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(Continued from page 2) Yamaha and' Kawasaki dealership; 2405 East Santa Fe Ave., Flagstaff, AZ 86004, 602/n4-1461. In cooperation with the BLM's Take Pride in America volunteer program, Sports Committee District !S7 of the , AMA is coordinating a desert cleanup, the Lucerne Project, at Lucerne Valley, California, on Saturday, June !S, beginninlil: at 8 a.m. The Lucerne Project wIll concentrate on the removal Qf abandoned cars, and the collection and proper disposal of trash and broken glass from the Camp Rock Road, Cougar Buttes, Anderson Dry Lake, Cinnamon Hills and Soggy Dry Lake areas. For more information, call 213/4386527, Dale Walker will be conducting one of his Holeshot Performance Drag Racing Schools at Los Angeles County Raceway in Palmdale, California, on May 19 in conjunction with that weekend's Dragbikel USA drag meet. For more information, call 408/ 427-3625 or 427-0299. The Ride to Win Commitlee, a nonprofit organization that was formed to work with the AMA to improve the U.S, Trophy and Vase Team International Six Day Enduro effort, is seeking donations from enthus~ asts. To spur donations, the group is conducting a contest that will see seven lucky winners (via a random drawing of entrants) win one of seven two-wheelers - five motorcycles donated by Honda, Kawasaki, KTM, Suzuki and Yamaha and two mountain bikes donated by Of£road and Scott USA. No donation is required to win, but all donations will, go towards helping our Six Days teams. Send donations and entries to Ride to Win, clo AMA, P.O. Box 6114, Westerville, OH 4!S081-6114. A California judge has niled that California Rider, a newsletter that was being published by Steve Bimson for District 37, was guilty of infringing on the ragistered name of Rider magazine, a monthly magazine published by TL (Trailer Life) Enterprises, Inc. Bimson has reportedly sold his publishing firm and California Rider is no longer being published. According to Rider publisher Joseph McNeill, Jr., Trailer Life's attorneys sent cease and desist letters to Bimson and they placed approximately 26 phone calls to him, all without any response. McNeill said that he "accidently" got Bimson on the phone, after the many attempts to do so, and suggested that Bimson change the name of the newsletter to "California Riding." According to McNeill, Bimson said he would not do that because he had a lot of California Rider stationery in stock. BORN: Helen Hodgkinson, daughter of Cycle News European correspondent Alex Hodgkinson and wi£~ Gudren, on April 21 in West Germany. The EI Charro Suzuki 126cc MX GP team suffered a major setback via practice crashes prior to the April 23 GP in Portugal and at the GP. Dave Strijbos crashed while practicing the Thursday before the GP and was unconscious for an hour as well as injuring his arm, then in the second moto of the GP he fell, and suffered a tom tendon in his knee. Teammate Pedro Tragter also crashed while practicing and broke his wrist. Tragter will likely miss two or three, GPs. Defending World Champion Fred Merkel (Hon) won the second round of the '89 World Championship Superbike Road Race Series on April 30 at the Hungaroring in Hungary. Merkel handily won both legs of the race with Raymond Roche (Duc) finishing a,distant second and Fabrizio Pirovano (Yam) third in the first leg, and Pirovano finishing second and Rob McElnea (Yarn) third in the second leg. The win by Merkel gave Pirelli its first-ever World Championship victory. Merkel heads the point standings with 63 points, Pirovano is second with 52 and Terry Rymer third with 48. Tom White faxed Papa the news' that former racing greats David Aldana, Dallas Baker, Skip Van Leeuwen, John Hately, Chuck Minert and Gunnar Lindstrom will be in attendance at the May 21 White Bros World Four-Stroke Championships at southern California's Perris Raceway. White said Sammy Tanner, Don Vesco, Eddie Mulder, Gene Romero and Mike Haney have indicated they might attend. Trail-Way Speedway in Hanover, Pennsylvania, will host a Honda Family Fun Weekend, May 20-21. The "free admission" event will feature Honda product displays, onroad and off-road demo rides, dealer displays, a charity poker run, to~g tech seminars, etc. SuperCToss racing will be conducted on Saturday and pre-entry forms for racers are available. For more information, call Trail-Way Speedway 'at 717/3594310. Contributor Frank Harrison, who ·covered the April 30 Devil's Bowl Speedway Half Mile race in Mesquite, Texas, for us, told Papa he had the "best chauffeur in the world" drive him to the event. Harrison, who lives in Wichita Falls, Texas, rode to the races with neighbor and friend Lloyd Ruby, who competed in 18 Indy 500 races during an illustrious car , racing career that saw him win many USAC Indy Car Nationals and compete in the La Mans 24Hour. "L1oyd raced dirt track motorcycles when he was a youngster," said Harrison, . "but he hedn't seen a half mile bike race in over 20 years:' Vintage motorcycle enthusiasts should note that the American Historic Racing Motorcycle Association's national membership office has been relocated. Mail should be addressed to AHRMA, P.O. Box 246, 218 East Willard, Gifford, IL 61847 and calls should be made to 217/5687764 (between noon and 4 p.m. Central time). In addition, Sherry Winn has been named AHRMA administrator. For the first time in 10 years, ace dirt track photographer Dan Mahony will be selling some of his classic racing pies out of a grandstand concession area booth at Ascot Park on Saturday night,