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pring semester. The deadline for enIlment for the tuition-free college is an. 11, 1982. Anyone interested in e Trade-Tech course should write to school at 400 W. Washington Ave., os Angeles, CA 90015, or call 2t~/ 746-0800, extension 212, and ask for 'nstructors' Pat Owens or Hugh Maloy. Owens, by the way, donated two $25 awards to the Cycle News B-to-V III Motorcycle Road Ride and Poker Run in honor of the colelge and the enrollment drive. If you·r. in the n.ighborhood of the California Museum of Sci.nc. and Industry near the LA. Coliseum. the Sports Arena, and an obscure prlvllt8 coIIeg. named USC). drop on by and take a look at the Trade-T.ch exhibit ther•. Gracing the Automotiv. d.partm.nt·s dlJplay is non. other than a, realIve Yamaha yz motocross machine. (i.... Speaking Qf goodies for the Nov. 28 Bto-V III poker run, the list of merchandise awards is growing by leaps and hounds. Honda chipped in with ,six windbreakers and 10 hats, while Yamaha donated 12 leather belts, 10 windbreakers, 22 T-shirts and 50 Cable Lubers. Poker run fmishers will draw for their cards at the Blue Diamond Rd. off-ramp fInish area until ~ p.m., and the top three hands will receive cash prizes of $150, $100 and $50. Then all riding ticket numbers will be put in a bucket and the merchandise prizes (lots of Cycle News products plus all announced donations) will be drawn for until they're all awarded. If you haven't entered yet, don't fret. Just be at the Alvord Rd. sign-up area between 8 and 11 a.m. The Motorcycle SIrfety Foundation's main thrust in 1982 will be in the area of rider education. r.ports ,MSF Manager of Public Affai,. Bob Cremblltt. The .ffort, to be conducted mainly through deale,.. will try for better awaren.ss of .xistlng rider .ducatlon cou,..s as well as trying to increase sponsorship for more rid.r .ducation programs. Within California the MSF has a toll-fr•• number to h.lp locate motorcycl. riding courses near them. 8001952-5672. For more information about the MSF and ita programs. as w.11 as Ilow you can help get a rider education program started in your ar.a. call them at their n.w number. 301/ &-80&0. If you live in California. Washington. Oregon. N.vada or ArIzona, contact the MSPs regional office at 91~2663 .. rid.,. As of press day, fi've riders have been confInned for Maico's 1982 National motocross team, and there are a bunch of new faces there. Carlos Serrano rejoins the marque to ride 250s joined by Scott Johnson and Andy Stacy. Mickey Kessler and Gary Pustelak have been signed to ride 500s along with another, as yet unnamed, rider. With the V-8 .ngine concapt outlawed by the National Motorcycle Racing Association, V-8 advocate Russ Collins will hit the drag racing Top Fu.1 wars with - get this - a Top Fuel Gold Wing. Actually. only the cylinder heads are required from the Honda. the rest will come together from CoMins to produce an inline four. How that will be mounted in the frame is not known at this time. In the tradition of Top Fu.I. the machine will be super. charged .and run on nitro fed through injection. According to reliable source,. Suzuki and Vance-Hines Racing have signed a contract for 1982. The contract r.portedly calls for Terry Vance and Byron Hin.s to campaign Suzukis in Pro Stock and Top Fuel drag racing competition (but not in the Super Modified class, wh.r. Mike Phillips rode their bike last y.arl. as well as do the engine work on the Team Hammer .ndurance road racing .ffort. 0') ~ CN I-< CIJ ..c .8 CIJ 1981 u CIJ o It's hard to believe, but there are only three months or so before the AMA Grand National Championship/Winston Championship/Winston Pro Ser· ies begins with the Feb. 6·7 Houston Astrodome short track and TT. And speaking of same, Bill Spencer ("The Sidney Greenstreet of District ~6'" according to announcer Roxy Rockwood) will be organizing rhe annual tour from the San Francisco Bay area to Houston. Call Spencer's Mountain View Distributing for more details at 415/ 969·1682.. Dick Burleson's AMA National Championship Enduro Series title string began in 1974, the same year Burleson won his first ISDE gold medal. Interestingly. in every year Burleson won an ISDE gold medal he also won the enduro title. That's eight and eight. The Motorcycle Industry Council has recently published its 1981 Motorcycle Statistical Guide, its fifth edition of the reference work. It is 48 pages of all kinds of sta tistics covering 1980. Highlights include such info as that in 1980 there w(;re 7.4 million motorcycles in use, the motorcycle retail marketplace estimated economic value was $8.~ billion, and new motorcycles accounted for $1.9 billion. For this and more statistical info, send $5 per copy to the Motorcycle Industry Council, Research & Statistics Dept., 2400 Michelson Dr., Suite 110, Irvine, CA 92715. Suzuki dealers who recently r.turned from a trip to Japan r.port they were shown a turbocharged 650cc Suzuki. The bike is reportedly scheduled for release in '82. The new California Desen Conserva. tion Area advisory commi~ee met Nov. 1~-14 in Riverside, and our man on the scene reported that, "Things look good on the (Desert) Plan Amendments, including the Johnson Valley to Stateline (revised Barstow to Vegas) and Scirocco Summit to Parker race routes. The hoard also took a position against the transfer of any more land to State Parks and Recreation for the Red Rock State Park, and will probably vote agaiflSt such a transfer in their next meeting at EI Centro." .... 00 .... OK, Honda has a 500 turbo. Yamaha and Suzuki a 650, so what does Kawasaki have? Would you believe a turbocharged 750? "Based on preliminary budget meetings and such, I would say that we (Harley-Davidson) should have as strong a dirt track effort in 1982 as we did in 'B1," said H-D's Dick O'Brien. "I'm looking at a two rider effort and, hopefully, a bit more help for riders in the field. As of now, things look promising although I'm not ready to mention any names yet and probably won't until about December 1. You can count on one thing, we're going racilig." . In last week's coverage of the fInal round of the A-MA National Enduro Series in Tulsa, OK, it was actually Kenny Williams on a Suzuki 175 who took the overall B honors in addition to the 200cc B win. • with cooperation from the SCMA chartered VICTOR McLAGLEN MOTOR CORPS and the SILVER CITY SCRAMBLERS PRESENTS THE 3rcI ANNUAL BARSTOW to VEGAS MOTORCYCLE ROAD RIDE and POKER RUN "-'! 1," saso.oo CASHI • PLUSI Cycle News T-Shirts. v_. Umbr..... ~it' 2nd '"'~ $aoo.oo CASHI 3rd $ SO.OO CASHI end other GrtIlIt Prizes from Mejor Motorcycle Menufec:turers end oth.. Aftermerket Compeniesl ••00 Donedon per·rIcIer _101I01O_""'-' Duck at_ ~ LegeI"- _ _ AlIA I I' 'ollwa.-t Fund. Map not to scale • -i "0 Start Barstow ~ -0 i a: I __--::-T_+~ . ~~~age x Rd. No freeway exit tor • ~ ! , Alvord Rd. Union 76 Station Finish· ~:":""....""':""'--..L.::Ul:....+_----+_~--1·15 .: g ..: ~.~~-a .;_=;a: c: • • c: ~ :·g.:E~ "'Q.Of/J~ ~ a. ~~~ CD is 5 I .! Watch Cycle N _ for more information or call the Cycle N _ Offlce (213)427.7433 Registration - Saturday, Nov.mber 28, 1981 ~pens: 8 a.m. Closes: 11 a.m. Drawings at finish 3 p.m. sharp. Poker Run Directions Start and Registration - 1-15 east to Harvard Road Exit (approx. 20 mi. east of Barstow), right turn. Turn left on Frontage Road (on south side of Freeway) approximately four miles turn left on Alvord Road then across Freeway to CYCLE NEWS' m o t o r h o m e . ' First check -:- Baker, California (approx. 40 miles from Alvord Rd.) Check in by taking Baker Exit Road to Kelbaker Road (1 st stop sign). Turn right, go past 1-15 on ramp to CYCLE NEWS Check In. S.cond Check - Jean, Nevada (approximately 65 miles from Baker). Jean. off ramp to Pop's Oassis and CYCLE NEWS Check inside the casino. Additional alternate check at Sloan, Nevada. Finish - Las Vegas, Nevada (approx. ·20 miles from Jean). Blue Diamond off ramp left to Union'76 Truck Stop and CYCLE NEWS Poker Run Finish under the Union 76 sign. 3