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~ 00 CN M CU ..c S CU ~ Z Chuck Sun'. works Honde feltures In"l-new .Ing"'hock rur su.penelon end I wetereooIed 2IiOcc motor. The redllltor·. mounted just IIMIId of the fuel tIH1k. The whole unit checks In lit lbout 20& lb. How AppropriBte Dept: Bob Henneh received two WIIter skia lit the Nov. 18 AMA Pro A~ ~ One. from DG. C8Ine with I Clhdlk:ate for the M.-ty Tripes School of We.skling. The other. from Seem USA. C*M equipped with I Seem pIatic boot In the binding. While he had the stage, Hannah reponed that he was 10 poor as a kid he ate only peanut butter and his dad ate ligbtbulbs ... or something lilte that. Of Mike GoodwIn. promoter of the previous evening'. Coca-CoIe MX FInIIIs end other stadium motoe:ross events. Henneh uid: "It·. I good thing he'. not promoting this benquet - we'd .. need press pas... to get In herel" Kenny Robens received the AMA's Professional Athlete of the Year award and the F1M Gold Medal for his second 500cc Road Racing World Championship title. Said the kiDg of his medal: "This is my last F1M Gold Medal (since he's involved in the new World Series of road racing in direct competition to the F1M). and before anyone asks, I'm going to give it to my mom." Reprding RobMU end the FlMI WorkI Series sItuIltIon. AMA exeCutIve Director Un Kuch_ stilted firmly: ""m not ...... he'. not 811 rIght." Now th. .•• I tough quote to IlttlICk ... Kuchler, after every successful racer had taken the opponunity to thank his sponson, said he'd like to thank a few sponson of his own. He listed Earl Flanders. Dick O'Brien, Gary Bryson, Bill Bagnall. J.C. Agajanian and many othen. He then gawe credit to his "new sponson," the latest AMA Board of Trustees, calling them, "the best Board of Trustees we've had for yean." eoc. W8mIn Reid'. bike for the CollI MX Rnels - the one he bleated 'em with In the hut rec:e Ind then took second In the flnal Itter IelIdlng for 17 of the 20 !ep. wes I prlctlce bike. SInce Reid hed mede the move to Kewesekl for thli '80 MIlSOn. Honde dIdn't give him I worka mllChlne for Aneheim. ClIff Lett of Toomey RIIcing helped SIlt up his pnctIce mechIne. I 1. production CR2&OR. for the rec:e. 2 Stewe Eklund, honored at the AMA Pro Awards Banquet stated that he's proud to be a privateer Number One, thanked Mario Zanotti, jim Belland and Craig Fillmer, and summed up the 1979 effort: "It's been one hell of a Iongyearl" Three-time AMA GrencI NlItIonel Chemplon Jay SprIngsteen Is in the hoapIt8Iegeln. SprIngsteen left his lepllr. Mlchlgln hom. to get In I few hours of .... hunting Nov. 17 before ~out to Anlhelm for the AMA·. 4»t••• lllIleI R~ A~ 8Inquet. However. two hours . . . he returned hom. In I highly neuBlaus condldon end then heeded for Hurtey HoIpitII In RInt. He Is c:urrentIy on bltllweclOUl teecIIng end should trInSfer shortly to the timed Mlyo Clinic In Rochester. MN for extensive testing to determine the CIUM of his continued s1ckneu. Rex Staten won the Toyota Tower jump Award for the '79 season. - Teem Hondl now Include. Chuck Sun. Donnie H..,.." end Ron Sun. No offi~ Innouncewnent h.. been mede. but we're guessing thlt Steve WI.e Ind Gary Semlcs wID stay with the red teem. Honda refused to Issue In Innouncement, saying thllt there were leg" problem•. Colltlaets. no doubt. But whet .e they hiding? DeCoster? Getting underway now is the pl'OCeSl £or completing the Los Padres National Forest Land Management Plan, which will decide the future of ORV use, backpacking, fIShing, etc.. in the forest, which stretches from Ventura nonh to San Luis Obispo. One on the mar'r activities in deweloping the plan wi! be deciding upon the managemem plan for the 858,000 acre deignated as MFunher Planning" areas under the RARE II process. Public meetings on the planning effon will be held at Salinas (1215), Cannel (12/5), Frazier Park (12/4). Paso Robles (12/4), San Luis Obsipo (1215), Santa Maria (12/5), Santa Barbara (1216), Solvang (12111). Ojai (12111), and Ventura (12112). For times and places of tbe meetings, contact the Public Information Office~ Los Padres National Forest, 42 Aero Camino. Goleta, CA 95017, 805/9681578. It musta been I helluve vlCltion. Lars IlIIClIlOn. who hie worked for Torsten HIllmen In Sweden for several .,.... recently ClIme to the U.s. for I VlICItion. While he WI. .... VImIhI signed him up to be Andre Vromens' mac:hanic: In next .,..•• 6OOc;c WorkI MX Champion· ship bIltd... Ind lit list word. Lars wes SIlt to jet to Jlpen. Honda's CRBO minicrossers made their debut in the SoCal MX wan ower the Nov. 9-11 weekend. At Corona on Friday night, Nov. 9. Gary Szilagy rode his box stock CR80 to a win, and the following Sunday at DeAnza. brothers Scott and Todd Hewatt took class wins. T" Peter StBrr·. film It to th . . " won the SDver Mid Won A ~ lit the 12th ....... Houeton - IntematIon8I Rim FestiwI (FativII of the ArnMca). the only InternetioMIly recognized competition of Its type in the U.S. The lIW.-cIls the equiveient of second plaice in the feIlture length film cetegory. end that ClteglWy Included over 100 flIma. T• • 1t to th ..." Is sIItecI for In eerIy spring reIeese. Mid America Trials Team hosted the Nov. 18 U.S. National Sidecar Trials, and the duo of Chuck West and An Sandenon won it on their Honda· powered rig. jerry McClary and his son topped the Suppon class at the Kansas City. KS~t. Hlkan c.lqvist. 2IiOcc MX World Chlmplon. wiI contest The Super. ~ . probebly his lest ride on Husqv_.11 before moving to V.......•• MX teem for 1• • The Superblk.. UIk.. pIlIce lit e.tsblId RIcewIy on Dec. 1. end over t3&.OOO tot8I pine ....d contingencies hive been ~ 10 .... Chlmplon Sperk Plugs ties pitched In ••000 for first. $2,000 for second end .1.1100 for third pIIIce _ _ of their products. Moto-X Fox ties chipped In I toUII of .1.7&0 for the top three pIecers. .1.000. . . end . . . Bel Heimetl wII pay I Bel weerIng will. . . .1.000. The organlzerl . . atiI pd"":'lIlI eupport. hoping for I MeI.OOO toUII by rec:e time. "Not bed for the first veer." they Slid. Tickets to The Superbiken are available through Ticketron outlets, and more info on the race, run primarily for TV use by ABC Wide World of Sports. is available at 714/496-6906. Poor Anthony DePIImer. Th.e he bunch of gr. . photOl tram I D-38 d..-t besh Ind sent them poltheste to us. Then we went end prIntec:I two of them lest week without giving Tony his well-deserved photo credit. Sorry. Tony. went end .hot I Tom Kelly, defending California Racing Club champ in the desert Open class but without an Open bike much of this year, is back onl Tom rode his Ouralube/Malcolm Smith-sponsored 420 KTM to the overall win in the CRC hare scrambles Nov. 18. Just before things got underway It the AMA Pro A~ 8Inquet. I rough 1Cknlnute preview of the tim 0. AIIy . . . .y" wes Ihown. BISed on that preview. PIpe'. gott8 SlY the film wII be .....' tood- av.. 120 hours of tim his been shot. to be edited down to felture length end relea.ed next spring. ecc:ordlng to '*'I'lItor lIrry HuffmIn. "Harley-Davidson's team riden for the 1980 Winston Pro Series will be jay Springsteen and Randy Goa," said Harley-Davidson's Dick O'Brien in a phone conversation from Milwaukee. "Bill Werner will handle jay's tuning as he bas for the past four seasons with Brent Thompson, a long time member of our racing depanrnent, working witb Randy. We will also be helping other riden. among them Scott Parker who did a fine job winning Rookie of the Year honon." Asked Ibout the reesonlng behind dropping Steve Mor"led tram the teem end ackIng Goa. O'Brlen replied. "I'd rather not get Into thet. It·. obvious that If you drop one rider lind pick up enother that you think he might do I better job." Morehead, along with Corky Keener, will have the option of using factory equipment for nat season. "Both Steve and Corky are getting their p1ans fmalized for 1980." O'Brien continued. ''They will be talking to me in the next few weeb and we'll go from there." "Boston Tee Rides That·. how Pertyknown Apinl" well riding poIlticen expllllnecl the I off~ tllbeg that'll be taped to his helmet for his Thlnk.glving Weekend ride in the dez. HosptTal STOP: Veteran competitor jody Nicholas crashed at the Nov. II AFM road race at Riwenide Raceway. Thougb suffering from a broken left femur, a broken ann and a "cracked" brace, but neck (requiring a apparently not too serious), Nicbolas was reponed to be "in pretty good spirits." He', currently staying at the Rivenide Community Hospital. •