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3 FEATURE GIRL SHE'S FROM CALIFORNIA NOW . • • Miss L~na Mak finds her 160 perfect (see how well it fits her) . Cycle was purchased second hand in Japan and shipped to her by parent~. We were pleased last week to make the acquaintance of Miss Lana Mak, a cool wand of a girl who rides her 160cc Honda everywhere she goes. "I don't ev en know how to drive a car," Lana says. HAll I have is a motorcgele license." In bygone times when women were less frequently seen on cycles here, a girl enthusiast might have caused wonder. But now with so many ladies awheel, Lana meets with only occasional concern for her safety on the part of those who don't know how well she has mastered the art of riding. The 160 is her second machine in the year that she has owned a motorcycle operator's license. "I learned to ride on my fiancee's Super I Hawk, but it was a little too big for me," admits Lana, who weighs about 115 lbs. However, the 160 is perfect, she says. Both machines were purchased second hand in J a pan by Lana's parents and shipped to her. "I am an exchange student," Lana explains. But her parents think both bikes are for her fiancee, so don't anybody tell. The bike arrived with 2,000 kilometers on the speedo and a snow tire on the rear which Lana says "has got to go" as it gets a skosh slippery on turns. The speedo now reads near 4,000 km., meaning Lana rode her cycle approximately 1,200 miles t his month ! Having only morning classes at college she often rides away the whole afternoon. We shouldn't describe the blue color that Lana's 160 is painted since you'd only want it and you can't get it here. Lana fitted it out with standard scrambler bars and straightened and repainted the front fender herself after it was damaged in shipment. Although not mechanically inclined, she has helped install valve springs in a motorcycle and can fix a flat tire on a Sunday when all the service stations are closed, as she has done on occasion. Japan was where Lana first learned to love two wheel fun . . . She attended school there with many American students, and often was a passenger on their small motorbikes, the only possible means of travel in some of Japan's busy, narrow streets. Thence to Illinois to study at the university and learn to ride her (fiancee's) Hawk on the snowy winter streets, Arriving at last, only a year ago, in California, she seems already a native of this state. Perhaps the cycle gives the impression that Miss Mak, who was born in China, has lived here all her life. Certainly by our reckoning she is a Californian now. " N~ RACING CASTOR lOr 2 or " C}'de lad... ChampionS' Choice The World Over DON'T. FOOlED BY WI.D CLA_ OF JUST AS GOOD. TIllE ARE NOt-. ADDZII' ADDIfWfS * .,C33-37 "'" Sf. * ,. '., c:.. ====:In!II[I====:JII:I~1 ====:JII:I~I i5555ii~iE~===II:I~1 ====::JIElI~I====:JII:II[I====:JII:I~1 ====::JII:I~I==== 't::I' " Stock 650cc TRI. WINS PROD. ROAD RACE 2nd ANNUAL U.S.G.I! NOV. 7th at WILLOW SPRINGS ,. nst Charlie Palicz 650 TRI 2nd WALLACE SHAW - H.D. CHARLIE PALlCZ • Western D istributor JOHNSON MOTORS Do-Ability and Durability from Triumph for 1966 265 W t Colo rado Street, Pa sadena, Ca lifornia es =:11:11::1===:111:111::1===:111:111::1===:111:11:1===:JII:II:I===:111:11::1===:111:111::1===:111:111::1===:111:11:1===:J11:I5