CC Biker & motorsports
vol 7 issue 8
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October 2022
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CC Biker & Motorsports
Letter from the editor
Richard Tilley Owner/editor
Hey Ya’ll, it’s been a while since I just sit down and shared a lot of what’s going on with CC Biker and Motorsports Newspaper. Also, who CC Biker and Motorsports Newspaper is and why I started a newspaper.
ward, and I would make all the 1st run of deliveries myself. The previous owner warned me about a few locations and said I need to be careful when I stopped at these and watch my back. Of course, then made me a bit nervous to say the least. The route was going to take me 5-6 days and just over 1,000 miles of driving to do. Figured, I would go out and about delivering and then get a room for the night and start again the next morning. The Coverage area was from Bakersfield to Modesto, over to Monterey then down to Santa Maria. That is a huge area to cover.
Well, let me take you back to February 2016. I was working for IDrive magazine as the distribution manager and a guy offered my boss to buy a biker magazine from him. My boss hit me up if I would be interested in being a partner and I thought sure why not check it out and go from there. Being that I am not a Biker myself there was a lot of concerns We decided to leave the name that I had as well. the same for now and change it if all went well. I got all packed up for 5-6 days on the road and get a cargo van loaded with 30,000 magazines. I was actually having fun making these deliveries and when I was close to the one’s he warned me about. I prepped myself for We met with the guy from Cen- whatever may come. When I Cal Biker magazine, and it went into the first one that he actually sounded pretty good. called rough bar, as I walked I made it clear that before I in folks we saying hey how’s went full speed ahead. That I it going and I said who I was needed to go out and see every and that I was delivering the location to ensure my staff Cen-Cal Biker Magazine. The was safe. You gotta remem- Bikers were excited to get a ber I was not a Biker or had I new copy and were offering been around Bikers. I also had Bikers Stereotyped in my mind as well at the time. The previous owner let me know it was not dangerous except for a few location he said. Well, I made a route map out and decided we would go for-
me food, drinks and If I wanted to smoke with them. I was like wow this is a rough place. I knew then he was wrong, I went on and hit 2 others near by that he warned me about and decided then and there. He was full of shit. These are my kind of folks, welcoming me in and talking to me and trying to buy me drinks and shit. I know then that this was gonna be a fun trip. By the end of the 6 days it actually took me, I know I wanted to do this. I had met so many good folks.
We run it under Cen-Cal Biker for like 6 months and decided to change the format to a newspaper and change the name. It would be a lot more cost effective being that newsprint was cheaper to have printed then the bright shiny printed magazine. Needless to say, I was very trusting with my partner and we ran Central Biker for almost a year when I found out he had been screwing me over, that was January 2016.
It was not just the money, we fought about going to events all the time and my partner refused to spend any funds on going to events. I started going Letter from the Editor Continued on page 4