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Cycle News 1966 06 23

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• '. . .. , • • • , • • On Sunday, June 19, Suzuki riders provided more proof of what is quickly becoming an accepted factSuzuki Wins! This time Suzuki won in two entirely different types of competition. AMA professional road racing and Southern California sportsman TTscrambles. Carlsbad Raceway near San Diego, California was the scene of the road racing action with Ron Grant guiding a modified Suzuki X-6 Hustler winning over the finest production racers from Italy and Japan. Most of the competition in this event came from men mounted on machines built strictly for racing. Grant's Suzuki was only a well-tuned street cycle, yet it whipped them soundly. "It's nice to have horsepower," Grant said after the win. Fulton Jr. won again, beating the same type of motorcycles that Ron Grant did. Mounted on a modified Suzuki X-6 Hustler Walt beat the best of the built-Cor-racing-only competition. This is the same young rider and the same Suzuki that did the job at Daytona National in the novice class. Walt and his Suzuki are virtually unbeatable. In the Prado Park TT scrambles (how about that Cor fast transition, Sports Fans?) the 250cc Expert class was dominated by one man and one machine Jim Bassey and Suzuki! With a stripped-Cor-the-dirt Suzuki X-6 Hustler, Jim won the hotly-contested 250cc Expert class and then went on to take the lightweight sweepstakes at the Cast, Winding tum course near Corona, Calif. Here again much ofJim's competition was riding bikes that had been built strictly for this type of racing. See Cor yourself. Special racing motorcycles can't keep up with the Suzuki X-6 Hustler - - how can their street bikes? Why don't you test ride a Suzuki and prove it Cor yourself (and your Criends!) just how fine a motorcycle it really is? Ron is an Expert, with all the experience - racing ~ savvy - - that the term implies. He rides to win, and he rides Suzuki. Could you choose a better machine? It only takes a few modifications to make the Suzuki X-6 Hustler beat a factory racing motorcycle, it stands to reason that the Hustler is only loafing when you ride it at top freeway speed. It is quicker in the 1/4 mile than many motorcycles of much greater displacement! Eighty-four miles per hour in 15.3 seconds from a standing start. In the novice class at the Carlsbad Event, Walt -- FAST AND FURIOUS ROAD RACER - - ROUGH AND TUMBLE SCRAMBLER -- SMOOTH AND SWINGING STREET BIKE - - they're all the same machine , SUZUKI X-6 HUSTLER. Test Ride The X-6 Hustler at Yo r Loca 'tf.s. s~ MoIo4 ~. S~,4H4,e~

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