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shee ts. Eac h o ne required separate ru ns through the press. Eig h t colors were printed more tha n once, to add richness and snap to the image. With my lagrafy, the artist ofte n makes changes to the image directly o n the pla te. Do n 't try that · wi th conventional litho. Fi na lly, after 25 or 30 ru ns through the press , Gunny was satisfied. Ou t of 500 prints, on ly about 100 had to be scrapped because of tiny imperfections that only an artist ·or a printer could see. So the last edition 1S the biggest one we've produced yet, as well as th e best. We are proud of it, and happ y to share our joy with up to 400 Cycle News readers who apprecia te the best in the world . P lease order your Supe rcross pri nt for only $72, ready to frame, from the Cycle News office near est you. Keep the print if you like it, if no t, return it undamaged within 30 da ys for you r mon ey back. Wind (Continued from page 2) August 11·14. August 18-.21. September 2 -5. and November 26-29. For more information. call 703 /650-3030 . S.B.S. deliver maximum braking performance for st reetldirt /3 +4 wheel mo torcycles. Racing A YAMAHA? Join SLOAN'S HONDA/YAMAHA Competition Support Discount Program!! WE'VE MOVEDI 17 1 41 7 3 5·9 6 0 0 PRO-TRAC TRAILERS The American Historic Racing Mo torcycle Association (AHRMA) has announced three events they say p ro mi se "thumping-good vintage . off-road action." First of the AMA· sanctioned events is the 3rd Annual Dinosaur Days wh ich is organized by the Tacoma (Washington) M.C. and fea tures scrambles and flat track races - for approved older mo torcycles. The . J une 6-7 T acoma weekend event also includes a swap meet and bike show. For inform atio n, contact John Folk at 206/754-7900. The next event for vintage off-road bi kes takes place on July 12 at Dick Klam fo th 's Honda Hills in T horn ville, Ohio. Call 6141 228-0690. Steamboat Springs, Colorado, will be th e th ird loca tion for AHRMA-rul e MX action, in conjunction with AH R MA road races sched uled for Sep tember 12; the event is co-hosted by the Ca lifo rnia Vintage Racing Group. For more in formation o n tha t even t call J o h n Sawazhki at 303/ 234-9580. AHRMA rules allow a wide varie ty of older off-roa d bike part icipation , including CZ, BSA, Ducati an d Husqvarna, wit h the primary ru le relating to a maximum sus pension travel of seven and four inches, fron t and rear, respecti vely. A complete ru lebook a n d ge nera l i n for matio n abou t AH MRA can be obtained by writing Vintage Mo tocros s, AH MRA, Rt. 2, Box 214, Marengo, OH 43334. Transatlantic Match Race star Kevin Schwantz called to inform us of an error in our coverage of the annual event that pits the best of America vs. the best of the British. "We moved the weight on the bike. not removed it like it said in the story;" Schwantz said. "We put the weight up over the back instead of way down in the bottom ." The Yoshimura Suzuki that Schwantz rode weighs in at 380 · pounds. but 15 pounds is added to the bike to make it legal for AMA Superbike racing. With the additional weight the bike is actually five pounds over the limit. according to Schwantz. Former road racer R ichard Chambers has turned in his lea thers for a s tin t at th e microphone. Chambers has signed on to do the announcing at the AMA/Camei Pro Series road race rounds in Brainerd, Min nesota, and Loudon, New H am pshire. There is also a possibility that Chambers will be heard from at ot her eastern road racing events . The 1986 Grand National Finals of the Suzuki GSXR Cup Series will be shown on The Nashville Network on May 17. The race which was held at Road Atlanta in Georgia will be telecast at 7 and 1 1 a.m. and 8 p.rn . Pacific time and at 1 0 a.rn .• 2 p.m. and 11 p.m . Eastern time. If you' re pl anning on attending the September 13 Mo tocross des Nations at Unadilla Valley Sports Cen ter in New Berlin, New York, the promo ters reco mmend you ma ke motel reservation s as soo n as possibl e. Also keep in mind th at the New York State Thru wa y fro m Albany to Utica has a major detour due to a recent bridge colla pse. Pl an to use o ther ro u tes or figure possib le delays in yo ur travel tim e. Charles Clayton Supercross. 29x22. By Jeff "Gunny" Gundlach Always wanted my own printing press. No t th e kind tha t you p rint newspapers with (we rent those), but a fine art machi ne, capable of presswor k th at impresses artists and pr inters al ike. For the pas t two or three years I had a press'Tike that. Anold H arris. We named it Phil. Just now sold Phil to an artist who needs him more than I. But I reserved the right to print o ne last lim ited edition before turning the thi ng over , and Supe rcross, by Jeff Gundlac h is it - the fourth and last image in the Famous Races series of fine art prints. For you art lovers, Supercross is the bo ldest image tha t Gunny has created in his career as a pro fessional artist. G uys flying through the air waving defiance as flas hb u lbs pop arou nd the stadium. More than a poster that says "Supercross!," this image is a window, where you can look and see the view that the artist sees, as the crowd goes wild. Supercross racing needed a n ico n, an image tha t expresses wha t indoor motocross is about, and I th ink th is may be it. The print making technique that we put old P hil to is so new that I had to invent a name for it. I call it "mylagrafy." Some call it positive lithography or Mylar lith ography, By any name, it does the most perfect printing job since paper money. Co nventional lith ograp hy uses photographs (negative film) to break up the artist's work into a grid of tiny spots. T hese can be seen clearly with a magn ifying glass on the fro nt page of this paper. Mylagrafy, however, doesn't break up any thing. T he artist 's drawing on the thi n, translucent p lastic is perfectly transferred, intact, to the printing plate, and from there to th e paper. Just as there is no negative used in m ylagrafy, neither is there any "origi na l art" or hand-col ored pa inting tha t we have to reproduce. T he gray Mylar sheets drawn by the artist are erased when we fin ish the edition. Nobody wo uld want them framed on his wa ll, and besides it is tradi tion in the li mi ted edition business to destr oy the p lates . So there are 400 original prints of Su perc ross in the wo rld. Fou r hundred can have an original Gunny picture in their home o r office. Instead of there being just one in a .pri vat e or m useum collec tio n. Su petcross needed nine specially blended colors to comp lete, and ni ne draw ings one per color on Mylar Michigan land closure. California trendsetting? Everyone in the o ther 49 sta tes says i t: " We don ' t give a damn how it's done in California!" Those of us from the Golden State have heard that saying from our mome n t of .b irt h (tho ugh, like myself, only a minority of Californians are born here). Peo pl e make a living from that slogan selli ng bumper stic kers, window decals, Tsh irts and su ndry o ther "don't give a damn" advertisements. Actually, most of us Ca lifornians are befuddled by these eye sores. Are the bearers of these slogans serious or just ribb ing us? Why do they feel that way; we didn't do anything to th em ? . O kay, Ca lifornia has over onefourth of the bike population. Li terally all of the OEMs are headquartered in the Golden Sta te. The wide majori ty of accessory ma kers. Most of the mail order hou ses. T he MIC and SVIA. All the national consumer and dealer magazines. Gee, most everyone in the business has an office or phone booth here except the AMA. But wait a minute! We didn't ask all these people here. They settled here on their ow n. Obviously. Califor nia is a center hub, an ax is cente r, of the America n motorcycle and ATV industry. In fact, ma ny believe Ca lifornia to be the primary source of trends in the world. I guess it is. So whe n Alan Cransto n 's Wilderness bill (S.7) hit th e senate this year, lo ts of yo u guys said, " Tee-hee, Ca lifo rn ia, you' ve go t a . p robl em , (Ch uckle, ch uckle) ." I heard some of you guys. Yeah, you there in Ohio. And you over th ere in Alabama . You too, the biker from Colorado. Addi ng the two Wilderness bills fro m Co ngress (H R 361 & 729), up are all righ t. California has some really bi g freaking problems . Unfort unately, it's you guys (and ga ls) that ch uckled th e most wh o may have to cho ke on your own