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Ken Chaney, writer-producer of the
Dept. of Forestry TV spot commercial
on the need for spark arrestors tells us
that the off-road motorcycle segment
has been taken out of future
commercials on forest f ire prevention.
Turns out he rid es d irt bikes himself.
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F R O M S AN TA
BA R BA RA 'S
FERM ENTED G RA P EVINE - A fairl y
reliab le so urce has it that AJ S ace , Do ug
Gran t, un derwent su rgery last week to
fin e - tune h is b ody b y removin g
excessi ve w eigh t. Se vera l pie ces of heavy
stainless steel we re remo ved fro m hi s leg
and ank le, to b ring his phy s olo gical
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ch aracteristics up th e 19 73 lightwei ght
racin g stand ards . T he d oct or h o pes that
th e transfu sion of T oreo tw o-st ro ke oil
'migh t revive his natural mo to cro ss
instinc ts.
CYCLE NEWSIE MA KES GOOD: Paul
Bo udreau (ide n tical tw in to Bazooka
Pe te) , fo rme r produc tio n mangler for
CNW, went to work for " Dirt Bike"
m a g a z i n e i n t h e i r p rodu c ti on
depar tmen t a few wee ks ago and was
j ust made th e assist ant ed ito r of a new
magazin e th at Hi-T or q ue Pub lic atio ns is
s ta rt i ng calle d ~ul\.i o to cro ss tt . Pe te
Szilagy i (prono unc ed some thing lik e
"Sil-ah -gee"] will be th e ed ito r. What d o
th ey k no w about mo tocro ss?
During the Chapparal's enduro some
low-life actually stole a broken down
rider's water off his dead bike while he
walked 500 yards to a checkpoint to get
help. This person should be given lots
more water, we 't h ink _ About ,60
fathoms of it.
THE
NATIONAL CHAMP IS
HURTING: Mark Brelsfo rd crashed at
Daytona (if you didn't notice) and
latest reports say that in add ition to
breaking his right leg he also broke one
hand and ripped off his lett knee cap.
Somehow, he hopes to be out of the
hospital by the time you read this and
to have a trick surgeon work on him.
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T he O ran ge Co unty :-I. C.'s Gr ea t Rear
Grand Pri x (a real, no kiddin g 0 -3 7
o nly-fo ur-a-year GP) w ill be bro ad cast
live o ver KI\IG . i 4 o n you r radi o
tach o me te r, s tar ting a t te n on Satu rday
and 10: 30 on Sunday this co ming
weekend, March 24 an d 25_ Wave. Pap a
will be th ere in abou t the twenty-fift h
row 'i n Sunda y. (Papa will wave back
lo ud ly so yo u ca n hear him o ver the
radi o .)
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We heard the fo llo wi ng story about the
Novic e winner at Daytona. In victory
circle Gary Blackman was asked ho w
long he'd been road racing. It was his
first race , h'e said. He'd written to
Yamaha a fe w months previous and
asked fo r a b ike . You know, he said ,
they didn't even wr ite back. So he
bought a used one. What was his plan?
He didn't have one. I just kept looking
around , he said, and wondering where
everybody was.
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Hey , Yam ah a is doing good thi ngs fo r us
all (incl uding th eir co mpe titors) ' wi th
t hei r le a r n -to-rid e program bein g
co nd ucted all o ver th e co un try . Lo ts of
p e o p l e a rc bein g introdu ced to
mot o rcy cle in a mann er tha t is far safer
th an th e thi s-is-th e-throttle-go-rid e-It
tech nique th at man y o f t hose now
rid ing go t th cir starts Wit h.
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We sure were imp ressed by Buddy
Elmore who worked his way up to fifth
before being sidelined by mechanicals at
Daytona . Long t ime no see.
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Yvo n Du Ham el is go ing to ta ke up stock
car ra cing in No rt h Carolina on April 8.
DuHam el is master o f an y sort of
vehicle.
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Rex Beauchamp was the winner of the
Atlanta Mile on his Harley. Hank Scott,
Eastern brother of Gary, was the Junior
winner aboard a Yamaha, and Jay
Ridgeward won the Novice event using a
Noguchi prepared Yamaha twin.
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CA L RA YBORN is to ugh people. After
brea king his sh oul der and thr ee ribs an d
having a trach eot o my pe rforme d o n
Sunday he Was o u t of th e h osp it al th e
foll ow ing T ues d ay an d he may even
make the nex t Nat ion al ro ad race at
D all a s o n April . first an d th e
Int ern at ion al meeting at Im ola, Italy
and th e Eas te r ma tch in Engl and . Ho w
do they d o it?
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If you d idn't notice, Jarno Saarinen uses
fun ny cl ip-ons. They point almost
stra ight down . . Now everybody will
be using funny cllp -ons.
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ANOT HE R HONDA TWO STRO KE : Honda is producing a 5 0cc moped that
uses a tw o-strok e engin e. We probably
won 't see it o ver he re.
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The British press has it r ight. They
called Daytona "the wo rld's most
unpred ictable race," Everyone will still
publish pred ict ions, however.
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Oh Ellihue, yo ur b oy's go ne off th e
deep en d th is time !
Bik ies seem ob livious to it , but Big
Brother is go ing to come down on us
like a load of bricks. He's going to be
after street riders, desert r ide rs, and
everybody. You can't feel it yet, but
The End of motorcycling as we know it
may have reared its head with the
environmental question. With road bikes
producing too much pollution and dirt
bikes tearing up the hills (There are ruts
all the way up the hills at your favorite
riding area, aren't there?), you are
rap idly becoming out of date , and the
most eloquent statements about fun and
freedom aren't going to deter anybody .
What are you going to do?
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T here see ms to be a question as to
wh eth er yo u need a gree n st ick ie to ride
on federal lands or no t, Since fede ra l
lan ds do n 't co me under t he state's
j uris di ction an d since the sti ckles are a
ENTRIES A RE STILL OPEN fo r th e
Fir st Corona Ra ceway Gr and Prix to be
run Mar ch 3 1 and Ap ril Firs t.
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Small bike Te am Harle y-ite Terry Clark
f ini she d f ou rt h in
t he 1 2 5
Championships a t Arro yo on Su nd ay
and th en d ro ve to Las Vegas to rid e the
Min t 400 on a Hu sqvarna 4 00 o n
Mon day. On Tuesday ... ?
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Terry's 125 H-D motor was bolted into
a Boyd & Stell ings frame as was J im.
Cooke's DKW . It's one of the first t imes
we've noticed trick frames on the small
. scooters in professional motocross. Greg
Robertson's CZ seems to be carried in a
Red Line chassis.
T h e last hund red yards of th e last moto
mad e a $4 0 0 di ffe ren ce for Ch uc k
Bow er . T ak e a lo o k startin g on Page 24
of this issue.
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If you 're read ing this, it's because the
running of the Mint 400 wasn't through
by dead line t ime . You'll see a complete
report on the Mint and those who won
it in the next issue. Pre -race favor ites
were Mitch Mayes/Rolf T ibblin on the
big Husky' and Tom Brooks/Cordis
Brooks on the little DKW. But if they
break , who knows? The ears will
undoubtedly have turned the 200 mile
loop i nt o a mass of ruts and
whoop-de-doos .
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The Sidewinders Enduro has been
postponed until April 15 so that all you
eager enduro riders can ride the DDMC
Red Garter National points enduro on
April I and still make it to the
Sidew inders. Both pay CERA points
and post entries are available for the
Red Garter. But now the Sidewinders is
the same day as the rescheduled High
Mounta in enduro but all High MOllntain
numbers have been gone for months so
if you don't already have one, go ride
the S idewinders enduro. Gee, with all
the enduros maybe somday we'll be able
to beat the Europeans. (Huh?)
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VICTOR iE S YO U PROBABLY NEV ER
H E A RO O F . T he R e c r e a ti on
Commissio n of Lo ng Beach, Calif orn ia
h as issued a p ermit to o perate a " small
b ik e" cy cle . p ark o n eight acres o f
go vern ment property. A fter two years,
the min i-park is a reality. T h e Lo ng
Beach Safety Co uci l will charge' $ 1 a
year an d 50 cen ts a da y fo r use ($ 1 a d ay
on weekends ). T he permi t lim its use to
bikes under 2 5 0cc . Up in Mark T wain
Coun try , the Cala veras County Board of
Sup ervisors granted 'a tw o-y ear pe rmit
for a co mme rci al co mp etition tr ack and
hill climb are a. The track is on Poo le
Station R oad ncar San An dreas and is
supposed to be: op en to recreational use
on no n-race: days. Twen ty four races a
year ar e sch eduled.
Yankee Motors rider Dale Furst used the Phenix City. Alabama. track on March 4 to unveil
the new 500cc Vankee twin cylinder dirt tracker. The machine puts out the familiar angry sting
of all two stroke engines and appeared to have good power. Handling on the tacky banked clay
track was hard to judge but changes call for experimentation with both the forles and shocks to
refine the traek eharacteristics. The DMR cooling fins used on the head made the engine look
wjde at first glance. The bike . weighs in at 250 pounds and is putting out an estimated 60
horsepower. Some people will be set to thinking when they get piped by the red , white and blue
Yankee twin. Photo by Gary Van Voorhis.
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