Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

.y.. HUSQVARNA Motorcycle Dynamometers Distributed by od . . . . . Med-lnternatiDnal 4190 Palm Ave., La Mesa, Calif. 92103 the one your machine takes. If you don't happen to have an old piece of chain lying around, your friendly dealer can usually come up with an old chain that he removed from somebody's engine that'he will donate to you. • ENAILES ACtUIlATE DETERMINATION OF TORQUE & HORSEPOWER CURVES • ACCOMPliSH EftGINE FINE TUNING • CONTROLLED ENGINE BREAK-IN • PERFORMANCE rESTING OF ENGINI MODIFICATIONS INCLUDES: HYDRAULIC WATER BRAKE & FRAME - UNIVERSAL MOTORCYCLE SUPPORT STAND - GAUGING -INSTRUMENTATION , SECURING THE MISSION SPROCKET If you have ever tom apart a transmission and discovered that you had to remove the transmission or the final drive gear and shaft after the transmission was stripped, you have found that it can be pretty nerve-wracking. It is extremely difficult to hold the sprocket from turning while you remove the securing nut. By taking a short piece of chain and welding it to a piece of tubing or rod as shown here, you will have a very efficient tool for securing the sprocket while you remove or replace the nut. This can also be used to secure the transmission when you have an engine on the bench and are trying to remove the clutch hub nut. Simply put the transmission in gear and hold the sprocket with this tool and the clutch hub nut will be easily removed or replaced. Make sure the chain that you use is of the same pitch and diameter as TRIUMPH TOOL FORK REMOVAL On. the late model Triumphs, the chrome oil seal holders (which must be removed in order to strip out the forks) were changed to where they could be removed with a "e" spanner or a special tool that Triumph sold (but few dealers stocked). The large problem was that a "C" spanner had a tendency to scratch or dink the chrome and for mailY street riders this is a no-no. The best cure that I have found and one' that works 'like a charm is the tool sold by Honda for application on the forks of some of their machines. As shown in the photo, the lock pins are adjustable on both sides which leave the tool quite versatile, where the tool sold by Triumph is pretty much limited to Triumphs. Another factor naturally is that Japanese tools are most always a whole gang cheaper than English tools. ~ w oJ U 1032 w. BROOKS ST.. ONTARtO,CA 91762' 714 !it83.S871 Honda Special L'uggage Racks $6 including tax Some to fit otner brands. too! SICO CYCLE E~~;t3t¥4entura BlVd .• Woodland Hills, W ritin' Around ........ , •••••••••" •••, •• B,CbarlesClayton '. SAN FRANCISCO - The City of Love lived up to its reputation again. While cable cars clanged in the street below, Lle Motorcycle Industry Council planted a collective kiss in the form of an engraved plaque on Bruce Brown and the cast of "On Any Sunday", and whipped a $14,000 check on California MIC dealer association. Relaxed from the usual price-fixing. temptations by RMN's (bet this is the first newspaper to use the President's initials) inflation freeze, the motorcycle executives basked in the assurance of success, for the most immediate problems are under control. Items: --The new motorcycle safety manual is being distributed and hundreds of high school Driver Ed. teachers across the country are being coached in motorcycle driving. --Out of about 3,000 first-line dealers in the U.S., 1,182 have paid their dues and sent application forms to the MIC. Several hundred more have paid dues but haven't gotten around to sending the application. --About a million dollars worth of free billboards (courtesy Foster & Kleiser) and now free TV and radio time is being allotted to the MIC's "Careful, he's hard to see" education campaign, aimed at the car driver who collectively snuffs some 2,000 bikers a year because they didn't look. --The publicity committee (Dick Orth) obtained $30,000 worth of radio time this month to saturate the airwaves of Southern California with a soft-sell education campaign on noise. --New members are' waiting in line to be enrolled as fast as their applications can be processed. The new S32,OOO·a-year Executive Director is already earning his salary by streamlining the organization while staying on top of the fast-breaking price·wage freeze from his Washington vantage. Not orily that, your publisher turned in the final drafts of the "Motorcycle Park Planning and Management" book and Ron Schneiders' meaty "Do's & Don'ts of Trail Riding". The park book will ease some minds, dispel some illusions and hopefully open some gates to public and private riding lands across this nation. Here again the park people "'I'''~'' I""'" ,••• are standing in line for information. The book is expected to be available free to anyone who really needs it. To order a copy write to "Motorcycle Park Book," c/o Motorcycle Industry Council, 1001 Connecticut Ave., Washington D.C. You'll be sent a questionnaire to be filled out, which on completion will entitle you to the book. "Do's & Don'ts" is destined to become a miLlion-<:opy book that will never make the best seller list. for it will be given away free -to each purchaser of any new machine which might conceivably see some off-road use. Otherwise, copies are $5 each, from the MIC. "Do's & Don'ts" tells what a rider needs to know about ecology, so as not to mess it up. how to ride all kinds of terrain like Ron Schneiders can, how to get riding privileges from land managers, how not to break down and what to do if you do, how not to get hurt, or lost and what to do if you do. Every novice off-roader needs to find this stuff out and nobody tells him unless he asks the right people the right question, by which time he's already ilunked the course at Hard Knox High. It0n taps a funky typewri ter, as readers of Cycle News know, but with "Do's & Don't" he's outdone himself for the MIC fee. Another consultant, Russ Sanford, winding up a six-month hitch as MIC's western firefighter, leaves the industry's political environment smold.ering but intact. I do hope that the California MIC will sign Russ on as its lobbyist, too, so that he can continue to represent both industry and C0nsumer (through M.O.R.E.) in the state capitol. Russ More, as he's called, has put out all the blazes that recently threatened California mo torcycling, and some of his seeds are already sprouting among the embers. They'll need a lot of watering, if you know what I mean (US), but good laws are worth it. As San Francisco gracefully awaits its next earthquake, the motorcycle milieu anticipates the big rock buster, which we see coming from the U.S. Congress in the form of a "Conservation Police Package" Law that is presently rumbling deep . down in the bowels of Congressman ASf!inall's Insular Affairs (Please turn to page 32) 0 Mike Patrick's YWIfA of COlONA ENGINEERING CO ~,O. lax 2354, Canoga Park. Cal. 1306 (213) 882.2667 1101 E. 6th St. - Corona C1l41135-nn FOR OSSA P~~!S Service 2362 3rd St. Riverside, Ca. Mail Order Service (714) 686·3383 HODAKA·.ILlTY see your local HODAKA dealer Distributed by Tiger Distributing 653 W. Broadway, Glendale, Ca. 91204 ~~ ~'!o"(,(, ~... 61UFFll1 't: DEAlER INOUlRY INVITEe NORTHWEST lARGEST STOCK OF ACCESSORIES & CI..OTHWG FOR STREET OR TRAIL seattle wash 206 LA4'6282 IN STOCK - NOW! o;~,., Nick Nichol.on Moton. Inc. New desert demonstration rides: Suzuki 400 MX; BSA 500 MX; AJS Stormers; Montesa Cappras SUZUKI CITY So LaBru, (90301 ) (213) 674·143 i 728 • • • •SEND • • CATALOC• s.,s '.slr••ce Jo'•••, ••,,, "He, Mr. Dealer" We carryall types of insurance coverage - garage liabilityfire - theft & dealer bonds Sare Up To 251 JOHN •• MAYNARD INS. 3441 MDIDf Ave., L.A., Ca. Cn3) 83&·5211 * 1l!>7J V.lnowen. No,11l Hollywood. CJllf. 2lJ 764·l674 2!> YUtS hperoence 'tOUAMOTOX~ Lnversity Honda Bultaco KaWasaki & C Z 5900 Roosevelt W2!y NE Desert-;;Motocross Griffons Importer-Dist.-So. East-Midwest-West WITH THE NEW STUfFER REED VALVE THE ULTIMATE IN EFAClENCY AND POWER BUlTACO YAMAHA SUZUKI INTRODUCTORY 529.95 Hodaka Montesa Greeves "~J Inllewood, .... Calif. Motorcycles fI J ~ .. fI fIV ~ ~ M ~~!::"Sport Cycle Maico Guy R. Louis (1141893-1051 7574 Westminster Ave., Westminster, Ca. W. re"&S~pr~1) MAlCOS ! hert ~ ~ 1321(. OIWlGETHORP£ FII.L£RTOII CALIF. en( 170.("7 We will bill all authorized Cycle News Dealers TI EOOWN STRAP Made of strong. heavy·duty. air· craft quality _bbing and hard· ware. Provides safe. secure tiedown capability. CALL 10 ole Simply attach ona hook to load. other hook to tiedown ring or hook and pull hand hold to tension strap. Strap holds positively and secur.'y. To rel.ase. depress buckle cam ; strap loosens for detachment. "W5 WANT AD DEPT. Private party use coupon 421143a • ..... +.. , h •• •• • .raa code 213 To place your Used or New Bike For Sale ad also Help Wanted or Services or even Misc. Specials Get into Cycle News "the want ads that work" .. E. .. w $620.00 IIELSOII'S .Ie tEPA't ,... '" Z ~ANSON TRANS- & :. en (213) 347·2373 A COMPLETE SYSTEM M • • Strong. weather-resistant nylon webbing . superior in strength and wear resistance. AII·aluminum aircraft type cam operated buckle. permi"ing complete adjustment of entire langth of It,ap. Gives easie,. more positive operation. Strong. protective vinyl coated end hooks permitting easy end secure attachment. without dllmagine chrome or painted surfaces. Heavy-duty. strength tested sewing patterns. Six (61 foot length . hook to hoole. THE PERFECT SOLUTION TO ANY T1EOOWN PROBLEM!! $8.95 pro Add 75t Postage & Handling "NC . . C-... . P.O. BOX 891 EL SEGUNOO. CALIFORNIA 90245 >- U

• Cover