Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

-e0 "> '" T h e C N sta ff j oin s the ra ci ng fraternity in mo u rn ing t he de aths of Jarno Saarin en an d Renzo Pas olini, t wo o f the fin est racers in the wo rld . We sh are the grief of their friends and famili es. The calibre of internati ona l champi onsh ip road racing is d iminished by t heir absence . c, M ..... '" '"'" > , ::;; '" CIl ;: w 2 w ..J ~ (.J A wat er cooled K aw asaki sq ua re-f o u r? So it see m s. Kaw asa ki m ay n ot be co n ten t with the performance of their 750 triple an d since wa ter cooling seems to be the wa ve of t he future, a square four h as mu ch to b e said for it. With a narro wer en gine , you can lower the eng ine and th e CG. T he square four has some de sign proble ms th at Kawasaki 's sol utio n s to will b e inte resting to see. • • Rafferty Named Managing Ed. of Western Edition • A .C . Bak ken is afra id of snakes. Marcia Ho lley chased him ar ound the pits o n S un d ay mo rn ing with o ne . T o mm y and Cord is Bro oks too k some sidewi nd ers ho me with them . • • • • • D udl ey Perkins , longtime San Francis co H -D dealer and sponsor of the great, arrived at his 8 0th birthday last Saturday in good co n d itio n. The sec re t ? D ud rides his T opper scooter daily. 'Tis the only sco o te r we 've seen with th e tread scuffed up th e sides of th e tires to th e rim . • • • Sometime th is month McDonalds will serve its 12 billonth hamburger an d Cycle News will se ll its 10 m illio nth newspaper. Wh ich proves that mo re people eat than read . • • • mJ'I~1 ,tS * • CYCL E SWAP-O-RAMA h appens again at th e Orange Coun ty Fairgro unds in Costa Mes a o n June 8. Display areas are 10 ' X 10' an d co st five b uc ks , whi ch ain ' t b ad. You can b uy , sell , trade or j ust mosey a ro und and lo o k at the neat stuff. Th er e may be o ffe rs y ou can' t refuse, and p ro bably some you can 't . believe. A n ew and used bike auc tion is also on th e agen da. Se t up begins at 2 p.rn, and the p ublic will be admi tted at 5. Now 's a good time to clean out th e. garage . Info: (71 4) 6 37 -18 35 . IJa\ll. !Mlcl Am erica ' s No .1 Wee kly Mot o rcycle News paper Sh ar o n Cl a yt on •• • • ••• • • . • • • • Publ isher T o m c u re • . .• ... . . . . . . General Ma nager Edna M ew t on . . . . . Sec r et ar y to Pu bli sher Tad Raff ert y • •• •• • • . • • . Managing Ed it o r A rt Friedman •. ... .. . . • . • . ..•• • . E d it o r Dave Sc h oo n m ak e r . ....• A ssistant E ditor Howle Fowler • • • . • •• Advertising Manager We n dy B lanton • . •• • Advertisi ng Assist a nt Rnebe Sm ith • . • .. . .. C i rc u lat io n Manager Marla B o udreau . . . . . Ci rc ul ati o n A ssis tant Cheryl Steinberg . . • . Ci rc ulatio n A ssis t an t Mik e Dillon . . .. . .•• • Prod uc tion Manager Rosalin d Q u i n n: .. .. Pro du ction A ssi stant H ect o r Aguile ra • . • • • . . . . . La b T ec hni ci an Marion Ha ta shita .. • . . . . . .. .Ty pog ra p h er M e lv i n Phe l p s .. . • . • A ssist ant Typog ra p h er D av e C r owe . • ... • .. . .Collec tion Manager Grace Ca m p . • . • • . . . •Accounti ng Ma nag er Barbara Be neck •. . • . A ccou nting A ssist an t Chris Ko lbe t Accounti n g A ssist a n t Gar net Dunn •. .. .. . A ccounting A ssist a n t Mlchaet.Couk as • . . . . .. Services & Support Ke n L ee • • . . . . . . . : . .. se rvices & Sup p or t Squeeky H aynes • . . . . . Serv ices & S u p p o r t Da vid Pau li Serv tc es & S uppor t Nancy Good man . . . . • .. . . . • Recepti onist National Advertising Director: Tom Culp Cycl e News West and Headquarters P.O. Box 498, Long Beach California 9080 I (213) 427-7433: L.A. 636-8844 TELEX NO. 673474 Cycle News, East-Dixie Ed ition 4190 First Avenue Tucker. Georgia (404) 934-7850 Cycle News,Central Edition 1118 West 6th Street Austin. Texas (5 12)476-757\ Subscription: One year, second class ma il • • . $12,50 2 years, second class mail . •. • $22.50 3 years, second class ma il .. . . $30 .00 Si ngle copy price . . . •. • • •. • . .. $ .50 Published week ly except the first and last week of the: cale nda r yea r by Cycle NeW'S, In c., Post Office Box 498, Long Beach , Califo rnia . Seco nd Class Post age paid at Lo ng Beach, Calif. Ed itorial stories, ca r roo ns . p hotos, etc. are welcome. Addressed, sta mped envelo pe assures return of edi to rial matter. Reprinting in who le o r part on ly by pr em issio n of the pu blish ers. A d vertising rates a nd circ u lation info rmat io n will be sent upo n request. See S.R .D.S . Copyrigh, :clCycie News, Inc. 1973 all rights rese rved GRE El\' STICKl E G RO WS : A b ill introduce d by As semblyman Chappie would extend t he in fam o us ORV regis tration fee to ve hicle s used solely on private prope rt y and . RACING VEH ICLES . Hearing s on the proposed rip o ff ar e set fo r the Asse m bly Co m mittee o n N at u ral R eso urces and Conservation o n June 13 at Sacramen to. Th at co mm i ttee is ch aired by Ed win L. Z'be rg , a nd y o u c an write 10 hi m at th e State Cap itol, Ro om 3 132, Sacra mento 9 5 814 . Do . . • • The AMA m oto cr o ss q ua lif ie r set for May 2 7 at Mayer, A rizon a, has bee n cancelled. An other Nationa l MX Champ io nsh ip event has bee n ad ded for June 17 at R io Bravo Par k in Ho uston , T exa s. No p re-e nt ry. Riders may ente r at ttack on t he 16th for $ i O. • • • Every Wednesday n ight motocross beg ins aga in at Ascot on J une 6. The CMC p rom i ses im p r o ve d tr ac k p reparat io n . and more spea ke rs in th e pits , a nd pe rhaps more list e ne rs. SIGNAL HILL, CAL ., May 16 , 197 3 T a d Raff erty is the new Managing Editor o f Cy cle News Wes t , it was ann ounced by Publish er Sharon Clay ton today . Rafferty, a nativ e of Ohi o, is an empl oyee o f tw o ye ar s standing wi th Cycl e News, Inc. He was Managing Ed ito r o f Cy cle News East un til that edition merged rece ntly with th e Dixie e d i ti on t o be come Cycle New s East/Dixi e. T od owns a Husky 2 50 and a Yamaha 3 5 0 and is mentally as well as spiritually eq uipped t o maintain th e bal ance between stree t and dirt riding wh ich Cycle News achieves. Raffe rty repla ces temp orary managing editor Charles Clayton, who will re tu rn to h is duties as Pr esiden t o f Cycle News, I nc. and Publisher of th e new Cen tral edition in Austin, Texas . "We hope that re aders will give Tod Rafferty a war m western wel come," the lady Publish er remarked. "He did a very good job with East, when it s un official slogan was 'w e don't care how the y d o it in California.' Now that he is doing it in Cali fornia, \ th ink we'll all co me to know that he care s a great deal." AT 16 0 MPH I SH IFT ED INTO TH IRD. O ne of the first attempts to set a Land Speed Reco rd fo r b ikes was made w ith a Plymouth powered Henderson. That was in 19 3 5 , and it was built by Fred -.Lut he r , Adolph Thrillier, and J immy McNeil who were afte r the $30,000 take home pay for going 200 MPH. The f irst Bonneville tires were deve loped for the bike wh ich munched a rod at 160 in second gea r. The machine is on d isp lay in the "Cars of Stars" museum in Buena Park, California . • • • "Yamaha Horizons" is the name of a new publication p ut out b y Ya maha International. We don 't know if y ou can get a co py , b u t if you can, d o it! T he little monthly m agazine is beautiful. Lo ts o f neat co lo r pictu res and fa ntas tic graphics, T he cen ter sp read is suitable fo r hanging as a poster, too. • • • Speaking of Yamaha, Phil Read , aboard a MV, f ina lly beat the 500 Ya mahas at the West German GP . It was the first win fo r the new MV four and they . needed it after a long string of defeats at the hands of the Yamaha riders. Jarno Saarinen broke a chain after trying u nsuccessf ull y to pass the MV rider for 65 miles. Read sa id that he felt the MV was faster on the Hockenheim c ircuit. Saarinen (Yamaha) was the w inner of the · 250 and his teammate Teuvo Lansivouri was the winner of the 350 class. The 125 class went to Kent Andersson (Yamaha) ahead of Angel Nieto (Morbidelli), and the 50cc class was won by Theo Timmer (Jamath i) after Jan de Vries broke his Kre idler. • • • HONDA m ay re tu rn to E uropean ro ad racing . T hey had a team of engineers at th e A ust rian GP. Will it be a two st roke or a fou r stroke? • • • • • • P ENTON IMPORTS -has issued a bull etin to co un te r the claims that th e Pen to n team is com pe ting on n on-sto ck ma ch inery. T hey will sell at st andard pri ces, after an y ISDT qualifier, an y bik e ridden by any T ro p hy T eam rider. To an swer y our n ext question; no, th ey did not say this deal applied to the ISD T itself. • • • Bultaco is in ve st igati ng the possib ility o f conducting some obse rved trials t ra in ing sess ions at su m mer' s e nd. Sammy Mille r and Malcolm Rathme ll may be the instructors if all works out . Tentative plans inclu d e one three o r fo u r-

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