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Ab ou t 700 b ikers were down in Ense na da a few weeks ba ck to ride the CRC's Gringo 100 end uro . There were no serious hass les and none of the m ended up in jail. An equal n umber of yach ting types were in Ensenada for the traditional Cinco d e Mayo boat race last wee kend and about 200 of them were arrested for being dru nk and disorderly. Those boaters must sure be a rasty bunch. T hey better wa tch out for their image. Heikki Mikk ola won ano th er Grand Prix for Husqvarna : the French SOO round of the World C h a m p io n s h i p a t Gaillefontaine . Roge r DeCoster was second in both motos and second overall. American Brad Lack ey got a tenth and an eighth in th e tw o 4S-minute legs, earning four GP po ints. Complete rep ort ne xt week . America's No. 1 Weekly Motorcycle Newspaper Sharon Clayton; Publisher Thomas R. Culp: General Manager Edna Mewton ; Secretary to Publisher ~dvertising Thomas R. Culp; National Director Trudi Culver; Assistant We still need Washington road race writers and photographers. We would like to see some stuff from the Cloverdale, B.C. indoor races, too. We pay money for con tributions we use . Wri te for info. AMAZ ING: Late ly we 've had two Ho nda test bik es with lea ky fork seals ! While they -wo uld have been covered under warranty if they had been consumer-owned, it seems unusual that two should show up with blowable seal s right after one another. Most of the time guys with different make bikes are sticking Honda seals in their forks to stop leaking • . . T he CMC road race May 5 could have wed a bit more pract ice time. The AMA. meeting in Columbus. Ohio May 8 and 9, decided to homologate as few as 25 copies of motorcycles for pro rac ing. This moved Kawasaki to a nnou nee that they will have a four-stroke dirt tracker available th is and Harley-Davidson plans to premiere their V 4 . 700cc four stroke at Daytona. Also, AMA voted to let promoters charge riders $4 and mechanics $2 admission at the back gate, except at Nationals, regionals and minimum purse events. Mammot h Mount ain Mo to cross, originally ad ver tise d for J une 22 -23, has bee n slid to the week end of June 29 -30 . _son Belg ian Suzuk i teamster Sylvain Geboers didn't e'ven make it t o the Czech border. He was rus hed to the hospital in Germany with pos sible append icitis_ Last month Don and Leeanne Spaulding set a tr ans con tinental record for sidecar o ut fits: L.A. to New York in 5 7 hours, 25 m inu tes. Th e rig was a Centau r hardtop fitted to a Honda 750 wi th Loc kh ar t oil cooler an d Azusa dual row chain. Th ey left the sea t out of th e sidecar so th e re lief driver could sack out on the floor - a co mfortable six and a half foot stretch . The June 8 AMA National at Lou isville downs is already sold ou t ! Other h orse track operators shou ld give that tidbit some thought. Sea ts are st ill ava ilable f or the San Jose Mile May 19. Hang Te n an d Trippe Cox will o nce again d o the U.S. Motocross Gran d Prix a t Carlsbad, Californ ia. Sc he duled for J uly 14, th e event is the eigh th roun d of the 500cc World Cha m pionship. Th is year, purses and contingencies fo r the AMA Nat ional Championship circuit have topped $1 ,000.000. That's a m illion dolla r professional tour, for yo u guys who have t rouble reading str in gs of ze roes. P.G.A., look out l Ru m or says that the Green h orn 500 mil e end uro will start at J ohn Muir High Schoo l in Pasad en a an d the Sa turday noon break will be at Cajon Pass. Now to get to Cajon Pass fro m Pasadena req uires so me bitchin mount ain riding an d I sure h ope the rumor is tr ue.. Wan t to lea rn how to tr ail ride right? Chuck Minert, better kn own as Feets, is teachin g a class in Basic Tra il Rid ing Techniques at Saddleback Park on f ive Satu rdays t h ro ugh the month of J une. Lesson for the da y is $1S' and you can sign up by ma il to Chuck Minert, Box 3371, Whittier. California 90605. Mo tocross Wor ld Champion Hakan Andersson missed the Italian 250 GP due to a broken wri st induced by Russian Pavel Rulev in Sp ain. Hakan then crashed in practice for the Czech 250 G P and, while lying on the ground , was hi t by CZ rider Mirosl av Halm. He went directly ba ck to Belgium to b e treated for back injuries. So much fo r Swe dish neutrality. Dave Aldana broke his wrist in that Ascot crash last week and will be out of action at least three months. doctors say . The ATA will n ot host th e openin g So Cai round of th e AMA Trials Championship series , d ue to a rul e disp ute. An ATA member club m ay try to salvage the June 22 event. Last week the comparison test between" the Honda CBSSO and the Yam aha TXSOOA said that the Yamaha worked well above 60 MPH on twisty tumy road s. That was a typograph ical error. It should have been 80 MPH. Mayb e form er Cycle Newsis t Dave Sch oonmaker sold ou t to a m on th ly slick, Dirt Rider Magazine, but tha t is no excuse fo r ripping off h is new Pe t o n j K'TM 250 wh ich is what happ en ed at the T rask Mtn, ISoT Q u a li f er. The frame n umber IS 54-4 0 1 7 0831; en gine numbe r is 4-54 02695. If y ou see any 197 4 Pen tons ,popp ing up in unexpected places, esp ecially around Oreg on or Wash in gt on , check it ou t. It migh t be Dave's. If it's returned , n o questions asked. If it isn't, the thief can expect to be drawn an d quartered slowly an d pai nfully if he 's fo und. New Penton end uros are n't cheap to pur ch ase. Ed itorial Charles Clayton ; Editor John D. Ulrich; Associate Editor John Hue tter ; Feature Editor Lane Campbell; Calendar Editor Califor n ia Gove rnor Ron ald Reagan has taken a st rong stand against ma ndatory he lmet laws in h is state in spite of pressu re from the National Highway Traff ic Safety Administ ration and the Califo rn ia Traffi c Safety Fo unda t ion. If y ou agree with the governor, it might be a good idea to drop him a line offe rin g your suppo rt of his stand. Write Governor Ronald Reagan , State Cap itol. Sacramento. CA. 95814. A rt & Prod uction Catherine Lampton; An Director Nancy G ray: Advertising Art Dire ct or Hect or Agu ilera; Lab Techn ician Mario n Ha tash ita ; Typograp her Melvin Phelps: Assistant Typographer C irculation Rhe ba Smith; Manager Pam Hobbs; Anistant Chris Andrews; Assistant The infam ous Cali fo rni a Gr een Stickle Regist rati on program is catching on . ' Both Delawar e and Ari zo na are now co nsidering similar p rograms to register and control off-road vehicles. Accounting Gaye Zaionz: Manage r Cbris Kol ber; Assislan t Twila Wheeler; AssistanI Rosemary Chandler: Collection Daryl Christian; Assistant Pol it ica l watchers in Washingt on, Oregon, California, Ida ho , Nevada, Ari zona. Utah. Wyoming, and Montana sho uld clue us in on good checkpoints fr o m t hei r area for ou r pol itical enduro. Se nd suggestions for checkpoints to Cycle News, Department John Ulr ich , Box 498, Long Beach. CA. 90801. Services & Support Mike Co likas Randy Davis Bill Runyan Jeannie Dunivan; Receptionist West P.O. Box 498 , Long Beach, CA 908 0 1 (213) 427·7433; LA 636-8844. Telex No. 673-474 . We've got a nea t little ele ctronic od ometer put ou t by Applied Design Inc. W-atch for a product evalu a tio n soon. Eas t P.O. Box, Tucker, Georgia (404) 934·7850 rrrHBlIL l GASSIN ' IT . Look for n ew gas-damped sh ock absorbers from Telesco and Girling. Bilstein has had their s ou t for a couple o f years an d everybody else will probab ly have to use the gas-oil combination to stay competitive. Gas also turns out to be expensive. J im Fishback is scheduled to ride the Ambush 300 on a Husqvarna with A.C. Bak ken . S ubscrip tion One year. second class mail, $ 12.50 2 years, second class mail. $22.50 3 years. second class mail, S30.00 Single copy price, 504 Copyrigh t Cycle News. Inc. 1974. Trade mar k registered U.s. Patent Office. All rights reserved. Published weekly except the first and lui week of the calendar year by Cycle: ='lews. Inc •• P.O. Box 498, Long Beach . California. Second class postage paid at Long Beach, CA . Editorial stories. cartoons, photos. etc , arc w elcome:. Addressed, stamped en velop e assures return of unpurchased editorial m att er . Reprinting in who le or p a r t only by permission of the publishers. Advutising rat es and circulation information will be sent upo n request . Sec S.R.D.S. End uro . .. , •• . .. .. . •. . .5 Bul taco 's Black Hill Nat'1. Speedway , 6 Co mpletely o ut of shape National MX •• ... ..• .• •• 8 T he 80 member Nat ional Ad viso ry Boa rd to t he Bureau of Lan d Man ag em e n t w ill be o ut fr om Washi ngto n, D.C. next weekend , and will visit t he Desert Fo xes' 0 -37 Fo urt h Annual Fo x Hunt Hare Scrambles. Ja y Ganong of t he Desert Fo xes sees this as a grea t opportunity fo r de sert race rs to • wo rk " within t he system " t o let their gripes with BLM pol icies be k nown. He and h is club req uest that all race rs at the event do their best to create a pos it ive atmosphere . Ce ntra l P.O. Box 13245. Austin Texas 7871 I. (512 ) 444· 75'48. Totally crossed u p qualifying Desert Mothe rs' Day function and St rea k 10, 18 Pro Flat Track . • . .. •. . •12 Ro und an d rou nd International MX • . . . . . .14 Bad Brad in Belgium Editorial/Opinion . . .• . . .16 Gre en , slow an d ~ow ing Road racing .. .. . • • . . • .26 30 0 mi les on asp halt Test ' . . . . . . ... • . •. .. ..28 Yamaha Monocross 250 Local Motocross 30 Hesults _. _. . ..•• . . . .• •33 Calendar .. . . • . . . . . . . . .38 Funny Feline .. .. • . .. •.42 ON THE COVER: Enduring the Black Hills National Enduro. Ron Schne ider s Photo . III OJ > o z OJ > OJ ... 1Il ' - --' 3