env ironmental gr oups will be th ere in force. Off -road ri ders wh o wish to hitch a ride to the meeting, or who wis h to offer a vehicl e for a car pool wh ich wi ll take OHV users from sou thern Cal ifor ni a to Mor ro Ba y, shou ld phone th e CO RVA hotline a t 800/ 237-5436. Accord ing to .Ba tes, th e Parks Commission acted in resp onse to a (Contin ued to page 17)

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