Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

N five miles an hour. Here's Dirt.. . PROTESTS IN YOUR EAR '" :;; March 18 "Cherry Pickers' Hare and Hound" and p aid $ 250 for it . Kinda steep, wh at ? b y Alice Rh ea ~ W GOOD NEWS - J . N . R oberts underwent su rgery early last w eek for pl acement o f a pl ate to replace a pi ece of skul l-b one wh ich was remov ed fo l l o w i ng hi s n o n -m ot o rcv cling injury last fa ll. Alth ough J . N. still will not be able t o race fo r a couple o f m onths, wife Di an said th e surgery went smoo thly and J . N. was able t o leave the h o spital earlier than expe cte d a nd is recovering rapi d ly . (A lways said J. N. was fast. ) Glad t o hear th at things are coming along . We ar e all eager for yo u to be back in ac tio n , J . N . Th e d ese rt isn't th e sa me without you. Z W ...J U >- U TRAVEL Spen cer Grams, o u r friend who is so h ooked o n the d esert that he has be en kn own to drive all the way from Sausalito , Calif. to participate , now p lans a t rip fro m T J . t o La paz in mid-June. No m ale chauvinis t, Spencer (Who h appen s t o b e sin gle , b y th e way) says a ch ic k would be O.K. as long as sh e d o esn ' t mind th e dir t an d mi se ry o f a Baja biking trip. If y o u think you would lik e t o go Spen cer's address is: 238 Wo odward No. I , Sausa lit o , CA 94965 . • • • * .* INSURANCE In vad e rs M.C. has purch ased " Riders' Insu rance" fro m th e AMA for their Mar ch II Hare and Hound t o the t une o f $25 0. T he in surance ad ds cove rage between $ 100 a nd $ 1000, effec tively m aking t he insuran ce S 10 0 deductible . Hopefull y all clubs th rowing d esert events will follow th eir lead . S peaking of w h ich, I h ope all of you kn ow th at in o rd e r t o collec t AMA in surance .th is year you h ave t o have you r AMA ca rd . If you plan t o get hurt, pl ease wait until y ou ge t your little pl astic card. Sled Riders M.C. h as also purchased ad d it ion al AMA in surance fo r their 213-532-7374 SALES · PARTS· SERVICE Serving The Entire South Bay Area ~ontrfa DfICA" MOTO-GUZZI MAICO MONARK D~ . ~ .....= = 1244 NO. GAfPn I T. IAN PlDao,CAu .. tom (ha rbor fwyat channel ) b y Maureen Lee BIT DISJOINTED this week afte r a trip to that h ospital again but we 'll try and get o u r th ough ts to gether. H ow many ' times h ave you h eard a ra cer ab solutel y swear, up an d down o n all th a t is Holy th at he has quit ra cing and will n ever d o it again? Man y times I bet. A co u ple o f weeks ago I read in o ur p ap er and MCW that Skip Van Leuween had really hung it up. He is now vice-presiden t o f Elektra Re cords, a firm h eaded up by ex-Monkee Mike Ne sm ith. W. ll, we all know yo u can ' t ra ce e fo re ve r and have t o think o f th e rest o f y o u r life once yo ur co m pe tition d ays are ov er . Some great ra cers, especially in year s past wh o were once National heroes in the d ays before th e money started com ing in , h ave ended up in pretty unhappy situations. So Skip see s this as his go lde n opportunity . I think it is and th at he is wise in ge tting out of b ikes a nd promoting bike products. But quit racing? Racing t o Skipper is like breathing. A t As cot Sunday I had a ch ance fo r a cha t in the pits. To b e hon es t, I didn 't believe what Papa Wealey had to say ab o u t the Flying Dutchman quittin g. In fact , h e has an d he h asn ' t. When he fo un d ou t that the lOO-lapper is to be reinst ated, th at di d it. Ri ght now hi s buddy Dickie New ell is lo okin g fo r a scooter for h im an d we 'll ............Yrf ~ "..y WARREN WILSON MOTORS • • • * SID EHAC KS Spen cer Grams, o u r frined who is so h o oked o n th e de sert that he h as been kn own t o d rive all th e way friend Jim Davis (Yeah , th e guy with th e pro tective equipment) suggested that I try to ge t a rid e as m onkey with someb ody who is doing the OCMC Great Bear Grand Pri x. I explained th a t my "expe rie nce" co ns iste d o f on e lap . ar ound Sad d leback a nd that I couldn ' t walk for a week af te rw ard s, but Jim is co n fide n t that I can make it. Anybody really hard up for a partner? Preferable somebody really slo w - it gets hard t o hold o'!...~h en you get going o ver about i"~ $ ...ru'b' . ~ h opefully see Skip back o u t on the track co me March 18th. Ascot Tf's ar en't quite the same without him. The District 37 'Sp o rts Committee m eeting was last ni ght and low-keyed for a change a ft e r th e uproars we 've be en h aving. But it seems that th e clubs are n ot going to reall y hang in there and ch ec k AMA car d s at runs. A District riding card is a must but th e AMA card, no. Some clubs will require th em so y ou'd b etter chec k in pretty carefully if yo u are riding with out an AMA car d so y o u d on't ge t turned awa y at sign-up. T he sp onso ri ng club will usually let you know on th eir poster o r call them up (ph on e number is usually in our cale ndar of events) as to wh ether th ey are go in g strictly by th e b o ok o r not. S peak in g of Di strict business , I was ap palled to read in A lice Rheas co lu mn that p it racing is getting out of hand again in th e d esert. What is the matter with y o u r people ? You are about t o lose ~••" 'MONTESA 9000 SEPU LV EDA BLVD. . South o f Nordoff in S epu lved a , Calif . (213) 8 94·9 2 18 Motorcycle Soles Serv ice • • • the righ t to ride the desert at all and you act like this...or some of you do. We all know what happened o n the Four Aces run, the acciden t was a paritcularly girsly one and doesn 't have to be gone over again: Migh t r remind you guys th at you have a Competition Committee that will bust anyone caugh t pit racing? . All club members or club refs have to do is t u rn in that rider's number to the CompCom and he (or sh e) won't get another ch an ce to pit race' for a while. As I attend these meetings I've o f ten no ti ced that very few, if any, violators ' numbers are turned in. Sure , we all like: to protect our fri en d s or fello w cl u b members but th e lin e has to be draw," somewhere and we can' t have a bunch o f b aboons making it bad for the 9 9-p lus % o f d esert riders who don 't go in for su ch sh en an igan s. Use phy sical force if y ou h ave to, b ut the d emocr atic w ay is .f o r yo u to t urn This isir... Peace of Mind Less T han Fo r S30.00 SALES SEPVICE , HOMEGARD now for - Hodaka 100cc dykes , Bultaco 125, Bultaco 250 , DKW & Sachs 125, Penton 125 FOR ALL FACTOR Y PISTON SIZES ASK YOUR LOCAL DEALER 820 N . Ho llyw o od Way Burbank ,Ca .9150 5 (213) 845·6766 I really d idn't mean Lo st Coyotes, I meant Lost Angeles. R ich Bullard of Lost Angeles M.C . is the gu y who made the m ost sense at the January District me eting with hi s suggestion that we take all the money we have been paying t o AMA, BLM, DMV, and BUY the dese rt. I'm with him . . no t o n ly unbreakable. but chrome plated fo r extra long life too!! poppy E RRA TA , Weldi ng Port ing Accessories ~ ~ un"Q ADD E NDU , ETCET ERA Scramblin' Around • ~*~ Chee z e, didn 't everybody get protested last month! Tom and Cordis Brooks both got protested on engine displacement and Cordis is 98cc and Tom 128 (approx.) both well within th e limits. That is an e asy way to earn $ 10. Mitch Mayes also got protelted. He was ac cused of changing bikes h alf-wa y through the ra ce . Ed Farrell , district Referee was on hand, took on e look at th e two bikes and gave Mi tch the S 10. I though t th at if Mitch really h ad chang ed bikes that he ought t o go into business for himself. Anybody who could pull a st ic ky tank ca rd off th at fast without ripping it sh ould be able to make a lo t of money helping cl u bs at the fini sh lin e. Oh, well, opportunities lik e that are to o good to be true, a ren 't th ey . Speaking o f which , if y o u are go ing to protest another rider y ou b e ti er make su re y o u r 'skirts ar e clean . YOlI migh t just make somebody mad e n o ug h t to spill the beans on you ne xt time y ou cut co urse. Most riders hesitate to protest be cause : 1) they beat you anyway , so it doesn 't matter o r 2) yo u beat them and if the y protest it sounds like a sn ivel. But d on't cou n t on i t. * * * , fact or y repla c e me n t p is t on rin gs super rings • • •

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