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Cycle News 1974 07 30

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, • rIJ :IiII:lI a= IiII:lI ...:I g ;... g -e- r-... C'l 0 C") >- ... ~ * BiUy Uhl and the Can-Am . . . the toughest International Six Days Trial combination that North America has to offer. Take their record in America 's ISDT Qualifying Series as proof. Billy finished the six event series as 175cc class Champion, proving the consistency of the Can-Am's performance by being the ONLY rider in the entire series to gain six Go ld Medals from the six events! That's some 2500 of the most rugged cross-country miles imaginable . . . and never a mark lost for being behind sched ule! T hree riders share the individual high-point titl e in the series but Billy Uhl and the Can-Am far o ut-strip the other two in terms of index of performance as their scores were achieved on bigger class 250 and 400cc machines. The Can-Am, in fact, was the smal lest machine in the series t o win an y o f th e gruelling 400 mile, two-day eve nts overall. Billy took his Can-Am to t he overall win at Picayune, Mississippi, in a water-logged eve nt t ha t knocked out all but 26 o f the 125 star te rs an d then, to add e mp has is to the Can -Am 's ca pa bilit ies, won aga in in th e se ries ' final event, th e Bad Rock Trial in Oregon 's m ountains. Billy and his Ca n-A m have proven th emselves in the U.S. Qualify ing Series. It should be an interesting I.S.D.T. can..am motorcycles by bombardier " I r.llok' ' 1..,~ ... "" "".........., I ""'If'd , 5

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