Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

It's here, and it's hot. The new Kawasaki BX200 MotocrossBicycle. Light, strong and fast. In the famous Kawasaki tradition . Not department . store toy. Not.an impractical ego-tripper. But, a .tough all-around good times machine . Around the neighborhood, or around the track.The BX200 ismade to take it day after day. With. an aluminum alloy frame , motorcycle swing-arm design, adjustable shocks, competition knobby tires, I-piece crank, un-sprung . a ·SHOT Venezuela F750 flap A chaotic finish in which Gary Nixon (Kaw) and then Steve Baker (Yam) was declared th e - win ner left unresolved the official results in th e Venezuelan F750 round. Initially Gary Nixon was declared the winner after -the two IOO-mile legs which were run in steaming 100 degree heat jIater, in-the "official" results, Steve Baker was posted as winner with Nixon second overall. The results were protested by Nixon with a meeting scheduled today (March 22) to resolve the alleged scoring error in the results. Daytona winner Johnny Cecotto was a runaway winner in the first leg, but retired with ap par en t heat sickness in the second 100 miles. Suzuki works rider John Newbo ld fo llo wed the Nixon/Baker-Baker/Nixon top flacings with Michael Rougerie (Yam and John Long (Yam) filling out th e protested standings. Complete covera ge next week. front forks, adjustable MX seat and lots more. Dave Clinton has proven how tough thisbike is. He powered the BX200 to the Points' Championship and Number O ne Plate in both Arnerican 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 Kawasa i is peddling bikes. . - TV money - what's a fair share? Though riders were generally pl eas ed at the extra shot of purse money injected into the Ascot 100 lap "IT by Wide 'Wo rld of Sports, there wa s a groundswell of discontent with the AMA 's share of the $10,000 th e network paid for telecast rights. No one seemed to mind that Ben Foo te (who had done much of · the ·legwo rk) got $ 10 00, or that J .C. Agajanian would receive $3000 in a three-way split of the remainder. But most objected to the AMA ge tting an equal $3000 o f the TV money , asking wh at the association had done to earn it. The AMA o ffice adm itted to some embarrassmen t that the actual selling job on the telecas t had been done by the Ascot promoter, but went on to point out that the three-way ' sp lit of proceeds from sale of TV righ ts (promoter-r acers-san ct ioning body) is part of th e normal sancti o ning agreemen t an d: common to most race-sanctio ning bod ies , NASCAR being cited as fai rly typical. AMA 's Dave Despain said , "I kn ow this is a hard co nc ep t to sell to the guys wh o lay it on th e line each race, bu t this is ho w it has to be. " Historically, the Al\IA and other sanctio ning bodies have go tt en deeply inv ol ved in the sale/pro mo tio n of broad cast rights in order to upgrade th e cali b er o f T V cove rag e , and to avo id racing be ing "sold cheap '.' to the ne tw o r ks. PARTS World's largestinvenlory lor lIalian molorcycles Rebu ill Engine Elch.nges On the line Next wee k, th e Supercross war mo ves to Pontiac , Michi gan fo r a two day s tan d while in Southern California the Two Day Qu alifier Seri es co me s to roost near California Cit y. · An d if our carrier pigeon isn't shot downover Cuba, we 'll _be able to te ll yo u who re ally won the Venezuelan 200 road race. In the fea ture department, the suspense mounts. Will M..X Cat buy his own used Hastevama o ut of the Want Ads? Will we do a giant spread on Nixon and Sheene? Will we run another dynamite ' gas shock shootout? COSMO,.0 1l1• • MO lOIs. 'le Ha tb or o POI 190 40 215 672 9 100 rep. a reas avaa. .Carnes Cyde Shop 8459 Foot hill BII

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