Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

set a re co rd in August in the S-A F- 1300 class (Str eam lin er , Modified engin e, Fuel). First run Saturday, with _a 26 _ tooth sprocket and two cylinders not working, th e Bird did 227. After changing to a 2 7 tooth sprocket for the short er course, and one o f the two lam e x cylinders be ing fi ed, the Bird co uld n't : run again b ecause at the starting line there was more than the slight breeze tolerable by th e skittish m achine. Sunday it ran 251 with one cylinder st ill not firing. Although a number of the car drivers came from California, the rest of the mo torcylists were all Utahns. Avid street r ider Dick Spencer from Garland stripped his GL-I000 to go 119, glad be cause it wa s four mph fas ter t han his son in his Camaro cou ld 'm an age. He put his Windjammer b ack on and dro pp ed to 104. Ellis Lehmberg of Lehi used his re cord-holding Kaw 500 triple, turning 137 and 118, finally sm o kin g a piston. Ron Benoit brought his '74 RD350 from Richmond . He pu t 30,000 street mile s o n it b efore converting to an XT 500. The RD is now used for drag ra cin g, ported a n d with rods and bearings from a TZ3 50 , 28mm Mikunis replaced with 32mm, cafe ra cer tank .an d rear fairing. Ron tried to get it dial ed in for Bonneville but h adn' t su cce eded in getting an y higher speeds than in the drags when he se ized it. Ed Wo llu ms of Bountifu l cam e with a 50cc wh ich h e built for a recor d try, going a promisin g 5 8 to start b ut thereafter not do ing as well I did a run-what-you-bru ng number with my daughter's n ew used '73 Yam TX500. Since it had no th ing extra on it when she bo ught it I had only to remove the mirrors. It wasn't freshly tuned and the bars w ere too wide to tuck qu ite right . So I figured my 97 mp h was o kay since Cy cle Guide on ly . tested th at model at 10 8. Running your own b ik e at a docu ment ed h igh speed (like many vehicles m y speedo was 10% optimistic) gives yo u a little feeling for what Kenny Roberts is saying when he complains ab out racing at Day tona at 180, for only $500 or $ 1000, yet. Motorcycling helped two high quality cars at the meet. Teague and Bentley . from California bought the mold from th e Norton Streamliner body from Wixom when they were going to junk it, saving them wind tunnel costs. The body must work okay for them since their car was the meet 's speediest vehicle at 277. . _ Don Vesco's brother Rick of Brigham City also uses two TZ750 motors, in his handsome 444 Streamliner made over from their . father's race car. The m ot ors weren't getting enough air so the car ran better without the engine hood despite the loss of streamlining. - The club does an excellent job of ru~ing the Speed Trials. Their old cloc k held th ings up a bit Saturday . night ' responding to later afternoon sun going in and ou t of the clouds. A loaner arr ived fro m the California supplier who was to h ave sent them a new one already. It wo rk ed flawlessly on Sunda y. Rain d am p ened the track . Saturday morning, dried up qu ickly. Sunday was warm and clear and.jhe track in fine shap e. Bonneville . The fut ure of the Speedway is clouded by politics. Mos t o f the land is BLM managed, some owned by the state a nd some b y Kaiser Alum inum and Chemical. BLM is now managing th e Spe edway. 'T h e club feels th at they are slow to act an d wh at money th ey p ut in to it doesn 't go very far . The st ate. Too ele County , and th e town of Wendover are mindful of ec ono mics. Kaiser is big business in that part of Utah. A stu dy being cond uc ted by the U.S. Geo logic al Survey, ' to be finished n ex t Sep te mb er, is designe d to show whether Kaiser 's b rin e pu mp ing can be proved to be affec ting th e t ra ck. This year mana gem ent of the tr ack, which need s expensive p rep arati on each hung on slender fin an ces, yea r, Con tr ibu tion s in money, lab or or equ ipm ent were made by the USFRA, BI..'\ , 1 Tooele 'Cou nty , City of I P~nnzoil P~tfotm~tAwatd MIKE BELL So uthe rn Califo rnia's Mike Bell flashed to a Class 21 victo ry at the 1976 editi on of SCORE 's Off-Ro ad World Championships. Averaging better tha n 40 mph on his Long Beach Honda prepared Husqvarna 250, the yo un g MX ace outran th e field t o finish Num ber One with Pennzo if 2-Stro ke Motorcyc le Oil. More rece nt ly , Mike rode his Honda 440 to victory in th e U.S. National 4-Stroke Cham pionship's using Pennzoil 4-Stro ke Motorcycle Oil. 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