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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- Read the Want Ads much? You really should, even if you don't want to buy or sell anything. They are interesting and entenaining. For example, someone is trying to find their lost hawk. That isn't a Honda either, it's a bird. If you've found one, the number is in the ad. Another party is selling the stock.. carb off his motorcycle which he says will make it go fast. He's righ t, too. Even on a downhill bike is faster with a carburetor. We also noticed a couple of Bultaco Astros for sale, probably due to the new AMA ruling. There is also bits of news to be gathered. Like the ad for employees for the neW Cycle News Central. Handly little devils, too. N ,... '" .ri E. " '" '" w ~ Z I W ...J () >() • • • If you had your heart set on one of those four cylinder Yamaha 750 water·cooled two strokes, forget it. They aren't going to make it. Just as well, the racing version would have gotten somebody hurt. Maybe a three cylinder 500 instead. * * * IF FOUR WON'T DO: .!lenelli is going to build a six cylinder 750. Five speeds, dual disc on the front, single on the rear. A four slroke, of course, and it is alleged to be in production now. • • • We notice that the points accumulated in Nationals by Rickman motorcycles are being put on the BSA total, probably because BSA distributesRickmans in this country. Of course, the machines have Montesa engines, and the one that scored at the Santa Fe short track was ridden by Triumph rider, Gene Romero. Sheesh! * .* * The Editor of "Cycle" magaZine likes Cycle News so much that he has "CN" sewed on his leathers. • • • You folks in the Bishop·Mammoth area might like to know the Bishop Lions Club has taken an interest in flat track racing. Although things are still in the planning stages, it looks like the Bishop Fairgrounds might see a bit of little league short track and perhaps an occasional half·mile. Watch this column for future details. * * • • • If you are up in District 35 and would like double MX points and want to help somebody in the process, you should go the Santa Barbara Starters motocross at Spillway Park on the third of September. If you are a spectator, you should go also. They are giving away lots of goodies, and you can help one of their club members who was hurt during a race. It'~ a nice idea. * * * Both Suzuki and Kawasaki are considering building limited production versions of their 170 mph road racers. The problem is that there arcn't too many people capable of riding machines with that kind of oomph. The AMA is considering going back to the old FIM Daytona course instead of the long, fast, high-banked course that they use now. Have you heard the one about the first-year Junior who burned up on the straigh taway? • • • Don Emde is going to head the field for the TT at South Bay Speedway on September 10. * ... .* The usually conservative H aTI ey-Davidson motor corporation really seem to be stoked on racing in England all of a sudden. They are giving Cal Rayborn a bike just for the occasion. His times at Mallory Park were just six-ten ths of a second off the lap record set by Giacomo Agostini, and Cal can be expected to go even faster on the new alloy 750 with disc brakes. It may be that an all-American effort will win a European kind of sport on European terms on a European track in a sport that was, a few years ago, considered to be in its fancy in the United States. Sic 'em, Calvin! • • • Lions Drag Strip and Motocross course is closing at the end of the year. There . lease expires then, and they can't renew it. Less sound, more ground. * * * Bill Bagnall, fonnerly publisher of "Motorcyclist" magazine, is heading the ., ... /~/ ,/ -- , '/ I really don't know what it's supposed to be, Marge, but I certainly can't repeat what it says in the program. * Speaking of Bishop; if you're in that area, and you dig those foxy European ultra lightweight enduro machines, drop in on the Bishop Cycle Center. You won't believe it! There, in the middle of nowhere, is a room full Puchs, Pen tons, Monarks, Saracens, Ossas, a few H uskys and Maicos, and a great big Kawasaki 750. "We don't sell many bikes." says Fred, the owner, "but the shop sure blows a Jot of minds!" ,... " '" '" l>. Committee of Motorcyclists To Re-elect Richard Nixon. • • • Those wonderful folks who gave you compulsory helmets, the Department of Transportation, are now telling states to enact laws making car drivers and passengers fasten their seat belts AND shoulder harnesses. It will be interesting to see how quick the states accept that one! * * sometime. The left shock goes through the exhaust pipe. That's right, THROUGH it. * * • • • Olympia Beer is talking about a big bucks race at Arroyo. It is rumored that the winners will have a very Merry Christmas. * Cycle News is coverillg the International 6-Days Trial in Czechoslovakia this. coming week with the biggest crew in motorcycledom. Six (count 'em 6) staffers and Ron Schneiders are winging to the Iron Curtain country, one for each day. * Look for an upcoming tech article in '·Dirt Bike" about waterproofing. * * * MA YBE YOU CAN SAVE LIONS: Just before press time we learned that there may be a way to keep Lions Drag Strip and Motocross Course open. It is now scheduled to be closed down at the end of th is year. (t will cost the city 200,000 to do it. too. The man who is behind it is Mr. Conin at the LA Harbor Department. If YOlL want LO gripe, call him at 213/775-3231. There may also be a mass-action thing on September 8. Sound is the complaint. • * • Don Woods left Los Angeles at 5:49 A.M. Monday morning bound for New York in an attempt to break the cross-country record of 4S hours and some minutes. He was aboard a Kawasaki 900 which was stock except for the containers for extra gas. He is still worried about gas stops, though. * * * • • * Headers in the Ontario, Calif. area are now able to buy their Cycle News off the newsstands, if their mlc dealers are sold out. The Pomona Valley News Co. is distributing us now, but the issues will hit the stands about a week later. * • • * * • * * * Don't forget, ISDT and other with·it bike fans, full coverage of this year's Six D'IYs direct from inside Czechoslovakia begins next week in Cycle News. (Where else?) Don Castro will be back in road racing aboard a K & N Yamaha. They appear to be a happy pair and Dandy Don is looking forward to Talladega. So are we. Pollution control devices for motorcycles arc in. Suzuki has to be given credit for initiating the idea. They put a device in their 750 that returns unused oil that has accumulated in the bottom of the crankcase to the transfer port. Some of _the other two-stroke biggies will appear with the same sort of set-up, it is rumored. We also hear that a big new four-stroke four will have an automotive type of mung stopper. It is a Good Thing that the big manufacturers arc doing something because when the fed notice us, they are going to corne down on us like the wrath of God. I thought you might be interested in the enclosed photograph I took a few days ago of the fastest land only) bicycle at Bonneville. Allan ·Abbott was paced by an automobile on August 20 as he pedaled to an unofficial 90 MPH. He hopes to return next year to break the World Paced Bievcle Record. The present mark was set in t962 in Germany by Jose Meiffret at 127.342 miles per Have you ever noticed the rear shock arrangement on the rear of a Harley.Qavid50n Rapido? Look at one Sincerely, BARRY DeVRIES • • • Dear Sir: hour. .