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Cycle News 1974 08 13

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Subtle sliding control is still there as well as all-out sideways stuff. Pullbars on the axles have been replaced by holes to put your screwdriver through. We preferred pullbars for axle nut tightening. Good feedback in turns . Nylock outs abound . From Czechoslovakia, with love ~Z400 may By John Huetter Like th e BSA Go ldstar or certa in vint ages of . btchIcss, t he 400 CZ is a CUll b ik e. What makes it a rat her unlikclv can d idate fo r t his q uas i-relig ious' mec hanical de votio n is t ha t it is a t we -strok e and has onlv existed, at least in a for m you and I can bu y , since about 19 i O. But there is a CZ cult and many of its m embers , v vhct her rhev are consciously a' v ar-e of it or not, include those who have never owned or ridden one. The prime cause for the cultism is that when the 400 CZ emerged, 24 be the definitive privateer's motocrosser enlarged to an actual 3H3cc." from about 357 previously. it was the fas tes t. snarlics t , m ea nes t, hcs t-handling big b ore mac hine aro und . . .or h in g reall y cou ld touch it. So legend, are born .., his was before the 450 Maico .md six-speed Huskies and while the .J.panc

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