Letters

LETTERS

THE PROBLEMS OF YOUTH

I am fourteen years old and here in Florida the law permits me to have a five brake horsepower cycle. My Dad thinks they are too dangerous although he says he will let me have a car when I am 16. Please present some arguments that I can use for my side.

I am interested in a Ducati Falcon 50.

HOD GRAY

Fort Lauderdale, Fla. ED: This problem is being presented to us in ever increasing numbers, and we certainly wish there was some single, concrete answer we could give, but there is not. As an effort, Hod; no machine, automobile or cycle, is safer than its operator. Cycling is a wonderfully healthy outdoor sport that improves a man's reflexes, timing, balance, coordination, and most important, his association with the vehicle he is operating. I wish it were possible to demonstrate the superiority of a cycletrained driver over one who has learned on an unresponsive machine like an automobile.

/t motorcycle has several advantages over its four-wheeled brother, the most important of which is its maneuverability, and when ridden with good common sense is as safe as any form of transportation. We wish we could convince your parents, and those other young people like yourself who have come to us for help, of what we know to be facts.

SCOOTERIST

I have just purchased a motor scooter and am fast becoming a real bug. I enjoy your magazine very much although I wish it had more articles on scooters.

I was wondering if a magazine devoted entirely to scootering is still available as I once purchased one some years ago.

LEE PRENGAMAN Pittsburgh, Pa. ED: You will be pleased to know that a new magazine called Scootourist has recently published its first volume. The address for anyone interested is 703 Higate Drive, Daly City, Calif. Scootourist is published by Mr. Thomas A. Valasquez, and an excellent little publication it is.

WE AIM TO PLEASE

You pat yourself on the back and print articles pertaining to the goodness of your magazine. Print this then!

1. How come you went up 15 cents per copy?

2. How come you printed the old price of 35 cents in large type but the new low price of 50 cents is in teeny weeny type.

3. How come it says inside the cover

the single copy price is 35 cents?

I think that you have a good mag. If, and I say if, it had more technical features in it and was worth it I would pay 75 cents, not 50 cents for 10 more pages, 2 of which are ads.

CHUCK LA BELLE Oak View, Calif. ED: I. You get what you pay for. 2. You read it didn't you? 3. Mistakes will happen. Thank you. More technical would not please everyone as it would you. We had less advertising in our first 60 page issue than we had in the previous 52 page issue; look again!

CONFUSED

In the September issue are the graphs of the Enfield and the Montesa mixed up? L. HILMO Oakland, Calif.

ED: Boy are they!

LIKE UNCLE SAM SAYS...

They need us, we need them, you need me, and I need you.

The United States Department of State says we need friends in Czechoslovakia and that it's OK to trade.

So extend my subscription for two more years, and I'm also going to buy me a new Jawa motorcycle.

M. S. WOLFE Sylmar, Calif.

BIG BROTHER IS RIDING

I enjoy your magazine very much. I am (Continued on Page 45)

only 13 years old. I own a mini-bike and have just organized a club. We have 5 members with 4 mini-bikes and one moped. We were wondering where we could run them.

I also have one other problem; I have a big brother who gets on my bike when ever I leave. I have tried everything. I had it locked in a shed and chained to a brick and he still got on it. Do you have any suggestions? JOHN MARKEL Omaha, Nebraska

ED: The first problem is an easy one to solve; find a nice, clear vacant lot or open field, and have fun. Regarding your brother, either make him buy his own mini-hike or take a vital part of the engine with you when you leave it. (That would be kind of mean, though; lie must be having fun on it, too).

UNO-GUZZI FANTASY

With regards to the article concerning the Uno-Guzzi R-69S. I have a question; is it all a joke?

I tus question has causei quite a clis turbance among the members of our club. Some say that the article is on the level, others (including myself) believe it is a fantasy dreamed up by someone on your staff. Who is right? GEORGE McCLUSKY Millinocket, Maine

I dug Dave Evans' Uno-Guzzi in your September issue. Enclosed is a drawing of the "Murly Richthofen Uni-Scrambler."

You have a great magazine; keep up the good work. WM. THOMPSEN Monterey, Calif.

Enclosed find my subscription for two more years; that first pair of dollars proved to be an excellent investment, and if CYCLE WORLD maintains its present standards this sum will be as well placed.

Along with the rest of your readers (bar a few John Birch types), I look for ward to each issue. Not every magazine boasts a contributor with Dave Evans' calibre of engineering whimsy. MICHAEL R. WILSON Palo Alto, Calif.