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Cycle News 1973 03 13

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Montesa 250 (contin ued f rom page 3) a problem bu t gack, m y nice shiny boots are all gunky. Just sq ua re it off in the mud and roll it on so me m ore. Shift a bunch a times. And again, it ' s tim e to brake, and brak e, and brake. He y, I d idn 't wan t to slo w d own this much. He y , I didn't want to . st op , sp u tte r , cough , stall. Frammis, . dingus, blanke ty-bl ank .b rake. Pa ck ed with m ud il is. BIim ey . Well , at least th e sidestan d is already down (It likes to stay that way after landing fr om j u mps.) So ends o ur in trepid tester's rid e, o r yours. He didn ' t fa ll d o wn and th a t says a lot. Nobody fell on it , eve r. In fact , h e rode aro un d o n a bi ke th at w orked well on any le vel h e a ttai n ed , go od o r bad. It wor ked fo r an expert, too. Everyo ne lik ed the VR fro m a level of m ode rate pl easure to th e ecs ta tic . It 's not a b ik e that was d esign ed 10 pl ease th e ma sses, eithe r. Montesa is b ack in the m otocross . business. Mayb e a million pe ople can b e wrong b 1I t a n Internat ion al Grand Prix Moto crosser will alm o st alw ays b e right. rhe Vehkonen i; :i' ~ w Z w ...J U > U Lots of ho les and big ones too. Add th at to a 34mm Bing and some compression . Prest o ! Horsepower. Hi! I'm Brad Lackey. Thank you for helping me with my moto-cross racing career . . . by using Torco oil. The people at Torco are sponsoring me during 1973. If y ou ride a 2

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