CC Biker & motorsports
vol 5 issue 9
Please tell’em CC Biker and Motorsports Sent Ya
october 2020
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CC Biker & Motorsports
Who is CC Biker and Motorsports Newspaper?
Richard Tilley Owner/editor
on. We need more Advertisers to continue what we do, so we need Well we have made it through just your help. over four and a half years thanks to All of You. I am rerunning Yes, this is a hard time for all of us this story since I am still getting and local business to stay alive asked who we are a lot and why to include us. We need more ada non-Biker owns and operates a vertisers to continue and I know Biker and Motorsports Newspa- a few feel this is not a good time to advertise, but with advertising per to begin with. folks know that your business is This has been the hardest year still open and are Biker Friendly. with Covid 19 closing down so I get messages all the time askmany businesses. A few or our ing me if a certain business is Advertisers ending up closing open or not. Please note that all their businesses. Some have businesses that advertise in CC been able to open but with limited Biker are open for business, lets seating due to a stupid rule by our continue to support our advertisGovernor. Yes, if you didn’t know ers and contact me if you need already. I don’t think we should advertising in our paper. We covever close down all of our small er from Mariposa to Bakersfield, businesses and let big box stores the central coast and we have stay open. I will never understand approximately 700 locations you why the American Public is letting can pick up our paper. this happen. Walmart, Target, Home Depot and other big stores can have hundreds of customer in their store and it is consider safe, but your local mom n pops stores are not allowed to have 4-5 customers at a time in their business. We are losing local stores that have been around for years. Not many businesses can stay afloat when their doors have been closed for months or Now onto Our Story that was told they can open at only a 25% Published in our February 2017 Edition… capacity. With all of this it has pretty much CC Biker and Motorsports been impossible to hold Biker By Richard Tilley
So, like all new businesses my personal saving was gone and we were off and running. The first edition was March 2016 and although it has been a financial struggle and a lot of my personal time and a few other staff members who also received little to no money for their work, we have never missed a single month of producing, publishing, and distributing 25,000 monthly free magazines throughout the San Joaquin Valley.
I would like to Thank these Sponsors for standing behind us for this last Year. Without them CC Biker would not be around. The Roadhouse in Clovis, Stonehouse Tavern in Auberry, The Stag in Exeter, Troy Rice Farmers Insurance in Clovis, Jimbo’s in Clovis, G’ma and Pappas in Coarsegold, Dirty Donkey in Oakhurst, Karianne Burnett Freelance Graphics Runs since it is hard to find an The most common question I am Design & Printing in Bass Lake, ending location that can host asked is what do I ride? My an- Lusardi Motorsports in Visalia, 100 people. Racetracks are swer is I am not a biker although Happy Burger Diner in Mariposa, not allowed to have fans in the I do want a trike someday. This stands, which hurts the industry surprises most bikers and the of Racing. All of these is mak- next question is usually why do I ing it almost impossible for us publish a biker magazine so here to continue, but by the Grace of is my story and how CC Biker God we are still barely hanging and Motorsports started. I was a distribution manager for another magazine and a lot of the bikers and businesses I supported urged me to start my own magazine. When it was time to separate from my previous employer I did and took a big leap of faith that starting the CC Biker and Motorsports business was what God was telling me to do.
Frontier Tavern in Raymond, Sassano’s Mens Wear in Clovis, Willems Printing in Fowler, Legends Classic Motorcycles in Fresno,
Steve’s Sportsman Café in Mariposa, and Law Tigers in Phoenix and California. Also Want to Thank Karianne Beighey Burnett in our Graphics Dept , Kelly Leoni for all the Photography as well as all the other Volunteers that have helped us throughout 2016. Thank all of you so much. At the finish of 12 editions and a full year of dedicating my life to establishing CC Biker and Motorsports. I am very proud of the quality of the magazine’s articles relating to coverage of events, stories, and documentaries. The quality is related to reporting the facts and truth but is also because as editor it is my commitment to keep everything positive and not allow negative comments or statements to be in this magazine. WHO IS CC BIKER Continued on page 2
