Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

v 0ICES INSIDE MOTOCROSS Martens wins, Nicoll injured at 500cc Dutch GP FEATURES SUPERCROSS JeffWard wins,Bayle clinches title at Oklahoma City 6 DIRT TRACK Parker notches 40thwin, ties recordat Louisville Half Mile 10 Miles and m iles of trails 20 25 ENDURO Carr cruises to Peoria 600cc National win 26 Roeder rails at Dayton Old Time Newsies 27 ROAD RACE Polen starsat Brainerd Superbike World C'ship 12 Kipp, Picotte reign at Mosport World C'ship 16 CROSS COUNTRY Cunningham strikes again at Strawberry Festival 100 Foley bags HiPoint Amateur MX win 18 Roeseler squeaks out Idaho two-day victory 22 OFF-ROAD Ziuerkopf bestin the desert at ElyGrand Prix INTERVIEW FIM president Jos R. Vaessen Part II 24 28 DEPARTMENTS LOCAL RACING CALENDAR WANT ADS RESULTS .31 36 .42 54 ON THE FRONT PAGE: Jean-Michel Bayle (top) clinched the 1991 Camel Supercross' Series title with a runner-up finish at the Oklahoma City Supercross. See page 8. Photo by Nate Rauba. (Bottom) Scott Parker (right) scored his 40th career National dirt track win at the Louisville Half Mile. The victory ties him with Jay Springsteen (left) for first on the all-time win list, See page 10. Photo by Bert Shepard. America's weekly motorcycle newspaper Volume XXVIII Mich ael Klin ger, Publisher Caroline Gendry, Execut ive Secretary to t he Pu blisher Ed ito rial J ack Man gus, Associate Pu blish er! Edit or Kit Palmer, Associate Ed itor Pau l Carruthers, Associa te Editor Nate Raub a , Associate Edit or Ken Faught, As sistant Editor Donn Maeda , Assista nt Edit or Edw ina Man gu s. Calendar Edit or G raph ics an d Pr od uction Ree J oh nso n, Production Su pervisor Mandy Lao , Prod uction Ma nager Dennis G reene, Lab. T ech. Stacey Guest . Grap hic Art ist Amy Harr is, G rap hic Art ist Carolyn Branham. T ypesetter Circulation Rheba Smi th . Man ager Sara h T aylor, Bill ing Coordi nato r Alma Ang uiano. Processin g Coord inator Gabriell e G ill ia m. 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Tradonad. Cycle News registered U.s. Pattnt Office. Allrightsreserved. Letters to the editor .New Wood-Rotax The Forest Service ha s come o ut with a Draft Environmental Impact Stat em ent for the Amen ded Land and Resources Management P la n for the Shawnee Na tional Forest and it is o pen for public comment until August 15. Information can be obtained by contact ing Ro d n ey K. Sallee, Fo rest Supervisor, Shawnee Na tional Forest, 901 South Commercials St., Harr isburg, IL 62946,618/253-7114. T o make a short story long, th e pl an has five alternatives. The first calls for 371 mi les of ATV / O HM travelways (All Terrai n Vehicle/ Off-High way Motorcyc le -a cce ssa b le roads and tra ils). Alterna tive #2 calls for 286 miles, as does Alternative #5. Alt ernative #3 call s for 88 mil es. Alternative #4 calls [or zero - that's " 0" m iles . Altern ative #5 is the o ne th e Forest Service is backing. Pl ease send your com me nts to Forest Supervisor Sallee at the abo ve addr ess. You can bet the " antis" are. I a m re p lying to th e statement, " ... although owners of the current Rotax 600cc mot or s are up in arms over the news of a new engine : . . ," in the J une 5 issu e's In The Wind. As of th is date (June 4), I have received o n ly o ne call from an individ ua l expressi ng h is co ncern about o ur new engine, the Wood- Ro tax 600cc double overhead cam, liquid-cooled engine, while recei ving man y call s fr om r ac ers co m m u n ic a ti n g their positive enthusiasm. I have personally pledged my com mitment to the bett erment of thi s spo rt. Si nce Wood-Rota x is the largest su pplier of d irt track rac ing motorcycle engines in th e United States toda y, I feel th at contin ually u pgrading the p roduct results in en gines being more reliable, which means less rnainte. nance, which equals less overall cost. Many orders have already been placed and or ders ar e still being accepted. As in th e past , th e new Wood-Rotax engine will be readily avail abl e. . David Lou White House, TN Mosport blues I got much closer to the World Champio ns hip Supe rbi ke Road Race . Series by reading your J une 5 (Su perbi ke p review) issu e than I di d by driving II hours back and fort h to Mosport. Jerry Johnson Rochester, NY Writing works Recentl y in Fl or id a , Governor Ch i les p roposed b udget cu ts th at would have cripp led the state's rider ed uca tio n fund. T he program, and the six adm i nistra tive p osit ion s th a t oversee it, is entirely . rid er- fun ded . Chiles' proposa l was to d ivert the fund s co ntr ibu ted by mo torcyclists into th e sta te's genera l fun d, in effect, crea ti ng an additio nal tax for Florida 's mo tor cycli sts. Fo rt unately for us, the House and Sena te Ap p ropriations Committees defeated the go vernor's proposal and have kept the fund sepa ra te a nd intact. I wro te a th ank you lett er to th e governor and each of the com m ittee mem bers. It seems th at mot o rcycl ists' letter wri ti ng effor ts as well as lobbying by the AMA can reall y make a difference. John A. Carter, Jr. Melbourne, FL Ron Wood Ron Wood Racing Products Costa.Mesa, CA Jerickson 1941-1987 While r id i ng o ur mo torcycles a co u ple of weeks ago some where in the desert , we ha p pened upon a n o ld Husq vama CR390 embedded in concrete wit h a granite bo ulder nearb y o n which a pl aque had been mounted which sta tes, " j erickson 1941-1987." This led to specu lation on who Jerickson was , how he died , and woo put up hi s mem orial. Does anyo ne at Cycle N ews kn ow? Dave Beaumont Agua Dulce, CA We have m ore th an a few desert rats on our staff, Dave, bu t no one has seen th e memorial yo u m ention , nor does an yone kn ow w ho [ erickson was. Perhaps one of our readers can offer so m e injo rm atio n on [ erickson, and if an yon e do es , w e'll relay it 10 you . . . Ed itor. . Letters to the editor should be sent to: Voices, Cycle News, P.O. Box 498, Long Beach, CA 90801-0498. Published letters do not necessarily reflect the position of Cycle News, Inc. Letters should not exceed 200 words and all letters are subject to editing. IN THE WIND By Pap_a W_eal...J..-ey Continued from page 3 A vignette fro m the Ge nnan GP at Hockenheim gave an uncomfortable idea of the status of motorcycle racing in the world outside. German Helmut Bradl was sitting in his sponsors' HB 's a wn ing, in the m idst of a stri ng of press, radio a nd TV interviews, a nd definitely the nation's hero of th e hour after winning h is home G P. -In the midst of it, a TV reporter approached him, camera crew close behind. "Spreche n sie Deutsch?" (Do you speak Ge rman?) she asked him. RESIGNED: Art Barda from h is position as AMA National Dirt Track Manager, on Tuesday, June 4. Bill Ami ck of the AMA Professional Racing Department will handle the d irt _ track manager 's du ties for th e next severa l weeks. Roy Janson, the AMA Na tional MX Manager, will share the duties wit h Am ick after the Camel Supercross Seri es ends. CORRECTION: In o ur coverage of the Wh ite Bro s. Fo ur-S troke Worl d Cham pions hips, we spelled t he nam e of th e winner of the Old Timers Novice MX cla ss wrong and to com pound the err or we listed the wrong brand of bike he ro de to victo ry. For the record, Ro nald Mazzaferr o won the class on a H usqvarna, OPENED: Actio n Kawasaki-Hon da o f Mission Viejo, by ow ne rs Jim Mezzasalma and Ch ris Chocek at 23854 Via Fa br ican te in Mi ssion Viejo , California . Den ni s Wood has been named service ma nager.

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