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50
Years Ago
AUGUST 19, 1969
LOOKING BACK
Kenny Roberts leading Rich Schlachter at Laguna Seca was pictured
on the cover of Cycle News 40 years ago. Roberts went on to win what
was a round of the World Championship F750 Road Race Series. Freddie
Spencer won the Superbike Production class… Rick Hocking won the
Santa Fe Short Track and Jay Springsteen topped the Peoria TT two
days later. We had coverage of both… Broc Glover and Rex Staten won
the Houston National MX… Larry Roeseler was a member of the Bol
d'Herbe 24-Hour Off-Road race in France.
40
Years Ago
AUGUST 15, 1979
We featured multi-bike tests in issue #31 50 years ago. Pictured on the
cover were a couple of Harley-Davidson Baja 100 dirt bikes that we
tested at Saddleback Park. Other bikes that we tested included the Jawa
90 ($315), Sachs 125 Enduro ($588), Yamaha 100 ($389) and Bultaco
Sherpa S 125 ($680)… We covered the National Hillclimb Championship
in York, Pennsylvania. Beese Wendt rode a Vincent to victory.
(Left) Freddie
Spencer won
the Superbike
Production class
at the World
Championship
F750 round at
Laguna Seca.
(Right) Jimmy
Button (right) and
Doug Henry were
moto winners at
Washougal, but
it was Button
who took the
overall win.
