Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

v ICES Letters to the editor 0 INSIDE Fair or unfair? FEATURES o 0') ' 0') ........ ~"' ........ ROAD RACE M Dog mauls 'emin AM ad AlCCS Endurance Challenge at Daytona .... 6 Cortez, Schwanbach, Pounders shine in D aytona sprints 8 ~ V ..0 S ;> o Z AWARDS MOTOCROSS Johnson quiets Commotion By The Ocean MX at Carlsbad 16 K earns hiswingsatTop ehoe Gun MX at MuddyCreek 18 DEPARTMENTS AMA honors the best at year-end awards banquet 10 LOCAL RACING 19 ENI)URO Aaron Hough's the winner, but B ertram's the champ in Nevada ... .. 12 CALENDAR 26 CROSS COUNTRY Summers winsand clinches titleat W Virgina National . V WANT ADS RESULTS 30,42 31 14 ON THE FRONT PAGE: Lee Pounders was the big winner during the AMA/CCS Race of Ch ampions a t Daytona Int ern ational Speedway. He won fou r champ ionships. Photo by H enny Ray Abrams. America's weekly motorcycle newspaper Volume XXVII Michael Klin ger, Pu blisher Car o lin e Gendry, Execu tive Secretary to th e Pub lish er Edi tor ia l J ack Ma ng us, Associate Pu blisher/Editor Kit Pa lmer. Asso ciate Edito r Pau l Carr u the rs, Associate Ed itor Nat e Rauba, Associate Edito r Ken Faugh t. Assistant Editor Ed wina Mangus . Calen dar Edi tor Advertisin g T erry Pr att . N ational Accou nt s Manager Mark Thom e. 'W estern Sal es Mana ger Ro n Davidson, IVestern Sales Ala nager T homas R. Go m er, Western Sales Ma nager Mark Mi tchell, Eastern Acco unt s Ma nager Greg Mitchell, Eastern Sales Man ager Curtis Cam pbel l, Eastern Sal es Manager J oan Russian , Western Ad Coo rdina tor Carla Borden Allen, Eastern Ad Coordin ator Ma rketing lk P romot ion Mark T home Graph ics an d Production Ree Johns on , Produ ction Supervisor Mandy Loo. Production MarIGger Dennis Gree ne, L ab. T ech . 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Such accep ted ma terial is subj ect to revision as is necessa ry in the so le di scretion of Cycle News. Unsolicited ma terial whic h is not used will be ret ur ned if accom pan ied by a self addressed sta mped envelope. All unsolici ted mat eria l wi ll be handl ed wi th reasonable d u e, ho wever, Cycle News assumes no respons ibi lity for the safety , loss or damag-e to suc h material. Rep rint in g in whol e' or part o nly by perm ission o r the publish er. Advertisin g ra tes a nd circu la tio n info rma tion wi ll be sen t upon request. See S.R.D.S. W/Bn'A. V rj AUDtTED · CIRCULATION Copyright8 Cycle News, Inc. 1990, Trademark Cycle News registered U.S. Patent Ofrice. All rights reserved. 4 Recently your In The Wind section mentioned that H annah, Coo per, R.]. an d Kiedrowski p artici pated in a specia l practice session the Thursday ' prior to the Unadilla National MX. Was this practice open to all National entrants? If not , is th at fair? If so, is it unfair du e to the fact th at man y non factory riders do not have the resources to mi ss wor k hour s or handle the extra expense of being on the road for a few addit iona l days? What is th e AMA's policy, what is yo u r o pi n io n, and how were th e practice sessions arranged? Cody Jenkins Buffalo, NY Accord ing to R oy Janson , who's in ch arg e of AMA . p rofession al MX racing, Dunlop renl ed th e Unadi lla Irack on the T hursday prior to the Nat iona l. The A M A on ly req uires promoters of N ationa l even ts to clear use of th e track that will tak e pla ce 21 hours prior to a Nat ional, i.e. th e . day befo re an even t, and requ ires th at / th e promoter be able to perform prop er Irack mainlenance prior to a Na tio nal. Janson is adamant in his belief that private practice at a facility do es no t give pro fession al racers an advantage. " T hose gu ys don 't come to a track to learn how 10 race. In m ost cases, th ey have thei r ow n privat e practice tracks. Besides, whatev er ad vantage they cou ld ha v e gain ed by riding at Unadilla on Thursday didn't m ean a th in g on Sunday because of the rain that fell Saturday and Saturday night and com p letely chan ged th e track ," Janson said. Our opi n ion ? Factoryback ed riders always have an advantage over riders who eit her hold down regular jobs or have lim ited resources. An extra practi ce day isn't go ing to change a th ing . . . Editor. Congrats to the champ Congratu lations, Randy T exter, the 1990 U.S. Twin Sport National Ch am pi o n ! Rand y, yo u ro de well an d deserved the win. My congrat ula tions also to T ri pp Nob les, wh o ou tro de h is technical prob lems at Dayton a to cap ture fourth place. T o everyone else o n th e tr ack ; T ha nks to you all for the fin e and friendly racing. See you next year. Nigel Gale Bartels ' Racing/Bartels H-D Culver City, CA T ext er wo n both the race and the series title in th e U.S. T w in Spor t class at the AMA /CCS Ra ce of Cham pions at Daytona. Gale, th e 1989 Tw in Sp orts seco n d at cha m p , f in ish ed Daytona . . . Ed itor, Deluxe souvenir Whi le I attended the Indy Mile in August, I man aged to get into the pits to ta lk to some of th e racers I raced wit h a few years.back (10 years ago). I had asked Ronnie J on es for one of his numb er plat es last year, bu t was unable to ge t in to uc h wit h him first ha nd until th is year. Well, I finally got wha t I want ed, an au togra p hed Ron ni e Jones #16 number plat e. After getting the p lat e I .had some of the other r~cers sign the back as a first class sou vem r. Congratu lations on a super season , Ron n ie, a nd th anks a lot for the number pl ate. My Dad and I have it in our bar ber sho p here in Anderson , It means a lot to me. Burke com peted as Expert decade ago . . . Editor. Skin deep I have atten ded th e six most impor tant antiq ue mo torcycle sh ows i California. I have found, mu ch to m dismay , that no differentiation exist between "sh ow" bikes and tho s restored to origina l facto ry condi tions no rules, no specifications, no point sheets and no guidan ce for either th pa rticipants or th e judges as to wha , is expected. Sometimes, dep ending on wh o ' j udgi ng, chro me and glossy pain t win. At o ther times, over ly-res tore mach ines win. And occasionally tru restora tio ns are taken into considera tio n. I am neither for nor agai nst 'an of these. Rather, I feel it is essential, in order to ens ure the fu ture participa tio n in , and growth of, these events, th at th e organi zers clearly iden tify, th classificat io ns (i .e . show, factory restoration, creative restora tio n. etc.) in to wh ich th e mach ines may b ente red and th e specific criteria by whi ch each category will be judged. Fur thermore, it would be of tremendo us val ue if th ey co u ld ge t th is information out to the public prior to th e even t as this would eliminate a lot of wasted tim e and mon ey for th ose participants wh o find themselves with an antique motorcycle and no category in whi ch it may compete. A pair of heroes I am writin g th is letter not as an exec u tive ..for a major motorcycle company, but as a motocross fan. I wou ld like to compliment Mike Kiedrowski on th e honorable and professional manner in which he has handled himself thi s season. Mike did not have the best season of h is career, but he always ga ve it hi s best, and never publicly whined or comp la ined wh en things didn't go hi s way. And, despi te th e " Ro llerball " tactics of some other riders, Mike a lways rode clean and fair (at least in the races that I witnessed, wh ich was a large percentage). • When Mike lost the 125cc MX Nati on al Ch ampion shi p to Suzuki's Guy Cooper by a single point, he righ tly said that Cooper "deserved it (the titl e)." Mike won 't be carrying # I plate next season, but he's got the right stuff to earn many championsh ips in what we all hope will be a IJ long racing career. And what of Guy Coo per? H e's ano ther hero I Coop er battl ed hi s' way from ob scurity to a Nation al Ch ampionship at 28 years of age in a young man 's sport. H e crashed in both mo fos (as well as severa l hundred times during' the seaso n) of th e final and always go t up to come back and win. H e also has been a clean rid er this season and deserves all of the rewardS that th e #1 pla te is going to bring h im. a , I Joe Colombero Press Relations Manager American Suzuki Motor Corp. 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