Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

biI bill. Haya' reply? "Not only no. HeU. nor' Sldeh8ck pilot John Sherman. 48, died of an apperent heart IIttlICk Feb. 10 after col pelng In the pit area at the D-37 motoerosa. Flntman Ralph Whltn.y, also , sldehac:k pilot. edmlnlstered CPR Immadletely, quickly aided by Sunrlla Cycle Park 1*'8f1'8d1ca. Sherman was ruahed to nearby George All Force Hospital wherI he died ehortIy thereafter. Only two days before, John and IOn Jama. 1S, Went honored at the 0n Awards Banquat . . the 79 Heav,welght SIdehack ChampIona. John .. IUrvIved by his wife Helen. 1011I Jack and ....... and daughter Jeanlce. Expr.ulo.-. of sympathy may be lint to the Sherman f8mily, clo SidehIIc:k A11lOclatlor.. P.O. Box 8022. Van Nuya. CA 91406. The Feb. 9 openiDg round of the World O ~ Trials ChampioJlShip in Northern Ireland went to MonteR' mounted Swede Ulf KarlllOn. Rainy conditions led to KarlllOn'l 1C0re of 140. which wu 6.1 poinll lower than that of runner·up Rob Shepard (Hon). Yrjo Velterinen, MonteR·mounted this year after Bultaco wu reponedly forced to cut back ill team, wu third with a 149.6. Current World Champ Bernie Schreiber (Bul) poKed biI belt ICOre ever for the openiDg round., finiIbing founb at 151.2. Manin Lampkin (Bul) and Malcolm RatbmeD (Mon) fmiabed fifth and Iixth. Marland Whaley. the other American campaigning the World Cbampionahipl, did not place in the tap 20. Updete: Segebrueh Reb ,.on ClillfomiII AII"mblynwn Bob H8yea pholled PIIpe on PI'IU dirt (Mon.. Feb. '" with en lqent NqUnt for your help with h.. lII-Importllnt AB1407, the Segebrueh R bilL veto DV8foi'Ide. At llon nt. Gov.-nor Brown', office I' reviewing H8yea' ~ In IH1 ettempt to reech en egreement. thua evoldlllg veto over-rld. procedures. What HII,.. needs now, .. your . . . . . to Leo Mee.thy, III'" of the -.nbly, ImpreuIng upon him the Import8IIC8 of the ovw-ride. SImply wrtm your 1'I.,ons for Y.MI'dnsI him to IUppOrt the ml ~, end mel them to him clo Stete c.pItDI. &ec:ramento, CA ....4. "The Sierra Club hu come out of the woodwork," Aslemblyman Haya also told Pa~. He wu referring to biI other bill, AB1620. that deala with Tram·California Trail funding. Sierra Club hu oppoIIed the bill beeawe. among other reuons. the bill "laCD environmental Itandardl and guide· line.." They have uked to amend Handicap Daytona 200 RIcIer K....yRoberta o.M . .. . . - GeneAol.-o P8trtcIl Pone Rendy M8mole Boet VIIn Dulmen MKhine Commenta V-"e KIng K...., 0dcIa won It before. he C8ft 8nd wlIwlnlt . v........ The'-plg lntheworld.Laat,....·. wlnner. well C8pebIe of cIoIng It epln. V....... One of the moat Ixp.le"ced of the .-n-icel-. with the ebIIIty .... becIdng to wln ..... V....... The NlgnIng Formule . . World ChampIon. Muat be In with I~. SuzukI chencea _ _ good _ the blkl he rIcIa. _ _ o.plta hie youth he ... the 1kII. H. 3-2 3-, 3-, ..., ..., ..., 50' ,~, So good we printed it twice: In Jack Mangus' repon on the Howton IT, he quotes Dick Mann's reply to Gary Nixon regarding their ability to com· pete with "thOle kids." Nixon had just ..id to Bugay that with the money and time to train. the pair could beat the younger riden. Dick Mann limply reo lponded: "Nixon, if I'd had your eye· light and Ban Markel's courage. I could have been Kenny Roberti. " Mann tend. to lay a lot with few words ... The Mar. 23 FlM World ChampionIhIp Road Race SerIeI round - Venezue" - .... been cancelled. WiDDer of the Cyck News Dealer Con· test from the HOUlton Motorcycle DeaIernews Expo iI Moore'l Suzuki in Oenilon, lX. Gary Daniel, a mec:banic at Moore's entered the conteIt. winning a Henter Wheel Aligner for Jackie Moore's dealenhip. Congratulations! VHR. the MW company formed by Terry VarlCe and Byron Hines. hal rel....d a product brochure containing piston Idta, camshafts. Martek Ignltlonl, whaeIIe be,. and other good. and III'Vicea evallabl. from the drag redng duo. Los Anciano M.C. hu dedicated this year's Tecate 500 Enduro to the mrmory of Bob Steffan and will present the Senior Trophy in his name. A few openings remain for the Mar. 29-50 event, and you could get in by sending your rider qualifications to Los AncianOll M.C., Box 808, Santee, CA 92071. A rider protest to throw out check four of the Feb. 3 Pro.pectora AMA D-37 enduro because of poor marIdng wit be heard by the D-37 member Many Smith was forced to stay home and recover from an appen· dectomy. He is looking forward to riding in two weeks, though, making his debut on a yellow bike at rne Atlanta Supercross. The w••kIy speedway .how I t Inland Motorcycle Spe.dway atarta on April 16 It the Orenge Show Falrgroundl in San BernardIno. 1979 AMA Superbike champion Wes Cooley, Jr. hopes to repeat in '80 aboard a Vetter/Yoshimura Suzuki. Free Suzuki RM.' WelL almoat free. The e:ateh I. you have to be a motoera,. . between the ages of six and 1S end e winner In on. of the eight at the AMAlSuzldd Youth Motoeroaa NIItionIII at Brownsvllle. PA on August 2-3. Ev.n if you don't win. you can win. A doz.n RMs will be given away to partldpantl on a random drawing b,sll. c...... The Oregon's Motorcycle Road Racing Association has scheduled five races at Ponland International Raceway for 1980, the fint one being a six hour event for Box Stock and SuperStreet bikes on April 27. Orner evenu on the eight· tum, 1.9 mile·long course will be on June 22, August 10 and 31. For pre·entry fonns, contact the OMRRA Secretary, 825 NE 52nd. Ponland, OR 97215. you know that a U.S. DeI*1lMnt of Trenaportation study revealed that off-road and dual PW'POM motoreycl•• c:onaurne only 9.&% of fu.1 consumed by land-bued recreational vehlc:lea despite being the Iargeat group of "nd-b.. ,d RV.? Motor hom.. conIUm. 72.1'" while anowmobllea use 11.7%. The study alao atated that in 1977, Iand-buecI RV. COfIIUmed a mere 1.2% of the fual con.umed by transportat!onal vahlcl.. while all RV'. coIIeetIveIy COfIIUm. 3%. The study Indicated that government .tep. to reduca recreational UII of fu.1 would be Iargaly ineffactlv•• co,t1ng mora money then the amount of fu.1 th.y conserve. Did a. David Emde's Tony Smith· prepared Yamaha wiD receive major backing from the Hap Jones Distributing Company. Bell Halmatl Inc. will provide ov.r 100,000 FlM-atyIe course for the AMA National Enduro SarIea and Reliability Trials SarIe•. .".-k.,. Competition Committee on ThU,.· ,~, '5o' '5o' ..,, .. , .,.,, '5o' RIdIerd WI.c_ ,00-, ,00-, ........ Feu 2 ,., day, Feb. 14. Contact Gordon DIck· eon at 714111 & 5231 for information. Enduro rider. are reminded that the Chaparrals Feb. 2!1 AMA National Enduro ill the fmt round of the Golden State Enduro Championship. The felt of the ICbeduie remains to be set, but it loob to be a six race aeries with evenll in northern. central. and IOUth· em California. Speaking of the fint round, organizer Jerry Counll laid. "Nonhern California riden don't need to come down, 'cawe they can't win anyway," H. . acramblerlln the ..at T.xa. .... listen upl The ArkanII. LA II .T~ ChM1pIoIIIhIp Tw· kay Run SerIeI will be held later this month end In March. Clill Rod Paffoood at 3181129-2110 for detaIIa. Though lilted u an entry in the Seattle SU(lduc.. new Team Suzuki Pops Yoshimura _ , make it Daytona, according to the Yoshimura R&D people. But there's stiD one catch. "The legal husles are all lettled," Carol Carpenter told Papa, "but PO\" hu been in rne hospital with a lung IDfection, and it may not be wise for him to go to Daytona... u.s. &m.ki hila helped produce two haIf-hour TV motorcycling ahowc RoIIfI .., • .." and • Coa-Co& ........... IIotocroa. The former .. a road riding ociya.y through Clilfornla gold rush country, the latter II an .xcltlng .....lItadon of the 1979 LA. CoIIeeum I1Idlum MX race. In eddltlon. Suzuki wli pertIcIpate In one-hour hlgtlllgllta of the NHRAlNMRA drag racing eventl of the World FInaIa. GatornatIon8... Cajun NatIo..... SprIng Nadona.. end the U.s. NatIonaII. • n. 0'

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