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More Things N M ." 0> 0N .... 01 EMZEE to ~spend Your Christmas Bucks On DEGENERATE TAKE THE SHOCK OUT OF BEING OBESE ~ u " o ~ w Z W ..J U ~ U Have you ever comtemplated how you could make your Ariel Square Four better for the dirt? Here is the answer in this simple cooversion kit. It includes everything that you need: five speed gear box, spare cables, 13,. 14 and 15 tooth counter sprockets, vano~s mam Je~s, mi:ror, lights, muffler, lool bag, handlmg and hghtenmg components (including a special frame and a 250cc engine, and a neat MX logo to attach. Contact Edison Dye or Douglas Evans at Dept. Ariel, 102 Park St., Hampshire, !linoy 60140. NON-OMNI-DIRECTIONAL SWINGARM Are you afraid of going to Saddleback because you will get thrown out for not having a spark arrestor on your generator? Is so; the Cyclone spark arrestor may allow you to get in. And you can use it on your bike if you decide to ride it, there. Approved, rebuildable, easily installed, and all that. For more info you have to send a buck for a catalog (you pay for their advertising) to Cyclone Automotive Products, Dept. ZZZ, 7040 Lankershim Blvd.,' North Hollywood, California 91605. I'SE SO SICK ... UL Boge shock absorbers have turned their talents temporarily away from their homeland Arian machines to provide the world with a German. solution to a Japanese problem. Now you can get their double·dampening con trol on your SL 175 or 350 and CB 750 Hondas. They're $36.60 a pair and have a 60 day unconditional warranty, from: Dimex·moto Imports, Box 4055, Fullerton, Cal .. 92631. Dept. Wobble. James Peter Shovlin and January Hawk have just about the neatest business cards I have ever seen. On the outside they have some neo-bizarre initials which stand for Project Five Thousand and the inside has a solarized picture and th<: name of each individual. If they sold business cards I'd order 1,000 right now, but they don't. They sell custom swingarms, which look real nice too. The swinganns are box constructed and have nice provision for chain adjustmenL. You can get prices and specifications from; Project 5000, Dept. Card., 952 Washington SL., San Carlos. Cal. HOME BREW For those who like the reel of homemade chain lubes but not the ineffectivenss, you can now get the basic components and instructions, add gas and oil, and tell everybody you mixed it yourself. Just write the Dirt Rider, Box 14422, Albuquerque. N.M., 87111. Include $2.95 and you'll get the whole enchilada, bottle, powder, and instructions.. NOT AGAIN The Managing Editor has one of these and likes it a lot. When it leaked they were very good about repairing it, and have made sure it won't happen to anyone else. Their plastic. tank weighs three pounds and holds one and three quarter gallons. It's a great way to preserve resale value of your new bike, by saving the stock tank. It costs $49.95 and is distributed to dealers only by Pacific Customs, Burbank, Cal. Ho~ diggity! $.9~, though. Another fuel filter. This one is only Made of space age material, it slips into your gas hne. It has little thinguses in there (shown in that action packed photo) that let the fuel through but stop the d,.rt. You can watch all this Iiappen. When the dJft buIlds up, you can take it out and feed it to your parrot. From K & N Engineering, Dept. Polly, Box 1329, Riverside, California 92501. Is your oil getting hot? Huh? Is it, huh? C'mon you can tell us? Ah, hal Just as we suspected. Well, this may be just the thing you need to cure the dreaded hot oil. (Hot damn!) No more stained driveways from yer oil getting viscous (vicious?) and runnIng out of those little teeny holes in and around your engine. No sir. Just shove this thing in there and you may avoid hot oil. They say the following about it:"lsocycle applies the "Heat Pipe to Oil Cooling. The Heat Pipe is the most efficient heat transfer device known. The Heat Pipe is a hollow container containing a small amount of working fluid. Heat Transfer is achiev'ed by boiling "nd condensing of this fluid. The Isocycle Oil Cooler, replaces the standard dipstick in the pipe when oil temperatures climb to above 150-degrees th~ working fluid inside the Isocycle heat pipe begins to boil and turns to a vapor, the vapor travels to the opposite end of the pipe where. a solid aluminum radiator heat transfers the energy to the air flow. The vapor then condenses to a fluid and the cycle is repeated." From Isothermics, Inc.; Dept. Stain; 291 River Rd.: Clifton; ew Joisey 07014. If that doesn't work,we have it from a usually reliable that draining the oil out of your bike will keep it from leaking. This is especially recommended for axe-toting fork-extending hard-bottomed chopper makers who are just doing it for looks anyway. Well sure, why not? Nex.t it will. be reed valves for your Honda 350, so why not for a 125 Suzuki? Soon you will be able to effectively tum your motorcycle int~ a non-desc!ibable brand. Use an accessory engme, an alloy frame, plastic tank, trick wheels; shazam, Anonymoucycle. From G.EM. Products Inc., 496 E. St. Charles Rd., Carol Stream 111.,60187, you can get a reed adapter assembly for a 125 Suzuki Duster. You will accrue all the usual improvements in engine performance and use the stock carburetor. The G5130 model is $29.95 and you write to the above address, Dept. Obbe.