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ma kes it th e fir sI two -day 0 -3 7 double-points ru n besides Greenhorn in more than 10 years. Higb deser t weather, always un predictable as Christmas ap proaches, shoul d ma ke the Last Chance do ub ly interesting. It will be held December 14 and 15 in the Red Mountain/Ridgecrest area. T he CEA is encouraging average riders to enter the Last Chance an d see how much fun a District enduro can be. Former World Speedway champion Ronnie Moore tossed his helmet into the pot fo r the John Fishburn Helmet Raff le after the U.S. Speedway Ch a mp ionsh ips . Counting all the helmets worn by the finalists, that gives potent ial buyers a choice of Bell, Crown, Electro, and Prem ier headgear. Ole O lsen. Ivan Mauger, Barry Briggs and Scott Autrey have also been contacted to put their he lmets on the block. It's very rare these day s to see someone A CZ road racer? Not officially, but in a " private effort," works rider Boh umil Stasa h a s develo ped a 590cc watercooled twin for the Co ntinental circus. Spe ak ing of Griffith Park GP, try "E ner gy C r is is Racing " coas ting downhill in neutral with the engine off. Do ing it at a place Jike the Park requires quite a bi t of d iscipline - be prepared for a surprise o r tw o. Sure is easy on gas, if no t th e bi ke and bod. Goodyear is wo rking on a one-ply trials tire. Getting serious, aren't they? jump on a Kawasaki Bighorn and smoke the Yamahas in a 250 GP road race, and then come back and smoke the Yamahas in Open GP on' an HIR. George Roche did it at the CMC road . race September I at OCIR. Jim Pome roy , Brad Lackey. Mike Runyard , and J im Weinert have been named by t he AMA as th e American te am to compete in t he Motocross des Nat ion s September 15 in Sweden. Speaking of CMC, Papa's loo ki ng forward to CMC's $500 purse Las Vegas road race , na med the S ilver NU9get GP. All entrants get d isco unt coupon books, to o. It'll be a two-day event October 13·14. EXTRA ·PADDING-IN · YOUR-SEAT DEPARTMENT: This year's Last Chan ce End uro will be twice as long as ever before - 125 miles on Saturday and 125 miles on Sunday - which Californians liking Harleys and two strokes should thank Assemblyman Chapple and State Senators Biddle and Whetmore for supporting the bill that rolled back new noise standards for the NOISE BREAKTHROUGH! Discojet , the people who make Trapp and X-dusor silencers for two-strokes, have developed a four-stroke muffler on a cras h basis to help mee t the no ise restriction at the Golden Gate Mile September 29. The new unit, a 10 inch long 1'4 pound m egaphon e, achieves a 12db red uction with little or n o p owe r loss. Testing of a Yamaha 750 on Shell Thuett's dy no revealed a 2% loss of top end wit h a correspond ing slight gain of low end - all at a n oi se rating of 86 dbA, well und er the Golden Gate restric tio n. T he silencers will be shown to A.\1A p ro s at Syracuse , and will be availa b le at about $20 ap iece (whic h means Discojet is eat ing a bundle to han d build a on e-off lot of them for this Call Pete Levin at e ve n t , ] 9 16/756·5069. California's Indian Dunes has slightly "de ·tuned" the speeds at their International motocross circuit with added turns , added jumps, and reconstructed berms. More lights for the night racers, too. Latest "new model" from American Honda is the "Feelie" which duplicates the experience of riding without actually mo vin g. We are told that five of the feelie machines are in use already and 200 will be available soon. Great thing for training and testing, bot what a hit it wo uld be in a penny arcade! -, Honda 's m oto rcycle simulator te sts new rid ers' surv ival ski lls without t he risk of being in real t raffic.. Bill Krause Honda in To rrance. Californi a h as one and his mech an ics can use "the Feelie" to " roa d t est" bikes as well. On e reSult: lower ins urance rates for service pe rsonnel. Scott Autrey tossed a chain in one heal, crashed on a rain-slicked track in another 10 end his bid 10 advance beyond the European Speedway Finals at Wembley, England, August 31. England's Peter Collins was overall winn er ·2 0 f the TO undo An unnamed Japanese manufacturer told world racing champion Phil Read to " get in touch" before sign ing a renewed contract with MV. As the British say. silly season's starting early this year. TWIN FALLS. IDAHO, SEPT .a The "greatest day" of Evel Knievel's life ended upside down in the bottom of the Snake River Canyon today. but that didn't affect the size of his paycheck. Six million dollars richer from the jump attempt alone, a dazed and cut K nievel emerged from his "Skvcvcle" rocket- ship after failing to cross the 4POO feet over the 6OO-foot canyon this afternoon before a crowd estimated to be between 50 ,000 and 70,000 pe o ple . The drogue para chute opened as t he Skycvcle left the 100 foot launch ramp. rolled a few ti mes, and drifted dow n softl y as t he mai n ch ut e d eployed . Rob en Truax, designer of the rocket, speculated after the jump attempt that the corTtlined for ces of the rocket blast suction and the G-Ioaded weight df t he para chutes aga inst t he lid of the ' ch ute housing upon b last off wrenched of f t he t op of t he container. allowi ng the parachutes to deploy too early . Golden State. As it is, bike noise standards call for a 50% drop . The proposed drop to 80 db A fro m what is now 83dbA wo uld have mean t ano the r 50% dr op in allowable levels on th e scale. Alread y logarit hmic decib el they're into the realm of fin rattle an d chain noise. September 29 will be Don Brown Day at the Old T imer MC Association's Valley Cycle Park race. There will be a drawing for a Husqvarna 450 and a Rickman 125, with entries for the drawing being only $1. Park entry to spectate is an additional $2. Brown was critically injured at the park some time ago , and remains paralyzed. The ISDT got. un derway September 9 with clear skies . The terrain is e xt remely rocky and will make it very di fficul t. However only th ree acciden ts on the first day - one serious accident involved a West German rider who b roke his wrist. Italy's Trophy Team leads with West Germany i n secon d. An unconfirmed report ind icates Dane Leimbach, of the U.S. T rophy Team may be out as he was seen walking off the track. Diane Co x. of Salem. Oregon, has 76 of the needed 80 advancement points to make d irt track Expert th is year. She could be the fir st fast femme to co mpete in an AMA National in 1975. It seems that the Motorcycle Ind ustry Council financed the recent successfu move to roll back California's futu motorcycle sound standards to reac hable level, an d the CMIC provide needed lobbying talen t to get the jo done when previous efforts fell through