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Cycle News 1974 02 12

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(IJ 51 5lQ • 5lQ g ~ g '. - I~ -' I- .0 (lJ ~ Remember when you were " bad" as a child and your momma used to rap you up' side th' head? Did you ever think you'd be paying for a rap? You were wrong! This stuff is twenty thumb's worth of Radical Richard's Racing Rap, made to blister proof your thumbs. The name comes from Rich Thorwaldson, Suzuki factory motocrosser. It 'll cost you $1.95 from Progressive Products, Box 1501, La Mesa, CA 92041 . Do you want a'44 1 pound Z-l ? I used to own a 441 V ictor. Is that similar? No? Well , this 441 pound Z-l comes w ith a lot of trick stuff and options, including engines up to l,050cc prod ucing more th an 100 bhp . It has discs all around. choices of shocks, bars, tank size, and other stuff, and k its are available. Get it from The Compleate Motorcy clist , Ltd ., 3161 A lta Laguna Blvd ., Laguna Beach, CA 9265 1. 714 /494'()453 . With more people going to Cafe Racers to save gas (they 're more streamlined, they say) these rear sets will come in handy. This set is from Odyssey Engineering and fits Honda 750s w ith an easy (Read , "Any ham fisted turkey can do it. " ) bolt-o n installation. 7285 Coldwater Cvn., North Hollywood, CA 9 1605 . This is an Amer ican built, 133cc two stroke, automatic transmission equipped , street legal enduro bike costing $459 . Yo u can find out more from DCF Co., 2020 Lakeside Ave., Cleveland, OH 44114. 2 Hooooo, boy! Is Hercules Distr ib utin g ever asking for it! Boy, oh, boy! They sent us this press release tell ing all about their new, as they call it , "Hercules Velcro Boot. " Boy, are they gonna be surprised ! We ran a product evaluat ion of a jacket featuring what the manufacturer called "Velcro," and we got the nastiest lett er from the Velcro Corporation demanding that we call it " Velcro brand fasteners," with a little R. circ led next to it but our tv pesetti nq machine doesn't make This Honda CR125M Elsinore is eq uipped with a DH Enterprises reed valve se t u p. It uses a 30mm clip-on Bing with a 165 main jet , 276 needle jet, and 35 pilot jet . It also has a Zundapp radial head from E.C. Birt . Dyno testing wi t h a stock pipe shows 19.8 HP at 9500 RPM. Reed valve kits for both 28mm Mikuni and 30mm Bing carb set ups, and info on the modifications seen here, are available fo r about $30 .00 from DH Enterpr ises, 1605 Lynngrove Dr ", Manhattan Beach, CA 90266, 213/372·6427. The kits include complete Just the other day we went into a shop to buy a plastic tank . After shelling out a bunch of bucks for the littl e devil , we fi nd out we have to shell out a bunch more for a mounting kit and gas tap! Boo, hiss! But you'll have none of that trouble w ith a WKR tank . It comes complete with a fi ltered petcoc k (that's fancy talk for gas tap). stain less steel mounting clamps, center bo lt with nylon self-locking nut, and all the needed gaskets, as well as a chrome vented gas cap. They come in 1.5 and 3 gal sizes in assorted colors. Perhaps you should pic k up a six-pack for your club today! Whittaker Corporation, Molded Products Division, Depart ment First-AmericanOn-Everest , 720 N. Vernon Ave., Azusa, CA 9 1702 . Obv-doe-doe. Obv-doe-di. what do I see? I see a double disc kit for your Kawasak i H1, H2, or Z l, and I see it all here in the crysta l ball somebody sent me. Yeah, this is a real factory job, so it w ill actually fit! Pretty birchen'. eh? Can ya believe it? Th is will actually fit! I bought a non-factory job once, and it did n't fit , so I'm really hot for a real factory job that actually fits! Kawasaki dealers have them.

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