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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(J.'C That I sent out another written piece, and somehow went right along with it. The Boon of The Eighties! - The Almighty Fax!! What did writers ever do without it? My first scribbled lines must have gone by telegraph, or was it carrier pigeon? Smoke signals?! Naw, no way! I've been around a while, sure - but! And now I've got m)l very own Facsimile Machine (to go with this brand new ZX-7). Hey! The one sends me straight to the twisties. The other sends letters, stories, scripts, pictures, with polling, memory, multicQpying, password security, you name it! - Pro: grammable One-Touch Performance In a Convenient Compact Package! The key word in that upscale phrase being PROGRAMMABLE. To program a job. Accomplish a mission. To arrive at a designated spot in time and space. And this programmer's trick is to fax myself to - to any race venue in the whole wide world. Zap! Bingo! What about Sunday's GP at Jerez? And then Misano? Hockenheim? Salzburg? Piece 0' cake! I'll just glimpse the Calendar pages of this here Cycle News and go wherever I wish. Superbikes in Rio? Hit the keypad! My fax'll get me there faster than you can spell B-r-a-z-i-l. The San Jose Mile? Yup. Springfield, too? Why not! Touch Tone me to Motocross Heaven! Shoot me to Ferrno and Sittendorf and Oss - Yoweeeh!· Road Atlanta-me without a disconnect! Don't put me on hold - speed dial my can direct to the Traverse City Enduro. Here I come St. Johns' Hare Scrambles! Look out Bowling Green Drags! Hot Damn! I'm a-flyin' fast! I got that Fax-o-Matic-Fission goin' full on strong. Ain't nothin' stoppin' me now! Never! Huh? What's this? You say I'm getting a Faulty Remote Terminal? My document length has Exceeded Maxim um Limit? Memory is Full? How can it be?! This dream's supposed to work without a catch! And you're saying - what? - Poor Received Image Quality?! Roll Empty?! Get me outta here! Take me back to when writers' hardware was something you sharpened with a pocketknife, and software was made. of flannel. And plain old air mail was faster tha71 anyone ever needed. And bikes had kick cranks. And. Well. You can have back the fax machine. But don't take my new motorcycle away. Please. Not yet. PREVIEW: AMA National Championship Road Race preview 4 MOTOCROSS: Stanton, Holland round 'em up at Hangtown 8 Action hot at the World Mini Grand Prix in Las Vegas 22 Thorpe on top of the world in French 500cc GP 26 HARE SCRAMBLES: Roeseler jams to Shasta Dam GP victory 10 CROSS COUNTRY: Plessinger tops Pennsylvania National 14 REVIEW: Laguna Seea U.S GP 16 ULTRACROSS: Tyson Vohland gets revenge in Texas 28 INTERVIEW: MXer Jean-Michel Bayle Stealing America's heart 30 LOCAL RACING: Who's hot 34 CALENDAR: Plan ahead 46 WANT ADS: What's for sale 51 ON THE FRONT PAGE: It's here! Daytona's in the record books, and it's time for the AMA National Championship Road Race Series to start the rest of the series. Check out page 4 for a preview of the remaining Nationals. Photo by Larry Lawrence. William Edgar r---------~-----------------------------------------------~-------, SUBSCRIPTION ORDER FORM Name_-=-;:-:::-::::::::;-;:;-;7,=:-- '-- _ rPLEASE PRINT CLEARLY) Address _ s tate C ity Order Oete: ·Zip _ _ OK, please start my subscription to' Cycle News and send me the newspaper o every week for one year (50 issues) for'$35.oo o every week for two years (100 issues) for $65.00 o six months second class (25 issues) for $18.00 vee' 160 i......). 2nd c.... C....da 0' Mexico First cla.. and .irmtlil rate. evailable upon request. 0 ... ~ Send to: end en other foreilln count,ie. $75.00 (U.S. fundi). o This is a renewal o Please bill me o Enclosed is check or money order .=c Charge my 0 Visa 0 Mastercard Signature M C IVisa# Expiration Date CYCLE NEWS, Inc" ~ Box 498. Long Beach. CA 90801-0498 I (213) 427-7433 P.O. -=-_ _-,-_ _ _ _ ~3