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Cycle News 2000 06 14

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By 30 YEARS AGO••• JUNE 23, 1970 Factory Triu mph racer Gary Nixon graced the cover of Issue #23, cig arette in hand, as he ended his appa rent b ad- l uc k st r eak by win n in g ' the Lou don 1DO- Mile National road race in Lo udon, New Ham p shire. After being narrowly defeated in the Ughtw eight division by Yvo n Duham el (Ya m) , Nixo n came back with a vengeance to win the National Championship feature. Dave Smith (Kaw) and Don Emde (Yam) chased him in vain for second and th ird, respecti vely... The Baja 500 was thoroughly dominated by the team of Bill Silverthorn and Gene Fetty (Hus), with an elapsed lim e of J2 hours, 36 mi nutes. The only better tim e was put in by th e Fo rd Br on co o f Parn ell i Jon es at 11:5 5... K enny Roberts (Suz) defeated Gary Jo nes (Yam) by inches to win the Novice main event at Ascot Cycle Park in Gardena, Californ ia. In the TT event the next day, Roberts again scored the victory in th e Novice main, this time on a Mon. esa. t 20 YEARS AGO••• JUNE IB, 19BO Craig Veller's Mystery Ship , a $ 10,000 mo t or cy cle that t h e c re ato r ex p ect ed to see m o re in offi ces t ha n on the road , g race d th e c o ver o f Issue #23 . The Mystery Ship was suppos ed to be the mot orcycl e of mo to rcycles... St eve Morehead (H-D) nailed down the victory at round nin e of t he AMA Grand Nati onal Ch am pio nshi p/ Wi nsto n Pro Dirt Tra c k Series in Harrington, Delaware. He defeated points leader Hank Scott (H-D) and Bill y Labrie (H-D) to move into a tie for second in the points with fourth-place finisher Alex Jorgensen (H-D) . For the second week in a row, a life was lost during t he week end 's festivities as 20 -year-old St eve Dallef eld was kill ed during Friday's practice session after sliding off his motorcycle and getting struck by another rider... Team Suzuki 's Kent Howerton too k two co me -from-behind victories at the final round of the AMA 250cc National Champi onship MX Series, which also earned him the class cham pionship fo r the season. The 500cc class was won by points leader Chuck Sun (Hon). 10 YEARS AGO••• JUNE 13, 1990 Ch r i s Carr l eads the pack on his way to vic to ry at Lou isvi ll e Down s i n L oui sville, K en tuc ky , for the co ver of Iss ue #23 . Als o featu red on the co ve r wa s Lu ck y Str ike/Suzuki's Ke vin Schwantz after his vic tory at the Nurburgring in Nurburg, West Germany... In Louisville , Carr led almost the whole race over second-place finisher Scott Parker (H·D) and even took the points lead, leav ing round si x with a th ree -point advantage ov e r h is te amm ate. Park er won the Cam el Chal lenge for the second straight time, and the $1 0,0 00 that went with it.. . Sch wantz romped to the victory at the West German 500cc GP over Wayne Rainey (Yam) and Niall Mack enzie (Suz) and trailed Rainey in points by 27 after only five rounds... JeanMichel Bayle (Hon) won round 15 of the AMA /Cam el Supercross Series in Foxboro, Massachusetts, over Jeff Ward (Kaw) and Mike LaRoc co (Suz) . KawasakI's Jeff Mat iasevich held a slim one-point advantage over Honda' s Jeff Stanton. Denny Stephenson took his eighth win of the seaCN son in the 125cc class. CLARK L. COLLINS ith all the issu es we a re facing it' s ha rd to decide what to fo cus on . However , one of the und er l y ing problems with all these issue s is th at too few bac kcountry recr eationi sts W take the time to make their opinions known . The green advocacy groups have t he advantage on us . Man y of their members are zealots w ho have p ractica lly devoted their lives to promoting "their " v iew of environmental responsibi lity. O ur members keep wanti ng to tak e time out to actually Guest Column s ai d was accurat e. It w as just he r in tolerance be g iven front -page news co verage every ti me they unleash a new attack on their victims?" Why ind eed! More people need to be asking this question. Other recreatio n ist s coul d real ize simil ar suc cess , i f the y woul d just p ut their "o p in ion" in writ ing and send it to th e n ew sp ap er . Just com pla in ing to your fr iends accom p lishe s ve ry little. E xpre ssin g you r " o pi ni on " in you r l o c a l m ed i a c an help ga in su p port from the ge n eral p u b li c . F o rmer la n d ma nag ers are a lso b e c omin g cri tical of th e c ur r e n t a d m i ni stration a nd of t he environ- opin ion, and certa inly carried just as mu ch we ight as th e trumped up charges of the anti -recreation groups. In fact, it should carry more. N ancy ' s lett er wa s considered good en o u g h , and a little long, so t he paper p rinted Just complainin g to your friend s accomplishes very little. get out and enjoy o ur backcount ry areas. Go figure! Unfo rtun at e ly , w h ile w e 've b e en p l a y i n g and wo rk in g w it h our land managers and other recr ea tionists , t he green advocacy gro ups h ave perfected bein g " a vocal minority" to a fine art . In fact their voca l minority has driv en th em to positions on recreation access th at are increa singly being recognized as ex treme . F ortun ately for u s , t h is is ca usi ng them to los e f avor wi t h the ge neral p ubli c and is really wak ing up o ur " sh ared use" recrea t io nists. Rec en tl y , the C l int o n/G ore Ro adless lock u p has unified the multi -use com m unity, on a national level, like nothing I've ever seen before . O ne of the best ways to express your o p i nio n on recrea t ion access iss ues i s t h ro u g h t h e letters to the edi tor of your loca l p a p e r. L o c a l po li ticians, land m an ag ers and yo ur co ngress io na l r ep r es en ta t ive s t ake le tte r s to th e ed itor ve ry seriou s ly. Th is la st month , I 'v e s e en s e v er al ex celle nt ex a m p les that help make my point and might even give you some id eas. O ne of our local members wrote a letter to ou r hometown paper about the green attack on snowmobiling in Yellowstone Park. The anti-recreation organizations have b een disto rt ing the figures on snowmob ile emissions and the National Park Service even had to re trac t some of the in fo rm ati o n they ha d d istr ibu t ed o n t his issue. Nanci Co lu mbo wrote , "T h ey say tha t snowmob iles pollute the air so b ad that it is equiva lent to a major c ity in Califor nia. " W ell , I b eg yo ur pa rdon. If we took all t he snowmobiles in Idaho , W yoming , Mon tana and a few more surround- it as a guest o p in ion w ith her photo . She was th e " he ro" at the loca l snow m ob ile cl u b m e et ing and h o p efu ll y men tal extremi sts . Ret i re d D istrict Rang er of the Patosi -Frederick town District of t h e Mark Twa in National insp ired others to wr ite in the future. Forest, Paul Johnson , wrote a letter to th e St. Lou is Post Dispatch. The fo llow ing exce rpts fro m J o hn son' s letter p robably represen t th e opinion of many sti ll wi thin the ag ency: " T h e Fo rest Se rv ic e h a s tri ed to work w ith the environmental grou p s to g et them invo lved in the agenc y ' s act iv it ie s an d p rog ra m s. Much to the dismay of the Forest Service, m ost of t hose environmental g roups are now controlled by extremists who believe that all National Forest lands sho u ld b e shut d ow n to all kinds of activ ities . If you belong t o one of these environm enta l i st g roups, sta rt looking at what y o ur group is doi ng . You m ay b e surpri sed that yo u r m on e y and du e s are b ein g u sed fo r ex tre mi st v iewpoints. " A nd to all conc erned ci t izens w ho do care wha t 's h appenin g i n their n a t i o n a l forests , don 't l e t a few extremists determine how y ou r p ub lic l a n d s a re b e i n g managed . Get involved in t h e management of th e nationa l fo rests . You won 't be lieve how happy the w ildlife biologists and forester s a re to rece ive comments from the pub lic that are reasonable, co nstructive and under standing. " I hope these examples have i n s p i r e d you . I recently found some of the letters to th e editor I w ro te 'w h en I first got involved in r ep rese nting l o c a l O HV enthus ia sts y e a r s ago . It was very satisfy in g then and reading them now still inspires me. Give it a try ! CN Ra iner Huck, President of the Utah Shared Access Alliance, got a letter published in the S alt Lake T r i bune. His letter was c ritical of th e media for accept ing g reen adv ocacy g roup claims without quest ion . He accused One of the best w ays to express your opinion on recreation access issues is through the letters to the editor of your local paper. i n g sta tes and put t h e m all in Yellowstone at th e same t ime, it st ill wouldn't be a third o f th e pollution of a major c i ty i n Ca lifo rn i a . Nan c y did n 't pro vid e p r o of that w hat sh e the med ia of b ein g an a ccessory to h atemonger ing. Hu c k as ked, " W h y sho u l d th e se se lf -ap po inted, sel f-servi ng o rga niz ations pursu ing an age nda of hatred and Collins is th e Ex ecutive D irector {or th e Blu e Ri bbon Coalition . • Southwick National MX • Road America RR • Catalunya RR GP • Belgian MX GP Triple-header • Idaho City Qualifier Coming up in Cycle News c u e I e n e _ so • J UNE 14. 2 0 00 87

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