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Don't know if our resident Free-wheeler was a bit premllture, but we hear Diane Cox got to practice at Loui sville on a Vista-Sheen Harley. Our man at East said she looked good in practice, but mechanical problems kept her from qualifying. E • t ~ This is a good news, of sorts. The Environmental De fense Fund, strapped bread, has been forced to for discontinue publication of the ORV Monitor. This particularly spiteful lit tle anti-ORV hat e sheet is not totally dead, as the Sierra Club has agreed to take over the Monitor on a trial basis . According to W/ERA' s late st bulletin, Dave Emde, Wes Cooley, Bruce Sass and Val Agostino lead the Western Region GP points as of mid-May. In the Midwestern Region, Tom Byars, Fred Spencer, Tare llo Tachi and Virgil Davenport head the stand ings. Bracket road ra cing , proposed in CN a cou ple weeks bac k, got its first tryout at Mid-America Raceways near St. Louis, Mo. May 15-16. Repor ts filtering back say it was a sm ash hit - wh ich could mean man y things . . . . Loudon's gonna be busy in June. Not one, but two tune-ups for the June 20 Duckworth/Camel Pro National. June 5-6 is a W/ERA National with " tow money" for out-of-division Expert riders. Then on June 12-13 AAMRR (the original alphabet dub) hosts a race at which AFM licenses will be honored via a ClHJP agreement between those two organizations. And then the Biker-Centennial Freedom Ride shows up for the Big One the following week. III ~ ~ ~ :l: .. .. Bengt Aberg has been campaigning a dual fo rked Bul, ala H-D, in the GP wars . Bengt says it was his idea first. rTIIE'LATEST I BY PAPA WEALEY Ascot is apparently filling its Friday nights with stock car funny-business after the attempted CMC half mile pro race in May. The last weekend in June is st ill an open date; ind icating that t he door's not shut for somebody t o come u p with a way for local AMA trackers to earn points. Th e North smoked the South in AME's annual North vs. South MX Challenge at Spillway Park, near Santa Maria, CA. jack Keese, Danny "Magoo" Chandler and Pat Richter all figured high for the North, while Bob Elliott scored o ne for the South. Story and pix in Northern Dateline nex t week, The EPA has left a comment period open until June 11 on California's application to set its own emissions standards for motorcycles. ' (The EPA has standards in the works for the whole country, coming soon .l More on th is su bject on pages 30-31 . 2 Following the Mickey Boone claiming o f the factory watercooled Yama ha at t he Michi gan 125 National severa l manufacturers are co nsidering pulling out their more exotic r acers . The facto ry rid ers will still win , but on production ins tea d of test beds, Marty Tr ipes is now riding a D&G Yamaha at local races in Southern California. His Bultaco ride went to Wayne Boyer. Helmet House (in what we hope will be the first o f man y such programs) will share some of its pro fit s with the Co mpetition Motorcyclist s' Legal Defense Fu nd. If you have bou ght or are buy ing a "Hustle r" plastic tank, shock cooler set or helmet, send the sales receip t to He lmet House, 2115 Colo rado Ave., San ta Monica, CA 90404. For every receipt they get, they 'Il send $1 to the fund. Mickey Kessler, Yamaha privateer and fonner Team Husky rider, has taken OYer Steve Wises' 125 Factory Kawsak i mount. Wise has switched to a FMF /Honda sponsored ride. AMA Speedway qualifiers for th e European semi-finals will be held jun~ 3, at San j os ~ and june 4, at Cal Expo. Both events start at 8 p .rn, Races will feat ure 32 riders on Thursday and the top 20 fro m the original starters on Friday. The rider accumulating the most poin ts will go on to England for a shot at the semi-finals and possibly on to the World Final in Poland. Scott Autrey and Steve Gresham, transplanted Americans, . now rid ing for Britis h teams will be co mpeting, as well as a host of others fro m all over the U.S. Call 408/438-32 10 fo r ticket info. With all the gusto of an S & M freak screaming, "Beat me , beat me l" the Motorcycle T rades Associat ion is welcoming EPA proposed regulat ions on aftermarket exhaust systems. Th is opens a whole new ,can of worms, especially fo r special-builders who don't happen to be part of the afte rmarket establishmen t. Honda Racin g Service Center Corporation of j ap an is sell ing 125 GP road ra cers based on CR 125 Elsinores. The RM-R Honda roa d racers co mes with a six-spee d cl ose rati o gear box, COl , d isc brakes and 25 horsepower, Tes t reports claim it to be faster than a TA-125 Yam aha. Yoshima Racin g in North Hollywood, California is the pl ace to order on e. o > 0 ~ HosPITal stop: Ron Burpo, hurt in a crash last wee k is worse 0 ff than we figured. They've got him totally immobilised at Ridgecrest Hospital, flat on his back with both arm s in the air to try to get his shattered elbows back into shape; and will be there several weeks. Drop hi m a card or a visit, huh? H~ has bu sted his ass for the deser t ri ders ; busted elbows are a rotten sort of r~ward. Ron's right-hand man, Len Edwards, has stepped in to work the ORA events, and the Snake Chase, June 6 at Cal City, is expected to go off as sched uled. The Lame Camel found The Road while stooging around up near Mon terey. But he's not gonna t~1I any bo dy . American Honda has released their version of the m ost beautiful m otorcycle ever built to the American public. But, only 2,000 of these unique beauties wiU be im po rted into th e U.S. so when Honda says it's not a bike f or everyone, they really mean it. The GL·lOOO LTD is a classic, for sure, from the beautiful deep candy brown m irror finish (with very fine gold striping) right down to the gold anodiz ed wheel rims and plated spokes. The GL·lOOO LTD has to be seen to be appreciated. For only 1300 more than a sto ck GT OOO, it's worth its weight in chrome and gold plating. .-l