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IINSIDE ~ Dallas Short Track .f: We will all look forward to re turning to the desert soon and again be a mon friends. 6 Roberts repeats in the u n-d o me Phoe nix 250 Nat' l. . ' Constructive criticism 8 Weinert wins, Tony 0 wows 'e m Great American MC . . . . .10 Rock on Rokon Works t iddlers , .12 Fancy factory flyers International Dateline . . ,14 Imola, Swiss GP, Austrian 125 GP Tecate 500 . . , 16 Bustin ' through Baja Western Hotline .. ... , . ,18 West Coast moto madness Northern Dateline 26 Becker, Williams and Garrett Opinion : : : '. ,30 Twilight in the h uman zoo ' Daytona ta les 32 Women and Novices Montesa VA 125 . ... , .36 The return of the European one-two -five Central Pipeline ., 38 Lockhart, Austin and Colorado ON THE CO VER: King Ken ny captures another Camel crown. Fleeting photo by Dave Nielsen. • Sharon Clay to n. Pu bli sh er Robert L. Nor Vette , Genera l Man ager Edna Mewt on , Se c re tary to Publ ishe r Advertisi ng Lind a Clark, Ad vertising Mana ger Chris Kotbet, Adv er tising Assis tant Editoria' Lane Campbell. Senior Ed itor, Jud y w eiset. Editor, Boll i S CUll . Editor. Art and Production Catherine Lampton, Art Director; Barbara Mizuno, Advertising Art Director; Dennis Cox; Lab Tec hnician i Marion Hatashita, Typographer, Pam Grant. Assistant Typographer. Circu lat io n Rheba Smith. Manager: Pam Green and Callie Smi th, Assistan ts. . Accounting Gaylene Zaionz', Manager;Judy Klinger, Mike Klinger, Jeanne Hammond, AssisUnu: Tom Hunter. Rhonda Van Doren. Credit Department. Sa,..ices & Support Bill Runyan. Tom Luehmann. Juanita Blanton. re ceptionist. Weot . P.O. 80x 498, Long Beach, C'" 9080 I. (2 13) 427 -7433; L.s , Lin. 636·8844. (Td . x 656-330) East P.O. Box 805. Tuck ." G... 30084. G... 30084. (404) 934-7850. [Te le x 5 42-777) What'd YOU ' Ready, aim, fire Congratulations! We thoroughly enjoyed your takeoff in the April Fools Issue. Of course, you realize that' this means a retaliation is in order. Keep your eye on the August issue "o f MC fo r o ne of our typical tasteful reponses. Until then, keep your lizard in the shade. RICK SIEMAN Editor, Modem Cycle AMA No. 32, Motocross Don't mention it Thank you No. 147 (?) for helping me up that God-awful hill at the Candy Ass. No.97Y Subscription One' ye ar . second 'class mail $1 2.50: 2 years. second class mail. 122.50: 3 years, second class mail. S30.00; Single copy price, 50 cents. 4 Copy righ t Cycl e News. In c. 19 76 . Trade mark registered U.S. Patent Office. AI1 rights rese rved, Published weekly except the first and las t week of the calen da r year by Cyc le Ne ws. ln c., P.O. 80x 49~, tong Beach. California. .. Second class postage paid at tong Beach, CA . 9080J. Edi torial stories. cartoonk.. photos. etc. are welcome. Ad d resse d . ' sta mped envelope assures return of u np urc hase d edi to rial m a tt er . Reprin ti ng in whole or part only by permission of the publishers. Advertising rates and circulation information will be sent upon request . Sec S.R .D.S . Robert's rules of order Let me sec~nd Mr. Ashbury's dis may over the cover of the March 23 edition. I don't think it was funny either. I keep Cycle News in m y living room. Great · rag. but bad cover. .P.S. The March 30 cover was au ta sigh t! J O E STEARNS Tujunga. Ca lif. Straight answer " Does anyone.... have a m etho d of keeping the chain fro m rubbing on the shock spring o f the Suzuki RM 370? LAVERN GARTON San Bernardino, Calif. When the stock chain get s out of adjustment it will slap against th e shock spring, but will cause no damage if call me!? properly adjusted. If you have a persiitent problem th e'n you should check for a bent rear axle or swingarm . : . Ed. Another trouble maker Re: Dennis Ashbury 's letter about the March ' 23 cover illustration. His letter, although the only one, must represent an awful lot of opinions because ' I heard numerous negative comments on the cover all week. Including one much respected and known race promoter's feelings that it was negative public relations. And we cannot afford to ' be humorous at the expense of our image. DAVE DESTLER· 0-37 No. IS ' The family that plays together I would like to than k the ambulance crew, a nd all the wonderful people who assisted m y family at the ORA European Scrambles March 21st, when my wife, brother and father were invo lved in a co llision while refueling my bike. Rich ard ; m y brother is reco ver ing in t he Vic t o r Va lley Hospital in Victorville af te r undergoing su rgery for a ru p tured sp lee n and d am aged kidney. Debbie, m y wife is rec uperating we ll wi th to m ligaments of the rib cage, and m y Father jim is d o in g fine with a new tooth and a very so re head. It is comforting to know there's always people willing to lend a help in g hand wh en disaster strikes. A special thanks to the doctor ne ar the scene of the accident for his assistance. I just couldn't contain myself from writing no longer. I'm a good frien d 0 that good fellaw you raciests called da'Greek and make deflamitory remarks against in a various recent issue of you rag. Knowing this swell person personally myself, I' z know him to be ., much worse particular then youd IX him up to be. He sleeps on the ground, under his '36 Willys three-quarter ion truck and scraps food from the dogs of the mechanics of .u ns ponso red riders. In no way does he travelst amongst the higerarcy of rnotordome as you earstwhile discribe . You guys is Jlo better than Superchunky in the way, yo u bedwiddle the fine sport '0 m o t o cro ss with noaccounts such as the' Greek. . When you all gonna start! printing some down to earth stuff like, the m o ld Billy Barkfeather verses j o hn DeSoto race repo rts, an d road tests of Ru ben sandwiches a nd Ho nda killer 50s. It's ti me you all go t back to th e true dirt of m o to cro ss and the greater stuff of which it is derivided of, the n this senceless triffledo m of k issin' the baxk side of Greeks, Dagos, Waps, ·Dar k ies and Bazzers, I wouldn't even let my friend Dickie Miller wash yer van. tol . If you print any of this letter .. . and I know your too chicken livered to print criticzern, only Biker got that kinda balls (now that's a good paper) . .. I jest wanna say that somma them folks you do got working fer you really do good work and should get raises. Like them' type setters in that little root;J~ Anybody that can make words go uphill. and m ake cents is OKay Dokay in myI book. Also them too c u te girls in the1 pasties room. The y d o the neatest tricks with their hands when it comes to do , stickin stuff to paper and making blank pages look go o d . Two bad there married. Then that co ck y fella in the dark-room. How he makes your outta phocus pictures look go od all the tim e is beyond me. specially when that otlie~ paper back East screws up the same pictures so bad. If you don't give him "raise , a t least give him a pet Owl to keep hi m company in his little room. Well 1m tired of tellin you guys how to improve: yo urselves. If you ai nt go t no respl'H fo r self im p ro vem en t , then just go pee off! :u ~ jOSH\JA DRIVIN' McCOY. In The Dee p South ni Hot rod I read in CN abo ut some "eutectic'~ nickel-bronze brazing rod you used. I'D:! interested in welding up a frame an'd would like to buy so me. Is it actuailY i made by Eutectic Co? ~ j . NAKAMURA Houston, Te x? c The stuff Paul used on the project bik'V is made by Me Co.. available at welding supply outlets. It is Me No . 130 and is supplied prefluxed or is used bare with' Me No. 430 flux. Paul says it's:1l.. high -nickel, high-siluer rod with uniqit-l two-temperature properties. In . iJil 1700-1750 degree range, it behaves like an ordinary brazIng rod. Above 1750. it flows and behaves like a silver solder. The claimed tensile strength is up tlr, 130,000 psi. On the project bike, the brake pedal made with this rod has bee .. bent and rebent several times (it fouls the stock kickstarter} without failur i, Paul also thinks Eutectic Co. makes a sim ilar rod called Eutectic N o: 16 ... L.C. n a ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ :''lO~ " The views expressed in th is column and . columns appearing on the following pages are solely those of the authors and do not necess arily reflect the official position of Cycle News West or Cycle News, Inc. 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