Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

Hunt, in which som e lucky attendee will win a Honda Cub , at I p.m. on Saturday, June I, at th e Honda Rider Education Center in Alpharetta, Georgia . Information on how you can take part in th e rid e or Cub Hun t is ava ilable from part icipat in g north Georgia Honda dealers or by call ing th e Brain T u mor Founda tion for Childre n at 404/ 292-0395. If you're one of th e dual s port ride rs who plan to compe te at the May 1819 White Bros. 4-Stroke TT Scra mb les &: MX World Cham p ionsh ip s a t southern California 's Perr is Raceway, make sure you comp ly with the following: Your bik e must be a street-lega l model equipped wi th a cu rrent license plat e. No converted XRs, TTs, ATKs or DRs will be all owed to ente r the Dual Sport class , only SL, XT , DR-S mod els, etc. To receive the special entry prizes, Dual Sport class entrants mu st ride their bik es to the track . An Open class is scheduled to be run , but if there are at least six bikes of a gi ven engine displacement (250, 350, 500cc, etc.) entered, th ey will be scor ed as separate classes. For more in forma tio n, give Whi te Bros. a ring at 714/ 554-9442. Thirty-four members o f the Gold W ing Touring Associatio n will begi n a 2 1-day t o ur of Rus sia aboard Honda Gold Win gs, beginning May 27. One of th e highlights of the trip will be a parade around Moscow's Red Sq uare on June 7. R ush Racing, a San Francisco Bay Area-based road race team, has been taken over by team member Erika Lockhart, w ho is no w recruiti ng q ua lified female r a c e rs and crew members for the 1992 24-Hour West race at Will ow Springs. Her goa l is to assemble an all-fema le team for tha t event. Rush Racin g will pub lish a monthly news letter to keep inte rested parties apprised of its progress and also to address conce rns of female riders an d racers. For mo re informat ion , send a SASE to Ru sh Racin g, 663 Joost Ave., San Francisco, CA 94127. Road racer Randy Renfrow recently underwent a 10000hour operation at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angel es, California . Renfrow, who had his right thumb ampu tated a fter h is preseason testing crash a t Willow Springs International Raceway in southern California, underwent transplant surgery to give him a new thumb. "It was some day," Renfrow said " I will still hav e to hav e two to four more operations, but they are all decreasing in the amount of seriousness. This was the big one and the hard part is over. I've got a thumb and I can move it. Now I just have to wait, " Former AMA 250cc National Road Race Champion DOD Gre e n e is attempting to make a comeback with a new Yamaha TZ250 sponsored by Dianetics. "T'rn trying to make a comeback with a renewed commitment," Greene said " I' m looking to fight back to the top. I have a con tract with Keith (Code) and I just completed a purification program to stay health y. I'm read y to go." Greene will compete in the WERA Pro Series ' Formula Two class. the Japa nese 250cc Nationa l series, as has Hon da 's autornatic-transmissioned works CR250. Tomoyuk i Miyauchi, a Japanese factory Honda rider, piloted the automatic to a moto win at a recent National. The works Hon da has whi te radiator shrouds, a white gas tank, and a whi te airbox. A 1991 Suzuki GSX R750 was stolen from the parking lot of the Fairfield Land ing Res ta u ra nt in Fairf ield , California, on May 4. The bi ke has a Fox rear shock and Yoshi mura side covers wi th a VIN n u m ber of j SIGR7889M2100431 engine number R716-107845. Anybod y wi th info rmation sho uld call Eric McDon ell at 707/ 447-2300. Former 250cc World Champion Sit o Pons suffered a broken bon e in his shoulder in a testing accident in Jerez, Spain, May 5. The Spaniard , who rides a Carnpsa- backed Honda NSR500 in the 500cc G Ps, will be out of action for six weeks and is expected to return for the Dutch GP on June 29. Las Vegas proved very pro perou s for the LaRocco family Saturday, May 4. Not on ly did Mike LaRocco score his first-ever Cam el Supercross victory and collect $5000 in prize mon ey, his mother, May, won $1200 playing the slot machines in one of th e ga mbli ng casinos on the Las Vegas strip. Road racer Kevin Magee was a spectator at the Spanish round of the World Championship Superbike Series o n April 28. The 28-year-old . Australian was in Spain to examine hi s options in the superbike class now that h is hopes of return ing to Grand P rix racin g ha ve faded. Ma gee, although keeping tigh t lipped, has apparently received offers from Kawasaki, Bimota, Ducati and Yamaha. The Kawasaki deal would reportedly see Magee raci ng in Australia, Formula On e in Japan and World Superbike. The Yamaha proposal is though t to be based around an F-I program in Japan, whi le Bimota would lik e to see him on the T esi ID in World Superbike. Magee is expected to mak e a decision regarding h is racing plans within th e next two weeks. After a seven year absence, motorc ycle com p etition will return to the 69th runni ng of th e Chevrolet P ik e s Peak Auto Hill Clim b in Colorado Sp rings, Colorado, J u ly 4. The AMAsanctioned race will be organized by Wa lly Dall en bach 's Co lorado 500, Inc., and will be staged as compan ion events to the car races. There will be three classes (125, 250cc and Open) and the entry fee is $350. T he motorcycle division is limited to 120 participants. For more info rmation call 303/9274010. Motocrosser Guy Cooper of Team Suzuki, the defendi ng 125cc National Cham p ion, drove to T u lsa, O klahoma, im mediately following the April 27 Dall as Supercross, to watch his brot hers, j immy and Ralph, compete on the fina l day of the Four-Dar National Reliability End uro . Apparently Guy decided to give the enduro a shot when he go t there and he ended up scoring the overa ll win for the day. He easi ly won the fina l MX special test. The fu tu re of the Osterrichring, the ven ue for the Austrian round of the World Championship Superbike Series, is in doubt after it was recently closed beca use of noise pollu tion . However, it appears that, at least for th is year, scheduled events will go ahead, including the World Superbike round. T he issue is set to go to court in the near fut ure. Wh ile thumbing th rough a J apan ese motorcycle pu blication , Papa spotted p hotos of t he wor ks Yamaha YZM250, complete with aluminum perimeter frames simi lar io those used in their street bike lineup. Also p ictur ed were p r ototype 1992 Kawasakis , which featu red black gas tan ks and larger radiator shrouds that cover most of the tank, similar to H usq varna's design. Fend er and sidepa nel styling was very simi lar to th e '9 1 KX80. Accordi ng to o ur interpreter, the magazin e says that both wor ks bikes have been successfully campa igned in The campaign to save the 500cc MX GPs too k a step forward at a recent m ee tin g of West Euro pea n MX federations in Oslo, Norway, when CMS (the FI M's MX divisio n ) proposals made earlier this year to abol ish th e 500cc class and restrict the l25cc class to riders under 22 were u na ni mously cri ticized. FIM pr esident j os Vaasen was present at th e meetin g and expressed his own concern over the proposals. He agreed to seek a meetin g with CMS presiden t Tage Magn usso n to exert pressure for the retention of th e present G P form at of three classes. And at the May 5 Swedish G P, do ubt was cast on the validi ty of claims tha t th e J ap an ese manufacturers had soug ht the dem ise of the pres tige class of off-road raci ng. Magn usson said tha t last autumn he received a letter from Yamaha in j apan w hic h sta ted that they were categorically aga inst th e abo lition of the 500cc class, whi le Kawasak i team boss Alec Wright says that Kawasaki is also opposed bu t wou ld favor an ope n cl a ss World Champio ns hip where riders could use 250cc an d larger mach in es. Wri gh t a lso cl a ims to possess documenta tio n tha t H onda holds similar views. A P P O I N T E D: Fern an do Belair, to the posi tio n of director , comm un ications of th e Motorcycle Safety Foundati on (MSF). Belair will be responsib le for developin g p rom otional pro grams, ideas and even ts to elevate the p ubl ic' s awareness of MSF motorcycle rider training courses throug hou t th e U.S. He will a lso oversee th e development of all MSF p ubl ications, news letters and educational ma teria ls. Belair was formerly an editor at Cycle World magazin e and also invo lved in the advertisi ng campaigns for H on da and Kawasak i in the la te '70s and early '80s. For th e past seven years, he has been a private advertising/marketing consultant to the motorcycle, automotive and medical industries. NAME D: Robyn Figueroa, as managing editor for Rider magazine. Figu eroa was previously the press rela tions department secretary a t Suzu ki. F O R M E D: Advanced Design Leath ers (ADL), by road racer Cliff Bigon ey a nd Lou Snedden of Lou's Leathers. Bigon ey, a two-time WERA Formula II cha mp, will be responsib le for ADL whi ch will manufacture cus tom road racing, snowmob ile and street lea th ers. Sne dde n will continue to opera te Lo u 's Leat hers which man ufactures cus tom drag racing and dirt track lea thers. ADL bu siness will be cond ucted fro m Snedden's faci lity in Kent ucky until la te summer, at which tim e ADL will move to Baltimore, Maryland. For more information, contact Snedden at 6061787-5029 or Bigoney at 3011788-3072. CHANG E D: Metzel er Motorcycle Tire North America's city and zip code, due to the an nexation of a portion of the city of Everett by neighbor ing Muk ilt eo , Wash in g to n. 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