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$155, or just over $75 for the Duck. George added however, in a pressday conversation with Papa, that several additional donations were received bringing the total closer to $100. Here's a tip of the Cycle News helmet to the restaurant owner and former del racer. (Be sure to stop in sometime and check out the racing photos on the Outpost Cafe wallsl) Husqvarna has done some experimenting with a watercooIed 250cc machine, but don't expect a production model in the next year's line up. Bob Hamm of CORVA and CORPAC was handing out day·glo stickies at the B·to- V start and finish points last weekend. Out of gas? (they said) Burn an environmentalist. Contact CORPAC at 1900 Point West Way, Sacramento, CA 95815 for info. "We were pretty satisfied at the way the whole weekend turned out," said BLM Riverside .Assistant District Manager Bruce Ottenfeld, when asked for a comment on Thanksgiving Weekend activities. "There was no further resource damage in areas A and B." Ottenfeld said the BLM estimate on rider attendance at the B· to-V trail ride was 500, of which 25% rode on the DWP powerline road, and the other 75% a voided the closed areas by using existing roads through Afton Canyon and Rasor Ranch on the south side of the freeway. Papa's friend Coyota returned to the Alvord Road site, traditional starting area for the B-to-V migration. after trail riding to Las Vegas and spent several hours going over the area picking up trash. All totalled, he came up with less than one half of a normal garbage bag's worth of trash, and some of that was "six to seven months old." One of the things he did find was a license plate for a trailer, with the registration yat to expire. Call us here at Cycle News, 213/427-7433, identify the plate, and we'll put you in touch with the Coyote. Presstime news from The Superbikers promoters shows that Bel-Ray has pitched in $2,000 contingency money for first place. That brings the pursel contingency total to $36,000. Peter Collins, one of Britain's top speedway stars and a former World Champion, has just returned to England after winning the Kuwait Speedway Championship. Collins will leave for the U.S. immediately. Gerrit Wolsink is awaiting delivery of a bike that's being flown in by Maico for The Superbikers race. Champion Spark Plug Company will furnish the outstanding crystal trophies, worth several hundred dollars, for the top thrtt Superbikers. Complete coverage of the event in next week's Cycle News. 6 Team Yamaha's Mike Bell and Rex Staten raced in the Nov. 24 Stefan's Summer Superbowl of Motocross taking the on.two spots before a crowd of 12.000 excited motocross fans. Summer7 Yep, that's what's happening right now "down under" in Australia where promoter Blair Shepherd ran a test raca in Brisbane, Australia's Archemeld Astradome, capacity 15,000. Pouring rain shortened the program the consolation race was omitted and Bell took the lead on lap 10 to slop onward for the win. Staten took second ahead of Australia's best, Steven Gaul. who plans on doing some U.S. racing in 1980. Both Bell and Staten are now enjoying "holiday" at Shepherd's resort. Stefan, in case you're still wondering, is a men's hair fashion designer. "Next week." That's what Jack Penton replied when we asked him when we could get the complete scoop on his 1980 Kawasaki enduro team. Stay tuned ... Believe it or else department According to Cyde News correspondent Karl Okamoto, Mark Ingalls blew off all the competition at the Nov. 18 Sears Point AFM 200 mile endurance road race. So what7 Mark rode a 1974 850cc Norton, solo, to the overall win; that's what! Complate race coverage next week. Somebody drove a truck through the steel door at Stuart Toomey's shop on Monday night, Nov. 19, and stole exactly what they were after - Bruce Hammer's orange and black Kal-Gard sponsored TZ750. Toomey was building a set of pipes for the road racer, and had left the fairing and gas tank in another area of the shop. They took only the bike, fairing and tank; no other motorcycles in the shop were taken. Fram.e and motor number (the same) is 409·200234. There's a generous reward offered for information leading to recovery of the machine. Phone Toomey at 213/539· 4324. Steve Storz. who tuned Steve Morehead's factory HarleyDavidson machinery during the '79 Winston Pro Series, has decided against returning to the circuit full time in 1980. Instead Storz is going to open up his own shop, Steve Storz Performance, and work on "just about everything for dirt track." Steve will also be lending a hand to Ricky Graham in west coast events. The address of his new shop is 9344 Oso, Chatsworth, CA 91311, phone 213/993-3430. George Newton, owner of the Outpost Cafe at 1-15 and Hwy. 395, offered to give half of the money he collected from motorcyclists over Thanksgiving Weekend to the Phantom Duck. The only stipulation was that riders had to present a copy of George's letter which appeared in Cycle News. As it all turned out, approximately 30 meals were served, and that totalled up to Chris Pirsig. son of Robert Plrsig and a main character in the senior Plrslg's book Zen and the Art 01 Motorcycle MaIntenance, was killed on Nov. 18 in San Francisco. Pirsig was two blocks from the Zen Center where he lived when he was stabbed by his assailant, according to a San Francisco Chronicle news story. The new AMA Regional MX program gets underway early next year with three NorCal events in January. In other words, better get those rider license applications into the AMA now! The three races will also comprise the NorCal AMA Winter Series, and the first one is at Sears Point onJan. 5· 6. Then the Sfiies moves to Marysville Riverfront Park where Charlie Sexton will promote round two onJan, 1l!·I!l. Dirt Diggers North M.C. will stage a one day race on Jan. l!7. The two two· day events includes Sportsman racing on Saturday, Phone Bill Spencer at 415/961·5807 for more information. Want to ride the Seattle and Oakland Supercross races7 Five riders from the NorCal AMA Winter Series will get their chance. The top two Open Pros, the top two 250ec Pros and the top 125cc Pro class rider will be automatically seeded into the starting line-up at those two Suparcross races. Seems to have been some confusion in our AME motocross coverage just lately, In the Oct. l!8 Indian Dunes race, Tim Locey won the l!50cc Pro class, but our repon listed another name instead. Likewise, Locey's name was omitted {rom the Nov. l! AME race where he finished second l!5Occ Pro and from the Nov. 4 event where he won both the l!50cc and Open Pro classes. We are tracing back through our contrib~tor, John Rocha, and the AME to assure that the problem is remedied. Our apologies to Tim Locey and any others who may have been omitted or listed incorecdy. Keith McCarty, Bob Hannah's tuner for the past three years, will marry Vicki Daughety on April 5, 1980. Congretulations to bothl Neil Hudson, said to be Yamaha's sole entry in the l!50cc MX World ·Championships, may find getting OUt of his contract with Maico a bit hard. British· er Hudson, who placed second in the l!50cc GP championship chase this year, is ready to sign with Yamaha. However. Maico has said they will take him to court if he tries to break his contract, which has one year more to run. We got this Thanksgiving sketch from our sister publcatlon, Cycle Newsl£ast In a recent Air Express package. Quite appropriate, we thought. Who else would wear a We Don't Care How The Hell They Do It In California T·shirt but a true turkey7 Something f"tShy. Kenny Roberts earned a new nickname while In Japan recently competing in the F750 event at Yamaha's Sugo CIr· cuit. eccordlng to the British paper #/Iotor Cycle Weekly. The Japanase took to calling him "Rawfish" Roberts for Ke'my'. habit of eeting raw fish in the pita while waiting for the ra~ to stan. Kawasaki's plans of getting into the 500cc road race World Championshipl seem to be going ahead as planned. The machine, which is currently undergoing testing, is rumored to be a 500cc square-four, disc-valve, water· cooled two-stroke. It appears that the machine will be ready for the opening event of the 1980 GP season. However, Kawasaki has not yet signed any riders. Another SprIngsteen7 You bet. Chuck SprIngsteen, Jay's young. brothar, will hit the 1980 Winston Pro Series circuit with his eyes 011 Rookie of the Year honors. Although not confirmed yet. appears that he will ride under the Klotz/Wlseco banner. Springsteen hed a promising season going untl he was sidelined after sustaining e concussion and other Injuries. He finished sixth In the AMA Central Regional Championship Junior division. Nevada's Scot Harden (Hus) won overall at the San Gabriel Valley Motorcycle Club's Beatty to Vegas AMA D-!l7 hare and hound. Fellow Nevada rider Kevin Welch (C-A) had been leading the event, followed by Californians Bruce Ogilvie (Yam) and Bob Balentine (KTM) with Harden fourth. However, near the fmish, five miles of course marking had been removed, and Harden was the first to finally find the course. Ogilvie and Balentine finished second and third, with Welch back at about fifth or sixtb overall. A copy of Nostal,1a Cydes showed up on Papa's desk this week. and anything that's old or Is priced right immediately catch. the 01' boy's eye. Cycles is a classified ad book. and you caR get a free 25-word ad with your $I subscription. 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