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R ei g n in g 1 2 5 wo rl d m o t ocross champ ion, Belgian An dre Mal he rbe, regain ed the lead in the 19 74 title chase taking a third and a first for Zundapp in the Dutch 125 GP. T he 18 year-o ld apparently can ride sand tracks just line. Husq va rn a won their firs t 125 GP rnoto under Belgian Gilbert De Roover, In the 500 support class international, Dutch Suzuki pilot Gerrit Wolsink beat transplanted countryman and U.S. 500 Champion Pierre Karsmakers, MV out, Suzuki in? A last-minute phone call from Count Agu st a h imself pulled the MV Fours out of the 350 class at a Misano, Italy race meet, leaving Ago to dom inate a virtually all-Yamaha field in that displacement class. While MV appa rently intends to vacate the 350 class to concentrate on t he 500 st ruggle, the Br it ish press claims that Suzuki intend s to fie ld a 350cc version of its four cy linder GP b ike. Marcia Holley and Mary MaGee are riding the S.C.O.R.E. 500 on a sponsored 125 Husky. Bill Adams sez tha t if you lay your Honda J,50 Elsinore on its left side to play with the clutch, etc. make sure it ain't resting on the gearshift lever when you re-assernble the sidecase, Otherwise, the sidecase won't seat correctly and the resulting slop can allow the shifting arm to hit the clutch assembly. Price of this lesson is $90. As well as taking fourth in he r class at t he Viewfinders GP, Marcia also took the cover shot last week. Cali forn ia Racing Club (C RC) has announced its District 3 7 GP will run through the - streets in Ensenada. Ensena da is in D·3 7? Wai t till the AMA hear s t his! Layout work began June 9 for the course at Saddleback for the SoCaI AMA National Trials opener. Check in is at 7 a.m. on Saturday, June 22, because SCTA wants to have the trial over by 2 p.m. This will allow driving t ime to make the P.I .T .S. NoCaI Round, set for Sundar June 23 at Red Dog northeast of Auburn, California . Whew. Something good is cropping up in ATA California trials : Father-son teams, often both riding Novice , both having gotten into trials together. That's a re lationship a lo t of sons (and not a few fathers) m ust envy. Now that High School MX is running totally out of control, why not have High School Trials? Or High School Road R~cing? Neither area is that far out, because in California at least, some of our championship material, in both the feet ·up and road-rashing worlds, is still too young to get a driver's license! (Junior High Trials? Grade school speedway?) Aa·j;·u-ghl The Flo yd Cly me r Bent Handleb ar Run fro m Nor th to South Ame rica is being hatched by Lo yal G. Truesd ale and hi s alders an d abe tters at Race craf ter s In ternati o nal. Limited to 1,000 entran ts at Sl,OOO each, th e winner wi ll cla im a milli on d olla rs. On yo ur m ark ... A consistent racer like Mike Bast can win $4,000 a week in Southern California Speedway. With the 3G-week season, six nights a week, a guy could win as much as a Grand National Champion without ever leaving home or hearing a 2-stroke. The best way to become a raci ng cham pion is to ha ve a brother who is a ra cin g champ io n, as witness the Pen ton s, th e Brelsf'o rd s, th e Poovey s, th e Pomeroys, the Pal rngrens, th e Sco t ts, t he Basts, the Br oo kses, etc. Gu ess it also helps if your last nam e starts w ith P or B. Wolf Karlson won the Polish round of the "World" tr ials championship on a Montesa Cota. Martin Lampkin was second for Bultaco and Mick Andrews, third on a monoshock Yamaha. There was a protest over the timing, however, which if allowed will move Benny Sellman and Malcolm Rathmell into third and second. It seems the Scandinavians are taking some serious shots at British trials dominance. Heikki Mikkola and Roger DeCoster will continue their motocross World Championship duel right into the U.5.l\I.X.G.P. at Carlsbad, CA. on July 14. T he Carl sbad Raceway folks who p ut on the Mem o rial Day High School MX dropped us a line to th an k all the unpaid help whose efforts made the wh ole gig p ossibl e, and also to mention the super coverage o n San Diego TV Channel 10 . With 150 ride rs and a good spectato r tu rnout. the event made its goal of boosting the Carlsbad Band Summer Music Camp. Right to Risk is far from a dead issue, as far as the "Wall Street Journal" is concerned. In a carefully worded editorial, the June 5 issu e called to question the whole ph ilosophy of compulsory helmets, seat belts, and related government inroads int o once "private" behav iour. The District 36 1975 Sportsman R ules Co mmi ttee is m anned : Bill Spencer, AI Silva , Ernie Vi c, Dick Wilson, Bill Arbogast, Jim Leona rd, Truman Bailey, Bob Ri fe, an d Dick Burrola are the ones to see about p roposed ru le changes. Help stamp out skinny trophy girls! Bring back Miss Hurst Golden Shifter! At last Armco (of barrier infamy) does something for motorcycles: Armco slotted drainpipe, wh ich allows freeway designers to do away with drop-awav d r a i n s and catch-bas ins . On test stretches of freeway, these endo-producing shoulder hazards are replaced w ith a gently sloping continuous drain channel wh ich an errant motorcyclist can ride in and out of if by chance he f ind s himself off-road. And survive, even . . A road race school, taught by Alan Engle of Palos Verdes, CA. has been mad e part of an expanded two-day program at Arizona's Ph o e n ix Raceways. First two-day bash under the new format is June 15-16. Fee for the Saturday school and/or practice is $5 to cover.insurance. Team Bultaco motocross wh iz J im Pomeroy has joi ned the list of Pennzoil riders. The first American to win an FIM World Championship event w ill use the popular Pennzoil 2-Stroke Motorcycle Oil in his quest for MX championsh ips . The sidehack team of Zaremba/Plummer (Yankee) finished the S unday half of the Greenhorn Enduro, arriving 20 minutes late in . Pasadena. Too bad t hey didn't try to ride the Saturday section. 00 What this country needs is another new motorcycle maga ;;ine , righ t? Well then, how about two new motorcycle magazines? Next month will see the birth of "Rider," by the Trailer Life people and "Biker News," out of Hollywood. Let a thousand flowers bloom. June 25 is the date of the drawing for the M.O.R.E . benefit District 37 Endu ro hosted by the Conejo Trail Riders o n July 7. Co mpanion event for t he two day weekend is Saturday's Family Enduro, with no timekeeping, wh ich anyone can win by coming closest to the scaled key time. The club has lined up over 1,000 individual prizes so far. valued at roughly $3,000 - all donated for this double-barrel M.O.R.E. Benefit run . See the Calendar in this issue . T he App lied D e s ig n E lectronic Odometer we te sted last week runs off fo u r " AA" size batteries, not four "C" size batteries. It a lso took a d irect hit in an endo t he day after t he test was wr itte n, getting kn ocked so hard that it dented the steering damper knob of the bike it was on. Yet , after the ride r picked himself up, the odometer st ill I~ked and wo rked the .same, "Placentia Yamaha" is actually Fairway Yamaha. Political activism takes to the bushes in a protest baring the facts about inadequate and unequal facilities for wOmen at local race tracks. A Cal Rayborn memo rial achieveme nt trop hy h as been set for the fastest reco rd-se tti ng Harley-Davidson at t he 1 9 74 Bo n neville S p e ed We e k. Presen tation by Lake-Sh or e H·D and S & S Cycle Equip me n t will be m ad e or. th e sal t at wee k 's end . Cal still hold - the Lan d Sp eed Record fo r m oto rcycles. Sure glad I don't have to judge an advertising contest! Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki and Yamaha all have some pretty outstanding campaigns going. Kawasaki holds a slight edge with their Norman Rockwell-style print ad s and their TV dog doing a Hazelwood on a tire. AMA will hold o pen house at their headquar ters in Westervi lle, Ohio on Saturday, J une 22 . Yo u ca n j ust make it. A free Go lden Anniversary pin will be given to every AMA m ember who visits. Rumors of the 1oo0cc Honda grow curiouser and curiouser. We have it 00 fairly good authority that the prototype being tested in the U.S. has dual shaft drive counter-rotating? Opposed four? No torque reaction? We'll pay a pretty for the first picture of the prototype. . If Yam ah a has a m otocr ossy pe da l bike in t hei r p roduct lineup , can Hon da be far behind ? Sc hw in n isn ' t interes ted, in fact deplo res Bicycle-Cross. Evel Knievel has hired the guy who promoted the King-R iggs ten nis match to handle h is Septembe r Ate Canyon-Cross. First thing he did is rent " Starship, " the airplane that mak es Play boy 's 727 look tacky, for a world pro motio nal tour. Looko ut , Kissinger. 3