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ITH ELATEST P - • . 1.0 r--- en BY .P PAWEALEY A Hot dawgies, "R"·rated MXl You get a five-minute clIp of CRC at the Dunes Free when you watch the movie "Porn Porn Girls" at your favorite drive-in. If you SoCaI MXers come up for air long enough, you'll see your dirty J ofas on fil-um. Responding to continued rider input on the subject, Pat Manning announces in advance t hat at CMC's October17 Ontario road race, Cafe and Super Cafe will denfinitely ab ide by the rules . Ru les? Did he say rules? Jim Davis Motosport has a free shouldergu ard 'for " Collarbone" · Mitch Mayes, and a fre e set of shin and kn ee guards (to replace her worn outones) for Diane Cox if he can find her address. :~ Confirmed: Honda's Rac ing Serv ice Center at Suzuka is bu ilding Elsinore·based RC125 road racers for customers (mostly home market,so far ). What 's more, they' re reportedly read y to undertake " any commercially feasible pro ject" fo r a cu sto mer. I d idn't know that . For your files - as of June, 1976 278,243 vehicles had registered with California's OHV ( Green Stickie) program. As of August, the OHV Fund had taken in 6.76 million dollars and spent just over 6.5 million, much of it around Sacramento. One glaring exception was the 2.2 million spent on the Ocotillo Wells area. Los Angeles County, which has contributed the bulk of the fund , is stiIl waiting. Fremont Raceway cancelled it s Wednesday night short t rack series earlier this month due to lo w t urno ut. Bart Barf ly and a bunch of his beer budd ies have gone together to try to fin ish out the short track high point seaso n wit h a Friday night series, . tenta t ively set to start October 1. Call (4 15)327-446 1 for confirmation . While the Lame Came l was at Honda J apan 1earnin~ magic tricks, Soichiro's No . One son (only son, we're told) who has his own race prep business, was over here visiting with AI Baker and his Dad. By the Bye, AI's Dad rides the neatest olive drab M39 BSA on off-Sundays . . . CAMAD, California's four district AMA conference, has chosen off the top 10 TT scramblers in each district in six classes to meet at Tu lare, October 2the ven ue to be the State TT champ ionships. Denn is Spence and John Tavis have co nfirmed th ey'll attend. Speaking of KeIly and Balentine, they'll be teaming for this year's Baja 1000, plus all the big off-road races next year. Spea king of t he fairground s remember to registe r and vote No on Prop. 13 (th e dog racing proposall . Save San Jose from going to the dogs . D-36 Board presiden t Bill Trumbull resigned at the last Board meeting, citing differences in ph ilosoph y (With who m?). Bill will remain as a Director. 2 A drawing for start position at the Cal City GP was held the night before Sunday's race . Previous winner Tom Kelly got the fo urt h row, favorite Bob Balentine will be in the sixth row. Each row leaves 15 seconds apart and the event is timed. Morgan Malocco will be in t he first row. eN goes to Japan! Cycle News was honored to have been one of five t op publication s whose ed itors were hosted/to a first-ever glimpse inside Honda's Asaka Resear ch and Development Center plus a first riding impressio n of the impressive RCB1OO0 end ura nce racer at the Suzuka race circu it (and those are just the highligh ul . In futu re issues, you'll see more of th e RCB1000 (and less of 01' Fat s in t he helmet!; learn why a RC250 works motocrosse r is something like a came l; see what Honda R&D does with 28 dynos at once; see Super Cubs coming off the line at a rate of one every eight seco nds ; be amazed that th ree men can machi ne 450 four-cvllnd er crankshafts per shift without touching one ; find out what "inchi ki" means; and learn how the Rich Cox Memorial Valve got its name. Stay glued . Return of the Indoor Riots ! Set for October 16, the San J ose indoor short track series gets underway at the Expo building on the fairgrounds. ORA announced formation of a "Junior-Senior" class fo r those 30-40 years of age. Forty and over will remain in the Senior class. Th is will be next year, of course. Just the th ing to get the Lame Camel off the streets and out to the dez , whe re all sane , fun·loving folks congregate. In DRA's Open class point standings, Bob Balentine has a 900-point lead, give or take a few. The size of his lead would put a rider in the top ten if the points belonged to him. Phoenix Mult iple Use Advisory Board (BLMI meets October 8 at the Granada Royale Hometel in Phoen ix, Arizo na with ORV's on its mind , also. The meeti ng which starts at 9:00 a.m. is open for public comment if you not ify them first. Send notice (or written statement if you can't be there) to Advisory Board Chmn., clo Dist. Manager, BLM, 2929 W. Clarendon Ave., Phoen ix, Az. 85017. Now that tea m racing is a set feature of SaCal Speedway, the promoters have deci ded that we're ready for ano ther fixt ure of the Euro pean scene - Best Pairs competition, mat ch ing the high-scori ng two-man un its from the year 's t eam comp eti on. There will be th ree suc h races , San Berdo o September 29, Irwin dale Septe mber 30 , an d Costa Mesa October 1. Steve Baker (Yam) won the Mallory Park Race of the Year by 17.6 seconds over Barry Sheene (Suz ) with Pat Hennen (Suz) third, Barry Ditchburn (Kaw) fourth and Ago (Yam) fifth . Gary Nixon was fo rced out by mechanicals. Maico works rider Graham Noyce may have to pass' the first two rounds of the Trans-AhfA if Britain's ACU (sort of a limey AMA) refuses to release him from the final two rounds of the Brit ish National Championships. Graham has already clinched his National Title, thus qualifying him to contest the 1977 Grand Prix ro unds. Bultaco is said to be considering a " producti o n" replica of Angel Nieto's championship· winning 50cc road racer. No word on planned quantit ies or prices. MX Cat Storyline Dept: Local canyon racer is in court for breaking the laws of man and nature. Judge says, "This ticket says you were doing 60 down Stunt Road. I don't think that's possible." Instead of replying, "Right on, Yeronner, that cop was trying to it to me, "the dude squawks, "Whadya' mean impossible? There's stick some pla ces on that road I can do 701" Us boy racers got our pride, y'know. Thutty dollers or thutty days .. . Vale Dist. Mult iple Use Ad visory Board (BLM) meets September 30 at the District Office, 365 " A" St. West, Vale, OR . 97918. BLM Organ ic Act and new ORV regs on the agenda. Public is inVited , so drag along yer' old Cyc le News and Ask 'em a few ques tions. At the Puente Hills Mall recently there was a mo torcycle display that was put up by local deale rs. While the ordinary folks didn't know it; the disp lay had copies o f Yamaha's XS 750 shafty, Kawasaki 's KZ 650 and KZ 1000 both with do ub le overhead cams - with the piece de la resistance being BMW's RSIOO, the part icular model in the display wearing can dy apple red. Drool, dro ol. . Racing Service Center, a wholly-owned Honda subsid iary at Suzuka. is bu ilding the Elsinore- based RC 125 road racer for customers, mostly in the home market. Little-known fact: RSC stands ready t o undertake" any commercially feasible project" for a customer. Anybody wanta' buy an RCB500 roadracing single ? Quick lunch for you would-be wor ks MXers: Honda beef jerky. Yup, Soichiro owns a cattle ranc h. He's officially retired, retaining only t he t itle of "Supreme Advisor" to Honda Motor Co. Betcha they take his advice , too. Almost too late, but here goes - Doc Blevins writes that land closures are imminent in the Lassen Nat'l . Forest in Northern California. The following schedule of public meeti ngs just made deadline : Burney, Veterans Memor ial Hall Sept. 23 ; Susanville, Lassen College Sept. 24 ; Cheste r, Veteran's Memor ial Hall Sept. 28 . All begin at 7 p.m. Get to these meetings, find out how the proposed closu res and regulations affect you, and be prepared to debate spec ifics with the Sierra Clubbers. Take a TL125 alo ng with you, if you've got one . Top-ranked Midwest Junior Garth Brow waved off what might have bee n the second fastest time trial of the evening at Toledo, then proceeded to blow his engine in the second attempt. Police recovered Mike Kidd's stolen van (see Toledo Nat 'l story, p.6); but it was empty. Missing are his Harley XR750 set up with Electron carhs (SIN ClOO69 H5l, his 1976 Bul Astro with cut frame, moved-up motor and laydown shocks (SIN HB 164-00-0221 and his XR75 pit bike (SIN Honda 583001458). Any info on the missing machinery (or pieces thereof) contact the Toledo, Ohio pol ice or call Mike's shop. 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