Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

"outdoor socia l affa ir " and it provides enthusiasts an opportunity to display any make, model or size motorcycle. A Best of Show troph y has been donated by T.C. McCollum, wh o along with fellow form er dirt tracker Sid Payne will select the'win nin g bike. T here is no cost to enter a bike and no admission fees. Cycle News founder Chuck Clayton will display ~ Bro ugh Superior at the Clayton Foundation booth. Hansen Dam Park, a public pa rk located no rth west of Burb an k, can be reached by ta king the Osbourne Street exit off the 210 freeway . T he fun begins a t 8 a.m. and will con ti nue to 6 p. m. Rene Bregozzo, 84, of Irvine,' Cali fornia , jetted to Italy last week to take part in a ga la reunion of Du cati em ployees in Bologna o n October 13. Bregozzo, who has lived in the U.S. since 1962, went to work for the Ital ian manufacturer in 1935. Besides working at the factory in Italy, he was their special agent in Australia in the postWWII years. Bregozzo said that 200 to 300 former employees are expected to attend the reun ion. " J'Il attend with m ix ed emotions ," sa id Bregozzo, " ma inly because I know that because of my age I'll be seeing som e of my old friends for the last tim e." Eight-time National Enduro Champion Dick Burleson will play host to the Jellico Creek ORV Park Toy s for Tots Trail Ride on November 3. The park is a 30,O oo-acre facilit y lo cated north o f On eida , Tennessee, o n th e T ennessee/Kentucky border. Burleson will be available for autographs, riding tips and plain old ben ch racing. Entry fee for the ride is one new toy (unwra pped). The trails are color coded for.beginner, intermediate and expert skill level rid ers. All event p ro ceed s will be donated to the Appal achi an Ch ristmas Train Program. For more information, call Richard Price at 815/9382980. In th e credit where credit is due department, Super Senior class rider Art Moore of ' West lake Vi llage, California, rode a Kawasaki to class wins in four rounds of the just completed six-round AMA N ati onal Championship Hare &: Hound Series to wrap up th e class cham pio nship . Belated congratulations, Art. T he O ctob er 12 CRE Training Wheels Enduro, which was to have taken place in th e For est Hill Ranger District of the Tahoe National For est, h as been postpon ed due to t h e extremel y dry and du sty trail co ndi tion s. T he p ostpon em en t wa s requested by the U.S. For est Service . Mik e LaRocco will leave Su zuki and join J e ff Ward, Jeff Matiasevich and Kiedrowski on the Kawasa ki team for the 1992 seaso n. From what we've heard.it's a do ne dea l. The AMA Distr ict 36 enduro will tak e pla ce o n Novemb er 9. For m ore information , call 209/862-0348. The Marlboro Team Roberts Yamaha 500cc GP bik es will be taken on a few exhi bitio n laps around northern Ca lifornia's Laguna Seca Raceway during the October 19-20 Indy Car weekend. Robbie Petersen and Rich Oliv er will be p iloting the bikes prior to the Marlboro Challenge on Saturday and the Toyota Mo nt erey Grand Prix on Su nday. It was also rumored at Unadilla that Suzuki's 1 9 9 2 MX team will include at least G u y Cooper, Steve Lamson, E zr a Lusk and Brian Swink. " I actuall y haven't signed with Suzuki yet, they're basically waiting until I return from Europe," said Cooper, regarding his situation at Suzuki. "I'Il be doing 15 races over there afte r the Nationals, so Suzuki feels I could get h ur t. They don' t want 10 commi t until I get back. If thi ngs go right, I'll most likely ride the 250cc class." Frank V. D'Ercole, .77, father of former pro mo tocrosser Vincent D'Erco le, d ied o n Sep tember 28 fro m injuries sustained in an automobi le acci dent. Ercole was a su ppo rte r of MX in AMA District 7 and 13, and occa sionall y wrot e articles for the district newspaper. Cards can be sent to Vinc ent D'Ercole, 8423 Woodlawn St., Alexandria, VA 22309. Team Honda will stic k by i ts gu ns in 1992 with defending Camel Supercross , 250 and 500cc National MX Champion Jean-Michel Bayle and J eff S tanton. Bayle has o ne more year left on his contract and Stanton has two. In additio n, Western Regional 125cc Supercross Champion J eremy M cGrath will defend hi s title in '92 on the Peak Anti-freeze/Pro-Circuit/ Honda team. On behalf of Racers for Christ, IntI., Brent Houston, th e organization's WERA chap lain , will provide lunch for attendees at the chapel s e rvice at the WERA Grand National Finals o n November 3 at Georgia 's Road Atlan ta. Racers for Christ ha s been providing non-denominational chape l services at WERA Pro Series an d National Endurance Seri es event s. The Road .Atlan ta service will be held on th e third floor of the timing tower a t 11:30 a.m. Fren chman Bayle is also stickin g by hi s words th at he'll officially get hi s feet wq in GP road racing in 1993. " I plan to defend my (Supercross and . National MX) titl es in 1992 and then start roa d racing full- time," sai d Bayle, foll owin g the Unadi lla Nat ional. The 1992 M icke y Thompson OffRoad Championship Gran Prix Series will cons ist of n ine ro unds, with the o pener taking pl ace at sou th ern California 's Anaheim Stadium on J anuar y 18. Subseq uent rounds will be held at San Diego, Seattle, Irving (Texas), T empe (Ar izo na), L o s Ang eles, Denver, Las Vega s and Oak land. All nine races will be telecast via satelli te in J apan . Motocrosser Shaun Kalos , fro m Litchfield Park, Arizon a, who went 38 for fifth overa ll and top privateer hon ors in th e 500cc class at Una dilla, says he's not exact ly sure wh at he'll be doin g next year. " I' ve had offers to race in Europe, but 1 want to race here in the U.S., because th is is my home." Kal os compe ted in the World Ch ampionship 250cc MX Seri es last year but was in jured earl y in the season th is year and was forced to return home. Thirty minutes before competing in the firs t 125cc moto a t the Unadilla 125/500cc MX Na tional, October 13, Mike Kiedrowski inked a new contract with Kawasaki . " I signed a contract for two years, and I will ride the Camel Supercr oss Series (25Occ), a n d th e 250 and 500 cc o u tdoor National s," said Kiedrowsk i, wh o clinched his second 125cc National Championship tit le at Unadilla. " I' m reall y happy abo ut the whole deal , Kawasaki mak es good bikes and th e people here are great. I'm going to concen tra te real hard nex t year on the Supercross series." MAR RIE D : Newly- crowned Grand Nat ional Cross Country 200cc A class cha m p a n d 1990 Bl a ckw ater 100 winner Thomas Norton to Ch eri Alix in Wrentham, Massachusetts, Sep tember 13. APPOINTED: Kevin J ohnstone as sales director for Edgell Expositi ons. ] o h nstone will be responsibl e fo r booth sp ace and sponso rsh ip sa les for the Deal ern ews Motor cycle Expo, the Deal ern ews International Motorcycle Aftermarket Expo , and the 10 Internat ion al Co nsumer Sh ows produced an d man aged by Edgell. J ohnston e replaces Kevin Reese, who left to Althou gh Suzuki's MX team man ager Ray T etherton wouldn 't comment, rumors were flying at .Una dilla tha t pursue a career with a famil y-owned ad vertising ag ency in Philadelphia. OMITTED: The foll ow in g cont ingen cy sponsors of the October 19-20 South ern California O ver The Hill Gang M X Nationals at Gl en H elen ORV Park in San Bernardino, California, were inadvertently omitted fiom a recent event advertisement: Shoei, Yamaha, MotoVideo, Yamaha of Covina, Sprocket Specialists , Golden State Cycles and Kawasaki Motor Corp. In addition, Staten Graphics was misspelled in die ad. CORRECTION: The results we ra n wit h our coverage of the Sep tember 22 Ca ney Creek Nat ional Enduro listed Larry Crane as eig ht h overall and J ack La fferty , J r. as nin th , whe n in fact Barry Franklin was eigh th with a score of 32, Dwight Rudder ninth at 33, Crane 10th wi th 42, and Laffert y 11th with 56. T h e mistake was brought to our attention by Rudder, who rode a P]- I/XRs Only-backed H onda XR600 in the event in T exas. Sorry, guys. OPENED: A California offi ce by Naples, Florida-based TravelCra ft, a travel agency specia lizing in motorcycling, at 47 Tarnal Vista Blvd. , Corte Madera, CA 94925,800-241 -1223. RESIGNED: Wes Peck fro'm his pos ition as gen era l manager a n d o pe ra tions ma n ager of Bellflower Yamaha in Bell flo wer, California, to open an int ernational import/export firm . Peck can be reached at 714/7395138. B O RN: Brian Floyd Emde, to former road racer David Emde and his wife Rebeka h , in Vista, California, o n September 26. ENGAGED: Ken Faugh t, Cycle News assistant editor, and Amy Harris, Cycle News graphic artist. The couple have sched uled their wedding for October 10, 1992. MOVED: Creati ve RiderW ear In c., producers of Cool-Tech leather jackets and motor cycle apparel, to 2240 E. Cedar sr., Ontario, CA 91761,714/9301430, FAX 714/930-1434. BORN: Jake Robert Duane Johnso n , to Sterling Productions' Du an e ]ohnson and his wife Sheli, in Lo ng Beach , .Californ ia, October 7. 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