Cycle Round Up

CYCLE ROUND UP

JOSEPH C. PARKHURST

LAMBRETTA PHOTO CONTEST

Scooter fans who are Lambretta riders as well as photographers will be interested in knowing of a photo contest being sponsored by the Lambretta factory in Italy. The basic requirements are that the submitted photographs should be of current model scooters posed prominently in scenics, by famous landmarks, on streets of great metropolises, in landscapes, or with natives in local costumes, etc., in the countries or origin of the entrant.

Both black and white or colored photos are acceptable; each entrant is required to send in 10 different photographs. Prizes range from two Innocenti sports cars to one each of the many models of Lambretta machines. The contest closes December 31st, 1962, and entrants should contact the Lambretta branch in their respective countries. In the United States write to Lambretta, 31-17 38th Avenue, Long Island City 1, New York for full information. They will send a handsome, full color brochure and entry blank.

ENFIELD TEST ADDITION

Mr. Frank Cooper, Distributor of the Royal Enfield line of motorcycles, sent us some additional information on the 750 Interceptor we road tested in our September issue. The data concerns the clutch and we felt that it was significant enough to mention at this time, subsequent to the road test.

The clutch changes for the 1963 models include removal of IVi pounds from the assembly, which is now the multi disc type; previously it was of the ball ramp type. Most importantly it has been improved and strengthened to take the increased power and torque of the new engine. An extra set of plates have been added, too. They are of the full-circle type with fibre neoprene lining, actuated by a lever operating a rod through the main shaft.

The six clutch springs have been made lighter and they have been moved from close to the center out to a position directly over the linings. Mr. Cooper says it eases clutch operation and that it has very little drag.

We mention all of this because in our road test we carried on at some length, raving in our ignorance over the marvelous clutch the Enfield possessed, only to find later that the whole system had undergone the aforementioned metamorphases. Ah, blissful ignorance.

YAMAGUCHIS VISIT U.S.

The enthralled looking trio in the photograph are, left to right: Mr. Shigehiko Yamaguchi, Mrs. Kitty Hisatomi, of Pendleton, Oregon, interpreter, and Miss Shizue Yamaguchi. The scene is Ascot Park in Los Angeles where they got a taste of some of America's hottest cycle competition. Mr. Yamaguchi is the founder of the Yamaguchi Bicycle and Motor Mfg. Co. in Japan and a member of the Upper House in the Diet (Congress) of the Japanese Government. The lovely and charming Miss Yamaguchi is Director of her father's firm and also a member of the Japanese Government. The unusual lady is the first woman elected to the Diet in Japan's Lower House, in 1946; she is a staunch champion of women's rights in her country.

The trio, along with Katsuo Shuto, Export Mgr., Noboru Sugiura, Engineer, both of the Yamaguchi firm, and Alex Akio Hata, President of Sanko International Co., are touring the United States, visiting the various outlets of the firm's cycles. We spent a fascinating evening with them and Mr. J. C. Whitney, head of Pacific Basin Trading Co., distributors of the Yamaguchi motorcycles in this country.

Miss Yamaguchi was enthusiastic about expanding trade between the U.S. and Japan and said that the motorcycles and bicycles made by her father's firm are a utilitarian mode of transportation in her country but that in this huge land they are more in demand for sports and recreation. The Yamaguchi Company is concentrating on sporting machines for American consumption and during the course of the evening we learned of many new and exciting plans for new models.

The Yamaguchi plant employs 4,000 workers in a modern factory with excellent research, engineering and employee facilities, she said, and has a productive capacity of 50,000 motorcycles per month plus 100,000 bicycles. This was her second trip

to this country and the second for her father, both of whom were elected by democratic process to their positions in the Diet.

HILL CLIMBERS

The purposeful looking gentleman posed, in front of this equally determined looking Triumph Bonneville is Spokane, Washington Triumph dealer Dave Hardin. Rated as a novice in hill climbing by the AMA, Hardin is continuing his long winning streak and recently won the 80 inch novice and 45 inch novice events but made the best climb of the day beating all experts and novices.

His teammate, Tom Hines, won the 80 inch and 45 inch Expert classes riding Triumph Bonneville and T100S/S 500 Triumphs. Hines actually tied with Harleymounted John Martonolich for first place in the 80 inch Expert event but was given the win on the toss of a coin. The two well known hill climb experts tied at 200 feet on the Hoquiam, Washington hill. Hardin's climb in the novice class was ten feet better!

STOLEN MOTORCYCLES

We are receiving an alarmingly increasing number of pleas from readers to assist the parade, and our congratulations to the Hawkeye club.

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in the recovery of stolen motorcycles; to most of which we unfortunately cannot lend much assistance. A news release from the Reading (Pa.) Motorcycle Club recently expressed alarm at the number of bikes disappearing from their race meets, and this is only one example of the type of notice we are receiving. The release stated that a reported 16 machines were stolen at the Watkins Glen meet alone!

One inescapable fact stands out; a motorcycle is a relatively easy item with which to abscond, but only if the owner fails to take the simplest of precautions. Trends today are to include an ignition locking device of some sort that virtually negates that machine being ridden away surreptitiously, but many machines of older vintage, and some late models, do not include such a device. We deem it advisable that owners of the latter type of bike carry a simple chain and padlock and that they run the chain through the spokes of one of the wheels and around the frame, and maybe through a post or tree; then lock it in place. Few instances allow a potential thief time enough to saw off such a deterrent in order to steal the vehicle. Of course this does not prevent the seriously ambitious footpad from lifting the entire machine onto a truck and quietly stealing off into the night, but we suggest this is an even more remote possibility.

4-HOUR TEAM RACE RUN

The Middle Atlantic Motorcycle Dealer's Association held a four-hour team race recently (we hope to have the results in the next issue) for Class C riders mounted on fully equipped road machines, mostly 250ofc models. It was held on the Vineland, New Jersey road race course and was an all-new type of AMA-sanctioned event, and a most interesting one, too.

MARKEL UP A TREE

After his machine for the 80" T.T. National at Peoria blew in the second heat race, Bart Markel (45" champ) took to the tall timber via a conveniently located ladder.

Here, comfortably settled in a shady nook with thermos jug in hand, he has the best seat in the house to watch Dick Hammer nab 80" honors (and do a little second guessing, perhaps?).

DUCATI VICTORS

The Ducati riding trio in the photograph pulled a sensational victory for the marque at the recent Gold Cup races at Mosport in Canada. Left to right they are: Ronnie Dahler, winner; Chuck Andrews, 2nd; and Kurt Liebmann, 3rd. All three rode Ducati 250cc OHC Super Sports models. The victory is even more impressive when it is known that the 4th, 5th and 6th places were also taken by Ducati riders.

SOVIET LADY RACERS ADENDA

We had no more than put the October issue to bed when our far-flung authority on ladies in road racing, Anke-Eve Goldmann, in Weisbaden, Germany, sent us a report on the current status of the Soviet road racing Championships for women.

"The year 1962 presented a confirmation of the situation which had been forming in 1961; predominance of the girls from Latvia. Members of the renowned club Daugawa, in Riga, swept the Championship and obtained first and third place. The Esthonian racers of Tallinn took second, fourth and sixth."

"First Championship event was run on the Ojakula-Vanamoisa circuit at Tartu and saw Vilma Oshinja achieve a great victory on a naked, simple K-125 twostroke. Her average was 102.55 kph (63.72 mph) and she also established a new lap record with her speed of 104 kph (64.62 mph). Vilma, on the rudimentary two transfer port two-stroke, rode faster over the distance than the super champion Ozolina or her highly specialized twin cam S-157 two years earlier. The lap record, however, established in 1960 by Visma Lapinya on her East German MZ two-stroke, 109.57 kph (68.08 mph), remained unchallenged. Blonde Evi Freiwald on a machine with full fairing came in second, and Erika Kiope was third. Esthonians Sarapuu and Kalam filled the next places."

"The second Championship race, at Tallinn, only affirmed the results. Oshinja also won this event at 93.93 kph (58.36 mph), and a fastest lap of 95.4 kph (61.86 mph). Evi Freiwald was again runner-up in front of Erika Kiope. The final standings in the Championship showed a clear victory for Vilma Oshinja with 16 points, with Evi Freiwald holding 12 points, Erika Kiope 8, and Hille Sarapuu 5."

"The times achieved in 1962 show that some girls are able to surpass the high speeds attained last year on the S-157 racing machine riding the more mundane Sport K-125. The Moscow women no longer are dominant. Maybe some day more MZ's will appear with girl riders in the Soviet Union, then a considerable increase in speeds will be realized. The Soviet Union has just entered some men riders in the world's championship races, so since the ladies are now confined to Formula Sport bikes it is unlikely that they will be seen at the starting line of any Western races."

We are indebted to Anke-Eve for bringing this heretofore behind-the-scenes picture of motorcycling inside the Iron Curtain. Our congratulations and best wishes are offered also as she recently became Mrs. Hans Kimmel.

HAPPY SUZUKI AD MAN

You would look happy too if you were sitting upon a handsome new Suzuki 250 El Camino and were the Advertising Manager for Ken Kay Distributing Company, Importers of the Suzuki line of machines. The pleased looking gentleman's name is Walt Davis and we think all of this joy run rampant is due to Ken Kay's expansive plans for the vast assembly of models Suzuki has to offer and their plans for the future which include several interesting new models.

LAMBRETTA CORRECTIONS

In our test of the Lambretta 175-TV we made several errors last month that we must correct. We weren't too far off when we called our test machine a new series II model, when it is actually a series III. We then proceeded to quote the price as

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being $449.00, and in reality it is $499.50. The coup de grace was listing Lambrettas address incorrectly; little is served by repeating the incorrect address we gave, but their address is 31-17 38th Avenue, Long Island City 1, New York. Naturally we apologize for the waste-breeding haste we used when preparing the test report, and sincerely hope that no serious injury was effected with our errors.

THOSE MILNES AGAIN

Another copy of the regular news release from the Milne Brothers' World of Wheels in Pasadena, California, struck my ( funny bone again, this one originating ' from Bob Feuerhelm, majordomo of the agency.

He notes that now that school has started it's time to really watch out for school children. Especially those driving cars.

MOTORIZED MUSIC MAN

Shown here is the latest project of the Hawkeye Motorcycle Club in Mason City, Iowa. It was built to represent the club in that city's "Music Man Festival" which is held in River City each year. A Triumph and a BMW were used to represent road machines and a Harley Sportster crowned the top of the float titled "Road & Sports."

160 units comprised the parade and 114 bands from 32 different states added color to the 4-hour event staged in front of an estimated 125.000 spectators. Famous per-

sonalities witnessing the affair included Arthur Godfrey, Robert Preston, Meredith Willson and others. The day was climaxed by a press premiere showing of the Broadway hit (and now a movie), "The Music Man."

I am extremely pleased to know that cycling was so very well represented in

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AN ATTRACTIVE FUEL TANK

Shown here is a new, and very hand some, fibreglass tank mounted on TV personality Dick Wyler's Norton Manx man. It is designed and manufactured by Bob Brealey and Dave Smith, two young Englishmen in their early twenties, who were both formerly aircraft engineers. The tanks are available in 4 and 5 gallon ca pacities for a variety of machines.

The experimental tanks have survived spills of a serious nature with no more than a few scratches, which would indi cate that they are well made of quality materials. We are told that quality is stressed in these finely finished tanks, and production is limited. They are priced to sell between $40.00 and $50.00, and the reason for my men tioning them is that the boys are interested in a substantial National distributor to handle them in the U.S. Anyone interested can contact them at 19 Atlas Street, Trent Bridge, Nottingham, England. (And say Dick sent you)!

CYCLE DEALER'S SUCCESS

The accompanying photograph shows the attractive new Santa Cruz (California) Cyclery's new quarters where they have just been relocated. The point is that they moved into a suburban area. built the handsome rustic building, added a large parking area, use a minimum of advertis ing signs and feature an outdoor display of their cycles. They are also adding a

new building for used and surplus new parts. The results of all this? A smashing 65% increase in business, and the owner of this booming business, F. D. Lyon, told CYCLE WORLD that the new frontal display and parking area really brings them in. We can well understand this.

NORTON FACTORY MAN IN U.S.

The intent gentleman in the photo graph with his arms buried in the motor cycle is Bryan Simpson, service represen tative from the Norton factory in Birming ham, England. Mr. Simpson is in this country conducting a service school for Norton dealers at Z.D.S. Motors in Bur bank, California, Western Distributors for the Berliner Motor Corporation, U. S. Distributors for the Norton.

The second photograph shows two equally intent gentlemen, Bob Blair on the left, of Z.D.S., and Mr. Joseph Berliner, who visited the service school with his brother. Mike Berliner.

NEW DEALER

Shown congratulating the proud owner of a new BSA Super Rocket is Don Bev ans, of Don and Ray's Motorcycles in Palmdale. California, Mike Mullen, me chanic, and Ray Bevans, Don's father and the other half of the team in the new dealership. Don and Ray are dealers for Royal Enfield, Yamaha, Parilla, BSA and Pak-Jak, and they sent us the photograph saying they were new in the motorcycle business and would appreciate any help they could receive from CYCLE WORLD. We are glad to oblige, gentlemen, and may we extend our wishes for the best of success. .