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• II -= Speaking of rewarda, Jerry McNeal of callfomle R.clng Club h.. put up a "aub8t8ntlel reward" for Info concerning motorcycllaU who altered the couree markere at CRC's cal City to Red Mountain dez rIIce. They really screwed up an otherwIH wel~rgenlzed event and endangered live. In the proce... call 7141189-8114, daya only. l1li '~ E 00 1:' 0) ..... In the vicious rumor department, there's one going around that sez the Daytona 200 's future is full of 1000cc four-strokes. Can it be true? How do you feel about it? Let Papa know . . . he's curious, 00 M V .0 S v ;;. 0 • Z Derbi Motor Corporation of America plans to import five each of the 50 and 125cc versions of their trick ;oad racers in '79. The 125cc MXer is due to arrive in 1980. A 250cc street bike, the 2002 6V with a claimed 40 bhp, sixspeed transmission and a price tag. The Lester Wheel Co. is offering ii' new 12·month road haZ8rd policy which give. the buyer IiO% off the manufacturer's retail price. SpecIfically, any wheel phyalcally damaged becau.. of an accident, such as riding over a pothole or curb, through no fault of the wheel ItHIf will be covered by this policy. PJl Corporation has recently moved into larger quarters in the Warner Center Business Park in Woodland Hills, California. Joining the staff as , Vice President of Marketing is Chris Stephens who was formerly Director of Consumer Research with Coca -Cola Foods in Houston, TX. Their new address is 5955 De Soto Avenue. Suite 205 , Woodland Hills , CA 91~67 . 2l~ /887 ·6704 . Terry Tiernan Is now offlclelly the National Sales Manager of the BelRay Motorcycle and Automotive Lubricants Division. Tiernan will be besed out of the new B.... R.y National Sal.. Heedquert8rll, &81 South State College, Fullerton, CA. . In an ad in last week's Calendar section, a special Saddleback Saturday Motocross, offering tickets to the Coca -Cola Motocross Finals and Wheelsmith Maico gift certificates. was listed as being held on Nov. 6. A quick peek under Miss November on Papa's calendar indicates that Nov. 6 is a Monday. So , the special SSM race is actually Nov . 4. Continental Moio-sport. Club'. Four Stroke National. race ha. been re.cheduled for Dec. 10. The valves-and-cam.-only motoeross will be held at Carl.bad Raceway. For more information. contact CMC at 7141557·3323. Papa's sittin ' on a stack of checks for the people who have sent in race reports , photos and other stuff because he doesn't have their addresses . Will t he following people please let him know where you are? Papa's vowed to buy beer with any uncollected checks, and we hate it when he won 't share. Stewart Raupp, Dave Henderson, Jan Atkinson , Mario Burton , George Chester, Jean Fredette, Gary Steele. Phil Wulff and Mike Moto. • Poop (Continued from page 6) won't see the Sun for awhile . Mail can be sent to the hospital at 1400 S. Main, Room 701 , Bed 2, Ft. Worth , TX 76110 or to Husqvarna at 4925 Mercury St. , San Diego, CA 92111 , 42 Word paning through Papa's padded cell indlcat.. that CBS-TV will ..nd a film crew out to document the Phantom Duck of the D..ert's "Unorg.enlzed" TrIIll Ride for u.. In a 60 MInute show dealing with ORV use. Dre.. up nice. A '78 Maico Magnum 400 was stolen from Indian Dunes where a film crew It In the is working on the movie Dirt . The serial number is ~~61974, and the engine number is RT~~70825, The bike disappeared on Oct. 2~ and there's a $100 reward for information leading to its recovery . Call us here at Cycle News ; the number's 21~ /427 Do 74~~ . When Papa told you Ie.t week about the Richmond Rambler.' minibike grllnd prix. he wa.n't a. up to date a. he i. now. The puree i. 'not $600, but over $1,000 thank. to a generous donation from HiPoint Racing Products. All the fun happen. Friday night Nov. 3 at the Ramblers' clubhouee ground•. Also, while we're on the subject, PCP Yamaha in Sacramento is reported to be working on a "secret weapon" for defending Ramblers' minibike champ Broc Glover . Hmmmm. When word of this gets out, will Bevo Forte ressurect the 250cc 'Sa ng. powered Bultaco Tyron that Marty Tripes used to win the '75 event? Yamaha'. Bob Hannah haa posted the first official entry for the 1979 Rorida Winter-AMA MX SerIes. Hannah'. entry may entice other factory .ponsored stars to spend the month of February in RorIda doing bettie on consecutive Sundaya starting Febru.ry 4. An article entitled, Was motorcycle race helpful to desert plants' appeared in the Oct. 16 San Bernardino SunTelegram newspaper, and according to author Craig Staats. "giant motorcycle races, like the one from Barstow to Las Vegas in 1974, damage desert plants less than ordinary.weekend off· road riding." The information came from a research team working for the BLMI A party of four of Honda'. top bra.. have returned to Japan after a fact·findlng mission to Europe. The group, led by Yoshio NackemUrll, a member of the main board of directors, included top . men from the team currently designing and building the Honda racer· the , first work. GP machine to be bUilt by Honda since they quit World Champlon.hlp road racing at the end of the 1967 ....on. Word haa Honda debuting their 500cc fourstroke road racer in the '79 1.le of Man TT. The group attended the Bol D'Or 24-Hour and an Internationsl race at Englend's Mallory Park. They al.o vl.lted Frenchman Eric Offenstadt to dlscu.. the ITIOlIOCOqU8 trama used on his twincylind';5OOcc BUT racer. Look for a big international ;oad race to be run through the streets of Nice, France. on April 15 next year. That French Riviera town reportedly wants the event to become to motorcycle racing what the Monaco road race is to Formula One car racing. They'll be going heads up against the AngloAmerican races in England, but word has them prepared to dangle fat bags of money in from of the likes of Kenny Roberts and Barry Sheene to entice them to compete in Nice, Aurllio Agostini, the father of 15times World Champion Glecomo Ago.tinl, died recently at the age of 65. Mike Baldwin may spend '79 in pursuit of a world title. Mike's looking for sponson at the moment, but the machine poEbilities include 250 and ~5Occ works Kawasaki! to be campaigned outside the factory team proper. or a pair of RGSOO Suzultis. Are you there, Doug? Steve Morehead and tuner Doug Sehl _re truckin' beck from the weat coast after the Ascot National half mile. Morehead stopped In Terre Haute. Indiana, for g.., and since Sehl wes ....ping at the time, didn't bother to wake him. However, while Steve wa. out of the van, Doug got out to hit the bathroom. "When I got to Dayton (Ohio):' recalled Morehead, "I hollered for Doug to get up, but' he wa.n't there, I thought It was funny a. heck. Somehow. Doug didn't," Sehl reportedly found othar tran.· portatlon to Dayton, Darrell Shultz used Werks Performance Shocks, and Marty Tripes used Showa Shocks in the October 15 Lake Sugar Tree Trans-AMA, not Ohlins Gas Shocks, as was stated in an ad placed by Husqvarna in last week's Cycle News , •