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Simply Gorgeous. The "trial"-a kind of rally for motorcycles*-is a punishing test of bike-handling skill that requires the agility of an acrobat, the know-how of a mechanic, and the endurance of Job. Riders use special, lightweight motorcycles with high ground clearance (for traversing rocky terrain), special gears (for hill-climbing power), and waterproofed engines (for fording streams). Bounced like Yo-yos by their bucking bikes, they must make their own repairs in case of breakdown, take care of their own first aid. Spills are common: in the Welsh trial. Russia's Vikton Pylajev broke both...
...porch. About the same time, in downtown Sosúa, a telephone call sent an office clerk named Pedro Clisante, 28, put-putting away on his motorbike on an errand that would take him past a military post. As Clisante approached, a soldier blasted him off his bike. Two days earlier, near the provincial capital of Santiago, Epedio Jesús Cabrera had picked up a "hitchhiker" and was later found knifed to death...
Europeans are awed by Honda's performance. "It's time British firms copied Japanese know-how," grumped London's Daily Mirror. One British manufacturer took a Honda bike apart, marveled: "It's made like a watch. And it isn't a copy of anything." Basking in such reluctant foreign tributes, Honda in 1960 produced 750,000 machines-20% of total world output-and made pre-tax profits of $14.2 million on sales of $136.5 million. This year's racing successes have obliged Honda to increase production to 85,000 machines a month, boosted...
...Honda sells eight models ranging from a $245, 5-h.p. machine (50 cc., two valves, one cylinder) to a $665, 27.4-h.p. bike (305 cc., eight valves, two cylinders...
Doormen, however, look on the riders with disdain; and sometimes, owning a bicycle in Manhattan is as frustrating as owning a car. A short time ago, Theater Owner Daniel Talbot came downtown from his apartment for lunch at the Algonquin Hotel. The hotel refused to let him park his bike in the lobby, a policeman told him to get it off the sidewalk, a garage attendant would not let him park in his lot even if he paid regular prices. He moved...