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When we did a product evaluation of the Lockhart Oil cooler, we said that alignment of input hole in the adapter plate to the output hole in the ' aankcase on a Honda 750 was critical. It isn't, du e t o special machi ning of t he plate. We don't know how we missed that on e, but here's so methi ng we d idn't miss. The cable tie s that come with the kit will give way and let your oil feed lines touch your exhaust pipes when under p ressu re. After a wh ile, the lines will become br ittl e and bu rst. Ever try to recover from being sideways o n an o il -soak e d -r e ar-t ire-equipped Honda 750? Ain ' t fu n.. . " Dirt Bike " Magazine's Super Hunky has challenged Cycle News West to a race . It all started when Team Crash challenged Team Heyberger to an enduro. Heyberger did not reply, but Hunky did w ith a new challenge. Cycle News accepted , specify ing the race would be at the next CMC road race. "D irt Bike" backed ou t. Negotiation SAME OLD THING. How come yo u never see tests of the Maico 125 rotary valve radial head enduro or the Laverda 250 magnesium engine Six Days bike in American slicky motorcycle mags? Then again, yo u don't see many yellow tan k Yam ah a MX tests in Euro pean slicky motorcycle mags . Who is the better, or w o rse , fo r i t all? Forty-four different kinds of mo-peds are readily available in the European market. Gas shortage, we understand, has not hurt their sales at all. Lo ose sprocke t bo lts robbed Sam my Miller of his 799th tria ls win during his first time ou t on the Honda TL-250 prototype. Riding the Heath Cup T rial in England , Sam ha d won it on observat ion, but lost 18 marks on time when the sprocket worked loose. Czech Antonin Baborovsky will not appear to ride the Olympia Beer Superbowl of Motocross or the following . InterAMA races . He was • hospitalized with severe internal injuries after crashing in the British 250 GP. Expect either Miroslav Halm or Jiri Churavy, both CZ works riders, to take his place accompanying No . One man Jaroslav Falta. to expand our team to co ver a co up le of On June 23, t h e CMC Carlsbad motocross will be run on a new International course as a try-out for new track sections put in for t he upcoming July 14 Hang Ten U.S, Grand Prix. The new stuff incl udes some off-camber and is going to be tight in spots. Trudy Beck, Overall Powder Puff winner at the 0 ·37 Nut Cracker race last week, was not riding a Husky, She was on a B & R Cycle Penton. Someone parked, yes parked, a b ike in the middle of Saddleback's l\IX course last week, much to the d ismay of new Cycle Guide editor Pau l Dean. Paul found the bike as he came out of a blirid corn er, and is still in the hosp ital with a dislocated shoulder. trouble, anyway. Crafton Hills Junior College, near Redlands, California, is offering a dirt riding course next fall . Sounds good when you can learn to get dirty and get credits at the same time. I\ell Hel mets, Inc. j ust donated four jacke ts worth S 100 10 the 19 74 Political Enduro . T hese arc the famous wet -look warm riding jackets. red wi th white trim, and the Bell lo g o . .Junior High School Trials? Bohannon Junior High School in San Leandro, Cal ifornia, actually held an o n camp us tri als .June 10. with the help of Trails End Penton and others. A bargaining dispu te with the local union ( union lo cal ?) has halt ed production of Harley Vee- twin engines in Milwaukee fo r an indefinite period. Complete motorcycles are still being assembled from inventoried parts at York, Pa. None of the lightweight Har leys are affected. Nearly a third of Triumph/Norton 's Duarte, Calif, warehouse was burned Thursday, The f ire destroyed a lot of parts, 20 new motorcycles and nearly the whole stock of Dunlop tires . The Cattleman's Restaurant came across with a hunch more free ste ak dinners for As cot winners. Bravo. Notwithstanding that a major eJ/ect ofhelmet laws is to protect t he safet» of the h elm et user, the courts have upheld th em for two reasons generally. First, helmet use by a motorcycle operator promotes public safety by helping p revent him from losing control and endanger ing ot h cr higluoa» users when his head is struck by road debris th rown up by other vehicles or struck by large Jlying insects of t he van'ely that fre quently decorate car windshields. Seco nd , h elm et use by motorcycle operators and passengers pro mo tes public welfare by reducing higliuury dea ths and injuries and th ereby reduces pu blic expenditures necessitated by the h(f?h way carnage including unc mplovmcnt compensation and ioclfarc pay m en ts. A Mich igan state jud ge's opinion is that exem pti ng mo torcycli sts from No-Fault is unconstitutional because it would "d iscriminate aga inst a certain class of ind ivid ua ls," In other words, we'd be denied the "benefits" of n o-fa ult insurance. What ben efits , your Honor? Th is opinion could set a precedent. GOOD NEWS Dept. ~1.0. R. I'. lobbying and Thanks to le tt ers from vo ters , Cali fornia 's Red Rock Canyon is sti ll ope n for riding : this year's version of the . manda tory helmet law was defeated before it was introduced; motorcycles will be exempt from man datory No Fault Insurance and muffler v'iolation s won't KO on your driver's license. Ron Keys, Canada's mos t successful motocross racer, has decided to reti re from MX competition. He'll sti ll ride enduroand ISDT even t s for Can-Am. Qui ck Quiz Based on the paragraph above, TRUE ' 0 FALSE o Mo to rcycle riders are often struck in the head by dangerous objects. o o Mo to rcyclists oflen lose control of their cycles when struck in t he hcad by insects, o o Co mp ulso ry use of hel me ts by motorcycle riders red uces accide nts. o Helmet law s red uce hig hway inj uries . o o o o o Wel fare cos ts have been red uced b y helmet laws. o o .Ga thering up spla t te re d mot o rcycli st s is a major publ ic expe nd iture excep t wh ere helm et laws app ly. in Cycle News so the ed itors cou ld pr int be tter m otorcy cling than pay it in taxes . Th e go ve rn m en i 's causi ng most o f our Saturday night speedway, under SRA sanction, will open at Indian Dunes'. new sixth mile oval June 29 , There's a track shakedown scheduled for June 22, which spectators may attend for $2 a carload. Y QU be the judge! Wish mor e businesses wou ld buy big ads more pages and do so me ne at things the y 've go t in mind , Yo u' d thi nk pcople' d rather invest their profi ts in serni-kinduv-final our contributors. Feature Editor John Hu e t t e r ts good buddies and CN photographers Roger DeCoster an d Brad Lackey ought to handle Heyberger and Hunky. Look for a free sidecar motocross school taught by a top European three-wheel MX rider. All part of a promotion of the coming American European Sidecar Motocross Series starting in Cleveland, Ohio in October. Details from Sidecar MX Promotions, Box 3303, City of Industry, Ca. 91744. KAPX 108 FM has a weekend b ike blurb that, at 8:15 a.m, tells what's coming up at local tracks that Saturday or Sunday and later, at 7:45 p.m, tells what happened at those local tracks. When the summer season starts (Has started?) they plan to go seven days a week , The program covers only the d irt track events, rough and smooth . 10 the y 'll no douht be having some o f their "rest co nsultan ts" racing, we've decided Cycle News, with its three regional weeklies, publishes as much editorial material as twelve monthly magaz ines of 100 pages each. The World's Rich est Mot ocr oss starts Sep tem b er First and runs right up to Co un tdown at Evel Kn ievel 's Snake Canyon .Jum p Si te near Twin Falls, Idaho . S 125 ,00 0 in p rize m on ey and co ntingencies will be won and the event will probably be AMA sanctio ned . Plan on ca mping. All the hotels are full already. led terms in the newsprint-glos sy sh o ot o u t. "D irt Bik e" specifies m otocross. 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Promoters Media Max called to say that any spectators who don't feel that the Superbowl rider ' list lives up to its promise can get their money back at Gate 6 before the inte rn at io nal motos, But for a mere $6.50, it promises to be a pretty good show by any standards. There will be a dump tank provided for MX fans arriving in campers and motor ho mes, and as a result of the Saddleback/OCI R·coordinated high school motocross finals, the city of Los Angeles has awarded the Superbowl a civic service commendation. Ame rican .Jawa jus t to ld us that Zde nek Vcl ky will be the second Czec h CZ rider. That 's Z-d-e-n-e-k, or something like that. Ronald Reagan has des ignated Sept. 23·29 as Californ ia State Motorcycle Week. We're not sure exactly what it all means except that t he Guv maybe recognizes there are a lot of mo torcycles in California. 3