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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.. '" The first official en try to the 48th ISDT has been received by the AMA. The en tran t is Pavel K~oupa of Johannesburg, South Africa. There are expected to be about 300 more motorcyclists and 20 more countries signed up before the first International Six Days Trial in American gets under way at Dalton, Massachusetts on September 17. '" ... Norton and Triumph finished their merger on July 16. It was a beautiful wedding. ...J U l M ,.... ~ N > '5 ..... rJ) ~ z • • • * * w >- U * ow there are plastic wheels for cars. They're lighter than mags, 20 times as impacl resistant, ten times as strong in bending, and superior in tension and compression. And they come in colors. Maybe we'll see them for hikes. Yvon year. • • • DuHamel * made $122,000 last * * Yutaka Oda, the friendly Japanese road race champion who competed at Daytona on a Team Dirty Yamaha, was killed at a road race in Japan. Maybe road racing is getting too dangerous. Maybe it's been a bad year. • • • Look for Harley·Davidson to produce a 175cc two stroke single that will be "much like the Yamaha CT·l". It may also become a 250 in a short time. * * * The Colorado Mile was the half·way point in the National circuit. • • • Next week, Papa gets a new format, whatever that means. Maybe it's like a new set of leathers. Thea he goes to challenge the factories at the National. * * * A n other note on freeway riding. Experienced lane splitters say that you've got to watch out for the people who see you coming. As they look over at you, they unconciously turn slightly in the direction that they look. Look out for the lookers. They even do it to cars. Bob Gill jumped 22 cars at Seattle International Raa!WIy in Seattle Washington. The distance was 171 feet. Gill daims a record. Ph~to by Emil Neely. • • • Look for a 350 Honda four stroke at your dealer by the end of the month. Rumor says that it will be released on the 20th. All you XL·250 owners can wait with baited breath to see if it will fit into your frame. Pant·pant. * * * There's a trick new Mikuni carburetor around. It has two main jets and you can choose which. one you want to use by flicking a lever on the handlebar. The potential applications are many. It's still in the prototype phase, however. * * * With Honda bringing out a 1300cc street bike very shortly and Kawasaki already in the market with their Z·l, we wonder whether Yamaha or Suzuki will be fint in the field with a Wankel. Yam ah a seems to be the likeliest - candidate, but then there are mmors that they've been having problems. We also wonder who will be first to produce a clean bike - or an electric one. There's also BMW who are mmored to have a {our cylinder machine in the works. • * If there isn't a big four-stroke single being developed at Kawasaki, why has someone asked Red Une to· make a frame for one? * * * In last week's Freeway.Riding article we :f You Can't Go To Laguna Seca, At Least Listen! John Desoto either didn't like the photographer or really like the taste of dirt. Ttie $50,000 Kawasaki Superbike International Laguna Seca road rac~ in Monterey, Calif., is the subject of Motor Racing Network's next nationwide broadcast on Sunday,July 29. American motorcycle racing fans across the country can hear every momen t of the Sunday Expert event on more than 130 radio stations in 26 states. Most of the same broadcast crew that reported the Daytona 200. in March returns for the Laguna Seca Road Race. Host for the broadcast is Ken Squier with Dave Despain providing expert commentary. "Cycle World': editor Ivan Wager will report from the pit area and victory lane, with Mike Hinshaw, Chuck St. Clair and Bruce Flanders calling the action from the turns of the 1.9·mile road course. Network advertisers are STP Corporation and UniOn Oil Company of California. may have left you with the impression that it is illegal to split lanes on the freeway. Not so. It is legal to split lanes (that is, ride between the lanes of traffic). However, the road lizards will bust you for riding on either shoulder or for splitting lanes at over 30 MPH. Although the law says that it is legal to split lanes (for which you can thank Russ Sanford, motorcycling's California lobbist), the police will nail you for reckless driving if they feel that you are going 100 fast. But that still doem't explain wliy it's safe for them to split lanes at 75 MPH. * * * For this fall's Trans-AMA series you can expect to see the Montesa factory fielding a team. Kahley; Vehkonen will be riding a 370 Montesa (look for a test in C N in about a month). There is .Iso a possibility that Raymon Boven will ride the series. Boven is the new 125 and 250 Montesa star. He has had recent second places at the Spanish 125 and the Belgian 250. * * * Here is a list of stations sIated to air the race broadcast. More stations will elect to carry the broadcast before race' time so check local listings for other stations carrying the broadcast. ARIZONA KHYT Tucson CALIFORNIA' KBIS Bakersfield KROP Brawley KRED Eureka KEAP Fresno KKOK Lompoc KB IG Los Angeles KIDD Monterey KRDG Redding KOZN·FM San Diego KEST San Francisco KGUD' Santa Barbara KVRE Santa Rosa OREGON KLIQ Portland TEXAS Abilene KWKC KOKE Austin KTRM Beaumont . Corp.us Christi KIKN GallI8Ston KGE!C Na\llllSOta KWBC WACO Waco