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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If This Page D·i$appears· From Your Paper, You're in Luck. BRACE YOURSELF TAKE THE TILIT OUT OF YOUR HAWG ELECTRIC WHAT? ~ o ~ w •• • One of life's greatest bummers is attempting. to get the holes in a fork brace to lme up with the appropriate orifice in the fro'!t forks. Now Kawasaki is offering fork braces for all theIr dirt bIkes that are specifically engineered for theIr bIkes. Who should know better than they? Well. ..You can get one from your local Kawasaki dealer, soon. Wanna ma~e your hawg look like a fa tory Harley? Ails ya got a do is get one of these here Minuki carburetors and you'll be all set. Branch Flometrics, J637 E. Burnett, L.B., Cal., 90806, offers you 38mm carb and all nccessary pieces, which will increase the volume of gas·air passing around the intake valves by 20 percent, or at least increase the amount passing through the carb by that much. Just think on weekends you can take it off and slip it onto Johnnie's mini-enduro for the "BIG RACE". The whole burrito is only $99.50. • • . -;;..... ...........~~-~ ... - ~..s1t.,..;~ '--': . . The Flande.rs Company of Pasadena has reached a new tow in motocross handlebars. Their new line of HG" series handlebars comes in four slightly varying shapes, and conform -to the new cafe racer trend in height for hand.le9ars. They are, of course, of seamless, high quality, steel tubing and can be had with or without enduro bag rack. Write: Flanders, Dept, Tube, Box 2297d, Pasadena, Cal., 91105. CARB SPRING COVER '-'---'--" __..• .... • Who ever heard of an electrical box? I mean I've heard of electrical fences and toasters and hot plates and even electric lights, but an electric box. Come on! I t's to be installed on a Triumph or BSA twin and we all know how electricity is in those. Maybe that's the secret. You put ali the Lucas electrics in this box and the surrounding electrical field helps remind the ~ystem what it's supposed to be doing. In any event it looks neat and is constructed from "high quality rolled steeL" You can get it from Santee Industries, 651 Arroyo Ave., San Fernando, Cal., 91340, Dept. Zap. r can 't find wiring instructions anywhere. LOVE 'ER AND LEVER • • • • • • ._- Cycle-X Products of Costa Mesa has devel?ped a new covering for carburetor intake spnngs. ThIS new sock type foam covering completely envel~pes the spnng prohibiting any possiblity of the spnng findmg ItS way down the carb throat. Research. is being carried out to increase the flow charactenstlcs of the foam. At this time it allows a maximum of air to pass, but they can't seem to find a way to ge t normal dust and aspirants through the tenacIous foam. Wnte: Cycle-X, 1970 Newport Blvd., Costa Mesa, Cal. 92627, Dept. Flow. Actually, if you're looking for a reasona e way to keeI' your unreasonable numbers on a reasonable number plate to complete an unreasonable race and satisfy an unreasonable referee with a reasonable view so you can get a reasonahle finish and an unreasonable trophy to make your reasonable girl friend and unreasonable parents reasonable engough to last through an unreasonable evening then you de.serve congratulations for getting through this unreasonable sentence. CONGRATULATLONS: The numbers snap on, are easy to read when muddy and simple to change. The Falcom Competition Number System, Falcon Ent. Inc., 3960 S. Marginal Rd., Cleveland, Ohio 44114. Dept. of Redundant Repetitveness. While no one has yet come up with a plastic frame, almost all other components on your moty-cycle can be turned into the colorful, unbreakable (usually), hard-to-eat, non-degradable stuff. You can get fenders, gas tanks, mud flaps, pistons (pistons?), etc in it. One item' that is popularly tumed into plastic is the good old fall-down-always.break control lever. One company that h as been making them all along is Uni-Filter, and their latest development is the Gold Dot. It is completely universal, can be installed without removing the grips or walking the dog, has all the adjusters and adaptors to fit your model scooter or lawn mower. From Uni-Filter, Inc, Dept. Crash, 13522 Newhoff St., Garden Grove (Groove?), Kalifornia, nine·two-six-4-th ree. HOW LOW CAN YOU GO? Want better handling? Well, Competition Dynamics, Dept. Low, 3421 East Harvard, Phoenix, Arizona 85008, has a frame modification kit that they say will fix you right down. (Although they say it is more than a frame lowering kit.) They say it will alter all facets of your bike's handling. For Yarnmies, Hondoos, Hunkies, Hodakas, and "Zookis. Better handling starts at $12.95 and runs up to five cents less than two and a half times ten dollars. BRAD BIKE? - ..-.""'" , RETREAD . THREADS . .. ~ ,...-, ,~,~!..._",.' ~. Fargone, a downpipc for a Yamaha. K&N Engineering, Box 1329, Dept. Hush, Riverside, Cal. 92501 did it and it looks like they did it silenced. It better be! Send 50 cents for their catalog or see a local K&N Dealer. It makes a good bash plate too. Originally we thoul(ht that must mean that it comes all bent and twisted, but such is not the case. It's a wheel that's supposed to stand up to the Baja (chortle, chortle). The HBaja Wheel" is a 21 in. Akront with heavy duty eight gauge spokes and a 3.50 x 21 knobby tire. They lace it to your wheel in a special three-over pattern and true it to mas/mellOs .010. Only S74.95 from the Wheel Clinic, Box 444, Cypress, Cal. 90630, Dept. Dent. ..J U >U GAWD, MORE PLASTIC • Z W Tool Components Inc., Box' 590, Gardena, Cal., 90247, being their usual compassionate selves, put themselves out and developed a thread Insert for headbolts ·on six cylinder Cummins triple overhead-eam road racing engines. Because of the extreme demand and common problems with the 1l/16 headbolts on Cummins engines the kit includes not only' tap' and drill, but 24 nylon lockinj(·inserts.