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Cycle News 1974 08 13

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ON ANY SUNDAY is coming again ! Bruce Brown's super bike flick is showing th is week at theaters in Califo rnia counties of Los An geles, Santa Barbara, San Bernardino , San Luis Obispo, Ventura, Kern and Riv~rside. Yamaha dealers have free discount tickets now. NEXT YEAR: Yamaha's DT360 becomes a 400; Honda's CB450 transforms into a 500; Bultaco's Matador gets turned into something doser to a Pursang; Ossa's Pioneer gets doser to a Phantom; and rumor has it that the Yamaha SC500 turns into an SC900. It might shake a b it , but boy will it have torque. D o n Brown . marketing co n su ltan t r e ce ntly fo r both Kawasak i an d Husq varna , was serio usly injured in a cras h at Valle y Cycl e Par k J uly 9. Don is par alyzed from th e waist down an d is in a reh ab ilit a t ion cen ter at Ran ch o Lo s Amigos Ho spi tal in Do wn ey . Califo rnia. E. May es picked up gas can s fo r bi ke numbers 25, 602, 53, an d 59 du ring the · S.C.O .R .E. Intern aci o nal t o keep them from being "confiscated." I'he owners of the cans can get them back by calling 805/947-8243 after August 15. 2 In her novel "Once is Not Eno ugh, " Jacquelin Susann me ntions motorcycles in f ive different contexts, all negative. A jet eng ine, just before it explodes, so un ds like a " revving motorcycle. " A bunch of dopers in a doctor's office looks like " a convention of motorcycle clubs." You get the idea. Now if o nly Jacq uel in would . .. T he Bl\IWs ru n a t Lag un a Seca di d no t have incre ased ground cle ar an ce (by way o f sh or te ned cy linde rs) because of a sh orter stroke a nd inc reased b ore . Inst ead. Butl er and Smith have spe cial pistons manufactured wi th a high er wri st p in locati on . They t hus use the sa m e st ro ke ye t ca n red uce cy lind er heigh t. I s th a t a n ex ter nal modification ? Yv o n DuHamel wo n the Open Product ion race a t Laguna Seca last week withou t the ben ef it of a rear br ake . The s toc k Z l brake rod bre ak s under extreme pressure , a nd Yvon use s extreme pressur e when he brakes. The A.\IA won't allo w a st ro nger- tha n-stock replac ement to be used in the inter ests o f safety . Wit h the he lp of Kaw asak i, Camel Filters and Trippe-Cox, attenda nce at t he Laguna Seca National sw elled to o ve r 34,000. T ha t same weekend , the Chicago Tribune made a big deal that a Formula 5000 car race at Elkhart Lake , Wise. drew 32,000. Whoopee. There's hope for the tube, after all. Here 's the latest on local TV bookings for Peter St arr's "Bad Roc k" film. All ti mes are loca l. WHEC -TV-R ochest er, N.Y., 5 :30 p .rn, Aug. 10. KBOl -TV -Boise , Idah o, 3 :3 0 p.m. Aug. II KDK A-TV- Pit ts b urgh , Pa .• 10 :30 p.rn, ,\ uj1;. 13. KBTV -Denv er , Colo., 6 :3 0 p_m. Aug. 13. KPDI-TV- I' alm Spri ngs, Ca .. 7:30 p.m , AUj1;. 17. K1D-TV-ldah o Falls, ld a., 5 :00 p .m . . Aug . 1 7. WLKY-TV- Lo uisville , Ky. , 4:00 p.rn, Aug. 2 5. ' WTWO -TV- T erre Haut e, Ind .. 5:00 p.m . A ug . 25. KSL -TV-Salt Lake City , Uta h , 3 :3 0 p.rn , Sept. I . KEY T - Santa Barb ar a , Ca .. 4 :3 0 p .m . Sept. 14 . Oth er sta tio ns y e t to ann o unce : KOl\lO-TV Seattle, Wa : KCST -TV San Diego , Ca: KXLY-T V Spokane, Wa : KA PP·TV Yakima. Wa : KT HI-TV Farg o. N.D.; KVEW -TV T ri-Cit ics , Wa. Stay tuned . Camel c igare ttes put up a whole bunch of money for racers at the Kawasaki Superb ike Nat ional, as well as holding a photo contest fo r p ho to graphers present w ith neat p rizes.

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