Cycle News is a weekly magazine that covers all aspects of motorcycling including Supercross, Motocross and MotoGP as well as new motorcycles
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.. .. •.•••••••••••••••• - ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• I' C.C. "" CIl I 'lO os • • Q" .... <0 Q) ~ CIl 0: .... '" ~ lo:1 ;;e lo:1 ...::I U >. U GOOD FOR CASH SAVINGS AT Bill Kruse's MOTORCYaE Department Store 1257 So. u area at Century in Inglewood OFFER GOOD UNTIL JUNE 30tb ONLY I I I I I I I I I • • I I I I • • I I I I I • I I I I I CM. f,. p.5 clouds last week we took cycle m van and motored forth to San Francisco Bay. San Francisco City proper is not entirely without motorcycle spirit but there aren't as many bikes in evidence per capita as, say, Vallejo. If you wear flowers in your hair, as the current song adVises, better be sure and ride slow. Being Memorial Day weekend, there were five professional mlc races going on in the greater Bay Area in four days. Next week we'll present a portfolio of those events and the outcomes of all, thanks to hard-driVing Steve Griffith, our NorCal professional race coverer. BaBner Sales Year The dealers north of Southern California apparently are off to another banner year for sales. They have warm weather going for them, plenty of scenery for riding through and an abundance of organized fun and competition events for their customers to wear out their machinery in. Best of all, the Nor-Cal dealers support and participate in the fun and games to a great extent. Names like Jim saitone and Bill Verbisco, Dudley Perkins and the Sarkees are found in the results and credits as well as the yellow pages. Honda RlIIIIIiBg Out of Bikes? Dealers are complaining that they can't get enough of certain model Hondas to satisfy all the customers who want them. The new 90 scrambler and black Super Hawks are I really scarce, they say, and 305 • SCramblers are disappearing fast. • • I I I I I I I I 500cc Suzuki Already Here? Word has reached our ears that Suzuki is testing a new 500cc twin two-stroke in Southern California. No details are available yet but our spies will flnd out for you. Keep reading. When Is A Lever Not A Lever? Webster defines a lever as ·a projecting piece by which a mechanism is operated or adjusted." WhatI ever that new gear changing gizmo I on a certain trailbike is called, it I shouldn't be called a lever. In the interest of honest advertising, I I think it should be called a "lug· beI cause you have to attach a wrench I to it in order to "flip· it and ride I away, as the flyer claims. Me thinks sometimes that somebodY up there • doesn't motorcycle. : OOPS, OUR MISTAKE I We must be falling asleep on our jobs as of late.! That young gentleI man who was listed as baving flnI ished 7th in the 100cc class Main Event at South Gate last Thursday should have really been listed as 5th. He is Jerry Formby, an up-andI coming young TT rider, who is be• ginning to panic the So. Gate reguI~L • I Ha