Cycle Round Up
CYCLE ROUND UP
BY JOE PARKHURST
CYCLES ON 5TH AVENUE
The swanky display in the picture is the front window of SAS Airline’s 5th Avenue, New York showroom. The bike is an electric starting Zundapp. The display was created to stimulate interest in Scandinavian Airline System’s “Motorcycle Tour” through Europe this year. The special jet trip to the Continent, including the purchase of a 250cc Super Sabre Zundapp, will cost participants only $769.00 —quite a bargain. The tour is being sponsored by the USMC. For a free brochure and complete information, write to Walter Von Schonfeld, Tour Director, U.S. Motorcyle Club, Dept. CW, 33 North Fullerton Ave., Montclair, N.J.
MAMDA SANCTION MEETING
January 30th was the date, the Berkshire Hotel in Reading, Pennsylvania, was the scene, and the District No. 6 Sanction meeting and 27th Dinner of the Middle Atlantic Motorcycle Dealers Association, Inc., was the occasion. Jules Horky of the AMA informed approximately 125 assembled dealers that, in 1961, 3,400 sanctions were taken out and that 256 were from District No. 6. This gives the District the largest number of sanctions in the AMA, larger even than California’s District No. 37 (a veritable hot bed of competition).
Mr. Horky also informed them that the AMA had a new addition to their Public Relations staff, Mr. Bob McVay, whose time will be devoted entirely to clubs and their activities. Sanctions for 1962 totaled 209 for District No. 6.
TV COVERAGE OF I-CYCLE DERBY
It looks like a few more of the powersthat-be in our TV networks are beginning to awaken to the fact that motorcycle racing makes exciting TV fare. Witness the showing of the AMA-sanctioned ICycle Derby in Bloomington, Minnesota. WCCO-TV gave the run excellent coverage; their viewers saw Vern Anderson, riding a sidecar-fitted Harley, come in first, followed by George Anderson’s Harley 74 2nd, Don Couture on a Honda 3rd, and Jim Marks riding an Indian 4th. Roy Egeberg, assistant AMA referee for Minnesota and South Dakota, was high point winner this year, as he was last year.
MINI-BIKES GET ORGANIZED
A recent mailing from the Micro Mfg. Co., in Tulsa, Oklahoma includes news of the availability of a newly established set of rules and regulations governing minibikes and mini-bike racing. The program was developed by the Tulsa Mini-Bike Club and covers almost everything necessary to organize a club and races. Information includes: Safety equipment, competition rider rules, rider licensing, rider/ cycle classes, special training program, complete specifications for bikes, track signals, use of flags, technical inspection, rider and machine identification and a complete set of regulations on the running of races.
Anyone interested need only send 25 <k for handling to the Tulsa Mini-Bike Club, 208 South Norfolk, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
NEW AMA NEWSLETTER
A new AMA club newsletter is being published monthly in conjunction with the Association’s “Put Your Best Wheel Forward” campaign. Formed in an effort to secure better publicity and public acceptance for motorcycling, the newsletter contains club news, tips on successfully promoting various events, and ways to gain the proper kind of local publicity and support for 'motorcycling. Additionally, one outstanding club is singled out each month and its promotional ideas and contributions to the overall motorcycling scene are dealt with in detail.
CYCLE WORLD IN THE MIDWEST
In our increasing effort to cover the entire motorcycle scene around the U.S., this month CYCLE WORLD adds a new name to its growing list of contributors and correspondents. He is Dave Evans and he will be on hand to dispense wisdom and collect any and all materials for us in the Chicago and Midwest areas. May we extend the invitation to club secretaries and motorcycle press people desiring contact with a CYCLE WORLD representative, to contact Dave at 919 Forestville Ave., Park Ridge, Illinois. His phone number is TAlcott 3-5205, and he would be happy to hear from you.
A SCOOTER IN THE ARMY
The happy looking enthusiast in the picture is Captain Patrick Roach, Commanding Officer of Company A, 232nd Transportation Battalion at Ft. Lewis, Washington. The non-issue scooter is obligingly painted a familiar olive drab, and is used by the Captain during duty hours to spot-check trucks of the motor pool and details in the Company area. He has even driven it up into the back end of trucks to check and see if they were clean.
We mention all of this because it’s nice to see bikes of any kind being applied in such a unique manner. The Captain is so enthusiastic about it he has recommended scooters as regular Army issue for like purposes. (They will probably ship him to Antarctica for that one, though). A nice clincher to the story is that the bike was given to the Captain by a former member of his Company, Rodney Kruenen of Kruenen Cycles Inc., in Madison, Wisconsin.
TRIUMPH DEALER MEETING HELD
Johnson Motors, Inc., distributors for Triumph motorcycles in the West, recently conducted a comprehensive two-day service and sales seminar which was attended by dealers from every part of the 19 Western States. Top Triumph dealers were presented with sales award plaques during a dinner banquet in their honor, held after the meetings at the famed Huntington Sheraton Hotel in Pasadena.
My wife and I were among the many guests honored at the banquet, where special service pins were presented to ten dealers, and fifteen year pins were awarded to several dealers. Others honored included Dick Dorresteyn, No. 1 professional TT rider and his tuner/sponsor, Kenny Harvey of JK Cycle Inn, Richmond, Calif., Triumph Shop, Skip Van Leeuwen, No. 1 TT amateur. Ronnie Nelson, No. 1 novice flattrack rider and Eddie Mulder, top Southern California Dist. 37 sporting event rider. (The flashy 18-year-old former Big Bear champ won his first professional TT race recently). Dorresteyn was presented with a new Bell Magnum helmet by Bell Toptex executive, Mr. Frank Heacox (on the right in photo below; Kenneth Harvey at the left).
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EXPORT VERSIONS OF THE NEW BSA ROYAL STARS
The photo below is one of the export versions of BSA's new Royal Star twins as featured in “Late News From England” in CYCLE WORLD last month. The main differences between the ones shown last month and the model illustrated here are the handlebars, throttle grips, and fenders (minus the English - style license plate mounts). An interesting detail is the almost square design of the big twins. The 1961 BSA Super Rocket has a bore of 70mm, and a stroke of 84mm, while the new Royal Star 650cc utilizes a bore of 75mm, with a stroke of only 74mm.
Horsepower figures have not been announced but it is safe to estimate that the high winding twin 650cc version should put out at least 50 hp, and probably more.
Watch for a future road test of this most interesting new BSA — it should he a real charger!
DICK MANN WINS SCRAMBLES
Dick “Buggs” Mann, winner at Laconia in 1960, while keeping himself in trim to defend his National standing got his licks in recently when he scored top points in two recent California cycle meets. Riding a 250cc Greeves, Mann won the 225-mile National Championship Endurance run held at Lake County in late 1961. In the Orangeville Scrambles, again with his Greeves, he posted two firsts and a third to capture high points and the winner’s trophy.
Rated a top mechanic, Mann is one of the few competition riders who tunes his own machine. “Buggs” is employed by Walt Kreft (on the left), and Karl Huth (right), at Walt & Karl's Motors, a lead ing Richmond, California, cycle dealer.
