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It's here, and it's hot.The new Kawasaki BX200 front forks, adjustable MX seat and lots more. Motocross Bicycle. Light, strong and fast. In the Dave Clinton has proven how tough this bike -famous Kawasaki tradition. Not a department ' is. He powered the BX200 to the Points Cham- . store toy. Not an impractical ego-tripper. But, a pionship and N umber One Plate in both Amertough all-around good times machine. ;;;~ ican and Nation~ Bicycle AssociaAround the neighborhood , or around the tions. And that s tough, track. The BX200 ismade to take it day after day. Get on the BX200 today, only at your Kawasaki dealer. Now you With an aluminum alloy fra me, mo torcycle Kawasaki swing-arm design, adjustable shocks, competican pedal tion knobby tires, I- piece crank, un-spru ng a Kawasaki, too. lets the good times roIl. .John Player Transatlantic lfro Phy Races British beat Americans; Baker top scorer. Great Britian, by a 28 point margin, regained supremacy fro m e defending American team in the sixth annual Easter -weekend ,road race series. T he American , team held a 15 point lead after S t e ve Baker (Yam) swept both 1egs at Brands Hat ch April 16 with Kawasaki is peddling bikes. ..... ... 0.. <:: .,Ken n y Robe rt s (Yam) and Barry Sheene I (S.u :') swapping second and third. The British team made a co meback at ·).1anory Park on April 18 where Sh eene "!lc;l Roberts split wins in the two legs. j'or m id-field placing by the American team allowed Britain a one point advantage. Ilm~a.ke r and Roberts finish 1-2 in the .o pem n g leg at Oulton Park April 19, giving th e Americans a slight edge. The final leg was won by Baker, but Robert" ~hed while second. If Roberts had not crash ed and the rest of the Am erican team remained in position, th e series would have been a draw. For his performance, Steve Baker was awarded the Man of the Series troph y. Complete co verage to co me . O!cotto scores the francs johnny Cecotto (Ya m) , Steve Baker . ,Xam) and Yvon Duhamel (Ka w ) went ! ...~-3 in t he MotoJournal 20 0 April II, the latest event to be billed as the "World's Ri chest Road Race ." Ce cotto demolished th e opposition on the Pau l Ricard circu it in Southern France , seooping up 52 0 ,000 and knocking 3 .3 co nds off Duhamel's lap re cord. Story to co m e. BlM den ies three B-to-V bids La st w ee k the ' Bureau of Land Management, after some internal ou l-searching, denied three application or point-to-point co m pe t it io ns (the ra ce itself and two enduros) in the ar stow-to-Las Vegas co rr id or . The b ur eau , as last year , cited insufficient manpower and /or funds for a "s ignific an t enviro nmen tal analysis. " The bureau co nt in ues t o main lain that more environmental study is req u ired be fo re a rac e permit can be issued. (Alt ho ugh the bureau crats find themselves stumbling over thei r own ftrbiage, as when 'o ne spo kesman told C, "The law is ver y clear and very hard to define, " How's th at again?) Bureau spokesmen, in citing the ne ed for new studies, d id ad mit t ha t an earlier study (which claimed a 90% reduct ion , in ,small animal population af t er the 1974 race) was "not accurate." . e California office (in Sacramento) t.he bureau has expressed a desire to i ntify at least o ne long-distance point-to-point racin g co rrido r, but again, they're tying it t o a bid for more money. "We're trying to budget for it in the coming year ." e San Gabriel Valley MC, District' 37 ra cers, and individual riders are still mulling thei r reaction. RM Suzuki Fork Conversion Kits Proven; these k its will out perform the finest Euro pean made forks. Total replac eme nt of I n n a rds insures dampening perfecti on. Designed to elim inate that mus hy feeling and th ose jarring jolts at the end of travel. 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