1981 Dirt Bike Magazine presents Hi-Performance Secrets

Cover: High performance rider Rex Staten blows up a berm on the equally high-performance Suzuki RM465. If you want to know how to tune your carb, zoot your suspension, or take good care of your cylinder, we'll show how the pros do it. Contents: Rex's Barrel - the history of high performance; High-Performance Buyer's Guide; Go-Fast Formulations; Race-Prepping Honda's CR250-R; Basic Cylinder Secrets; Friction-Reduction Secrets; Maximum Suspension Tuning; Gearing up for battle; Flow Benching the Yamaha YZ250-H; Boost Bottles or Bust Bottles - magic or myth?; Carb Tips and Tuning; Make your mini move; Clutch and gearbox failures and fixes; Bulletproof Wheel Building; High-Performance Directory; more 1981 November Hi-Performance / Dirt Bike Motorcycle Magazine Back-Issue available at www.DadsVintageAds.com CLICK THE PICTURE TO "BUY IT NOW"

1976 July Dirt Bike Magazine Shootout - Honda CR125-M vs. Penton 125MC5

Cover: Marty Smith; Shootout Comparison Test: Honda CR125-M vs. Penton 125MC5; Test: Maico 440 AWR; Technical: The Pro Line '76; Exorcising Horse(power) thieves; Competition: AMA Supercross Series, Eastern Edition; Six Days of Two Days; Hangtown, Sportsman's Style; Features: Interview: Marty Smith & Marland Whaley; Understanding Speedway; more 1976 July Dirt Bike Motorcycle Magazine Back-Issue available at www.DadsVintageAds.com CLICK THE PICTURE TO "BUY IT NOW"

1975 April Dirt Bike Magazine - Hodaka Super Rat vs. Yamaha MX100-B

Cover: Marty Smith at Saddleback Trans-AMA finale. He didn't need a hang glider; Contents: Shootout: Hodaka Super Rat vs. Yamaha MX100-B; Impression: Three Rokon Automatics; Wrap-Ups: National Enduro - Burleson; International MX - Sweden and Belgium yield to Finland and Russia; Trans-AMA - Roger rebounds and Suzuki skunks ever'body; Competition: Barstow to Vegas; Features: Kite Bike - one Elsinore that literaly flies; More what it's like: John and Kookie's Ossa SDR; Technical: YamaFix - piping in more power for the 125MX and YZ; Where to go MXing in Michigan; more 1975 April Dirt Bike Motorcycle Magazine Back-Issue available at www.DadsVintageAds.com CLICK THE PICTURE TO "BUY IT NOW"

1976 Dirt Bike Wrench Manual - Hop-Ups, Basics, Fix-Its

Contents: Introduction; Things you should know before you start: Zen and choosing tools; Air and your ports; The Venturi Freeway; How to start your bike; The care and feeding of spark plugs; Hop-Ups and Fix-Its: Yamaha 125 hop-up - $21.95; Kawasaki KX swingarm fix-up; Horsepower for the '74 Elsinore; Tuning the monoshock suspension; Evaluating Suzuki's RM125 factory kit; Enduroing the Honda MR175; KX125 Factory Replica; KTM / Penton clutch crutching; Universal Hot Setups: Drain holes work both ways; The point is...; Your sidecase sucks; more 1976 April Wrench Manual / Dirt Bike Motorcycle Magazine Back-Issue available at www.DadsVintageAds.com CLICK THE PICTURE TO "BUY IT NOW"

1974 Dirt Bike Test - Husky 450 Motocrosser - saga of the hump-backed whale

Cover: John DeSoto hangs it out for Husky lovers everywhere; Dirt Tests: Husky 450 Motocrosser; Yamaha DT250-A - son of DT1; Penton 250 Powerhouse; Yamaha 100MX - screaming yellow zonker; Competition: Aztalan, Wisconsin; Technical: How to make a killer 450 Husky; Gas Filter Shootout; the Steel Wombat - Alex Steel's Krome Kolored Streamlined Baby; Trick Fork Kit for under ten bucks; Features: Inside peek at the six-days Jawas; Russ Darnell MX School; Dorky Dog and Rubber Ducky; Oh Danny Boy - Dirt Bikes's token flattracker makes good; more 1974 February Dirt Bike Motorcycle Magazine Back-Issue available at www.DadsVintageAds.com CLICK THE PICTURE TO "BUY IT NOW"

1978 Dirt Bike - Suzuki RM250-C2, Talking to Tony DiStefano

Cover: Tony DiStefano keeping ahead of the Saddleback bulldozer; Tests: Suzuki RM125-C - still the champion ankle biter?; Suzuki RM250-C2 - See the D too; Suzuki GS1000 - Bigger than a 501 Maico; Features: Tony DiStefano - is three enough for the D?; Touring Can-Am - north of the border; Honda RC125 - eyeballin' the latest little red; How to Ride Series; Technical: How to tune your forks; more 1978 June Dirt Bike Motorcycle Magazine Back-Issue available at www.DadsVintageAds.com CLICK THE PICTURE TO "BUY IT NOW"