TESTS____________

30 Kawasaki Vulcan

For all you green-blooded

Americans.

51 KTM250MX

Orientally oriented.

58 Suzuki GS1150E

Less really can be better.

FEATURE___________

37 Good As Gold

Touring from Coast towns to

Ghost towns.

TECHNICAL____________

54 White Po wer Fork

Bottoms up.

67 How Motorcycles

Work, Part 6

How to figure configurations.

72 Pipes For The Yamaha

RZ350

Unconverting your catalytics.

ROUNDUP

19 Will Triumph Be

Buffaloed?

Bloken dreams.

19 Will The Buffalo

Triumph?

Facing extinction all over

again?

22 Better Beemers For

’85

A rematch for the Boxer.

DEPARTMENTS

7 Editorial

Revving out the soapbox.

10 Letters

The final word on Roper.

15 Follow Up

The issues of past issues.

18 New Ideas

How to spend your

motomoney.

76 Service

Talk from the shop.

80 Racewatch

Trackwrap.

85 Summary

What the record shows.

90 Slipstream

Ted topples again.

COVER_______________

Kawasaki’s blazing

hew 700cc V-Twin, as

glimpsed in the fiery

domain of Vulcan, the

god of fire.

Photographed by Stan Sholik