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SHOT It's here, and it's hot. The new Kawasaki BX200 Motocross Bicycle. Light, strong and fast. In the famous Kawasaki tradition. Not adepartment store toy. Not an impractical ego-tripper. But, a tough all-around good times machine. Around the neighborhood, or around the track. The BX200 is made to take it day after day. With an aluminum alloy frame , motorcycle swing-arm design, adjustable shocks , competition knobby tires, l-piece crank, un-sprung Kavlasaki Florida four falls to Tony and Bob The fourth round of the Flori da Winte r-Series at St. Pe tersb urg ended wit h th e now famili ar names of Tony DiStefano and Bob Hannah taking th e laurels. Di Stefan o regained th e series p oints lead from Jimmy Ellis, wh o finished third in th e 250 class behind Tony D. and Kawasaki mounted Jimmy Weinert. T he 250 class enjo y ed the closest racin g of th e series so far with five ride rs finishing under a blanket. Yo ung Bo b Hannah continues his am azing domination of the slightly less star-studded Open class with his fourth straight win . Su zuki 's Steve Stackable and Yama ha 's Rick Burgett co n t in ue to tum in carbon co py res ults wee k after week w ith second and t hird. Complete story next week. • front forks , adjustable MX seat and lots more. Dave Clinton has proven how tough this bike is. He powered the BX200 to the Points Championship and N umber O ne Plate in both American 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. lets the goodtimes roIL pedd ingbikes• Texas MX Championship delayed The Texas Moto cro ss Champio nship series report ed las t week to be starting in March has be en delayed until June. The re aso n for the del ay is a schedu ling conflict wi t h t he AMA Super-Cross series. AMA ru les do not allo w a ri der to compete in a non-AMA eve nt within 48 hours afte r racin g a san ctio ned event. The first two rounds of the Texas series were schedu led to begin the da y after the Houston and Dallas indoor races. The series stan ds with Mosier Valle y Uun e 20 ), Lake Whitney Uune 27 ), CyClerama Oul y~ 4 ), Austin Uuly 11) and Rio Bravo Uuly 18 ). These are not AMA races, but an informal organizatio n of promo te rs wh o have been the b ackbone o n Texas motocross. Bloody February It seems that the crowd-pleasing "U.S. vs The World " international test match series is a casua lt y of bureaucrat ic infighting, as the AMA moves to pu t speed way on a national foot ing by requiring promoters to work through an Am eri can Spe edwa y Con trol Board. Th e ide a o f an ASCB it sel f is no t new. 'This is ho w it's done in Eng land, and the co ncep t has co me u p before in talks between AMA and t he So uthern California SR A promoters. What is new is that AMA has withheld san ctions fro m t he p roposed 1976 test m atch series, telling the p ro mo ters, in e ffect , th at sa nc tions would be available only th rough the Board (which the AMA is now trying to structure into an Eastern an d Western Divisio n , to reflect the wi de regio nal differences in speedway development ). This blocks participation of FL\ l-lice nse d European riders ; putting a squelch o n this year's races. The FIM ha s poin tedly as ked t he AMA wh y it and the SRA promo ter s aren 't ge tting along; an d apparen tly it was th e F IM that circulated stories to tha t effect among the Eur opean sp eed way pap ers. An ASCB meet ing was he ld Feb ru ary 7 without th e So Cal promoter s represen ted , in whi ch it was decid ed to ban nitro and st andari ze on 19-in ch rear wheels in 1977. New DepartmentDates & Data We've alway s needed a p lac e (o utside o f Calen dar ) to spo tl ight entire series of race s promoted by var ious sanct io ning orga ni za tio ns, and co m bine t he sched u le listing with a bri ef rundo wn of pertinent rul es th at apply to each sched ule of eve n ts. lien ee, "Dates & Dat a " , begin ni ng this week o n page 3 \. • Adirt bike makes a better roadracer than a roadracer makes a dirt bike. 1976 Yamaha YZ Owners Are you having ha nd ling problems with your 250 o r 400 m od el? T ry o u r Terry Kit front end unit. It w ill yo ur s t r a ig hten ou t ha ndlinq problems. 90 day money ba ck gu ararucc $30.00 Dea le r o r D irect ~ -. '~ ~ ( ,', /' * fJ:j ; / Big Swap Meet Style Sale « * Accessories S treet & Di rt Warehouse Cleanup New/Used * Odds/E nds Hund reds of goodi es at low, low prices or make offers! Tanks , seats , handlebars, ti res, o il, repai r man uals, too ls, paint, shocks, pisto ns: filt ers, ex hausts, man y, man y mor e! at our new store Ra cecra fters Intern a t io nal 7801 Canoga Ave., Canoga Park. CA 213 -999 -2811 or 876·3600 5