Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

lowing the race, passenger Andreas announced his retirement: (Con tin ue d from page 2) 18-19 Tokyo Supercross in Japan, courtesy of the Yokohama Tire Company, whi le the other two w inners w ill compete in the Pacific Paradise Supercross Series in Tahiti in October. Headed for Japan for winning championsh ips on Yokohama tires are : Dean Baker, Jimmy Button, Ryan Carl isle , Kevin Fol ey, Steve Lewis, Robby Neeley and Brian Spud . They 'll be j oined by Shane Lawson, who was earned the Most Impressive Rider award at Loretta Lynn's. Billy Fosnock and M ichael Stah lma n w ill compete in the Pacific Pa rad ise Supercross, co urtesy of t he Venus Moto Club of Tahi ti. . Vetera n road racer Kurt Lieb mann, 47, wi ll tak e h is Scuderia Nostal gia BMW Ren nsp ort Special s to H ockenheim, West Germ an y, wh ere he'll tak e part in th e G rosse Vet eran Grand Prix, Sep tember 1-2. Longtim e friend a nd BMW Rennsport wizard Hugo Wolt ers will prep both bikes. The H ockenheim races will mark th e first tim e Liebmann has raced outside North America in his 3 1-yea r racing career. Scuderia No stal gia is sp onsored by Amol Motorcycles, Castol, Ara i, Michelin a nd Lufthansa. Speedway racer s and wannabee speedway racers ri sk losing the only track in America that is open daily for practice, if they don't use it. Ken Maely's Speedway Ranch needs 30 riders a month j ust to pay the new insurance rates. Ken has fuel and parts for sale, as well as the famed Maely Hot Shoe. The track is just south of Co rona , Cal ifornia, on 1 -15. For further information, call 714/735-0540. Enrollment is now open for motorcycle repair co urses at Ci tru s Co llege in G lendora, Ca lifornia. Both beginning a nd ad vanced clas ses will be available and no prior experience is required. The night classes, whi ch offer instructi on in four-stroke and two-stroke engine th eor y, carburetion, electrical diagnosis a nd cha ssis . systems, will sta rt this fall and mor e inf ormat ion ca n be ob tai ned by ca ll ing 8 18/ 9 14-85 11 or 714/ 5966409. Nick Nicholson invites his armyof friends to j o in him at Wofford Heights Park near Lake Isabella in Ca liforn ia on Saturday,September 9. There'll be motorcycle movies and videos shown from 7 p.rn . to 11 p.m. Nick says, "Bring your own cha ir, drinks, etc. Horseshoes from 5 to 7 ," CORRECTION : The phon e number th at ran with th e Zero Gravity windscreen prod uct evaluation in th e August 16, #32 issu e is Zero Gravity's Fax number. The phon e number is 818/883-2761. 50 Sw iss twin brothers Ch ristoph and Andreas . H u sser (KTM) became the 1989 MX World Sidecar-Cross Champions for the second consecutive year after w inning the August 13 round in Oubenice, Czechoslovakia . Fo l- Bob Bagwell , promoter of flat tra ck races at Devil s Bowl Spee dway in Dallas, T exas, will promote a n AMA Pro-Am half mile race progra m a t H enderson, Ken tu ck y's R iversi de Downs, Octob er 1. T he even t will be th e first AMA-san ctioned dirt track race held in western Kent ucky in 10 years . Canad ian Da ve Seh l set th e track record, 27.36 seconds in 1972, at the facility th a t has been called the " Lo uis ville Downs of. western Kentucky.' ; In addi tio n to a full program of racin g, activities include a n a nt iq ue and custom bi ke sho w, a field meet and a swa p meet a nd road rider gam es. For more infor rnation, call 502/444 -7593. Papa has been asked t o relay an apology from one of t his pu bli cation 's advertising sales m anagers . t o t he folks at Camel. In the fullpage ad announcing t he M ickey Thompson Awa rd of Exc ellence, which i s be ing p r ese n ted by Camel Supercross, we in corr ectly ran " Present ed by Camel Pro." We apologize to ou r f riends at Camel and hope we didn't co nf use you . Don 't forget t o vote for the Camel Supercross rider you fee l should rece ive the award. A corrected ad, and voting ballot, can be found on page 13 of this issue. The Eas tern H ar ley- Da vids on Dealers Association rai sed $ 180,000 for th e Mu scul ar Dystrophy Associa tio n (MDA) this past Ma y during it s Ride For Life II , a ch a r i ty motorcycle rid e th at rai sed funds for MDA's loca lized pati ent service and "resea rch programs. Dealer Association P r esiden t R a y T ex ter ha s a n n o u nced that th e HarleyDavidson Motor Co. wou ld send two representatives from th e East ern HD Dealers Association to th e national broadcast of the annual J erry Lewis Labor Day T elethon . " We were thrilled with th e results of this year's event for MDA/ ' sa id T exter. "Getting national recognition o n coastto-coast television is rea lly icing on the cake. Traveling to La s Vegas to meet MDA National Chairman Jerry Lew is on Labor Day weekend will be Brian Bentley of Brian's HarleyDavidson in Langhorne, Pennsylvan ia , and J oe Wh it e o f Whi te' s H arl ey -Davidson Il1 L ebanon , Pennsylvania. Supercross and 250cc National champ Jeff Stanton, 125cc Eastern Reg ional Supercross champ Damon Bradshaw, Yamahasupported Mike Jones, and KTM's Broc Glover and M ike Hea ley are the American entrants in t he Dutch Supercross which will take place September 3 in Rotterdam, Holland. They will go up aga inst 1988 winner Jeff Leisk, Eric Geboers, John van den Berk and Gert-Jan Van Doorn. O n Sunday, Sep tember 10, th e American Sports Cavalcade on cable TV's The Nashville Network will feature th e CMC Gold Stat e MX Na tionals round that took p lace a t so uthe rn California's Carlsbad Raceway last January. The 90-minute sho w will ai r three times th at day, a t 12 noon, 4 p.m . and 9 p.m., Pacifi c time. CMC motocross will also be featured on cable TV's Pr im e Ticket in the Lo s Angeles, Hawaii , Florida a nd Denver ma rk et s wh en T he California Su m mer Motocross Series airs o n Su nday , Sep ternberS a nd aga in on Sunday , September 17. Check local listings for tim e and chan nel. Team Green and Pro Circuit will be on hand to offer rider assistance at the opening round of the GFI Fall MX Series at southern California's Perris Raceway, September 1-2. Road racer Ben .Williams of Carn arillo, Ca liforn ia , suffered a bro ken ha nd a nd o the r injuries in a recen t stree t bike acc ide nt th at occured wh ile he was o n h is way home from wor k. T he inj ur ies will force Williams to mi ss th e last race of th e Cas tro l 250cc G P Ser ies a t H eartland Park T opeka in Kan sas, and possib ly th e u p comin g W ER A 24-Ho ur End urance Race at Willow 'Springs, Ca liforn ia. Friends can giv e him a call at 805/388-2579. Ni ssan will help sponsor the Septem ber 9 Co lorado Supercross Ch ampionshi ps at Island Grove Park A rena in Greeley. Accord ing t o t he promoter, Suzuki's Johnny O'Mara, Honda's Guy Cooper, Kawasaki' s Denny Stephenson and Yamaha's Doug Dubach will compete in t he event which offers a $4000 Pro purse. Rac ing beg ins at 5:30 p.m . Due to an injured foot , T eam Yamaha' s Micky Dymond did not com pe te at th e August 27 Washougal 500cc Nat io n al MX in Wa sh ington . Dym ond inju red his foot whil e p ra cticing a few days before th e Augu st 20 Mi llvill e, Minnesota, Natio nal. H e com peted in the fir st moto in Minnesot a, but sat out th e second moto. Dymond is ex pec ted to ride the next National in Binghampton , New York, September 24. Three-ti m e Grand National Champion Jay Springsteen is planning a return to road racing . According to Springer, he will be racing a . Suzuki in the 750cc Supersport class at Daytona in October if testing of the machine goes as planned. He also plans on competing in the Daytona 200 next March, and will grace the pavement in other National road races that don't conflict w ith Camel Pro Series dirt track events. Springsteen will carry the banner of his new business, Springer Gold Products, next year. Pro motocrossers planning on com peting in th e October 8 Budd's Creek, Maryland , ' round o f th e AMA National Championship 125/500cc MX Seri es should be interested in the Adopt a Pro Motocrosser program. Randy Russell , who is organ izing th e unique effort , said, "The' Adopt a Pro Motocrosser program works like th e foreign exchange student program. Host famil ies o pen th eir doo r s to pro mot ocrossers in excha nge for some of th eir great racing stor ies. We all enjoy motocross racing and wish to contribu te somethi ng, even if it 's just a warm bed or meal." So, if you're a pro mo tocrosser and you 're willing to take part in some bench ra cing sessions in exchange for a place to sta y whil e in Maryland for th e Nationa l, call Randy a t 800/ 344BIKE. Russell also informs us that Schwien's Honda/Yamaha Shop in Waldorf, Maryland, will host its 4th Annual MX Open House on Friday, October 6, at 6 p.m. Team Yamaha riders will be on hand for autographs and bench racing . EL E CT E D: Denn i s No yes, th e America n journalist wh o now lives in Spain, was elected president of th e Internationa l Road Racing Press Associat ion last week; Noyes, who. covers th e GP road racing scen e for Spain's wee kly motorcycle newspaper, Solo Moto, is originally from Chicago. The University of New Mexico in Albuquerque is offering a fa ll course entitled Motorcycling in Ame rica : History, Image and Experience. Classes w ill be hel d Tuesdays and Thursdays f or the Amer ican Studies course . Accord ing to t he un iversity, " In an attempt to understand the differing pe rceptio ns of motorcycles, Motorcycling in America will look at the history, popular image as seen in f ilms and literature, and the experience of motorcycling. " For more information, call Ro land at 505 /268-2075,277-6197 or 277-3929. Veteran dirt tracker Alex J or gensen, 35, w inner of 10 AMA Grand N a ti onal Cham pi onsh i p Se r ies races, will mak e a return to Nati onal co mpeti tio n a t the September 17 Camel Pro Series San J ose Mil e in San J ose, Ca lifornia . J orgensen score d hi s first National win in th e Asco t Half Mile in 1978 and has recorded National victor ies aboard six differen t brands of motor cycles - Norton , BSA, H arley-Davidson, Can-Am, R otax and Wood -Rotax. H e has won National s in all fo ur d isciplin es of dirt track racin g mile, half m ile, sho rt track a nd TT. Five of his 10 wins came in Ascot TT National s. J orgensen wi ll be aboard a Staa b Ra cing H arl ey a t San J ose. : Road racer Scott Zampach, who leads the point standings in the AMA/CCS Yokohama 600cc Supersport Series after w inning back-to-back rounds at Mid-Ohio and Sears Point, called Papa to tell him about some sponsors who weren't listed in ou r coverage of the races . " I have to also give credit to Fox , Dyno Jet, Vance & Hines and Don & Roy's Cycles here in Milwaukee who own the bike," said Zampach. "and you incorrectly listed CNJ Cycle Pro as ' Product s' " .' NAMED: By KTM America, Glenn Wright as Northwest Region district sales manager, Bert Guerrette as Northeast Region district sales manager, J im Lewi s as technical servi ce rep resentative, and Don Colatka as a member of th e Lorain, Ohio-based techn ical service staff. • Public meetings have been held in Cal ifornia to discuss the soil loss standard requ irement of the state's off-h ighway veh icle leg islation, SB877. The first public meeting was held in Sacramento on August 10 and the most recent in Colton on August 17. The legislation calls for the closing of trails in OHV areas when they reach a point of erosion that makes them im possib le to repair or the resultant erosion and sedim ent can't be contained on site. In order to separate emotional anti-OHV feelings from fact, the California Off-Road Vehicle Assoc iation (CORVA) hired noted soil geologist, Don Fife, to speak at the August 17 meeting . When presented with scientific facts, many of the preservationists ' theories fell apart. A major concern of off-roaders is that the standards only apply to OHVS, not to horses, cattle, hikers or . logg ing efforts. As things now stand, if a multiple use trail develops a soil loss problem, only OHVs will be restricted even though they may have had the least amount of im pact .

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