Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

, j fRelafeafp(cont'd' frompa~C9) %a?jj we may . ' . p nnt a prcture 0 f aII our ~ machi nes. Sh o ul d make any body drool. Ma y be even Joe Par kh u rst. Don Castro will finally, it seems , get into the Speedway gig. He 's scheduled to race Friday night at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa . Speedway is drawing so many cats every Friday night that the promoters, we are told, began showing simultaneous closed-circuit TV of the events in an adjacent bu ild ing to help accomodate the overflow ·c ro wd s. We didn't get a chance to see the screen , complete with instant replay, but we are told it was might·fine - almost like be ing there . • • • • • CYCLE • ' EWS WA:-IT ADS COVER T ilE WORLD. EUROPEA:-': DI VIS IO:-': : We got th e foliowinJ' want ad re cently. To sell l larley-Davidson 1000cc plus Sidecar 19 16 - Very go od state . To bid to: Gauge, Andre 2 Rue du Parco Lh , Lisie u x , France . Awaiting your rCl;lly and thanking you, 1 am , dear sir s , Yo urs Fai th Iu llv, Andre Gauge. It 's not every day y o u hear from a French Harley rid er. What class! • 1'0 LLOWI :-IG TilE BOU:-IC I:-':G PUBLISH ER DE PA RT" IEI'\T: Charles * * • • • The Wor ld Champions hip Ro ad Racing season opened a t Nu rbu rgring in West Ge nnany and it held some surprises. Mo st significant was the 3 5 0 class where .l arn o Saarinen. a Fin n . easily blew o ff 'Giacomo Agostini . Saarinen was ab o ard a works wate r-cooled Yamah a while Agostini was riding h is three-cylinder MV . In t he p rocess th e Finn broke the bi ke la p record thre e ti m es. Ago wasn 't even ab le to m a t ch the new re c or d on h is 5 0 0 MV . A no ther surprise win ner Was l leid o Ka nav a , a J ap an ese, on (o f co u rse) a 250 Yamaha. li e d usted off Rod Could and Barry S hec ne in the process. T he b iggest p roblem Saarine n h ad was h is rad ia to r freezing be ca u se of • • • Cl ayton re cerulv p u rch ase d a motorized pogo s tick. A ce ' tester Sh ad y Groves was pu t on it to make a th o ro u gh analysis of handling and power Ro ad test ? Maybe . , over the handlebars in Colorado, is that he's laid up with some broken vertebrae and an in ju red spleen. Bart has got t o be tough . He got off so hard he put a d ent in the t rack. Hope he heals fast. • • • Lawwill and Beauchamp) were mounted on the new machines for the Colorado Mile . Harley -Davidson has homologated the new bikes (That's a fancy word for made 200 of them) and they should be ava ilable to dealers sometime around the end of May . F rom about '69 on, only the H·D team riders had newXRs with the result that many privateers moved over onto British makes . Harley now seems firm ly comm itted to the d irt tracks and with those very quick alloy XRs available to serious racers, a lot mo re riders cou ld get converted bac k to Made in USA machinery . As several sharp-eyed, knowledgeable, and otherwise with ·it people pointed out, Mark Brelsford's Harley pictured in last week's CN is, in fact, one of the new alloy-enqlne XRs _ The offic ial H·D team (Brelsford, Rayborn, Sehl, Markel , c hara c teristi cs. * Latest report on Bart Markel , who went \)OlE8~ c...~ pARk -:1 ! HARE & Me. SUNDAY , JUNE 4 Limed one HOUND, Masterli nks l oop. from 4 Corners. 0-37 c t s. S tart 10 . $4 .25 . 2 40 ml l o o p s. Nov. tra i l Q U IC K S I LV ER CN DU R O . C lear C r ee k . C A. 38 rru E o f KlO g C ity off H w y 25. $6 ea IId e" $3 e x tra l or 3 m an tea m . 2 S A SE . 7 !lO rrder li m i t. S t a r t 9 . 31 9 W . Market S t. ; Sau n as , C A 93 901 , 40 8 /4 22 -9 809 . 7 14 / 6 3 3-1 13 2 . MO TOCROSS CMC Utah, Nevada , Ari z ona , Cali f . 180 mil es n orth o f Las Vegas. Nev. on H w y IS, LD RanCh, near Springdale, E . o f S t . Geo rge . Utah . Prac 8 . Race 10 . Entr ies b y CiIY. Utah 84 115.801 /26 2- 2489. ROAD RAC ES, or eg on Mot o r cy c le Road Raci ng A ssn . We st D elta Pk . , Portland. Or e . Pr Od ., G .P ., S ideca r . B ox 1345 4 , P ortland, Ore. 5 0 3/282-4215 . MOT OCROSS . N Or f Ol k , N eb ra ska . , D.M.C.A. Presents Man 'S Pt. Pr ac 8 . race $2 ga te , $4 race. 714 /338-206 5 . M OT O C R O S S. L om o o c 5 r a-Po kes. S c n ot a r srn o o e u ct -t , S P Il l w ay Pk n ear Santa Ma na . D -3 ~ o t s. 10 a rn. C am pIIHJ . 80~ /7 3 G-63 £.!2. M OT O C R O S S, A M C . R a w m de P k . E lSi nore. M emOl I,l ! Day event. $~ mar ! pl u s $1 gate . $7 p o st ct u s $3 qet c . B o x 66 3, E I T a r o , CA. 92630. ROAD R A CE . A C A, ' Wi ll o w S pr i ngs , C a . S ign 8 :30, r ac e n o on. M ail -$ 8 , $ 1 ea , addi ti o nal c las s. $ 1 5 p os t. ' 1 0 6 N o r th C lau d ina, Suit e 312, A na h ei m. C a. 9 2805 . 7 14 / 7 7 4 -3 2 2 2 . MONDAY, MAY 29 TT SCR A M B L E S, B o uld er R idgeru n n e r s. C O., C r k . R acewa y, E of B o ulder. C Ol O•• o n h wY 7 . P R O HALF M I L E , Fremon t R c wy . • Fl o r en ce . C o lo. ' S1000 p u r se . En t er b y May IS, $20 . 303/784 -311 9. desert competition beginners and Novices. C ROS S CO U N TRY R E LAY . CMC U ta h. $ 2 0 00 pu rs e . Ent r ies c lose 5/2 4. A mate u r s $ 20 p er t ea m . Pr o s S6 0/t ea m . Post Am $ 4 5. p r o s $100 . Iba pah. U ta h . L tC. $10 . B ox 15055 , Sa lt L ak e C i ty , Utah 8 41 15 . 8 0 1/262 -2 4 89. SATURDA Y, JUNE 3 P R O IN D O O R SHO R T TRA CK . Sa n Di ego I n t ' l S po rts Ar ena. Sa n D ie go . C a. $ 300 0 gua rant eed p u r se . C h a ll en ger s CuP ser ies. R ace 8 p m . PR O I N D O O R S HORT TRA CK. Lub b o c k M unicip al Co fr se u m, Lub b o c k . T e x .• $1200 purse . Qua l . 5 . race 8 . 806/ 374 -1 142 . No affiliat ion . F in isher pins - Ambulance· Cater ing 1 st Race 8:30 - Limed 8 m iles No . of Adelanto on Hwy 395 D .M.CA ., P .O . Box 998 Lawnda le .Ca.90260 SATURDAY ·FRIDAY, JUNE 3·9 SAT. & SUN., JUNE 3 & 4 • r-----HOT DOG 1- - - -' Cycle Ne\Ns HOT HATS ALLNEW! Only7Scenis Cycle News Dept. CNP P.O. Box 498 Long Beach , Ca. 90801 Ba z oo k a Pe t e sa ys : " M m m, H ot Hat good:' OSTEEN'S ~oo~ :; '" lJl :;: w Z W ..J U >U '-

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