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to $20,450, making -it the richest dirt track event his year. Discojet posted a $200 contingency award, too. Reason why Steve Stackable rod e the hardest of his life in Evel's MX was "It never was worth it before," quoth the tall Texan. Austin, you shoulda seen it ! Then the re was the man who rode his bike past the flashing red lights at a train crossing in Colorado and derailed a freight train. Greedy Pierre in his tra ck and field suit was seen running everywhere among the pit racers at Eve!'s Biggie. Would you jog eight hours for, say, a thousand dollars an hour? Pierre K. did . Starting September 21 -22, KYMS (106 FM, Orange County, CAl will kick off " Two Wheelers Off the Road" with Don Skah ill, a taped news series featuring local motocross , speedway , and AMA racing activities. The spo ts will ru n Saturdays at six and eight a.m., six and eight p. m. , then Sundays at six a.m. and six and eight p.m, Mike Whiteside of Squaw Valley owns Califo rn ia license plate "WFO." Th e Harley-Davidson factory strike is settled and twins are again roll ing off th e assernb Iy line this wee k. Ever notice that half th e bikes on a road run are Hariev-Dees, yet their marke t share is on ly five percent? Motocross des Nations: See y 'all at th e Second Annual Evel Knievel Canyon-cross ? Sweden first, u.s. second Lear jets are neat .. . but loud?! Tech nical details: The main valve of Eve!'s Buck Rogers steam rocket consisted, in part, of ten do g food cans , relieved -of their contents (" Mrs. Truax foun d ' so me needy dogs"). These formed a "s hear diaphragm," which ensured positive ON when the switc h Just what the doctor ordered! James Bro lin eo-st ar of the "Ma rcus Welby, M.D." • television series will be wheeling t o and from ep isodes aboard a Kawasak i Z-l motorcycle t his season. The Z-l was th e act or's personal choice fo r transportation on and off the lot. was thrown. The press waiting for Evel's big show had a small shudder for 'th eir own lives when a rumor swept the gallery that the unruly crowd outside knocking down the fences would sweep them off the canyon side. Wonder if a steam rocket cycl e would work at Bonneville? would indeed be called a "Jim Pomeroy Replica" upon its release in the U.S., and that's why Cycle magazine called it th at. Some sources say there will no t be any YarnahaRl) 350s or Kawasaki 750 H2s in the mo del year 1976. From go fast to breathe clean , inone swoo p of the EPA. Voices fro m Duckv ille assert that sources inside Bult aco Intern at io nal told them that the 250 Pursang Mk. VII According to Mike Goodwin, promoter of things prefixed with "Super" (as in Superbowl and Supermile) , before he Grand Prix Bengt Aberg (Hus) swep t both motos to lead the Swedi sh tea m to first overall on their home gro und, while the U.S. team put together a , series of cons istent finishes to nudge ' out the Russians for runner-up by four points. Brad Lackey ( H u s ) scored 5-14, Pomeroy (Bul) 6-10 , DiStefano (CZ) 14-21 and Weinert 25-31. The best three scorers put together the U.S. team's 70 po int total. Results, Sweden, September 15, 1974, Teams Overall: Sweden, 22 ; U.S.A ., 70; USSR, 74; Great Britain, 108; Netherlands, 114. left to contest some European road races last week Ken Roberts stated tha t the Golden Gate Mile track has so much of a cush ion that he won't have to back off the gas once f rom start to finish of the race . Kenny will be back in the States for the Toledo, Terre Haute, and Albany Nationals. . The purs e fo r the Golden Gate Mile in Alba ny, California (o r Supermile) is up - DIKT D IGGERS M.e. -- Assigned number . Official Entry Blank: DATE ~ - . . A separate form must be subni tted fo r each cl as s entered. - Assigned class Ql co ~ NAME CITY . MAKE OF MACHINE ..-I CJ ..-I STATE AGE ADDRESS PHONE N O. ~ . ZIP .... .... 0 r~ "'" ENG. NO , CU. IN. OR CC HIGHEST DISTRICT TI NOV JR $10 .00 Entry (Mail) L imited entries - $ 100 .00 Post (Oweeeee) . Start position determined by postmar k (Am - PM onl y), Open Sept. 23 - Close Oct . 25. Saturday 100, 125, 126 - 200, 250 DDMC .. HELD NONE _ _ CLASSIFI C~rION EX. . l'\}t( DISTRICT TI POINTS O LY; N RIDING NO . CLUB Sunday DDMC 12051 Kir kh olm Ct . 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U,,:,de r the rules a n d sanctions of th e Amer ican Mot o rcycle Assoc ia ttor- , I here by agree to c onfo rm and comply w ith t he rul e s g o vern ing thIS contest . S igna t ure o f e n tran t : Date: 19 - 3