Road Tests

20 Kawasaki KS-125 Enduro

All just fine until the squeak

47 Honda CB-500T

All dressed up—and going no-place

Features

39 Erv Kanemoto Is . . .

A lot of things, all of them nice. By Gordon Jennings

42 Hunt’s Metal-Sprayed Aluminum Discs

Everything they promise to be. By Cook Neilson

55 Basics: Electrics

And next, the death ray. By Gordon Jennings

64 Product Evaluation: The Victor Compression Release

Engine braking with the pull of a lever. By Dave Holeman

66 Number One

It’s Jimmy Weinert. Spend a day with him. By Sam Moses

72 The Baja Bruisers

The value of an objective attained. By Pat Sine

74 Carruthers at the Top

For Kel, a long and fascinating trip. By Jess Thomas

79 AMDRA Comes to Irwindale

Ontario's New Orthodoxy continues to prevail

83 Short Circuit Search

Wrapped in the arms of frustration. By Jess Thomas

Departments

4 Editorial/All Climb and No View/Cook Neilson

6 Letters /Mud Wasps

8 Downhill Straight/Coaf Tale/Mike Shuter

10 Pipeline/Here We Go Again/Jim Greening

19 Tips/The Yamaha in Your Life

30 Newsline/A/ew Stuff, Neat Stuff

63 Book Review/The Motorcycle World

108 Classified Ads/Goods and Services New and Used

113 Readers’ Service/ How to Find What You Saw and Liked

This Month's Cover Resplendent m brown

and gold, the Honda 500 twin clutches

for tradition with its new classical look

But looks, as we found out. aren't everything

Photography by Larry Willett