Cycle News is a weekly magazine that covers all aspects of motorcycling including Supercross, Motocross and MotoGP as well as new motorcycles
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That Fall had come, an d our ridin g trails and roads were at their zenith agam. It was a tim e of fall ing leaves and fallin g curue balls, fall ing temperatures and - oo ps! - dreams of fall ing, too. I fell from bed right into th e sadd le, sti ll dark out, th e night a giant net for shooting .stars. Th e p rice ojuacatio ning had fall en too, dropped to somethi ng near R easonable! So I was on m y way! And, rid ing th e paths of early Octob er, I fell in lov e all over again . For forty someth in g days, through H alloween and on to T hanksgiv ing, th is would be the World Series of w hereto-go, tha t riders' au tumnal flin g before w int er stalked in. And look! Th e '89 models were coming out " also, stream li ne d an d trick , and everybody offering th eir newest Dual Purpose. W ith budding fai rings 'and luggage racks! T he choices, staggering! T here was even a neat British clubman ready to bu y, span ki ng new , black -green , w ith spo kes f rom Japan! A hh h! Th e Fall! Th is Ch am p ionsh ip Season! L ast of the weekend dirt tracks and hill climbs, end of th e hare and hounds, th e year's finale for road racing enduros and hoop smo ki n' drags. Th e closing turkey runs, and lin gering stageboui of our Dixie m ot ocrosses. It was an other year's fa rew ell from th e vintage wars, th e observed trials, th e Baja battl es. Th at m ystery and magic of a race crowd's assembly, of bringing togeth er th e even t for its on ceagain life before it disbands and ·van ishes. And, fo r so many of us, that heralding of our first sn ouis of winter and its unridable roads. T he Fall! Wak ing in a pre-dawn frost from an American fan tasy - w here we carz motorcycle our sou thwest can yons and deserts forever, or freely all-year take on our su btrop ical lands, or ride eternally under the volcan os of our faraway isles. Bu t then! - to dream fresh also of new times, of yeararound stadium even ts, of Spring and Summer agai n, all of th ose races to come , re-anointed pavement s and dirt and rock lan ds and h ill sides! Mo torcycl e com bats not yet conceived on m ot orcycles not yet per[ected, som e still bein g tried in exo tic hideaways way below th e Equator. T he Fall! Th e th ing is to keep on riding! A Iways! Even after weat her says you can't. Th is endless Pastim e of ours, thi s Dream fo r A ll Seasons . Copyright Page 3 Productions. From In idea by Cirol Sims MILE: Parker wraps it up in Sacramento _ 6 ROAD RACING: Team Lockhart tops Sears Point Endurance 10 Sarron leads Honda team to Bol d'Or victory 18 CROSS COUNTRY: Summers scores win in Mt. Morris : . . 12 HARE SCRAMBLES: Hendon OK in Oklahoma National 14 HARE & HOUND: Krause rallies to , Reno win ; MOTOCROSS: Pascarella eats 'em up at Chowchilla Trans-Cal . : RIDING IMPRESSION: Suzuki's 1989 RM80: Little screamer LOCALS: Who's hot and who's not RESULTS: ·After the checkers CALENDAR: Before the checkers WANT ADS: Wheelieing and dealin' 16 20 24 28 36 37 42 ON THE FRONT PAGE: Scott Parker. the 1988 Grand National Champion. whoops it up at Sacramento before cutting into motorcycling 's largest cake. Some of the cake was eaten, most of it was used in a food fight. See page six. Photo by Mitch Friedman. William Edgar ,.---------.---------------------------------------_._---------------, SUBSCRIPTION ORDER FORM . Name __-:--:-:-=c-::-:,.,...,.-:-= _ , P LE A S E P AINT CLE ARlY I Add ress City _ Sta te' -r-t- Order Dlte: --LZip, _ _ o Th is is a renewal o Please b ill me . o Enclosed is check or money order .=c Charge my 0 Visa 0 Maste rcard OK, please start my subscription to Cycle News and send me the newspaper Sig nat ure o eve ry week for one year (50 issue s] for $32.50 o every week for two yea rs (100 issue s) f o r $60;00 o six months second class (25 issue s) fo r $17.00 MC /Visa #_ ' One ye er ISO i•• ue.l. 2nd cle •• Cenada or Me xico and all oth er lo reign cou nt ries 8 63.00 IU.S . lund.l· First clan and airm a il rate , ava ilable upon req uest . ~ . Send to : .....:... -'- Ex piration Date ~ ~ CYCLE NEWS, Inc., P.o . B o x 4 9 8 , Lo n g B e a c h . CA 908 0 1 -0 498 I (2 13 ) 427-7433 _ _ _ ~3