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oD vJA S THE FIRST I"\)(~", 'to ( Ol"l'l !'l'lur e "t o ANO .. F~O'" "'o ~ ' ! l5.lS. G3DiMEJo THE EXPRNSI.N CH/IM BER rN 'v II MOTo C"O~ 5 GAR.e, '= UN ' ORTU "' II T£L Y IT'IA,,VIN WOIl.KED AS A LI F E GU ARO \ A"'D SVN" ON TH E FIRST DRy. Vfi()l.]~(jW'U' ~'~I1!!1 RODE ' T Hi s VESPA TO THi RD PIf\CE i N THE 12 5 C lA SS ticks Rl\ce- AT CHiCKeN IIQQQ ,. , ~ '. THis CASH and CONTINGENCIES! Continued from page 5 9 SEE more than TOP PROS induding all the laaory teams! Pierre Karsmakers Gary Jones J im O'Neal Ran d all Berkeley . Jr. Mike R unyard Rich Thorwaldson Peter lamppu Terry Bilton J im Weine rt Dan iel liiPorte Bob Grossi Ken ne th Zah rt Richard F ranklin Gary Chapl in David Messe r Rich Eierstedt Gary Semics Bruce McDougal Eddie Cole Tony Wyn n Anthony DiStefano Mitch Mayes Te rry Clark Mark Blackwell Jeffrey Vid ic Bruce Baron Bill Clements Marty Tripe s AI Baker Rex Staten Billy Payne Bill Grossi Mike Har t w ig Tim Har t Brya r Holcomb lars larsson Ron Pomeroy Tom Rapp Bill Cook Chuck Bower , Gay lo n Mosier Andy Baines These riders guaranteed , rain or sh ine ! HANG GLIDERS! 60 OF THE HOTTEST OLD TIMERS! BEER! HAMBURGERS! POP CORN! SOFT DRINKS! HOT DOGS! JUNIORS : BAYMARE CYCLE PARK DON'T MISS t he thr ills and spills on th e giant "SENIOR Hil l " $4 u nd e r 10 FREE! Ven tu ra Fw y . WEST calculated in that check. So, we hereby publicly apologize to Ed W igh t and . CERA. Now if we can j ust figure out how we d id it on those other _ chec ks .. . Wonder wh y Harley-Davidson doesn't try a couple of their 380 water-coo led two-stroke twins for Mark Brelsford and Gary Scott t o ride in AMA road races? They must have bu ilt 25 of them by now. WE SHOULD HAVE GUESSED. The Yamaha m onoshock suspension for motocross (and now , on their F.I.M. trials b ike) is based on an origi nal des ign by a Belgian engineer name of Tilkens. Rich Rope r up at Ho nda of Pasadena called to say tha t t hey actually have 125 Elsinores for sale righ t now. l ucky dealer. Must know Soich iro. TAKE THAT, EASTERN LITERARY ESTABLISHMENTl So me of'vou m ay no t read the N ew Yo rker on a reg ular basis but if yo u do, yo u could help but n o tice a reference to , Cycle N ews as a forum of c a n trove rsy on the desert closure-off-road riding issues. Now eve rybody at those high-falu tin ' literary in-gro up coc ktail parties they have in Nueva York will be quoting Cycle N ews. Remember, you saw it first. . . Bill Becker d id no t w in the 250 Amateur class in the 0 -37 Hare & Hound last week. It was Joel Ky ne (Bu l]; who also placed tent h Overall. Sorry Joel. Better luck next t ime. Bill. OUR HATS ARE OFF , and the rest of end fwy . Hwy.11 8 L.-+-+:-=.:r':":"---l Balcom Can yoll Rd . SEE the action as the top riders battle t he famed " BANZAI Hil l " BAyMAR E . -...... No overnight camping 18 . "'-.I, Pf;K)P ••• FIRST RACE AT 12:00 noon GENERAL ADM iSSION : $5 . / IS V It-lCt"!T BuLL ON ij 31 ;fl' -r / Sanctioned by AMA FEB. 2l/- O~ 1).J1'.'j o u r clothes, too, to the creative yo ung lad y who bagged a mo torcy cle o ut of the pits after the Daytona "200" and wearing on ly a big grin streak ed t he infiel d . Ra cing needs more lad ies like her. . Cycle News' Thumb Over the lens Award of t he Week goes to the 20 or so high-powered, heavy-lensed . motospeed photographers who stood gaping at the fem inine st reaker while not one shutter c vc.. l.t: tv -.w ') ""'.11 i>A'f ""hi f.o~ AI'J" < C N T R, I' ~ \l T'IO)J S "1'0 R:1'i' ro NOT\t I,.JO C He« D J , ' \3EU EV" rr- o~ EI ~ C ':•. was clicked. For shame! One picture is wo rth a thousand. ete., etc. ' We are struck by the ir ony of the fact that Dutchman Pierre Karsmak ers is a big ti me mo tocross hero in th e U.S. wh ile American Jim Po meroy is a big ti me m o to cr o ss he ro in E urope and Eng land, T here are even "Jim Pomeroy - USA" fan cl ubs in Belgium w ith the requisite numb er of teene rs in T-shi rts. The official En vironmental Protection Agency I mileage f igu res for 1974 fo ur -wheeled internal combustion-engined vehicles. show the best gas m ileage achieved of aro und 29 MPG. Isn't it inte resti ng that a 29 MPG figure is right in there w ith the worst gas mileage Cycle News has ever experienced w ith a test bike? Most of our mi les per gallon (for freeway-legal bikes) get bigger from there all t he way up to 60. Both vehi cles are Hondas. Hmmm. The AMA's cla imi ng r u l e for compe tition mo to rcycles was changed only m inu tes before the running of the Daytona "200" to have it appl y on ly to the wi nni ng b ike. T his had ap parently been the in ten t all along but it wasn't written up th at way and a lot of high-rolling I talians and Frenchmen were wa ndering around the pits picking out Yamaha TZ- 700s that they intended to clai m fo r thei r very own. T hink of all the lira , francs, and po unds that were bo uncing aro und Florida last week in the too-tigh t tr ousers of all t hem Yurpeens. The cla im ing situation might have hel ped the U.S. balance of payments problem temporarily but think of the poor Junior with his life 's sav ings wrapped up in a $4000 road racer and knowing that there's no way he can get another one. . T he Army has a program t hey clai m teaches men to ride off road in ten days. Among other things they re co m men d raw potatoes, t he icc cream cone effect , and compressing your fo rks before hilling an obstacle. They call it "cond i tioni ng with a p urpose." I d o n ' t know, m an . ..