25 Years Ago June, 1967

25 YEARS AGO JUNE, 1967

IF IT'S THE JUNE ISSUE, THEN

there must be a Daytona

200 race report inside.

True today and true 25 years ago. In 1967, the 200 was also featured on the cover. The racers blasting toward the reader in living color were none other than Gary Nixon and Dick Hammer, both aboard factory Triumphs.

• A special track test of three Daytona racers tied in nicely with the race report. The bikes, ridden by CW editors at Riverside Raceway, consisted of the late Swede Savage’s 10th-finishing Honda CB450, Dick Hammer’s Triumph, seventh in spite of a late-race crash, and a Yamaha TR-1 that qualified eighth-fastest in a field of larger machines. Of the three bikes, the editors found the 350cc TR-1 twostroke Twin to be “probably the best, most difficult to ride, racing machine ever devised by man.”

• Just for a change of pace, this issue contained a trail test of a Honda CT 90 eight-speed. This quick hit on Honda’s versatile little bike seems, in retrospect, an early forerunner of CWs current short feature “Quick Ride.”

All of which goes to illustrate that in racing, as well as in magazines, fine old traditions live on.

Don Canet