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Contents: Road Tests – Yamaha TX500 (Curious handling and ambiguous acceleration.), Honda TL 125 (A dirt bike even a eco-freak could love.) Technical – Tracking Down The Wobbles (A technical trick that really works.), Making It Easy: Honda 450 Valve Adjustment (Another technical trick that really works.) Competition – A Goofy Debut For America (Ever tried to go trail riding on a moving mudslide?), Three For Texas (The biggest two-wheel triple-header the Astrodome ever saw.) Special Fiction – How The Woblings Won The Mountains (If you can’t dig it yourself, go ahead and read it to your kids.) Features – How To Ride Trials (Steering, stopping and coming back down to earth.), Grabbing, Bunting and Pirouetting Your Way Through School (But baseball cleats and a ballerina’s-to-to are not exactly the proper trials attire.), Norton John Player Replica Café Racer (Beautiful, modern, almost revolutionary…but you still have to kick start it.), Driftin’ (Frank’s beginning becomes his farewell.), Memories On The Boards (Kill-button throttles, skinny tires and leather helmets. And you thought Art Baumann was brave.) Departments – Watch This Space (New people.), This Issue (Changes.), Q & A (Swollen seals, says his friend.), Book Review (Observed Trials by Carl Shipman.), Kickstand (Which gets more, a two or a four.), Toolbox (Caution with the Triumph twins.), Performance: Theory & Practice (Shooting torpedo’s out of megaphones.), Advertisers’ Index (Where to buy what from whom.)
Issue: April 1974
Condition: Very Good