Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

is entitled "Mom on Wheels." In addition to MXing, Gale does a sports safety show at shopping malls and other sites, featuring a cross section of motocross, bicycle motocross and skateboarding. Gale will be doing her show, with guest Larry Huffman, outside the Jack Murphy San Diego Stadium prior to the Goca-Cola Supercrou Finals on Nov. 14. The Oakley 0120 Goggle atack i. on in '82 with the likes of Andr. Malherbe. Bruce P.nhell. Marty Smith. Johnny O·Mere. Neil Hudson. J.ff Ward. Rick Burgett. D.nny B.ntI.y and now Mark Bernett joining the rank. of the Oakley invasion. Gary Denton has replaced Ron Turner as Suzuki's MX test rider. Turner has moved on to Honda. A motoerou on a tr8Ck that·. never been r8C8CI on before7 An Impoaibility then days. you .y7 W.IL on Nov. 1 the Din Diggers M.C. will be hosting a motocross on a brand new track up In the L8k. I.bella area I1HI' Kernville. CA. It'll be a D-37 poInU paying 8ff81r. with 8CtIon getting underway lit 1 a.m. Check the CaIend8r aectlon for more details. The Phantom Duck of the Desen's lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Managanent, like everybody else's suit against the BLM, seems to be hanging in limbo. The suit was scheduled for an Oct. 5 bearing with the trial set to go on Oct. 21. but Judge Matt Byrne granted a U.S. government request and transferred the case to Judge Wallace Tashima. who is hearing the AMA/Noc/lnyo County, etc., suit against the BLM Desert Plan. At last repon. Tashima was on vacation. KeW8S8kl Is poetIng t&OOO In contlngenc money for a Kew. . .klpowered ahon trIIck Expert c:Iua win... lit the W1nl1tOn Pro SerIes • ~ tr8Ck events lit the HoulltOn Astrodome IFeb. 8-7) and Santa Fe Raceway Perk. Hlned8Ie. IL IAug. 131. In ord.r to qualify for the contlng.ncy you must win the .hon trIIck .v.nt with a K8w8aeki engine. pelnt the tank and HIlt pen/fender K8W8S8kl reclng green end sign the contingency claim form and publicity rei..... K _ k l will have a limited number of the KX 2IiOcc B-1 right hand engl".. aV8l18ble from Kew...kl ....... in November. With the MidWest ATV Championships coming up Oct. 29-Nov. 1 at Knouville, lA. Honda and Yamaha both are jumping up and posting contingency money. Yamaha's offer: 125cc Stock class, $250 to win; 150245cc Stock c1as. $400 to win; 150l!45cc Modified class, $400 to win. Tri-motoa must be Yamaha powered. yellow in color and the Yamaha name must be visible. Honda's contingency plan coven all three-wheel classes. both Stock and Modified, paid by overall finish in class. Honda powered ATCs only. lint $100, second $80, third $60, founh $40, fifth $50 and sixth $20. Fint three in each class regardless of make will receive a Hondaline jacket for fint. Hondaline gloves for second and Hondaline goggles for third. For more info on the race call 519/498-4516. Pemod of France. the aponeor of this year'. SCORE .Ja 1000. wiN sponsor a f1ve-rece SCORE off-roed ....... In '82. The I'lIC88 are . . of SCORE'. maJor cre•• country recee: the Perk. G. Mu1c811 2150. ..... In_.tIon8L 118ratow CIea8Ic? and .Ja 1000. Th........ will be known collec:tlvely . . the P.mod Off-Road Grand PrIx SerIes. Whet Pemod produces. by the wey. Is an • proof spirit enl... That mean•• we think. that it can be sipped . . en apertlf or mixed with a variety ofbev. .gea. Are there any AMA Novice or Junior Pro riden who need to sneak in just a few more advancement points before the end of the year? Take heart and be at Ascot on Nov. 1. Tbe Lightweights M.C., who will be running aD-57 TT on the long coune, have obtained a NovicelJunior Pro sanction and will be running thoae two c1aslles in addition to the regular Amateur card. There'll be a $600 pune and the Lightweights intend to run a scratch program for maximum points. For all the inside scoop, call Ed Carroll at 215/5717556. WIth the Coca-Cols Supercrou flnels coming Nov. 14th In Sen Diego. CaIHomla Racing Club will be having th.lr Am8teUr program on Sun. Nov. 16. To be run with the blk_ are three contingency program. and over .100 will be paid out. For more Info Entries are Team Suzuki is planning to add a bit of spice to next year's Florida WinterAMA MX Series. Mark Barnett and Suzuki's newest teamster, George Holland, are planning to be on hand for two rounds before heading to California to prepare for the Anaheim Supercross opener. Denny Bentley will head to California and ride in the Golden State Series to get some hard track training. Ho.PITal STOP: Three-time 250cc National MX Champion Tony DiStefano will und.rgo the first of two .y. operations on October 21. H. I. trying to regain vision after injuring his eye in a .hop accld.nt ov.r a year ago. S.nd him a card or lett.r at 1230 Radcliffe Street, Brl.tol. PA 19007. or call 21517850873. Kawasaki's Team Green will be sponsoring the 10th Annual AMA Florida Winter National Minicycle and Schoolboy Olympics on Novemher 2629 in Ocala and Homosassa Springs, Florida. Pre-entry is $15 for the first class entered in each event and $10 for the second class in each event. The pre-entry deadline is November 16. Last year over 1.000 entries from 29 states competed in the event which offers short track, TT, MX and hare scrambles races. Send entry fees to Winter Nationals, 6450 16th Street North, St. Petersburg, FL 55702, or call 815/577-5147 for more info. A copy of each rider's binh cenificate must accompany each entry. Trials veteran Sammy Miller recently scored his 950th trials win. 8bo8rd an Aprilia. Asked about his announced goal of 1,(100 vlctori.s. Miller replied. "The Aprilia i. going well. but the Mill.r chassis is getting a bit rusty." Manha Felton has been named the Western representative of Amen'can MOtOTcyclist, the official AMA magazine. Manha recently moved her business, Manha Felton Promotions, to 702 Washington St., Suite 26, Marina Del Ray, CA 90291,215/506-4995. Ruae o.neI, motocr08l school C8IIed to aey that piur...or. aerI.. and MX rid.r Jeff Barley are currently Ruae' house gU88tll and ".njoylng" .ome Intenslv. trIIlning. Ruae .ys that the Demel MX schools will be trIIV.llng to South AfricII, the PhllDpI"... South Amer1c8. Sweden and D.......-k in 1982, bringing the total number of countries visited by the school to 48. J.R. Kelley of KK Motorcycle Supply is organizing efforts to provide fmancial help to injured Wmston Pro Series star Hank Scott. In addition to staning a cash savings account for Hank, IlK is organizing a charity raffle. For more info, contact IlK Motorcycle Supply, 451 E. Third St., Dayton, OH 45402, 515/222-1505. Meanwhile, Hank was released from the hoapital Oct. 22 after an operation to put a seven-inch steel pin in his left leg. He is reponed to be in good condition and feels that he may be back racing by mid-1982 .• three-wheel cIea.... G-2OOcc. 201·26Occ and Open. Honda will be poetIng a cell 2131830-7&11. Umlted. Natlonel Number 8& Jeff Hicks who finished 4th In the 500ce auppon cI8_ lit the Trene-USA THE NATIONAL PAPERS Fate often plays games, tricks and takes unusual turns in motorcycle racing. Being at the right place at the right time, both on and off the track, can often dictate winning or losing, a good season or a bad one. Hank Scott is one of the moat recent to come to mind. A year ago he won five major events, more than any other rider, and still did not win the title. This year. he won three events, more than all othen except one, and again he did not win the title. Hank has long been one of racing's good guys, a clean rider who never got in anybody's way and one that fell down very few times over the past 10 years. His only problems seem to come in his many disputes with older brother Gary. To a certain degree, those of us involved in announcing and the cycle press perhaps made it sound much more torrid than it really was. It is called "hype." Total peace was declared before the '81 race season staned, and now that I look back, it might not have been for the best, at least as far as Hank is concerned. Hank, you see, has been for several seasons one of the best mile track riden in competition, and in addition, his half mile machines were always very competitive. Like Gary, Hank has had the assistance of several tuners and helpers over the yean. and in some cases, when a tuner would leave Gary, he would join Hank, or leave Hank and join Gary. So with a total commitment to brotherly love, the Scott brothers set out this past season to go after the title, something that Hank has never had and Gary has had once. Both were in contention for that title for two-thirds of the season. Then Hank fell by the wayside for various reasons and Gary was on his own to make the run against defending champ Randy Goss and big buck rider Mike Kidd. The word was out most of the last half that if required, Gary would ride one of Hank's fast and reliable machines. If Gary had been on on~ at Syracuse, he would have won the title. If he had been on one at San Jose, he would have again wrapped up the title. He was not. So it came down to the final race at Ascot on the half mile, a track that Gary has been racing on since 1970, winning many, many National TT races but only once on the half mile. Gary swallowed his pride and common ~ prevailed to the degree that he asked for and obtained Hank's best half miler. Hank was to ride Gary's machine. Fate had taken the fint step. The second step of fate came in time trials. Gary was out early with a good solid front row qualifying effon. Hank was also out early with a good run, but the clocks started acting up, and he was told to take another run at it. Now Ascot has never been race-ready during time trials, especially when the sky is cloudless and the sun is bright. That's the way it was on this specific evening. Hank went again and was sailing along until coming out of the final turn heading for the flag. He got into a tank-slapper that was a "10" on anybody's scale. The bike did all sorts of things, including throwing Hank to the ground. Then the machine staned whopping on Hank. It was a bad one to say the least. One of the first to Hank was Gary. Hank was in pain, a lot of pain and was vocal about it. But his last words to Gary were, "This is the worst handling bike 1 have eveT ridden'" Gary was shaken, of that there is no doubt. It is not the kind of thing you expose younelf to prior to going out and taking aim on the title. Hank was taken to the emergency hospital nearby. One never goes to an emergency hospital on a Saturday night in a city the size of Los Angeles. They are booked to capacity with every type of injury listed and some that are not. A few days later, Hank was flown to his hometown - Findlay. OH. He has said, like most racen do at the time of injury and hun, that he will never race again, even if he can. You see, Hank has a broken arm, leg, hip and pelvis. Even if he wanted to race at this time, he could not. Hank has been winning National events since 1974 and has a total of 14 major wins, more than any other rider who has never won the Grand National title. This translates to the fact that he has given many of us for many yean a maximum effon with style, ability and a touch of class. Now he could use our help. The plane trip home cost close to $7,000. The doctors in Los Angeles estimate that it will take around $50,000 before Hank is well enough to again go back out on a race track and win. Several groups and individuals have come to the front to help Hank and his wife after his only major accident in all those yean of racing. Hank just was in the wrong place at the wrong time on the wrong motorcycle. Hank is a born-again Christian who has stated many times that the Lord is with him and watching over him. But faith alone will not pay hospital bills. Hank Scott has always been open about his beliefs and faith. Now is the time for some of us to show our faith in one fine racer who mayor may not race again. Send any size contribution to: Mel Barda, 14402 Raintree, Tustin, CA 92680. Be sure and include your name as this is for a "money tree" that will be sent to Hank very soon. Remember, Hank was trying to be a good guy. Now we get a chance to be one for him. Roxy Rockwood 00 0') 7

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