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LONGLONG TERMTERM KTMKTM 450EXC-R450EXC-R March 2010 $3.95 BRUCE BROWN Jason Raines TALKING ABOUT THE MOVIE Team Am-Pro Yamaha GYPSYGYPSY MOTHMOTH ENDUROENDURO REMEMBERING DAN SALAMONE FEATURES How To Subscriptions: Subscriptions are avail- 14 Pachaug Ride able from Trail Rider Magazine, P.O. Box 497, Winchester, NH 03470, at $25 U.S. A new twist for ‘09 per 12 issues (one year). Canadian sub- scriptions are $53 yearly, in U.S. funds. We’re not selling overseas subscriptions 16 My Ride in Portugal any more. To pay by credit card or Paypal log onto www.trailrider.com or call 800- Billy Burns’ ISDE ride 426-4214. At the online address you can pay with an E-check as well as credit 20 NMA Off-Roader cards or Paypal. You can also renew your subscription online. Northwest news Renewals: If you like Trail Rider, and plan to renew, it would be really helpful if you looked at the label on your magazine and 24 On Any Sunday checked the expiration date. 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Box 497, Winchester, NH 03470, at $25 U.S. per 12 issues (one year). Canadian subscriptions are $53 U.S. yearly. Copyright © 2010 by Unexpected Co. All rights reserved. No advertising or editorial matter in this magazine may be reproduced for distribution without written permission by the publisher. Contributors: Articles and event photos are welcome, although we assume no responsibility for unsolicited materials. Unless special arrange- ments are made in advance, all published materials become the sole property of Trail Rider. Periodicals postage paid at Winchester, New Hampshire, and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Trail Rider Magazine, P.O. Box 497, Winchester NH 03470. March 2010 3 the Ossa Pioneer and the Bultaco Matador Last Over Mark 3, two very competitive Spanish machines of the day. So much time was spent, by Paul Clipper back then, arguing which was better, the Bultaco or the Ossa; and then later on it was the Husky or the Penton, or the Insert-Your- Bike-Here. The point was, they were all a great way to get out in the woods and see what Forty Years Ago II nature was up to while we had our back turned. Finally, the magazine closes with a two-page story on the subject of chain care, something that was always on the mind of most of us back he second issue of New teenaged rider at the time I can tell you for cer- the writer points out that there is a network of then—those of us who wanted to keep riding TEngland Trail Rider maga- tain that we would ride just about anywhere a logging roads all over these mountains just every day. You see, those were the days of non zine was interesting in many ways. good trail presented itself, and only avoid the asking to be explored. o-ring chain, and chain that was basically Looking through it, you get a sense that what area after we were chased off. Logging roads? In the White Mountain adapted from whatever was manufactured for Bob (Hicks, the editor/owner) had in mind was The readers were also introduced to the National Forest? Oh yes, from centuries of log- industrial purposes. The chains we used were a serious outlet for real recreational trail riding. mechanics of a roll chart holder ging activities. There was a basically engineered to function best in an oil In his Editorial in that second issue (May, in the second issue of Trail time, many years back now, bath, as would be easy to do in an industrial 1970) he talked about “crashing” a meeting of Rider, and how set up a route when scenery wasn’t worth application. Take that same chain and stick it hikers and state officials to get a sense of what sheet to be readable and under- much in New England; not on the back of a motorcycle trying to get the attitude was toward trail bikers. The atti- standable in the roll chart hold- as much as the trees were, though the swampy, muddy woods, and you tude was a little bit of grumbling towards er, or route sheet holder as it’s that’s for sure. That’s evident had a recipe for disaster. snowmobilers and, to a lesser extent, trail bik- called here. Bob describes what everywhere up here. The I’ve written about this same subject a number ers, but also a real concern that horse riders an enduro route sheet is, and town I live in is densely of times, and it bears repeating once again: were getting in and wrecking the hiking trails.