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Gary Fisher is entered at Daytona on a TZ 750 sponsored by Roberts' Yamaha. No, dummy, not THAT Roberts. This one 's in Spr ingfield, Illino is. Distr ict 37 took in two new clubs last month - Riders MC (Elsinore Raceway ) as a charter pro mo ter t and Training Wheels MC, an existing family club . For those of you in Central California who missed Speedway Central's February 8 practice session, another is scheduled at the Hanford track March 14. The track normally hosts a weekly series of Division Two meets, with the season th is year running April 30 through September 24 . Write Speedway Central, P.O. Dwr. "J", Bass Lake, CA 93604. r- ...... J im Turner is privately campaigning a Suzuki in Florida, but is working on a deal to ride for Suzuki of Canada. As Ameri cans begin to expand onto other teams there is hope that we can all get a ride with Cost a Rica, Yemen or Kuwait. AMA says that . Texaco and Forward Trust Finance, already co-sponsoring the Suzuki of Great Britain road race team, also expects to include British Suzuki riders in motocross and trials. Phil McDonald may have the only privat eer monoshock TZ750 at Daytona, result of grafting a C & J swingarm to a sto ck Yamah a frame . Phil hopes to have that broken wrist sufficiently healed to make th e March 7 star t. Pat Hennen, iro nically without a factory ride after dominating the New Zealand down-under series for the second year in a row, is expected to ride Daytona on Phil McDonald's old backup bike . Here's a twist : Team Vista Sheen in a unique co ntinge ncy mov e , announced it .J UJ VI UJ ;: Q >- _1IIiIIi ... o So mething yo u don't see every day - a side ha ck that lean s. Slid es neat , too. Wally Walli ck 's creation, the " Equalean, " mounted to a Hon da 75 0, han dles much like a moto rcycle , very little lik e a hac k. A rider impression will ap pear sho rtly in our companion ro ad rid er pub, Biker. Rumblings out of Milwaukee : In the last year AMF/Harley-Davidson doubled the size of its engineering sta ff. Next year it will double again. Something's gatta be happening. Shoeman Ken Maely 's hostin g another two day speedway school at the famil y rancho, with Mike Bast inst ructing. To ll for th e two days, incl uding two lun ches, is $75 . Bring you r own eq uipment. Call 714/ 735-054 0 to enroll . Harry Keast recently signed up to ride enduros for Honda. During the Ride On, his old Penton shed its swing arm in protest. Rick Muny on brought a trick 125 Elsie to th e Ride On for a shadedo wn. It 's a ' 76 " M2" with an MT gearbox and speci al enduro cylinder , with which Rick expects to ride the ISDT qu alifiers unde r the wing of Tea m Honda. 2 Off-the-wall theory - One of those rare suspension specialists, best known as a 125 Novice, theorizes that the Harley -Davidson MX 250 sho uld have its rear forked suspen sion turned around so that the forks face the same way as the front forks. He also advocated walk ing into theatres backward s so t hat the manage r would th ink you were walk ing out. When UEA workers found evidence of really malicious course sabotage (like lines of head-size boulders in a blind gully) weeks before the run , they decided to do a headlights-on patrol of t he Ride On course Saturday night. Odd ly enough, noth ing happened. Watch for a National Minicycle Associatio n series of fo ur races in Texas Happ y Valen tine~ !~ yOU.u:d yo urs. th is spring. woul d p ay $35 to the last place rider in each Camel Pro Series event, go t th at ? One of the first to re ceive the pr ize, after his gear box locked up on the Astro short track starting line, was J ay Springsteen , who won two Natio na ls for Vista Sheen in 1975. Don Vesco's going to be a busy man. He'll have five riders under his wing at Daytona: Gene Romero, Phil Read, and Pat Evans fo r the 200; plus California Lightweight Experts Murray Hoffman and Kevin Stafford on 250s. He' ll also dust off a mothballed project fairing, possibly good enough for a 5 to 6 percent top end increase , for Romero and Evans to try . However, Don say s " The man to beat has to be Kenn y Roberts . . . Having Kenn y on a motorcycl e is like a 10 hors epower advantage. " Well put. Accord ing to their company office, Motorcycle Weekly suspended publ ication as of February 4, " d ue to t he gene ral economy and the shrinking ad dollar." Champion Spar k Plug has shi fted its "Champ ion Mot or cycle Classic" road race sponsorship to Lagun a Seca for 1976. Ten tat ive purse figure is $45 ,000. The motorcycle club at Hawthorne High (Calif.) has lined up a sparkl ing group of MXers and others t o appear at their Feb ruary 26 motorcycle assembly; but t hey'd like to also invite some speedway riders. Contact Mitch Shook at home after school (213) 772-0065. J oe Foust , father of J ody Foust, died of heart failure on January 27th at his home in Ft. Worth. He will be missed by his many friends in the wor ld of mot o cross . . . AMA is taking jo b applications for an Amateur Activit ies Coordinator. People with both ad ministrative experience and a sound background in motorcycle spo rt should forward resumes to Amateur Activities Director J im Nidiffe r at P.O. Box 141, Weste rville, Ohio 43081.