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Bob Conway (Yam) topped the Op en Pro class at the July 4 Pike s Peak Hillclimb. Resu lts are in the Results pages. Honda trials development rider Sammy Miller is staying in Japan to teach feet-up technique to a selection of Japan's top TL-125 riders. Banzai slowly. Cu rr e n t 125 M o t o c r o ss Wo rld Champ io n, Andre Malherbe, plan s to contest enough more 125 ro un ds to guarantee his ti tIe for another year an d then switch fro m Zundapp to an RH S uzuki for th e fina l 2 50 Worl d Champions hip Gra n d s Prix i n Scandinavia. You probably do n't rem ember , bu t Pap a to ld you so. Zundapp tea mmate Frizt Sc h nei der will join Hans Maisch on Maico fo r n ex t year's 250 World Cham pion sh ip. Wh o will be on th e all-co nque ring 125 Zundapps? We d on 't know. About the .most redeeming social value in chopper magazines is naked women. AMA legal eagle Gene Wirwhan say s th a t a Michigan circ ui t co urt decision ca ll i ng No- Fa u l t ex cl us io n for m o t or cycles unco ns titu tional co uld throw a real mon key wrench into the who le program. An appeal of the sticky decision is like ly. Entered in the July 6-7 running of the 24 hour Montjuich road race are three works Ducatis (including last year's winners Canellas/Grau on an 8601, two 1000cc Hondas and a 1000cc Laverda Tr ip le . Also shaping up was a Montesa/Bultaco confrontation, with both factories entering works 360's, A move is a f 00 t across the pond to revive Formula 750 by reducing the homologation number from 200 to 25 (as AMA has already done), opening the way for Konigs, Weslakes, and other previously barred engines to run under this formula. If the FIlii accepts the cha nge this fall, there could be some really strange machinery at Daytona next year. Trust the English .. . two "sponsored" streakers at Charlie Williams' TT success • party helped raise $10 for the ACU Benevolent Fund. Can you imagine, running through the streets naked, yelling, "I'm doing it for charity, I'm doing it for charity!" I I i \ Woul d yo u believe it? T h e - ISDT Qualifiers ended up with three Natio na l Cham pi ons: Carl Cran ke, J ack Pen ton . and Billy Uhl, in a dead heal at the top of the list of qual if iers at 900 selection points eac h. Rokon will field the S ilver Vase "B" Team for the U.S. CB900Six Will this CB900 six be t he next big bore Ho nda in America? At least one Japanese trade publication thinks so. A not her good bet is a 1000cc horizontally opposed and water cooled flat four. Any Political Enduro finisher who hasn't sent in a prize claim, oughta' get it in this week, so says our resident radical. Which brother has th e Bul? Last we ek we said Cordis Brooks, rid ing a Gringo, won th e Brush Buste rs Hare Scr am bles. Cordis was on a Bu ltaco . Tom rid es the Gr ingo . T he results had it right. Why do we call him our resident radical? Anybody who puts road racing tires on his DKW and goes 125 Production racing has got to be a rad ical. GOTT A T IIOU FO R TilE 500? S.C.a.R. E. Prez Mickey Thompso n re po rtedly will be t anybody $ I 000 th at a bi ke will win overall in the Baja 1ntern acion al th is July 25-26-27. Can the cou rse be tha t ro ugh on the four-wheel th ings? Desert number one and ISDT hopeful Mark Adent is apparently entered to ride the Intemacional solo on a Penton 400. We fearlessly predict he will go fast. TI,e 12 5 race in Baja is th e one to wa tch , if you can . Nils-Arn e Nilsson an d Mic key Qua de are ente red on a 125 Il usqvarna. Dick 1\1 iller and Pres ton Petty arc on a 125 Honda. Enough said . The Bast Brothers will be up North this weekend, hitting the Sacramento, CA. NorCal Expo track Friday night July 12 and the Napa, CA Fairgrounds oval the following night. Give those Yankees a target to shoot at. Pa u l Hunt, recently o f Hercules Distributing, has been ap pointed mar ke ting and ' business manager for Preston Petty Produ cts. Paul carries with him 20 years of motorcycling experience, including three seasons of European motocross. Picture Pat Manning's dismay when he finds out at the eleventh hour that the O.C.I.R . management has rented the fac ility to a drag race group the same weekend (July 7) it ·was rented to CMC. Is th is called sloppy management, or is it a de liberate attempt to tell the road racers they're not wanted? Let's hope it's just sloppy management. The U.S. rou nd of the 500 motocross World Championship is the riches t of any Wor ld Champ ionship eve nt: roa d race or m oto cr o ss. To ta l money is $40,00 0. Bel-Ray and Valvoline o ils have kicked in two "rrand ap iece to br ing co ntingency brea d up to $ 17,000 whil e the purse an d start money makes up another $23,000. T he Europeans wi ll never have seen so many devalued do llars or their equ ivalent in any · currency at a Grand Prix event. Get there carlyon Sunday to avo id the traffic and watch the time qualify ing for start position . First m o to is scheduled for I p.rn. Fastest time? We'll bet it's Lackey. Although there were rumors that California Speedway stars Mike Bast and Bill Cody might be seeded into the Anglo-American-Nordic qualifier for the World Speedway Championship, it now appears that Scott Autrey, who is alreading riding British league speedway, will be America's entry. The qualifying round at Fredericka, Denmark August 4 is the first step into the World Individual Finals at Goteburg, Sweden in September. An ins urance bro ker friend poin ted ou t th at the medical coverage tac ked onto California collision/liability insurance is no bargain. For th irt y buc ks yo u get $50 deductib le on a $500 maximum. If yo u b rea k a bon e, maybe they'll buy yo u a Band-Aid. Can-Am announces their 250's are in production: an MX and T'NT version , as has been their habit pattern. Engine is the rear-carb rotary valve layout proven in their smaller b ikes, frame downtube doubles as oil injectio n reservoir, and fork angle is adjustable through six degrees . in half-degree increments. More later. Ro lf " T od ay ve goi ng to get a little tired" T ibblin has a new boo k ou t, this one outlining the program at Husq var na Training Cen ter, plus giving ti ps on desert p re p, correct diet, an d physical/mental conditioning for MX combat. "Uncle Rolf" practices what he preaches. He's currently running two 25 or 30-minute motos on Saturdays over the Carlsbad GP course for all classes. If you're seriou< abou t motocross and live within 150 mile s, that's where you'll be rid ing. The rac ing format is mature, reasonable, and rigorous. If you don't try the two 30-minute mo to format , as per Europe, admit you're not serious about motocross and go give the scrambles tracks some bus iness. See you at Carlsbad, we hope. T he new course laid out at Carlsbad for the U.S. 500 Grand Prix this co ming weekend is up to GP standards in every way, wit h the possible exception of a so me what short start straight (b ut the FII\I reps have measured it, for sure). One thing became ab undan tly clear whe n we ro de it. It will take a true GP mo t ocross bi ke to go o ver that co urse at the speeds necessary to win a G P. And a tru e GP rider. Course specialists may be out of luc k. HEAR YE, HEAR YEo The Dept, of Immigration and Naturalization will hold a hearing on July 17 to determine if three time motocross World Champion Rolf Tibbl in will be allowed to stay in the U.S. (He's Swedish, you know,) If Congressman Claire Burgener co u Id take a handful of letters requesting that Rolf stay in the U.S. , noting that he is a national asset to American sport, and other words like that, it would help Rolf's ch ances a lot. . There's still time. The address? Hon. Claire Burgener, U.S. House of Representatives, Wash ington, D.C . 20515. Do it now. Rolf wants to stay in America. The granny ladies in tennis shoes get to see Roger DeCoster in a couple favored Broadway stores, Thursday, July II. At Puen te lI ills Mall, City of Industry, CA, he'll be there thro ugh the noon hour, then down to San Diego's Fashion Valley Cen ter from 6 p.m . He' ll be in the men's depar tment. (Whic h somehow seems appropriate .) One of the European slicky mags, (the French "Motociclisme") got hands on an elusive Benelli 750 Sei and ran it to an 11.08 sec. quarter, then pu lled a 131 MPH indicated top speed. Cosmopolitan Motors promptly labelled it "World's Fastest Product ion Motorcycle." Where have we heard that before? That cancelled C~IC road race at OCI R is rescheduled for Sunday , July 144.