Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

55047, 61V 433-5744 (Fax: 612/4335012). Don & Roy's Cycle City in Brookfield, Wisconsin, will be the site of Sport Bike Night from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., Tuesday, June 27. Representatives from manufacturers and distributors will be on hand. For more information, call 414/786-3220. America 's motorcycle newspaper Volume XXVI Sharon Cla yton, Publishn Milu: Kli nger, ComplTolln Skip j ohnson, Assocuue Publishnl Nation a' Saks M anagn J.ack M.an ~l. Associete PtA.blishrrl Editor Rheba Smit h. Ctrculation Manag" Carol ine GC' dry, Exeauioe Suutary to n the Pu bli.~hn Ed ito ri. 1 J ack Man gu s. Ed ito r Kit Palm er . ASS OCU1It!Editor P,IUI Ca rr u thers. Associatt! Editcn Nate Raub a, Associate Eduor Brian Ca uerson . Associatr Edi tor Ken Faugtn, A$Sistan t Editor Edw ina Man gu s, Calnul4,. Editor Adverti.ing Skip J ohnson . Na," Sales Mat&4gn Mike Ch u rch . Senior Sides ManagtT T er ry Pra ll, Senior Sales Ma ndgt"'l' Mark T home, West t'm Sales Man agn Ron Da vidson . Wt'skTn Sales M anagt'r Thomas R. Co mer, W eslt'1"7l Sales MlJna~tT Mar k Mitch ell. £.astnn Sales Managrr e reg Mitchell . Eastern Sales Managn j oan R Ulio!oi~n. Westrom Ad Comd inatOT Ca rla Borden . ElLSt"" Ad Coo rdi nator Holl y Co wan . Eauem Ad Coordiruuor Gr.phic • • nd Production Ree J oh nson . Prod tution M anag e? Ma nd y Loo . A rt Dir~c' m Denuis G reene, Lab. T ech, Slan-y Cuesr, C rdp hic A rtist j im m ie O'Dell, C rdp hic Artist MichoKol GrUSlk.o.. G rdp hic A rtist Carolyn Bran ha m. TY~Ml ln Arim nt' Telias, Ty~s~tlrr Accounting /D. t. Processing Donna Bryan . Accu R~crivD.bl~ Coo rdirl4tor Ceneva RtpoI • ASJu14n t fra n Ha mwev. Crt'dit Circ ulation Sara h Tay lo r. Ifm.t tan t Alma Ang uiano. A .uis'd nt ~b r it" Nelse n . An istan l H erla ne R ich mon d. Au istant CAro l MaRRio . An L an' d De.ler S. le . Thanks from the Shoberts We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for the support they have given to us since Bubba's accident. First, we would like to thank God for ' answering all the prayers that have been said for Bub ba. Thanks to all the frie nds (too many to nam e) for all their su pport an d help wh ile we were in San J ose. Then there is Tara Sumners, Bubba 's girlfriend. Tara has been with us since the accident an d has moved to Lubbock so she can con tinue to help Bubba du ring his reha bilitation. Her effor ts have proved to be in valuable. We want to thank everyone at American H onda . They have continued to take care of our every need throughou t this ordeal. Honda 's R ick Sp ill man h as also been a treme ndous help, handling two solid weeks of phone calls from man y concerned Bubba fan s. Our thanks also So out to the many racers and mechanics who have kept in touch, offering their well wishes and concern s. We would also like to thank the news media, especially Cycle News and Cycle World, for their patience and understanding. Last but definitely not least , our si ncere thanks to Bubba's fans. Bubba may not be number on e this year, but his fans have proved to us 'he will always be number one. DONNIE, MARTHA , DEBRA & DO N NA SHOBERT Lubbock , TX I am a 20-year-old speedway fan and a journalist who writes about speedway for the Pol ish newspapers. I go to speedway events in Poland as well as abroad and I have a lot of souvenirs to exchange. PAWEK R USZKIEWICZ UI. Skowackiego 3/6 62-200 Gniezno, Pol and Wrong sponsor In your Man zan ita 600 Nationa l Half Mile report, an error was made perta ining to Eri k Gra ybeal's sponsors. Diam ond Ch ain, Oury Grips and Sprocket Specialt ies were left out. In addi tio n, Arai Helmets was incorrectly men tioned as a spo nsor (quite a surprise to Bell Helm ets, Erik 's actual helmet sponsor). It is im portant that all the spo nsors in volved wit h Erik's program get proper recogni tion , as it wou ld be impossible to run a successfu l racing program withou t them. Than k you to all of the sponsors of the D.C. Cycle Racing Team and Erik Graybeal. . DANA W. McNEIL D.C. Cycle Streamwood, IL Graybeal's most recent outing was the June I I Peoria TT round of the 600 National Dirt Tr ack Series. Th e Bloom ington, Il linois, racer finis hed 13th. H e's curren tly sixth in the 600 Nat ional point standings . . . Editor . Kevin Beaub ien • • \fana ge? W.nt Ad. .'i hn-ri \ .0"1(1 . Wan t Ad Sa les Serv ice a nd Support A itlh ~l . H ead q Udrle?s R euption isl !..rtlll;lrd I krri n J;. snv,Ct' and S u pport Chri . N. tion .1 He.d q uart..... 2201 Cherrv Ave.• Lo ng Beach'. GA 90806. P.O , Box ,j91'1, LUIlR Rc ·ach . CA 90801-0498 (2 1~) 127-715~: 215/ 656-8814. FAX (213) '127-6685 East er n Off ice 4190 Fim Avro.• T ucker, G A. 300&' : ma il inl{ add ress P.O . Bo x 805. 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'W B PA ~ V 4 AUDITED C IRCU LA TI ON Copyright A Cycle News, Inc . 1 98 9 . Trade· mark Cycl. News reg istered U.S . P. te nt Office. All r;ghts resetVed. Sledge hammer comments Bein g pretty much o f a mal e chauvin ist pig, I found .the art icle Fast Ladies in Leathers quite amusing. I thi nk we need a Powder p urr class like they have in motocross. How about mirro rs and nai l po lish in the pits? All kidding and "sledge hammer" commen ts aside, I remember compe ting aga inst a coup le of "fa st bab es" (I cou ldn 't resist ) at WERA events in the seventies. Correct me if I am wrong, but I believ e Gina Bovaird was the first femal e entered in the Dayton a 200 and the first to get an FIM license. The other rider you sho u ld have mention ed is j oean Forestell , wh o was also a WERA racer, riding for T eam Maryland abou t a decade ago. Ah . the mem ori es of bein g a Team G o na d race r lin ger o n l (T ea m Gonad was a Richm ond, Virginiabased road race team competing in Ligh tweight GP classes at WERA even ts.) DAVE GOLDSTEIN O rlando, FL Polish speedway fan I am very interested in correspo nding with Ameri can speedway fan s and a lso exc h a n g ing speed wa y.related items with them. I would like to exchange items like race progra ms, photos, stic kies, bad ges, book s, pennants, etc. with America n fans. I can' t find American speedway items in Pol and_ For examp le, I am looking for programs from the 1988 Long Beach Final and the 1982 Los Angeles Final. Published letters do not necessarily reflect the position of Cycle News. Inc. Letters are subject to condensation due to space limitations. Anonymous letters will not be published. Send letter to Voices, P.O. Box 498. Long Beach. CA 90801-0498. ~YND fiY p~p~ Wf~LfY (Contin ued from page 2) T he Li st, an au tomotive and motorcycle bibliography. It's a com p utergenerated listing of some 3000-p lus books, sorted into 140 subj ect categories. The firm 's aim is to eventuall y list all out-of-print post-war book s (excl uding manuals and sales cata logs, etc.). The list gives prices of books available for sale and the firm will sear ch for any titl es not avai lab le from stock. For examp le: If you've been lookin g for a copy of the 1970 book Racer: The Sto ry of Gary Nixon by J oe Sca lzo, it's available from T.E. Warth for $45; Motocourse 1976-77 is out of stock , but Motocourse 1977-78 can be had for $150. The price of the list is $14.95 ($29.95 by fax ) from T.E. Warth, Esq . Automotive ,Boo ks, Lumberyard Shops, Marine on St. Croix, . MN Tsubaki has been chosen by the National Motorsports Association (NMA) to be the official chain and an associate sponsor for two upcoming YSR-50 events. The first mini road race event is the YSR-50 National Final at Ponca City, Oklahoma, August 3-5, and the second is the YSR-50 World Fin al to be held at the Bally Grand Hotel in Reno, Nevada, Sep tembe r 5-6. Australian Malcolm Campbell was absent from the Canadian round of the World Superbike Series and the Brainerd, Minnesota, American round. According to a report in Australian Motorcycle News, Campbell reportedly was close to inking a deal with the Cabin Racing Grand Prix Team to ride the injured Bubba Shobert's machine, and was so confident he would be signed that he did not send an entry to Canada for the Superbike race because it conflicted with the Austrian GP. Instead of Campbell, Brit Rob McElnea got the the Cabin bike ride. Another missing-in-action Australian was Paul Lewis, whose World Championship Superbike Series deal reportedly fell apart when he blew up all three of his race motors at the first meetin g. Unable to cope with that type of expense, sponsors p ulled the plug on h is program. . Multi-time champion Bob "Hurricane" Hannah will compete in the June 24-25 Suzuki-sponsored 4th Annual New Jersey State MX Championships at Raceway Park in Englishtown, New Jersey. The event will be the next to last race Hannah competes in before retiring. His last race will be the July 8-9 U.S. 250cc MX GP at Unadilla in New Berlin, New York. Joining Hannah at the Raceway Park event will be his Suzuki teammate Ronnie Tichenor. Hannah will help instruct students at the Monday, June 26, Tony 0 Motocross School at Raceway Park. The school is limited to 1989 Suzuki RM owners and is free, courtesy of American Suzuki and participating Suzuki dealersh ips. For more information on the school, call 215 /321 -0101 . Bimota is using some of the most sop h istica ted on-board electro nics yet seen in motorcycle racing. incorporating two separat e co m p u ter systems for their Yamaha-powered su perbike's Weber-Marelli engine management system and on-board di agnostics, Two computer connectors a t the righ t rear of the machine permit technicians to plug into a Weber 'ch ip -burne r' to quickly and easily recali bra te the fuel injection, whil e plugging into a Toshiba personal comp uter provides data on such facets as front and rear suspension travel , rear whee l speed, steering angle, fram e £lex, and more. Rider Mike Baldwin cited an Italian test session as an exam p le of the system's errectiveness: " When I tested in Italy, I came in and said, 'I think we need to adjust the rebound damping; I'm (Con tinued to page 58)

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