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By Geo rge Martin
There was something for ev erybody ,
hut th e dragster s a nd road ra c ers had
mos t to s ee at th e fir st annual San Franci s co Int ernational Sport cy cl e Show.
Held in the city' s c a ve rnous und erground e xpo si t io n ar ea Br ooks (or 'M ol e'
as the Fris coites say) Hall, t he s how
att ra cted la rge cro wds , ran gin g from
youngs te rs (' wow, loo k at all t he Hondas!" ), to veteran rid ers like Di ck Man n
and Dick Dorr es t eyn .
T he Sunday SF E xamin er-Chroni cl e' s
co verage too k not e of the beli e f among
many new cyclists that any thi ng on two
whe el s is a " Honda. " The writer quot ed
a local Hond a deal er as being told by a
mat ron at a coc kt ail pa rty , "Oh , yo u s ell
Hondas? We j us t bought one for our so n. "
When th e deal er asked wha t model
Honda, th e women kne w immedi ately,
"It' s a Suzu ki, s he rep lied.
So it wa s perhaps fit ti ng th a t t he fi rs t
exhi bi t visibl e as the c rowds e ntere d
the hall was s et up by Honda. A pai r of
pretty Oriental yo ung ladi e s wer e on
hand to pass out fortune coo kie s. T he
mes sages insid e wer e two whe el ali th e
way: you-meet-the-ni c est-peopl e s ort of
stuff.
Prominently di spla yed wer e tw o road
rac ers from J&K Cycl e Inn in Richmond
(whe re yo ur copy of Cy cle News arrives
every Thursday , by th e way ). The only
new thing in th e boot h wa s th e ne w itsybitsy Honda mo-ped whi ch is s uppo sed
to sell for abou t $1 00 whe n it become s
availabl e soon.
Turning left a nd walkin g a fe w ya rds ,
s pectato rs hit th e ve ry attracti ve Bultaco
booth, whi ch fe ature d painting by gi rl
artis t-mod el-travel er P ook ie Bak er , whos e
st ory yo u may hav e read i n recent Cycle
orld magazines . Mis s Bak er' s draw in gs
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provid ed an e xci ti ng and di ffe rent back drop for the Bulta co s, and an extension
of the boot h co nt ai ned a number of her
pa in tings, ma ny of whi c h wer e quickly
sold.
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