Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

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Carburetor $49 .95 C ustom bright p o li sh Id lin g screw, a d d $5.00. Aw& .. fi nish, add $10 . F rom your local dealer or "J" (9)~ Pos a Enterpr ises, 7 530 E . Jackson Paramount. Ca. 90 723 (21 3) 634 -3412 D & R CYCLE, Inc. DON & VIVIA N 7181 WESTMINSTER AVENU E WESTM INSTER, CA L IFO RN IA (114 ) 894-2623 714/870-5243 MAVR C 'I K Mot orcycle Corporati on 172 Freedom Avenu e Anaheim . California 9280 1 ~~ 'v~~ ~ C:i.;:,~ . ,Jq,v ~ q, • ~ ..,~ .. .:.' ~ . ' ~~ ~~ g~ '" ~O.;:, O ...<::> v 714) ,28-8638 " §~ . ~ .. • ~+'v ' '«- new& use ESO SPEEDW BIKES LA.P . P .G.'s& edsCy c l e s S . Ma in ~ Fa ll • 1_okt,Callf.92028 DUCAT I ' . •• . ~. '~ r '. ,. Dea ler Inquiries Invited Phone: t#. 29.9SW::: ~$ (805)·824-4261 , Deluxe Mode l $34.00 pair 4" travel w/ 60·90 progress ively ............. .. .•.•................ .. . ~u.\\t~~_ _~~,wt , Bas~~!?~I · ~;~:~1 springs r Sprh; g Rat ios from 6St to u s t In st ock Shocks come with 7St as st andard spare springs SS.OO pair. Complete rebui Id kits SS.OO ea. 1W Extensi ons S3.00 pro Sea ls S1.S0 pair Please specify motorcycle make & model. M ount type r e~ uir e d. Eye at eac h end or eye and clevis ty pe. Now in stoc k the now "Mavrlek" S·way adjustable ;,eavy duty s hocks, rebuilda ble lustr ous chrome springs. 111//" or 12%" length a val lable. Center to ce nter of eyes 3',," tra vel. We Pay Postage on Prepaid Orders. California Res idents add 5% for sales tax NOW •.NEWADDED WAR RANTy .. .•.• ..•. If t he seal fail s on any MAVRICK unit within 90 days from date of purchase we .. ill replace the sea l free. P.S. Does anybody els! do thi s? MAVRICK DOES IT AGAIN Ta ke advantage of the bes t buy of t he year. SPOOL HUBS, 40 hole with S/S " bearings Incl uded. Best all oy with chrome like finish. .. -, $10 80 .... on this ",'"' • Introductory 1!r ~~' olle r, ~~--.::;~ regular price $1S.00. ",, 1117 Fou ntain Way. Anaheim, Ca l. 92806 •.•.......•..•.••••.•.•.•..•....••.••• 1049 W. MISSION POMONA (7 14) 629 -8642 TH E .. SPECIA LISTS Prepared by CENE K LEL LEK JA WA WORKS MECHANIC OSSA MA ICO DKW JAWA PENTON . · ~UL.. = C= T MAIL ORDER BIG BORE 3 60cc t o 41 Occ or 440cc. IOOcc to I33 cc, I25 cc thru 250cc t o 3 2 7cc 3)\ gal Sherpa S-T/PurSang tanks &'s kid Deale r Inquiries Invited pla tes Blank cy lind er slee ves, all size s (do yo ur own porting) . MAVRICK CUSTOM ENGINE WORK STOCK BULTACO PARTS SPEED EQUIPMENT WRITE FOR FREE PRICE LIST "Home of the fastest dirt bike in the USA " Mojave, Calif. 93501 21819 Sherma n Way, Canoga Park, Ca 91303 (2 13 ) 887-7696 NORTH AMERICAN IMPORTS 2325 cerro Gordo, P.O. Box N l!============ By Peter Wh ite SY DN EY. AU STRALIA - After. three successive defeats by selected local teams at Liverpool (NSW) , Ro w ley Pa rk ( So u t h Aus tra lia) and again at Liver p o o l , the six -man Am eric ar n Sp e ed way Team cu rre ntly t ouring Australia hit back at the Sydney Showground on Saturday night to d raw 36-36 in a special 12 heat ma tch . T he Americans quickly settled on the big third of a m ile track a nd looked far mo r e comfortable than at their. ea rlie r. appearances. To date the young Californians have been p erfo rm in g as well as the i r capabilities allow, considering th eir. lack of experience in international sp eed way . Gradually , as they lose their. Costa Mesa small track habits, t hey are developing sound speedway styles and by t he end of this Down Under ca mpaign they should shape as far more formidable opponents. The Showgro und match was a near. thing with th e Americans unl ucky n o t to wi n . Six ma n Royale team of Jim Airey, John Langfield, George Hunter (Scot land), J ohn Bowerman, Pat Fernance and Grah am Mangnall were superior. in the h eat lead er. depart ment b ut the Americans co ntinually picked up th e m ino r p lacings. Hunter flew across from Per th after ridi ng fo r Britain in th e Tests agai nst A ustralia (which Great Britain won by fo ur. m at ches t o th ree) t o ride in several 'open' m eetings in Sydney b efo re returning h ome for th e ne w En glish sea so n. ~ ~~ 'v ~v v australian speedway Call or write for deta ils - mail order O.« . PUMFREY BU LTACO On p ap er., th e Showground sel ect seemed (assu red of a runaw ay vic tory b ut the Yanks sprang a real surprise, esp ecially in view of th e fact th at they were wary of the track prior. to the meeting. It was here that their. manager. Chuck J ones crashed in 19 69 and sustained sev er e spinal injuries which sadl y cut sh ort his racing career, Only American to have ridden th e tr ac k previously w as the team's most accom plished speedway rider, DeWayne CYCL E EXTRAVAGANZA SET FOR COW PAL ACE Fo r five days during the first o f April, San Francisco will be the scene of th e biggest motorcycle extravaganza ever. held in the country, according to th e producers, Scheduled for. the San F ra nci sco Cow Palace, April 5th thro ugh 9th, International Sport Cycle Expositions,inc., will be hosting two nights o f Speedway racing, two evenings of' short track, an afternoon of mini' b ike races, an invitational professional short tr ack program, a nd five days of Trials competition. As if this were not enough, I.S .C.E. is combining this giant undertaking with their sixth annual all-motorcycle show, Cycle ' 72 ! Utilizing the So uth Exhib it Hall of the Cow Palace for. ad d it io n al e xh ib it space, I.S.C.E. will be ruling the Main Arena with dirt for. all the races, as well as the Trials course, which will b e lo cated in the infield area of the track. The Speedway races on the first two evenings will be coordinated by Harry Oxley , promoter. of the Orange County F a irgrounds races in Southern Ca lifornia. The in d o o r Speedway will be a first for t he Bay Area and Oxley has commitments from such aces as Rick Woods, Sonny Nutter, and Mike and Steve Bast. The A.M .A. short track rac ing, including the full program o n closing day , will be supervised by Trippe-Cox Associates, p ro moters of three 1972 A .M.A. Nationals an d the Car lsb ad Trans A .M.A. motocross. T he Trials, sponsored by the Spanish gove rnment, has been entitled the "Spanish Cu p Trials" d ue to the beautifu lly engraved silve r trophy t he Sa n Fr.ancisco cons u la te had manufactured in Spain. Four days of co mpetition will determine fi nalists , who are scheduled to compete during intermissions in the closing day short track. Nationally ranked A.M.A . Experts of the highest caliber. will be so ught for the "San Francisco Invitational": race on April 9. Plans call for the sele ction of a limited number of top Experts for the big race with winners of th e previous . evenings' races qualifying for the balance of the field. The fin al form at is cu rre ntly being considered by the A.M.A., through Trippe-Cox Associates, Keeter, who t oured wi th J ones in th e summer of 1968-69 and subseq ue nt ly sp ent a su ccessfu l stint wit h the L eices ter Lio ns First Division te am in England. Ke et er again sh o wed his international speedway potential - he has t ons of lat en t ab ility if only he 'd stock at it regul arly - by sco ring nin e points. He d efeat ed Hunter. and Bowerman (bot h Test riders for Britain and Australi a -resp ect ively ] but wa s in tu m beaten by Airey and Langfield. Tops for USA 'w as b ig Mike Kcnle who rode excellently for 10 points. Bill Cody, who had been the star of the sid e in earlier. meetings , agai n impressed wit h eight points . St eve and Mike Bast also got st uck in and were worth more than their scores show. So nny Nu tter p ro ved the m at ch-saver for. the visitors whe n he pulled off a h eat-stopping ride aro und th e co ncret e fe nce on th e pi t comer in the last heat to pi pe Showground rider. John Bowerman fo r. third place point. Ko nle rode brilliantly to win the race from George H u nter, . Before t he heat America needed a 402 to dr aw and Konle and Nutte r delivered th e goods to a standing ovatio n from th e b ig crowd. T h e Americans took a t wo-point lead after t he th ird heat, th en increased th eir. advantage to fo ur poin ts as . th e Sh o wgro und seco nd st rings struggled . Ho wev er, machine failure fo r Mike Bast in h eat 9 th wa rte d th eir. bold bid. Sh owground ex p erts Langfield ( 12 ) and Airey (9) wer e in t o p fo rm and went through the card undefeated ex cep t for Airey's p lug failure when leading Cody and Mike Bast in heat four. Racing throughout the match ' was first class and full credit is due to the ' fighting Americans. Airey easily won th e top scorers' race from Langfield, Konle and Keeter, The Americans h ave one more meeting in ' Australia before moving on to New Zealand for a short tour. and l.S .C.E. hopes ·t o announce d ie . ·) exact procedures in the near. f uture, Add all of these spectator attracting activities to the la rgest sh o w in the country that fea tures motorcycles only, and it should be ranked as the b iggest cy cle affair. held anywhere. The show alo ne dr ew over. 57 ,000 last year, its first o uting at the Cow Palace, and only ran for. four. days. With an extra day ad d ed, and all th e new racing action scheduled, this year's show attendance should be considerabl y larger . Cy cle magazine will be sp onsoring th e racing theatre, an a n n ual feature of the San Francisco show, and I.S.C.E. plans to have all the latest film in the country regarding mo torcycle racing incorporated in th e continuous showings. Three films made their debut at the show last year, thanks to the sponsorship of Cycle, and no film in the program was over one year old. A record n umber of exhibits are expe cted by showtime, including privately entered antiques, classics, r a c e r s and customs, as well as, commercial displays of all the latest in 1972 models and acc esso ries. American Honda Mo t or Company has planned o ne of the largest exhibits confirmed for th e show, displaying their latest models, and will be joined by other major manu factu rer s, cl ub exhibits, private individuals, motorcycle novelty co ncessio ns, a nd m an y' others. Additional information on t he five day sp ectacul ar, su ch as exhibitor kits, entry fo rms fo r show bikes, ticket information for the show as well as the April 9 th race, and other. details can be obtained by writing I.S.C.E., P.O. Box 5945 , San Francisco, Califo rnia , 94104. 1972 BLUE BOOK OUT T he 20th ed ition of the offical Motorcycle & Scooter Blue Book p ublished by Hap J ones is now available. This is the only price book recognized by the entire motorcycle industry. T he Blue Book is avail able only to authorized motorcycle and scooter. dea l ers . financial a nd banking institutions, and insurance co mp a n ies . The p rice is $2 postpaid and req uests mus t be made on a firm's letterhead. Write t o Motorcycle & Scooter Blue Book, P.O. Box 3068, San Francisco, Ca. 94119 .

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