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regarding stadium events is satisfactory and no official sanction for a serie is warranted. The calendar i already too crowded with races which we must uppon.'· Starting with the Springfield Mile on Saturday. October 13. Stroh Brewery. maker of Stroh's. Stroh Light, Erlanger and Signature beer. will become a major sponsor of Camel Pro Series mile races. Stroh has posted a rider point fund of 810.000 for the Springfield Mile, the concluding round of the '84 Camel Pro Series. The winner at Springfield will pocket 85.000, with 83.000 going to the runnerup, and 82.000 to the third-place finisher. In 1985. Stroh will award the Stroh Cup plus a 850.000 point fund with 820,000 of that going to the Camel Pro Series mile race champion. The October 13 Springfield Mile plus six mile Nationals in 1985 will be taped for future network telecast by the Peter Starr Production Co. of Los Angeles. Cagiva will show its 1985 models LO the press on October 10, according to a company spokesman. The motocross line includes a repli-racer WMXI25 based on Corrado Madii's GP bike, and the long-awaited water-cooled WMX500 with a five-speed transmission. Some dual-purpose and trials bikes marketed in 1983-84 will bediscontinued. New LO the Cagiva line will be the Elefant, a 750cc V-twin dual-purpose machine, and in development for later introduction is a 500cc DOHC four-stroke single dirt bike. Three new street machines will be shown LO the press; their model designation and displacements unknown at this time. California Governor George Deukmejian vetoed Assembly Bill 2489, which would have established a self-funding motocycle safety and education program in the state. on September 29. In vetoing the bill, Deukmejian said. "The need for and the potential effectiveness of this bill is questionable. Motorcycle safety is but one aspect of overall highway safety." Riders wishing to urge their state assembly or senate representatives to override the veto. or to let the governor know of their displeasure, can write to either. care of the State Capitol. Sacramento. CA 95814. Motorcycle World with Larry Huffman will be aired on the USA Cable Network taning in mjd-January. The cable TV networK reaches 26.3 million homes across the country; Huffman's show is slolled for a 13week series initially and was accepted by the network due LO the show's high ratings when shown last summer on Los An/!;eles' KNBC. In anticipation of the Motorcycle World cable deal. Huffman had a four-camera crew at Willow Springs Raceway shooting the Kerker four-four and the Budweiser I Kerker Superbike 100 on September 15 and 16. Director Paul Vogel says his cameras caught Wes Cooley sliding both wheels of his Yoshimura Suzuki in turn nine. Kawasaki MOLOrs Corp. U.S.A. has refused 10 sell about 120 ATVs direct LO Drexel Chemical Co. of Memphis, Tennessee for use as promotional giveaways with truckloads of farm chemicals. A similar sale of ATCs direct to Drexel enraged Honda dealers recently; Kawasaki spokesman Mel Moore ~id the cpmpany turned .down the o ~ I"""'l lo-l Q.i ,.D o ..... Kawasaki's 1985 LTD450 twin has a water-cooled, DOHC fourvalves-per-cylinder engine with a bore and stroke of 72.5 x 55mm for an actual displacement of 454cc. There'ugear-drivencounter-balancer shaft in front of the crankshaft and a spin-on oil filter. Final drive is by beh. Look for technical details on the LTD450, GPz600R Ninja and other new Kawasakis - complete with cutaway drawings of the new GPz600R engine -next week. u KTM's new 350 enduro comes with KTM/White Power inverted front forks and a 9.4-inch floating disc with dual-piston caliper. The watercooled engine has a bore and stroke of 71 x 69mm and produces 45 bhp. Claimed dry weight is 219 lbs. Watch for details of the complete 1985 KTM line in an upcoming issue. deal because "We felt it would be a breach of our contract with our dealers." Drexel Vice President Michael Smith, who approached Kawasaki, was directed to Kawasaki dealers in his area. HosPITal STOP: Rick Johnson (the founder of Too Tech Racing; not the Yamaha factory MXer) suffered a badly broken pelvis as a result of crashing into a bulldozer while practicing at Indian Dunes. Johnson is still hospitalized; cards and letters may be sent to him at Room 672C, UCLA Medical Center. 1 0833 Laconte, Los Angeles, CA 90024. A report from the KTM factory says that newly crowned 250cc World MX Champ Heinz Kinigadner injured his shoulder September 27 at a Barcelona, Spain stadium race. He's currentl y being treated at a clinic at Inns brook, Austria. A KTM official says that JUSt the week before, Kinigadner was the winner of a "bailIe of the sports stars" television show in Austria, with competition including horseback riding, swimming and bicycling. There's no word about the extent of Kinigadner's injury. • When motorcycle salesman Mike Harlow asked his Chicago-area Suzuki district sales manager about the GSX750R report we published (Cyde News September 12) he was told that we were just "fishing," the implication being that the bike didn't exist. The GSX750R oiling system diagram shown here is just the start: next week we bring you details of the new bike, including a cutaway engine drawing. Here's to good fishing ... Rumored 1\N)T(lRCYCLE 1 y IINOOSTRY flANGES A new four-stroke motocrosser by KTM, which will feature a KTM-designed water-cooled motor, producing 42 bhp; weight will be about 220 pounds; currently in development, it will be a 1986 model. Scheduled The Women's MoBom Gregory Benjamin Williams, LO Kawasaki Northwest District Manager Jamie Williams and a wife un-named in the announcement, on September 26 in Salem, Oregon. Bom Brent Willjam Zoller, September 12, LO Pro Cycle KTMIZ Racing Products co-owner Mark Zoller and wife Tina. Fired Bassanj Manufacturing sales rep Ted Gacsi, aka Joseph T. Gasci, by Daryl..Bassani. tocross Nationals, for December 16 at Sunrise Cycle Park in Adelanto, California, by promoter Denise DeVines, 818/798-6118. $25 from the Motorcycle Industry Council, 3151 Airway Ave. Bldg. P-I, Costa Mesa, CA 92626, phone 7141 241-9251; motorcycle retailers and educational institutions get a discount price of $10. Being Tested For lawenforcement work in the Californja desert, by the Needles office of the Bureau of Land Management, a 1983 Honda Big Red three-wheeler. Moved Published The Motorcycle Industry Council's 1984 Motorcycle Statistical Annual, which covers moLOrcycle population by model type, engine size, year and state; tables of new and LOtal registrations, imports, wholesale sales and retail sales; owner characteristics, retail outlets by state; on and off-road usage, annual mileage by type, costs of operation, accident statistics and other interes~ill stuff; American All-Terrain Vehicle Association (AATVA) District-37 headquarters, to 3550 Foothill Blvd., Glendale, CA 91214, phone 8181 249-2141. Hired Bill Stermer, 37, as editor of MOLOrcycle Industry Shopper; author of the book, Motorcycle Touring and former Cycle magazine staffer; most recently a free lancer. o