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who tea med up with j oey La ne a nd Ma rk Vanscourt," said Hough. "YND Order NoW " fiY p~p~ Wf~LfY Limited Edition! When would you pay $990 0 for a piece of paper? , (Con tinued !TO page 3) "m end o f eac h da y. The fee for th e school is partiall y tax-deductible. For m ore information conta ct CLASS a t 805/642-7228. New Zealan d's 1989 Su percross Ch ampion Darry l A tkins is hoping to retu rn to th e U .S . to race in select ed A MA Supercross and M ickey T hompson Off -Ro ad Championship Gran Prix ev ent s; the 17-year-old last raced in the U.S . d uring the 1 9 87 Trans-Cal Series. Well, if that is imported, museum quality D'Arches 22"x19" paper that carries an original Jeff Gundlach Supercross printed in nine permanent colors and was breathed on, signed and numbered by the artist, I'd do it now. Supercross is the last limited edition fine art print in the series commissioned by Cycle News for you, the reader. I am sure Supercross will deli~ht the dirt riding contingent as much as Isle of Man, Bol D Or and Daytona impressed the road racers, so Cycle News is offering the same guara ntee: Your money will be refunded cheerfully (grr!) if you are not completely satisfied with your brand new Supercross fine art print. Charles Clayton Pres. Cycle News Inc. -----------·COUPON----------INo P.O. Bo lli p.....) Okay , rush me _ _ printts) of the new Supercross limited edition at $ggoo each. I u nderstand I ca n send the prod uct back for a full refund wi thin 30 da ys if I a m not satisfied. N ame _ Address ---.,. City _ 5t8te "Zip Phone - _ Four-time Nationa l Enduro Cha mpion Terry Cunningham will be co nd uc ting two two-day off-roa d schools a n d setup seminars in Mar ch . The first school will be based at Kawasaki of Denha m Springs in Denham Springs, Lo uisiana , March 24-25, an d th e second school at Cadiz Auto Pans & Kawasaki in Cadiz, Kentucky, March 31-April I. For more information ca ll Cu nningham at 614/594-7693. Enduro rider Mark Knox, 28, was killed in a snowmobile accident in Munising. M ichigan. February 3. Knox. from Lansing. M ichigan, was the number one B rider in AMA District 14. date . Card No" _ Expiration Date _ Signatu re _ Order N ow Only $99.00 in cl. shipp ing, ready to frame c/o Cycle News P,O. Box 498, Long Beach, CA - - : - : 90801-0498 46 Highland Labs, makers of Body Fuel Systems wh ich are athletic performance supplements, will support MXers Tyson and Tallon Vohland. Steve Lamson; Dean Matson, Fred Andrews. Tim McClintock and Andy Grider with product and training guidance during the 1990 season. A contingency program will also be implemented later in the year. The Vohland brothers have also signed with Scott and will wear that company's goggles in 1990. _ o P~yment enclosed (check or money order. payable to Cycle News) (CA res. add 6% LA County res. add 61,7%) ~ o Charge my Visa 0 Charge my Mastercard :;:=, "" " Charge Cu stomers: We must have complete accou nt number and card expiration jimmy Fi lice, who was seriously injured in a n automobi le accid ent on j anuary 13, is now recuperating at hi s Modesto, California home. " I cou ld be better, but I'm do ing o kay," Filice said on Monday, February 19. ''I' m just healing. I was pretty hurt , but it cou ld have been a lo t worse. The whole thing (the acciden t) was a bad dea l, but I'm very lucky in many ways. I'll be back (racing ) eventua lly. The bones will heal and th ere was no ligament or tendon damage. The doctors sa id that being in sha pe probably sa ved my life. When I got to the hospital I had zero blood pressure, so having a stro ng heart helped. I'm just glad to be here," Filice sai d he is hoping to be a spec ta tor a t th e April 8 U.S. G P a t Laguna Seca , a race that he won in 1988 and was runner-up in 1989. " I won 't go if I'm in a wheelchair, but if I can walk by then I' ll go wat ch . Lying in bed is driving me crazy, bu t I' ve got to keep thi n king posi tively ," . ---J ISDE gold medalist Kurt Ho ugh ca lled Papa to le t peopl e kn o w tha t h e did n o t com pete i n la s t Nov ember's Baja 1000. " In some publications, it has been shown tha t I was part of the Class 21 (250cc) winning Kawasaki team at the Baja 1000. It was actually Robert Pra yther George De Me"stral. t he Swiss mechan ica l e n gin eer who inv en t ed Ve lcro faste ners 50 years ago, died at his hom e in Commugny, Switzerland, earlie r this month. De Mestral was 82. Where did he come up wit h t he name Ve lc ro f o r his ho ok and lo op fastener ? Fro m two Fre nc h words: velour, a nappy fa bri c, and crochet for hook. Whi le we don't kn ow whe ther or not G eorge De Mestra l, 50, a Swiss mechanical enginee r, rod e a motorcycle, we do know that rarely a da y goes by that we don 't use some th ing wi th Velcro fas te ne rs, whi ch he in vent ed 50 years ago. Suzuki MX race t eam manager Ron Heben called to let us kn ow t hat t he Su zuki works bikes p ictured in last week 's Factory Flyers f eature use Uni air f il ters. Yama ha also uses Uni filt ers in their works b ikes to rep lace the stan d ard u nits. Larry Ward's victo ry at the February 17 Seattle Supercross was th e first 250cc su pe rcross win for Suzuki since Mark Barn et t won in Ka nsas City, Missouri, on May 7, 1983. Between that time Suzuki riders just missed a victory six times. Barn ett finis hed seco nd in one other race.in '83 and an other in '84, then it wasn't until last year th at Ro n Tich enor and j oh n n y O 'Mara com bined to giv e Suzuki four runner-up finishes. Honda is the brand on which most ri ders have bee n w in ning since Barnett's w in. In the 84 supercross races since the 1983 Kansas City event. Honda has carried riders to 54 w ins (plus two nonsupercross series events at the beginning of 1988). Kawasaki 20 and Yamaha eight. Accor ding to promoter Mike Kidd , th e U,S. Aren acro ss Series ro u nd sched uled for Mar ch 2-4 a t Austin , T exas, has been cance led . T he even t was to have been held in th e new T exa s Exp o sition Cen ter , but wea the r cond itio ns ha ve del a yed cons truction a nd th e faci li ty won' t be finished on time. Nordhaus Resea rch of Southfield. Michigan. has completed the largest and most thorough study of motorsports fans ever conducted . The firm conducted 5000 telephone int erv iew s with "ad ult s throughout the U.S .• selected by a random probability sample . Highlights of the study - TRACS (Total Rac ing Audience Composi tion Study) - show that 46 .6 million. or j ust over one-quarter (26%) of the nation's adults have an int erest in motorsports. and that those fans have a buying power of more than $700 billion . " Racing is th e fas test-growing spectator sport in Ame rica," sa id Nordha us Chairman Robert Van Da m. T he study sho wed th at race fans tend to su p port p roducts fro m man ufacturers involved in ra cing eve nts. " Race fans ma ke win ning bra nds," said Van Dam, noting that 38% of motorspo rts enth u sia sts say they " ma ke a n effort" to bu y products from spo nso rs of raci ng even ts, co m pa red to on ly 6% o f n on enthus ias ts. The TRACS study shows that 27.5 m illion fans attended at least