Ups And Downs
UPS AND DOWNS
ROUNDUP
UP: Up to all those who either loaned or donated motorcycles and memorabilia to the American Motorcyclist Association for possible inclusion in the Motorcycle Heritage Museum, which opened its doors August 16. Housed in 7000 square feet of floor space at AMA headquarters in Westerville, Ohio, the museum currently has two exhibits displayed. “Women in Motorcycling” and “American Motorcycling: Decades of Development,” on view weekdays from 9 a.m. to $ p.m., free of charge. There are plans to alter the exhibits on an annual basis, and as the museum has no plans to compile an extensive collection of rolling stock, loans from private collections
are being encouraged. For more information contact Director Ken Reid at P.O. Box 6 l I 4 Westerville, OH 4308 l-6 l 14 .
UP: To Mitch McCulley. forgetting gas pains. Angered at the oil companies' price hikes after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, the 29-year-old former Navy man instituted his own energy policy by purchasing a used, 1978 Honda Hawk 400. The purchase took on greater importance when newspaper man Doug Monroe wrote about McCulley in his Atlanta Journal-Constitution column under the title, “Motorcycle rebel with a cause: Conserving gas.” The column rightly pointed out how economical motorcycles can be. not that McCulley only has eyes for mpg figures. “I'll save money. It’s economical,” McCulley is quoted as saying. “But it's also freedom. It's a blast, a thrill. It's excitement to me.
I love riding.”
UP: To Delta Air Lines for remembering that the right honorable Fiorello LaGuardia, one-time mayor of New York City, was a man who loved to ride and it showed. In an ad announcing a remodeled terminal at the airport that bears his name, LaGuardia is pictured about to set off in the police-department Indian sidecar rig he often used for quick access to official functions.
DOWN: To the management of Scottsdale, Arizona’s Horseworld equestrian park, for apparently believing bad press clippings. Phoenix resident Mike Brady, director of the National Motorbike Association, thinks that adverse publicity over the Sturgis rally in South Dakota caused Horseworld officials to cancel a small motorcycle show he had organized that was to take place on the park grounds, reported The Yuma Daily Sun. The event was being put on to raise money for Central Arizona Shelter Services, an organization that helps the homeless.
For the Record: In an story titled “Bell Helmets: No Longer Made in the USA?”in the October issue of Cycle World comments about the Ü.S. helmet market were attributed to Rick Mitchell. Those comments actually were made by Rick Campbell, publisher of Motorcycle Industry Magazine. We apologize for the error.
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