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THE LATEST IBY PAPA WEALEY ...... This is the official Honda Motocross Team for 1975: Tommy Croft, Rich Eierstedt, Pierre Karsmakers and Marty Smith. Wheels for the 1975 Yamaha National Road Racing tea m of Kenny Roberts, Gene Rom ero an d Don Castr o will again be Star Mag cast wheels, de velo ped by Carr oll Sh elby as part of a Go odrear projec t to d evelop tu beless racing tires for mo torcy cles. Boss track man Harold Murrell , once again signed to prep the Houston Astrodome National, says this year all will be different. What could he mean? AMA p oint fund p ayoffs for th e lead ing race rs in 1974 amo unted to $7, 876.83 for Kenn y Ro berts, Sl,6 8 7.70 for Roger DeCos ter, $58 5.54 for Zdenek Velky, $1,239.89 for Jim Weiner t , $1,71 1.23 fo r Gary Jones, $1,2 91.68 for Bill Eves, $1 ,330.38 fo r Greg Sassaman, $2,7 03.5 6 for Bill Purvis, $750.45 for Co rky Keen er, $1,039.98 for Marty Sm ith , $197.86 for Terry Kinzer, $192.49 fo r Keith Grooms, $881.54 fo r Jay Springste en , $ 1,5 58.49 for Larry Beall, $931.10 for Mark Williams, $809 .79 for Bruce Hanlon an d $I ,404.9U for Mark Smith. In all What, no pedals? 2 $106 ,807 was paid from the rider en try and post-entry fees th at go into the points fund. Sandak's semi-pro TT will b e at Elsinore , not Corona. That's co min g up February 2, under District 37 san ction . Diane Cox won an extra $146.40 from the point fund . Would you believe the "star" of the , Anaheim Trade Show was a sidecar? The most technically sophisticated hack we've seen yet, and it 's coming from a well-known purveyor of fairings. Oo ops. Did it again. The West Texas 10,0 00 (that's doll ars, no t miles, son) is March 29 -30, no t March 28-29 as appeared earlier. Camel, you big dummy, wha'd yo u tell me wrong for ? Speaking of the big dummy, we sent him to school again - a Honda serv ice school for a look inside the GL-1000. He's still holed up in a comer, muttering something about a two-wheeled car. When he comes out of it , we'll let you know what he saw . Peter (Bad Rock) Starr is off to Belgium this mon th to fm ish up a "right around home with Roger " film on locatio n. Don't say "Roger who?" . The prolific film-maker has about finished up production of his Ontario road race foo tage, and is currendy shooting an "introduction to motocross" for general TV audiences featuring Marty Sm ith, Rolf Tibblin's school, and , background music by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Outtasight! J ust dis covered th at Don Jones p lans to mar ket air/oil fork conversion kits an d his ground clearance raci ng pipes, bu ilt to fit several p opular motocrossers. The same goes for h is two-stroke oil, the form ula of wh ich severa l large oil companies are after, but aren't going to get. The Feds have mandated metric standards for wine bottles, at last. See , not everything they do is bad. Pass th' half-litre jug. Remember 01' Papa saying the British will never put electric starters on their bikes? Nearly everything Norton-Triumph exhibited at the trade show had an electric whir device. And classically beautiful styling. No hits, no runs, no errors. MX TRUCKERS : Ever notice, listening to the "Smokey Reports" on your CB radio, that the truckers call road shoulders "berms?" Wonder where they got that? Scott Brelsfo rd's Houston ride will be,a Kan emoto 350 Kawasa ki, fra med by Jack Lancaster at CMS. Let's see if we've got this right, Mr. President. The patriotic thing to do now is buy a new car and not drive it? Thank you, Mr. President! Cycle News West just rented 500 feet of new office space. We believe it is going to b e another busy year for us motorcyclists. The Chief Executive last week appointed a Philadelph ia lawyer to head up the Department of Transportation. Where is Doug Thoms now that we need him? 395 Cycle Park in Adelanto, California is offering free admission to anyone who shows up with five " proof-of-purchase." volume numbers from the front pages of Cycle News . This offer is good "through the presen t crisis to any hard-driving, fast-sliding fla t -t r a c king or TT event. (The economically depressed custo mer don't need it for th e Moto-X since yo u can wat ch it o n th e side of Highway 395 with yo ur favorite tr uck driver. }" say pr oprietors Don an d Hop e Engla nd. Despite what the ad said last issue, there won't be a special Cycle 'News excursion flight to Daytona Spe ed Week after all. There 's just not' enough time and besides our travel agency had bigger fish to fly. The Super Bow l of Mo tocro ss d al e h as been changed to July 18 and 19 , 1975 in the good 01' Los Angeles Coliseum. The U.S. Forest Service held a land-use planning meeting Decem ber 3 o n the EI Dorado unit in Northern California. As usual, Sierra Club , Highway Pa tro l, the whole anti -motor crew were there, but no notice reached either the Federal Register or the mot orcycle industry. There's another scheduled for February 15, time an d place unknown. This is the same area whe re bikers were harassed during t he 0-36 enduro season. . Beginning to sound like a conspiracy, isn't it? "The course is open for practice" doesn't mean the same thing at a desert or cross-country event as it means at a short-course event like a motocross. In the desert, it means riders won't be disqualified for pre·riding the course. Elsewhere it means that the ambulance has arrived and flagmen are in position. Ain't no ambulance the day before desert races. You practice at your own risk . (Co ntinued on page 5) Kreidler again swept the 50cc FJ.M. World Cham pio nship. Number one teacup racer for the 1974 seaso n is H. Van Kessel (sho wn) of The Netherlands, with 90 tit le points. Second was H. Rittenberger of West Germany with 65 po ints and third J. Van Zeeb ro eck of Belgium with 50 po in ts, both also on Kreidl er. Kreidl er's concentration Happy birthday, (December 311. Kenny Roberts on the ultralightweight classes stems from their heavy invo lvement in the European moped market. Energy and economic considerations are re kindling U. S. interests in ult raligh tweigh t two-wheelers and sales are rising rapidl y , repo rts U. S. Kreidl er distributor Co ntinental Motorcycles, Inc . of Norwood, New J ersey.