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SIIELL GAME: In late June , an ad appear ed in the Los An geles TImes, seeking an " artistic engineer with 20 years experience in R&D with American and European motorcycles" for an unspe cified jo b opening in Spen cer, West Virgini a. Now it surfaces th at the William Kennedys , Sr. an d Jr., are working o n a big four-stroke twi n o f 750 , 850 , o r 9 50 cc displacement (if ya go tta guess, multiple gue ss is th e way to go) in (ge t thi s) Spencer, West Virgini a. An d Norton-Trium p h hints they m ay move p ro d uc ti on to the U.S. if th ings ge t mu ch worse in Albio n. Hmmm. The Chainpion Spark Plug Motorcycle ·Cla s s ics at Ontario Oct. 4,5 6 DlI III ~ t ., >\0-. l.C") r--- . A~ ) O"l i .. -, -;-. ~ (,0 The Yamaha TT (not DT ) 500's stylin9 may get it lost in a lineup of typical White Tank MX Terrors, but you 01' 4-stroke scramblers are gonna love it. It's got laydown shocks (no mono I and seems to wei9h only a trifle more than a DT 400. Now if we could just find some nice British-bend bars for it . . . C'J 2\0', Mile 0".. I I I L ::l btl ~ ::l < ~ ~ ~ R~ I )-~ I c. ..... tI:l r-- ----", I CZ is putting up so me big bucks for th e up co m ing S.C.a.R.E . races at Rive rside and Baja . For River side it is $3000 fo r the overall winner if that rider is o n a CZ. For the Baja the con tin gency money jumps up to $60 00 for the o verall win ne r' if he is riding a CZ. Also rumored a re co n ti nge n cy prizes involving Barum tir es an d PA L spark plu gs. A Corbin-Gentry electric motorcycle, powered by a Yardney " super ba tte ry" made it up New Hampshire's Mt . Washington in 26 mi nute s, during the F irst Annual Alternative Vehicle Regatta June 15·20. At the top, t hey got a free recha rge from an Enertech wind generator, went down and did it again . Fre e rides f rom wind and watts ; , I I •: c " • c: • 'I ~ ~ i l a'comin? lOG"' 5t,...t The next FI:\I Con gress will be in West Berlin October 25 through Novem ber I. Items for th e agen da must be in to th e F 1M by mi dn ight September 12. Address is FIM Secre taria te , 19, che m in Wi IIia m B a rb e y, I 29 2 Chambesy-Geneve , Su isse. Tony Murphy bids ad ie u to the moto-journal ism racket (more or less) to become MIC's Director of Technical Standards. Karsm akers to Europ e next yea r with ll ei kki M ikkol a joining him on Honda .. . Lanky Gilbert DeRoover to return fo r th e Trans-Alvl A ser ies aboard ' a big bike, but n o t a Zundapp . . . Steve Bake r to race a liquid cooled Yamaha TZ750 at th e In dy m ile . . . A Hercules motocrosser . . . Willi Bauer is having trouble in th e 250cc GPs be caus e he has a problem with his kn ee . Ah, yes, the things y o u .he ar wben people think you 're not listening. The AMA w ill get tougher with motocross noise, starting with the 1975 Can-Am and Trans-AMA series. A new "close-up" measuring standard of 110 dbA at 20 inches from the pipe will be used, instead of the old 92bdA at 50 feet. Tests conducted by MIC and the California Highway Patrol indicate the ne w dose-up standard is equivalent to the old 50-foot standard and is less likely t o yield readings fouled up by wind and weather cond it ions. Let 's hear it for the Griffith Park Backside Sliders, sp on soring Darr el Lee in both Ligh tw eigh t Producti on and Novi ce races at Laguna ! Charles Simon , describing the Boston news media's h andling of their city 's June 29 helmet protest in the Motorcyclist's Post : " T hey came to report a riot and massacre, and finding none , m assac red the truth ." Heavy . Trackside obs erve rs say Kenny Roberts, on his coo lo ff lap at Lagun a, gave th e Tum Six cro wd a pe ace sign and popped a one-han ded wheeli e at the top of th e cor kscrew. Bill Brown , a Jun ior from Amarillo , Texas, tr ied it wi th bo t h han ds on the ba rs and crashe d. Must be a mo ral som ep lace . . .. 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