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Cycle News 1987 02 04

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S.B.S. deliver maximum braking performance for streetldirt/3+4 wheel motorcycles. **PARTS** ...... From '69 to Current LARGEST STOCK 'N THE EAST UPSDA'L,Y Williamsville WelcHng P. o. Box 172. Holland. NY 14080 716/53l-2309 Americans (left to right) Johnny O'Mara, Danny laPorte, Chuck Sun and Donnie Hansen won the 1981 Motocross des Nations in Bielstein, West Germany. Overseas, Harry Evens became the third rider to ever win World Championships in two different classes as he topped 125cc racing by winning 18 of the 24 mOlOS. Hakan Carqvist, victor in 13 of 24 motos, won the 250cc title. England's Graham Noyce ended the eight year DeCoster/Mik-. kola grasp on the 500cc Champion- ship. In team racing, Russia won Trophee des Nations while Belgium topped Motocross des Nations. Nineteen eighty added a new first to American accomplishments in World Motocross. An American finally won the United States Grand Prix at Carlsbad, California. Many Moates, who had raced a good pan of the 250cc GP Series a few years earlier, did it in style, winning both mOlOS. Wins by johnny O'Mara at the 125cc USGP and Kent Howerton at the 250cc USGP permitted an American sweep of Grand Prix events in the United States, another first. Kent Howerton repeated as Trans-

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