Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

Center and Holida y Inn of New Hanford. The grand prize winner for the giveaway contest was Jeff Peni of Hopewell Junction, New York. H e will receive passes for the October 13 Unadilla Nation al Championship 125/500cc MX , two nights hotel accommodations courtesy of Holiday Inn, and other prizes. TravelCraft has been na~ the official travel agent of the October 6-8 Action Motorsports Trade Show in Louisville, Kentucky. Spe cial airfare di scounts, including th e wavier of the notorious "Saturday sta yover" rule are available for those heading to the trade-only show. Give TravelCraft a call at 800/541 -1223. A tip of Papa 's helmet to Chris and Jim Dodson who have just published th e seventh an n iversary edition of Hack'd, th e quarterly magazine devoted to sidecars and sidecar enthusiasts. Page count in the anniversary edition was 88, the largest issue Papa has seen. If you're curious about sidecars, Hack'd offers a wealth of information on the third wheel units. A copy of th e an niversary issue will cost you $5, and a one-year subscription (four issues) is $15; write: Hack'd, P.O. Box T, Woodbridge, VA 221940376. . The federal jury trial of five motorcycl ists accused of violating a federal order took pl ace in Santa Ana, California, last week. Rick Sieman, W esley Holme s , Patrick Martin and Barry Van D yke stood accused of deliberately violating a BLM temporary closure order by purposel y ente ring a closed area of the Mojave Desert n ear th e st art area o f th e cancelled Barstow-to-Vegas race last November. The fifth member of th e group, Lowell Webb was accu sed of" violating the closure order by crossi ng into prohibited land along the race course. Seirnan, Holmes, Martin and Van Dyke, the son of actor Dick Van Dyke, were found guilty and fined $850. Webb was found not guilty. The group's defense attorney argued that Webb inadvertently entered the closed area, while the others were on private property, not on public land, and thus were not guilty of violating the closure order. winners ea rn $1500 in cert ifica tes, while second and third place finishers receive $1000 and 500, respectively. Winner of the Oklah oma City Half Mil e, Ronnie Jones , approached Cycle N ews Assistant Editor Donn Maeda at th e Peoria TT with a bon e to pick. " Hey Dan, great article, but you said that I was 32! I'm not that old, I'm only 30!" Our mistake, born on October 29, 1960, Jones is in fact, only 30 years old. Oh , and Ronnie . . . it's Donn, not Dan. After surviving a horrendous highspeed crash that sent him tumbling through a wooden fence at the Peoria TT, Mike Hale seemed more worried about his new set of riding gear than his body or bike. " I was wai ting to stop tumbling when I felt myself in the fence. I knew that there was a creek on the other side, and I thought, 'O h no, here it comes, I' m gonna get all wet!' " Still dry, Hal e went on to score the win in the $17,500 Camel Chal lenge and finish sixth in the National. . H o nda will be represented . a t the August 12-17 10th An nual Hondasponsored AMA Nationa l Amateur Motocross Championships at Loretta Lynn's Dude Ra nch in H urricane Mill s, Tennessee, by five-time World Champion Roger DeCoster, Team Honda m echanic Ron Heben , Golden Wrench winner Eric Crippa and Baja 1000 winner Chuck Miller. Heben, Crippa and Mill er will offer technical support, tuning tips and service for H onda rid ers entered in th e event. H onda parts will be avai lable for purch ase, and the 1992 CR models will be o n di splay. Con tingen cy awar ds from Honda will to tal $75,000 in g ift cert ifica tes wh ich will be awar ded to riders of 1991 CRs. Class Three-time Grand National Champ ion Ricky Graham showed up at th e Peoria TT aboa rd a HarleyDavidson XR600, p repared by tuner Johnny Goad. The race ma rked a couple of first s for the new team . Graham , a longtime Honda-onl y ride r, ha s not com peted aboard a Harl ey since 1982, and tuner Goad has never prepared a TT machine. "We didn ' t kn ow what we were goi ng to race until a few da ys ago ," sa id Graham. "Then Johnny pulled out thi s bik e that was set up for asphalt racing. He did a great job with it." Graham went on to fin ish fourth in the main event, topped only by the three factory Harl eys of Chris Carr, Scott Parker and Kevin Atherton. Schwantz runs down. Rainey in Britain earn 'Lucky Strike Suzuki's Kevin Schwantz (right) chased down and beat Marlboro Yamaha 's Wa yne Ra iney by .788-of-asecond to win his third straight British G P at Donin gton Park on August 4. The win was Schwantz's fourth of the season, moving him into a tie wit h Rain ey for the most wins this seaso n. Rainey, however, managed to increa se h is cha mpionship points lead -over Rothmans Honda's Michael Doohan to 10 points, 185-175, with Dooh an finish in g third in Engla nd. Marl boro Yamaha's John Kocinski finished fourth with Rothmans Honda's Wayne Gar dn er fifth and Cagiva's Eddie Lawson sixth. England's Ron Haslam fin ished a creditable 12th on the J oh n Player Special Norton. The 250cc GP was won by championship leader Luca Cadalora on the Roth mans Honda. Cadalora nipped Repsol Honda's Carlos Cardus by .752-of-a-second after 26 laps at Donington Park. H B H onda's Helmu t Bradl finished third, 2.155 behind Cadalora . Cadalora leads the title chase by 16 points over Bradl , 189-173. Ca rdu s is th ird with 157 points. World Champion Loris Capirossi rode hi s AG V Pil eri Cor se Honda to a 13.249second win over his teammate Fausto Gre sini in England. German y's Peter Oettl finished third on his Bakker Racing Rotax, Capirossi leads Gresin, 171-153, in the l25cc World Championship point standings. T Before th e 's tan o f the Peoria TT main event, announcers Dave Despain and Larry Maiers teased 35:year old Cam el Pro veteran Steve Morehead about his recent win at an invitational TT race held in Spain. "Alter such a win, you sho u ld have th is one about wrapped up ," they joked. Morehead rep lied with a laugh, " Yeah , 1 should! There was a. former World 250cc Motocross Champion (Heinz Kinigadner) in the race, and I kicked his ass!" With the opening round of the AMA Na tional Championship 500cc MX Series set to get underway August II at Spring Creek MX Park in Millevill e, Minnesota , Honda's J e a n - M ic h elBayle will be hoping to become th e fir st rider ever to win th e AMA Supercross and National Championsh ip 250 and 500cc MX titles all in th e same year. Bayle, who wra pped up the 250cc National Championship Series titl e at th e August 4 Southwick National, ea rl ie r ea rned th e 1991 Camel Supercross Series titl e, Speaking of Jean-Michel Bayle, he is only th e second rider to win an AMA National Championship MX title without scoring an overall victory. The ' onl y other rider to do so was Gary Jones, who clinched h is fourth consecutive AMA 250cc MX National Championship number-one p late aboard a Can-Am without scori ng an overa ll win in 1974. Donnie Schmit, th e reigning 125cc World Ch ampion from Minnesota, who broke hi s thumb and collarbone in May, crashed during practice for the August 4 German 125cc MX GP and reinjured the th umb. Schmit started the first mot o, but was forced to pull out whe n he got a flat tire and th e pa in in his han d became too great. Word of th e dea th of Soichiro Honda, 84, the .fou nder of the Japanese motorcycle and automobile manufacturing firm , reached us just as we were ready to send this issue to pr ess on Monday , August 5. Honda passed away in Tokyo. More details next week. Drag racers Steve Johnson, John Myer s and Dav e Schultz are the three final ists in the Pro Stock category of Car Craft magazin e's 25th Anni.v e r s a r y All -Star D rag Racing T e a m co ntes t. Ball o tin g was condu cted by Car Craft and Na tio nal Dragster, NHRA 's newspaper. The winner will be nam ed at the Silver Anniversary All-Star Award s Banquet in Indianapolis on August 30. SIGNED: T y Davis, the AMA Western Regi on 125cc Supercross champ , by ATK. Davis will compete in MX and off-road races and " work exten sively" on th e development of an ATK electron ic . fue l-inj ected 250cc supercross bike. PURCHASED: Racecra fters, the Lawndale, California-based parts and ac cessories store, by former store manager Gary Smith and Henry Eakle. The new owners will be hosting an event/ ride the second Sunday of each month. For more information, call 213/ 370-5552. MOVED: Clarke Kawasaki , to 721 N. Batavi a , Orange, _CA 92558. :Their ph on e number rema ins the same, 714/ -- ~ - - 532-0133. 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