European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes january 1978 Corner Gas Chevetta keeps Pace with foreign cars although i column normally deals with motorcycles also Merit Atten Tion and today we present a Teri o us a scr or Ellen by staffer Jim Coli a longtime motorcycle fan who arrives at work Dolly on two Jim Hai owned Many eyelet and Hai competed in Bike in the United Cycle Lam who have question re Garding technical Cycle net and other invoicing the world of Are invited to write Stan and Apo Well have More of Hli reports from Lime to Kandy barrel the Harley Davidson a scr 1000 is not your typical it is a motorcycle of slyly and definite it is by far us Best handling Learley Ever been if this 4s5pound Scooter was to be judged solely on handling and performance id have to rate it As one of the Best special purpose motors info Stu Lor Harley and the prospective Tus racy Little number has a few Reilly serious flaws that at Deli you dont my tint Inch Chysh View of this Little cafe racer showed me a at Tractive styled close inspection showed excellent workmanship in the trim fillings and Star mags set off the Mack and Chrome it looks like if running in Mph while at a dead racing Frame the dominant feature is the traditional looking twin nestled in the xr750 racing it looks As if someone had an extra engine lying around and had built a Bike around one thing stands out a siamese exhaust that does what its supposed to nol just but maybe a Lille Loo the controls Are fairly Standard and except for the electric Start which is too close to the right turn twice i hit the starter while signal ing a i prefer gauges to idiot lights for Oil and electric but the lights Are easily visible and will do this machine is built for a there Are no passenger but even if there there is no room for iwo up Riding on the Skinny the seat is super comfortable for Riding in the cafe to its one of the Best seats Ive Ever seen that came off us Assembly ride a pleasure to ride this Veaslie is pure pleasure no fooling when first started on a cold or wet morning it gives off some terrible pop blaring and groaning and with accompanying but from 39 to 45 seconds of Warmup at full choke and us As smooth As an idling twin will Ever the Basic Mill has been Blu printed which increases us Power and to my reduces vibration to a up to about is Mph the beast gives your tootsies a after it smooths out and you hardly notice Harley has done a Nice Job with rubber buffers and the usual anti vibe the Granny is a four Speed and feels like the tried and True Model Harley fans have praised and cussed for shifting is reasonably but very almost too Neutral is hard to but the other gear position Click right the clutch is a wet Multi plate affair that should stand up to about lever pressure is about right for a person of average strength and is easily adjust Overall the Granny and clutch set up is Well performance int Sloppy by any Means and that quite a thing to say in this Day and lev it slip the clutch and hold Vouge on a machine that says Macho and says it the 14 horse Power will move the beast surely and but wont dust off most of the big japanese bikes in a where youll get them is in the few blk Ive Ever been on handle As precisely As this of you like Riding the broads and like to ride this is the the Down bars and cafe position afford excellent combined with Good excellent weight Distri super stiff suspension and de Grees of front Fork Rake Angle make for a very Vandable three disc brakes provide Fader Distant stops on All types of even in the rain and that a big item in Europe although above Mph stopping takes a few fed longer than it with All this going for what could be wrong the that the Battery on this Bike had not been serviced and would not hold a big hit the old kick starter and Limp off to a water Hose right this beast has no backup starting if the Battery is you dont i know the trend on big bikes is away from kick but this Bike requires the reason is the Battery it is clearly one of the cheapest made Ive Ever it be so bad if Harley had added an alternator instead of a Low output do the setup is is years behind current thinking in motorcycle compounding the problem is the Battery it is nestled under the snap off wedged in beside the external Oil there is no room to work in getting thu Battery out is a real knuckle t finally discovered that the Only Way to remove without crippling my was to take off the whole ground wire which is sealed on the left Side of the this procedure is a bit frightening by Reginald Stuart Detroit one of the cars on the Market today is an american made subcompact the Chevrolet Chev the impressive sales performance of this Gas built by general has demonstrated to Detroit what must be done to compete with imports in the rapidly growing Small car traditionally High priced optional equip ment must be offered As Standard As is the Case in most the american car must be competitively priced with in and american Small car buyers have to be persuaded that Small american cars Are As Good As their foreign counter pm had no trouble with the first two but the considered the greatest obstacle to volume sales of Domestic Small posed a convinced that in order for a car to sell a dealer must be sold on it Chevrolet set up a Small car school in which the Chevetta was compared with other cars in its group the leading import the the Honda All from Japan and the Ford nude in the school was such a Success thai other pm divisions and other car makers Are adopting the approach As a key to accept ability for Small we recognize the need to dispel the myths that were held by both retail organizations and the Public about american made Small said Donald Camp Chevrolet manager of Small car Mer itself a new position that is another reflection of Detroit serious approach to Small Campbell said Many salespeople shared the Public feeling that imports were better in yielded better mileage times Newt service and performance and required less maintenance than Domestic Chevrolet invited of its dealers and their salesmen to the divisions a Beetle Assembly Plant at for today seminar on Small All had to pay their own and some Bod sales people from new new Jersey and Connecticut at the Small car Chevrolet engineers dissected the engines of comparable Smalt cars to demonstrate the similarities and differences of the Chov Ette and its the groups toured the Assembly Plant there construction could be seen first Road tests were and salespeople were Able to drive fiestas and Che vettes and draw their own Chevrolet has already decided to stage a similar Effort later this Winter on the West coast for its dealers and the Chrysler is also adapting he new sales a just this Chrysler began Selling its new Plymouth horizon Dodge Omni the first sub com pacts manufactured in the United the two Chrysler boasting High Way City averages of 30 Miles per Are packaged and priced to compete with the Best of the imported add them to the Ford Fairmon Mercury new compacts marketed on the theme of fuel the Concord from american the Chevetta and the downsized cars now produced by general and you have a trend toward Small that big and easy to because the sealing Bolt is also a transmission casing the Harley people said his sort o prob Lem would be very but if it could happen to me it could happen to someone the electric starter is also rather fragile and could break while youre out on the Wel Strasse or in the Alps and then youre unless you have a Good Hill to coast the tart Edavidson a scr May be or dered through Chrysler military sales representatives at army and air Force Exchange service a Fesl if youre looking for a specially Bike and like to fool around with then youll like the if the factory had designed a better electrical added a kick starter and then enlarged the Battery they would have produced one of the 20 Best big bikes in the Jim Coles this los Pound Cycle Rales in band Ling and performance bid the electrical the Harley Davidson a scr 1000 system presented dominant feature is traditional appearing v twin nestled in the xr150 racing Sis Cole
