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One of our reporters was in that po pu lar Carson-Dominguiz area and had a chat with a very friendly Smokey. The situation is this: yo u're not supposed to ride there and the rust time there is a heavy complaint from the property owners the area will be fenced. What it hinges on , Smokey says , is that we be responsible bikers. Some of us haven 't. Fires have b een set by one of the build ings, bikes parked all over what was once green grass verg es and oil dumped. So , pl ease " confine all yo ur activi ties north o f the rig ht-o f-way , do not unload o n th e stree ts and act responsible then we won't have to be the he avy gu ys." Ten Four. Uh, speakin' of Te n-talk, another rover up in the Pacific Northwest says he wishes people up there would get serio us about us ing 19 for Smokey reports and do their BS'n on other channels. He got bu sted. That . high-strung pit stop that ap peared in the Desert section report on the San Berdoo club ra ce - turns out that was J .C. Ra y , th e ac tual Novice winner th at day instead of as reported; so a clubmate of J ,C.'s tells us . Our pro-biker education bill, AB1809, cleared the Cal ifornia Assembly Education Committee and went into Ways and Means Fr iday, January 23. Grab your California pullout. Supporters say committeemen Chappie (Yuba City), Duffy (Hanford). Lewis (Red lands) , Mattie (Fresno) and Muller (Emery ville) need to be contacted, and asked if they'll favor the bill . It's here, and it's hot. T he new Kawasaki BX200 Motocross Bicycle. Light, strong and fast. In th e famous Kawasaki tradition . Not a department storetoy.Not an impractical ego-tripper. Bu t, a tough all-around good times machine. Around the neighborhood , or aro u n d the track .The BX200 ismade to take it day after day. With an aluminum alloy fra~e, motorcycle ' swing-arm design , adjustable shocks, competition knobby tires, l -piece crank, un-sprung fro nt forks , adjustable MX sea t and lots more. Dave C linton has proven how tough this bike is. He powered the BX200 to the Points C hampionship and Number O ne Plate in both Amer- ican and National Bicycle Associations. And that's tough. Get on the BX200 today, only at your Kawasaki dealer. Now you can pedal Kawasaki a Kawasaki, too. letsthegood times roIL • IS Walt Gamett is taking a sound meter o ut to Cl\oIC's first 1976 road race at Willow February I. The spirit is the same as a t WIE RA 's race; it's not to disq ual ify people, but to let y o u know where you 11 stand fo r Daytona, Laguna, and o ther noise-limited venues. After dominating muCh ot the NorCaI indoo r short track season thus far, John Gennai is picked as the favorite in the January 30 Frank Gillespie Benefit to be held at San Francisco's Cow Palace. A buck a ticket for the night short track will go up against Frank's towering medical bills ; look for all his friends , fans and compadres to be there. J. Kawasaki I We hear Kenny Roberts, Jr .. now age three , has a mini Bell Star, Yamaha team leat hers, and a tiny Mo to Villa minibike pain ted in team colo rs. They say the kid's "Hell o n Wheels" , and 01' Dad has a to fib a bit - tell him it 's out of gas - to ge t him off it. Got a sto ry to re late - as it was told to me : Carl Jones, Womens' A pointleader in the Texas State Enduro Championship , found herself pregnant whi le lead ing (Gawd!l halfway int o the ser ies. She dropped ou t of the compet it io n, and the lady in second place sent Carl's husband a cigar with a one-word note - "Than ks:' Roger D., (yo u kno w him) while viewing th e Astr o short tr ack, was asked th e in evi ta ble quest ion. " Ho w d o y ou like it ?" "Fine," the multi-year cha mpi on replie d, "but I' d like to ride th e TT." Somebody give the man a Harley. A pound saved normally costs several hundred dollars CALIFORNIA Billy Uhl , one of America's best Six Days riders, was signed by Hercules to ride a seven-speed 175 in the upcOming qual ifie r ser ies. Ben Bower, another of the same breed, will join Mike Hannon o n Fronteras to do the qu alifiers and most national enduros for Bult aco during 1976. What with the Pen tons returning to the national circu it as well , it sounds like a co ncerted at temp t to unseat King Richard. AMF is looking to do a "National" road race at Sears Point lat e in August t his year. Two day format motocross returns to Sears February 14- 15; aimed at giving everybo dy (espe cially Nov ices) m ore riding t ime . . . . . . . MOTORC,YCLE ORANGE YZ 250 Z & YZ 400 Z Monoshocks Now in stock Taking orders now for the New YZ 125 X & XS 500C "Someday You'll Own a Yamaha" 10 10 W. 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