Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

.. e :> ..., ~ w Z w ..J U > U a'lll I ••• America 's Num be r 1 we ek ly motorcycle new spaper . You 'll alway s see it first in Cycl e News MOTOR~:;.rTgt'if IN D U S RY (Mfir-) L\iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii; ;0;iUi ;Nii;; 1~ c C;iiL ... T HUMBS DOWN Dear Ann Landers: Our 17-year-old daughter has been dating a 1g-year-old boy for the past year. Jim , a fine young man. good student and careful driver, announced a few days ago he h as purchased a motorcycle. Our daughter expects to ride with hi m. I told o ur dau ghte r we wi ll not allow her to ride on Jim's 'mo to rcycle and she is very upset. She says if she is not permi tted to ride with him he will drop he r . Do I have the right to say no ? LAVONIA, l\IICH. MOTHER Dear Mother: You do and I hope you will. The National Safety Council has some blood-chilling statistics on the annual carnage resu1ting fr om motorcycle acciden ts. If Jim dumps your daugh ter because she had the go od sen se to respect her par en ts' wish es, h e was no bargain. (P.S . T o all you cy cle fan s wh o m ay be an gered by my answer, please save yo ur st amps. My stan d is irreversib le. ) Charles Clayto n Publ isher Sh aro n Clayton Business Manager Tom Culp General Manager John Bethea Managing Editor John Huett er • . . . . . . . . • . . . .• • •••• • • • • • •Editor Art Fr iedman Assistant Ed ito r Ed Drechsl er . . " Adverti sing Man ager Barba ra R ichard Adverti sing Assistant Rheba Smith . . . . .. . . . ... • . . Circulation Manager Marla Tarbet ", Circulation Assistant AI Du ke • .. . . . . . . . . . . ... . . Circ ulation Assistan t Paul Bou dr eau . . . . . . • . . .. . .. Production Manager How ie Fowl er Production Assistant Larry Gro ves . . . . . . .• . . . . . . .. •. . lab Technician Mar ion Hatashi ta .. . .• . . .. . . .. ... . .T ypographer Bobi Cu lp . . . .. . . . . . •.. . .• Assistant Typographer Randy Dieu el .. . . . . . .. . ••. . .. • . .. Boo kkeeper Eleanor Duke . . . . . . . . . . . . • Bookkeeping Assistant Barbara Bebeck Bookkeeping Assistant Squeeky Haynes . . . .. . ....•. ... General Secretary Beverl y Townsend . . . .. . .. • . .. . • . .. Receptionist National Ad vert ising Direct o r (Cycle News West, Cycle News East, Cycle News Dixie) : Tom Culp . Cycle News West, P.O . Box 498 ; Long Beach, California 90801. (213) 427 ·7433; L.A. 636 ·8844. T ELEX NO. 673474 Subscription : . One year. second class mail 2 years. second class mail 3 years. second class mail Single copy pri c e 510 517 .$2 1 $.35 Central idea is to "keep on Homing". Better luck next time. "COYOTE" LUNDBERG HOSS TERMIN ' HOWARD MA R KH AM DO UG SLUMS KlE KENNY MA R KHAM (Two Day Finishers Pin Com mittee) Major Inside Reports . Trials: Trask Mountain •• ••.•. • • • •••• • •• • •••• ••••••••• ••• ••.•••6 Column: Latest Po o p Test: Yamaha 125 MX • •• ••••.••• . . • • • ••••• •••• •• • • • . . .. •••••••9 • . •• • • • • • • • • • • •.. • • . • • • • • • • •• • . • • • • • • • •14 Motocross: Endoes at Lions •••.•• • • ••.•••• ••• .• •••••• .••••. . . .16 WA IT 'T I L L YAMAHA HEARS ABO UT THIS Short Track: Ch allenger's Cup ••••••• •• ••••• .•. • • • ••• • . .••••• •• .22 National : B re ls fo rd at Lou isvill •• ..• •••••• ••• . • •• • • • • • . . .••. •• • •24 TT: Castle Rock • • •• • •• • • ••• • •• • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • •• • • .• . • • • •26 speedway: Bakersfield •• • • •. •..••••••••• • • • ••• .•••• •••••• • ••• 31 Desert : S he Years at Ponderosa ..•.••••• • • •••• • ••• .•••• • •.••• •••33 AH -HA H! LET'S GET IT ST RA IGHT I wish Cycle News would print the facts! I'm referring to the paragraph about Roger Maahs losing his cycle down a mine shaft in the Master Links Hare & Hound. . First of all , it was not Roger Maahs, but Mike Manning. The Monarch min e Was not ribboned off. In fact, there was ahsolutely NO ribbon or lime anywhere near this are a. This mine shaft was only 60 yards off the co urse , not 100. I measured it. I wan t to add that the only reason I got o ff th e course Was because of th at stupid bottleneck just before th e iirst che ck . By the way, I'm not the first gu y to go in the Monar ch mine, and there might have been more if I didn't st ay and flag, because several more riders cam e on the exac t trail that I did. MIKE MANNING Sunland, Calif. 1.- VOICES OF THE WEST and so on until we run o ut of riders. To determine the winner of a series of mo to cross even ts, (Trans-AMA for example) the rider earns points for h is overall finish position . 150 fo r fi rst, 120 for second, 100 for th ird , and on to twentieth place. National Championship Points for mo to cr oss are also awarded in this manner, depending on the amo un t of the purse, as in our other types of professional racing. JOHN LANCIONE AMA National Motocross Referee KEEP IT CLEA N The Desert Foxes Motorcycle Club would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who attended our race and helped to make it a great success. We would especially like to thank all of you for leaving the camping area and pits exceptionally clean . It is unfortunate that the people who are cri tic al of our use of the desert were unable to see how free o f litter you left it. Our clean-up crews were especially thankful as they did not have to spend endless hours cleaning up o ther p eople's trash . LEE GORBALL Desert Foxes MIC NOISY ...AND TOO FAST MYST ERY Bill Smalley said what many of us feel ab ou t Indian Dunes - No silen cer s. But, in addition , they don't even enforce their own rules - the "5 mph in the pits" signs are a j oke. This is a bad situation . We need pl ace s like the Du nes badly . But, until they begin to play the game by today's . rules you'll find me out in the nice quiet desert. JOHN T. SHAFER Nov. 624X Dese rt I wa s near the Buzzards M.C. ca m p a t the Dual European Scrambles on May 13. I did something wrong and I crashed . The Buzzards were very helpful altho ugh 1 don't remember what hap pened as I was unconscious. A nurse came and helped . I wo uld like to thank her from the bottom of my heart for getting "involved" as many people in the world today wouldn't have. Thank you , Buzzards and mystery nurse. SUSAN WALKER J ackrabbi ts Downey , Calif. OL Y MPIC SYSTEM Your st atement about the AMA scoring system of last y ear is not quit e co rrec t. Last y ear, the poin t system per m o to was 400 , 30 0, 225 , 160, e tc . The system re ferred to in th e article was th e o ne used to determine the winner o f a series of motocr oss events. I must agree th at it's not the finest scoring system yet devised . T hi s year we are . scorin g by the " O ly m pic" sys tem. T hat is one p oin t , .fot, first, two far second , three fo r th ird , Copyright@ Cycle News. Inc . 1972 all righ 15 reserved 'iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii~ There is a d ifference between reading facts and interpreting them. Ignorance , sadly , alwa ys breeds irreversible op inion ...Ed. The letter fr om Mr. Alan Sieroty on th e helmet bill, AB 744, proclaimin g that he did no t vote f or the bill angered me co nsiderab ly. As I Was present, I can tell you th at he didn't have the guts to vote against it either , however. Mr . Sieroty's rec ord is ultra - cons e rvationist and an ti-rnoto rcy cle. Anyone need further proof th at the letters we write carry a lot of weigh t in Sacramento and Washington, D.C.? HARRY WHALEN Executive Director CMIC Publ ish ed weekly except the first and last week of t h e calendar year by Cycle News. Inc ., Post Office Box 498. Long Beach. Californ ia. Also publishers of Cycle News East. and Dixie Cycle News. Second Class Postage paid at Long Beach. Calif. Editorial stories. cartoons• photos, etc . are welcome. Addressed. stamped envelope assures return of editorial matter . Reprinting in whole or in pa rt only by permission of the publishers. Advertising rates and circulation information w ill be sent upon request. See S.R .D .5 . CHARLIE BROWN EATS DOG FOOD On Mother's Day this year, m y family and I wen t to Adelan to wi th o ur pet do g, Ch arl ie Brown. Our oldest son entered the DMC A race. Later in th e afternoon we fo und Ch ar lie Brown missin g. We sear ched in all d irection s hoping that w e would find her. We le ft _ for home with prayers and h igh hopes that someone would find her. About ten o'clock that night we received a phone call from Mr. Jack Mo rgan , one of th e officials of the DMCA asking if we had lost a dog. Naturally, we said yes and thanked Go d th at our prayers had been answered so quickly. One of th e officials was cleaning the co urse an d found Charlie Brown walking slowly alo ng the course . Back at camp they h ad checked th e dog tag and fo und that she lived in Monrovia. T h ey checked all the en try fonns and found that we were the only family from Monrovia. With Charlie Brown home ' safe and happy we wan t to thank the DMCA and especially Jim Saunders and Jack Morgan for making this family complete again. We will never forget you. ELIZABETH L. FLENTKE Monrovia, Calif. SALEM, O RE .• May 25 , 1972, - T he nation's to p p rofessional m oto rcycle racers are coming to the Pacific Northwest. They will be competing in the Yamaha Gold Cup National Championship half-mile race July 9 at the Oregon State Fairgrounds, Salem, according to promoter Don Brymer. A $12,000 gu aranteed purse is expected to a ttrac t su ch well-known riders as • ' a tio nal p oin t leader Kenn y Roberts and his Yamaha racing teammates Keith Mashburn and Jimmy Odorn, as well as Dave Aldan a, Dick Mann, Cal R ayborn, Gene Romero, Bart Markel, Eddie Mulder and Mark Brelsford. Local favorites on the professional racing tour expected to en ter are Jimmie Sm ith and Gilbert Re ed of Sa lem: Ch arl es Joyner. Eddie Hermann, So nny Burres, Mark Williams and William Elder. The race is the first half.mile National Championship event to be held in the Pacific N orthwest , sanctioned by the American Motorcycle Association and cou n ti ng towards National championship points . T he 5 000 .reserved grandstand sea ts are co vered, and addi tional sea ting o n the infield tu rf will be available, according to Brymer. Prac tice and time trials for all Ex per t an d J un ior riders p lu s a Novice eve n t w ill be ru n Saturd ay , J ul y at 2 p. m, For further ticket o r seating infonnation, contact: Yamaha Gold Cu p , P.O. Box 1,9056: Portland, Oregon 97219, (505) 639-4405. EDITORIAL Ju ne 12 is th e date that the Califom ia Helmet Bill comes before the Senate Transpo rtation Committee. There are two ways that you can stop it. If the Helmet Bill's sponsor, Mr . ' Bid dIe , removes it, the bill will be dead. Biddle will do so if the people who wrote it and talked him in to sponsoring it , the Highway Patrol, remove their COME BACK, MIKE ! support. It has become clear th at the Mike Capalite, after reading your Highway Patrol has no interest in doing coverage of the speedway races at Costa so . In the past Governor Reagan has Mesa May 26, 1972, I read that you are restrained th e CHP. This time; th o ugh , no longer going to report on them, Well, the Governor has relaxed a bit, and as a as a speedway .rider , I am really result an enforcement agency has gone d isappointed to hear that. I hope you into the legisla tive end of government. will change yo ur mind! After all , Write the Go vernor. If he can be nothing is easy and I think y our pursuaded to put some more pressure reporting is good. on the Hig hway Patrol, it will be p ut to Of co urse, if you think your fee lings a q uick and gentle death , Also ask th e are hurt yo u co uld always see a doc tor. Governo r to veto it if it co mes ac ross h is I'm sure every rider feels the same as I desk, do. Speedway has co me a long way in The other place to write is th e Senate th e last co up le of years and with good Transportation Committee. It has six reporting it will do even better in the members. It is eas ier to write six people years to come. now than the whole Senate later. The JIM HEATH members of the Senate Transportation Manh attan Beach, Calif. are listed below. If yo u ca re , you will write. HORN I NG IN Senator Tom Carrell, Chairman We the undersigned t w o da y Senator J ack Schrade Greenhorn riders would like to appeal Senator John W. Holmdahl to the Pasadena :\IC asking th at they Sen at or J oseph M. Kennick reques t return of the official 500 mil e Senator Milton Marks Senator James R. Mills finisher pins issued to those wh o rod e Sen ator David A . R ob erti one day on y. aid p ins should th en be a ll Senator Lawrence E. Walsh re-issue d in h alf size d e le tin g wording belo w fro m "Greenhorn". Sen ator James E. \\'hetm ore To receive th e wh ol e thing, It's up to y o u t o keep somebody else _ .. gentle men, -YPJLridc _1h. _ wh ole.. thing, __ .. fro m pl ayinggames }lCi\h_Y'!l!Lh_e!lQ ~ e What kind of name is Charlie Brown for a girl?...Ed.

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