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Carn egie Cycl e Park (near Liverm ore . Calif. ) has purch ased an additi o na l 960 acres of nearby rolling lan d . and hav e tentatively set a la te-Februa ry Hare Scrambles date if permits can be sha ken loose from th e bureau cracy in ti m e:. That projected Ron Grant/Laguna Seca road race is off for a few months at least. Hassles with weather, track prep, and the county are cited. MYST ERY SOLVED l That Du cati engine displ ayed by In di an at the Anaheim trade sho w was o ne o f 50 so ld by Ducat i to Tarta rini (an Itali an Pau l Du nstall ) who set . up the bi ke for Indian . That 's a no-no, ac cording to Ducati management. and if Indian imports the machines to the U.S. fo r sale . they will turn off Ta rtarin i's tap. More Duck talk: The factory has pre-production models of 350cc and 500cc vertical twins ready for production go-ahead by ' mid-summer. Styling will be similar to the just-released 860 GT. Single overhead cam is chain-driven, electric start is optional. At the same time, the firm's Vice President Dr. Calcolini said 1975 may be the last year for the classic singles, over the impassioned objections of Bob Greene. Du ck -lovers will h ave to be satisfied with t he GT m odels th is year. All the 750 Sports and Supe r Sp orts sched ule d productio n will have for 19 75 righ t-hand sh ift an d will be ba rre d fro m th is co u ntry by Federal standards . By 1976. left- sh ift models will be available - ea rlie r if somebody co nvi nc es the factory to retro-fit the existing machines. Husqvarna will sponsor a high school MX conference in San Diego, California February 5 at Madison High School at 7:30 p.m. Interested riders, parents and teachers are invited_ For more info, call (714) 744-2161 Tuesdays through Fridays. Sensuous Sherri Kriz ner, Uniontown, Pennsylvania. readies her eq uipment fo r th e 1100,000 Mint 400 Desert Rac e, March 16-19. 1975. Sherri will lead a con tingent of off-road racers f rom th e east ern Unit ed States who will converge on Las V~g~ fo r Mint Hotel's rich des ert classic. Entries for the racing car and motorcy cle dIVISIO ns unll be accepted at Mint 400 Ra cing Headqu art ers. P.O. Box 2160, Las Vegas. Nevada 8910 1. v: ITH ELATm I 'B PAPA WEALEY Y Kenny Roberts took a painful fall on the hip while practicing at Saddleback Park recently. Kenny's short track Yamaha will sport laydown shocks at Houston's Astrodome. Gary Sco tt will be riding a watercoo led T r a c km a s t e r - f'ra m ed , Harley-Dee tw in a t Houston. He bought the big Yamaha racing bus an d will campai gn a ro und th e country in it with brother Han k. Gary and Kenny may both be running the new Lectron carburetors on their national racers. 2 Senators Cranston and Tunney of California have introduced a bill in the U.S . Congress that would create a 16-million acre "co nserva tio n ar ea to in the Mojave Desert. Now do y o u see why you should have voted in th e last election? Most of the world's motorcycles come from countries that depend on Arab oil for 50% to 75% of their industrial needs. What motorcycle-producing nations are potentially immune from this stranglehold? England lif their North Sea oil strikes prove out} and the Untied States. That suggest something to you? The J ackrab bi ts Mo to rcy cle Club of so uthern Nevada and the Mint Hotel will pu t o n the Mini-Min t m o to rcy cle race March 15. It 's for teams six to 15 y ears of age on under-I OOcc bikes. Check the Calendar fo r details. A Sunday afternoon card of international speedway racing will follow the AMA Nationals at the Astrodome on February 2. There will also be an international meet at Costa Mesa fairgrounds in California on March 14. Americans versus Europeans, New Zealanders and all those crossed-up dudes. Bar t Markel. age 40 . took out a n ew professional racing license for 1975. Teddy Davidson of Tracy, California is up for the Stanislaus County "Athlete of the year" award. The 16-year-old Kawasaki Expert is a regular winner in Lodi Cycle Bowl motocross and the award has been won by Kenny Roberts and Joe Rudi in the past. Sounds like CMC has th e formula to attract top pros tunin g fo r the co ming motocross national and international season : Two $ 150 0 purse races bac k-to-back, the seco nd one sche duled for Saddleback th is Sunday . February 2. AMA'S new 1975 Competition Yearbook is "hot off the press," as they used to say . The 160-page document, with photos and bios of the top AMA racers, AMA series histories, 1975 racing schedules and much (as they say), much more is available for $2 from the AMA Sales Department. A nybody w ho wan ts to q ua lify fo r a ride o n th e American I.S.D. T . team at the Isle of Man Oc to ber 13-18 m ust send a le tt er stating tha t intention by J anuary 3 I to AI Eames, c/o A:\IA. Box 141, Westerville. Ohio 43081. Accord ing to AFM Los Angeles Chapter V.P. Rudy Galindo, AFM road races in the last half of 1975 will probably pay prize money to all classes. A six-hour AFM race in May at Ontario, California featuring the richest production purse in the country, will be the test of the idea. Marysville got the ho nor of bei ng the first locality to be granted California ORV registra t ion (Green Sticky) money for a m o torcycle land project. The Sta te Parks Department allo tted $60.00 0 for the ci ty's proposed 200-acre River Fro n t Park. The Parks Dep artment has ap pro ved grants totallin g $899,50 0 for nin e ORV projects in California. The filing deadline for Green Sticky grants to be included in the 1976-77 California state budget is July 31 . An estimated one-million dollars will be available. "Cities and counties have a special responsibility for development of off·highway vehicle use areas close to residences of the vehicle users," says Parks Director William Penn Mott. Right-Q, Willy! 111at public lan d-use pl an ning meeting fo r Eld orado National Forest will be February 12 , 7:30 p .m. at Sch ne ll School in Placerville, California. T he Fores t Servi ce is in touch wit h D-36 Enduro Steward Frank Sh owers to find a motorcy cle spokesma n to serve on a citizen's wo rking co mm ittee. If y o u want to ride th at area . BE T H ERE to give o ur man so me suppo r t. California's tonsorial talent Larry Huffman has signed a contract with Yamaha to call the berm shots during Yamaha's Super Series of Motocross at Dallas, Daytona, and Houston. Or did we get that right? Maybe Yamaha's signed a contract on Larry Huffman . . . CMC 's first ro ad race of the year. at OCIR February 9 will inaugurate a new class - Grand Prix fo r fo u r-strokes only. Fo ur dates are set fo r Willow Springs and two 'at On tario. Cycle News West's good neighbor and Maico, Husky, Bul, etc. dealer Guy Louis has been sick lately and his shop has been closed. Guy says he's feeling better now and will open up again shortly. A new AMA program premieres a t Ascot Park Friday night February 14 and co n tin ues weekly until the regular n at trac k seas on opens in April. then it will swit ch to Thursday night. It's t hree-c lass h alf-mil e with no licen sed Experts allowed to ride. but points will be paid to Novice and Junior licensed riders. Watch fo r details in Cy cle New s. Yamaha's big bore TZ is now a 750 instead of a 700, and reports indicate that the' new models are faster out of the crate than last year's factory "trick" 7005. "That kind of news I don't need to hear," said Gene Romero as he related the story. "Can you imag ine a Mexican going that fast?" Kel Carruthers is sorting o ut a monoshock TZ 75 0 which Ken Ro berts may ride at Day tona. We counted more Ferrari Dinos (31 in the parking lot at the Anaheim motorcycle trade show than motorcycles. Triumph 's punched-out 360 singles will campai gn the short track in Trackmaster frames, not Rickman , as less well -informed so urce s had it. David Aldana will ride Suzuki on the pavement, Harley dirt trackers, and Mike Gerald's 1974 short tracker this year. Dave's new leathers are black with a white skeleton sewn on front. B ri t i sh p a p e r s r ep o r t th a t Harl ey -Davids o n is prep aring to assault th e world of international m o tocross with a version of the SX-250. Sy lvain Geboers visited t he H· D/Aerm acch i wor ks to ta lk co ntracts. b ut "his financial demands so mew ha t overw hel med the Harley chiefs," Cheeky! Heckuva story about bicycle motocross in Sports Illustrated's January 6 issue . The British p ap ers call Gary Scott a " near certain n starter in the Du tch IT at Assert on a Harley / Aermacch i twin . Sammy Miller's reported to be a bit piqued that Honda rushed his "early" TL250 into production. That may mean there's a "late prototype or two kicking around. Don't be surprised if you see one or more of them in this country tuning up in ATA trials for the coming AMA Nationals. Super Sam himself might show up at the U.S. "World" round at Rhode Island. Th e British film "Tribute to Saarinen " won the Fre nc h-sponso red Oscar Co r d o n Rou g e awar d for best in te rna ti o nal motorcycle sport flic k of 1974. ~