Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

UteCu win to Peters N ew Yorker Raymond Peters (right) earned the win at the 26th Annual Ute Cup Trial, held in the mountains above Colorado Springs, Colorad,o, August 19-20. The Tryals Shop rider dabbed a mere two times as he negotiated the 78-section event aboard his Fantic Section. Gas Gas USA rider Jess Kempkes was second overall with three points, while Gas Gas of Kansas rider Allen Guyot was a surprise third-place finisher with 12 points. Canadian Ryon Bell was fourth with 13, edging out Bruce Carver on a tie breaker. Matt Moore, Bill Burgener, Dave Cole, Bryan Byrd and Michael Young rounded out the top 10. The Rocky Mountain Trials Association-promoted event drew 120 entries. to give Smith the use of his arm, but he will have to undergo another operation to repair severed nerves. Smith is in good spirits, but his medical bills are currently over $375,000. A recovery fund has been set up in his name: Rick Smith Rehabilitation Fund, Great Western Bank, 494 Nash Road, Hollister, CA 95023, Account #339-0805566, 408/637-1693. Cards and letters may be sent to Smith at 114 Crazy Horse Canyon, Salinas, CA 93907. The rained-out All-Star Invitational AMA National Hillclimb at Jefferson, Pennsylvania, has been rescheduled to run on October 15, according to the AMA. Comedian Jay Leno will serve as Grand Marshal and will lead the 50mile parade of bikes in Love Ride 12, scheduled for November 12 in California. Leno will lead the parade from Harley-Davidson of Glendale to a concert, barbecue and trade show at Castaic Lake. The ride is expected to raise over $1 million for the Muscular Dystrophy Association for the third 'year in a row. For more information call Harley-Davidson of Glendale at 818/246-5618. . The California Mini Road Race Association (CMRRA) has reached an agreement with Sam Bowlby and the Riverside Grand Prix Corporation to conduct Formula 3 through Open Superbike road races at the planned Lake Elsinore, California, facility, according to CMRRA president Al Lyons. Lyons also has announced that - due to the agreement - CMRRA has changed its name to the California Motorcycle Road Race Association. For more information call 909/6745357. The San Diego Flat Track Association will hold an AHRMA-sanctioned flat track on October 15, the Friday prior to the season-ending AMA Grand National Dirt Track at the Del Mar Fairgrounds in Del Mar, California. The AHRMA event will be held at Barona Speedway, a one-sixth-mile banked oval some 20 miles east of Del Mar near Ramona. For more information cal Bruce Sanford at 619/571-0155. Motorcycle Shopper, a monthly, buysell-trade magazine, has gone on-line on the Internet's World Wide Web. The address. is as follows: http: / /www.mshopper.eurografix.com. According to Cytomax's Jeff Montgomery, Champion Nutrition, the makers of Cytomax sports drinks and nutrition products, the company has signed product endorsement contracts with Jeremy McGrath, Ryan Hughes and'Mike Brown. The final round of the Championship Cup Series road race at Topeka's Heartland Park in Kansas on August 26-27 will include three class of Yamaha YSR racing. Classes will include 50, 80cc and Modified YSRs. Tarres clinches seventh World Cham ionshi S paniard Jordi Tarres (right) wrapped up his record-extending seventh World Championship Trials Series title with a second-place finish at the August 20 series finale, held in Helsinki, Finland. Tarres' biggest title rival, fellow Spaniard Marc Colomer, was the winner of the event, but the Montesa factory rider was forced to settle for second overall in the series point standings. Tarres' final point total was 179 with five event wins, while ColomeI' amassed 171 points and four wins. Tarres' 1995 title marks the third consecutive championship for him and the Spanish Gas Gas factory. Tarres captured his first four titles from 1988 to 1991 for the Italian Beta factory. Spaniard Joan Pons was third overall in Finland and fifth overall in the final standings. Home-country rider and former World Champion Tommi Ahvala was fourth in Finland and secured third overall in the series point standings. The 1992 World Champion was the only rider other than Tarres and· ColomeI' to win an event in '95. Brit pougie Lampkin was fifth at the final round and fourth in the standings. Nevada Rally victory to Cam bell A merican Honda's Johnny Campbell (right) became the first American rider to win the Nevada Rally, topping the six-day, 2200-mile event on August 19, in Mesquite, Nevada. The 24year-old from San Juan Capistrano, California, had finished a close second last year to Frenchman Alain Olivier, the winner of the first two rallies. Because of a leg injury, Olivier wasn't able to participate this year, though he was on hand to spectate. Campbell was at no shortage for formidable competition, howev.er, with his Italian-born teammate Davide Trolli comprising the biggest threat. The two worked together to construct a substantial lead on French off-road hero Stephane Peterhansel over the first part of the competition, then fought it out between themselves over the' final two days. The final time separation between the duo was eight minutes, 48 seconds, though they had been even closer through most of the race; a final-day crash broke Trolli's roadbook holder and accounted for the larger gap. Small-bore four-strokes turned in their best performances yet in the rally, with Cycle World off-road editor Jimmy Lewis taking an American Honda-backed XR400 to the 400cc Four-Stroke division win. Fifth went to Frenchman Richard Sainct, mounted on another XR400, and 17-year-old Nevada resident Nick Pearson followed on a KTM 400 LC4. Seventh overall went to French KTM rider Eric Bernard, and American Honda Team Manager Bruce Ogilvie rode the ecologically sound EXP-2 two-stroke rally bike to eighth. Team Mammoth Mountain riders Tony Megla and Bill Postel completed the top 10 on their Honda XR600s. American Honda dominated the class results; XR628 rider Trolli won the Open Four-Stroke division (overall winner Campbell was removed from the class results), Ogilvie topped the Open Two-Stroke category, Megla was victorious in the 30+ division, Postel took the 40+ class and XR400-mounted Lori Conway won the Women's division. Kawasakis won two classes, with Tim Morton topping the 250cc Two-Stroke ranks and 67-year-old Sam Bass winning the 50+ class. In the team competition, the American Honda entry of Campbell, Trolli and Lewis was victorious. In an effort to e.ducate current and potential participants, Yamaha and WERA have issued a few specific rule reminders for the 1995 FZR600 Novice Challenge Series. "The frame and engine of machines in this spec class must be FZR600 model equipment. No hybrid frame and engine combinations are allowed; The correct Yamaha logo must be displayed on the tank and windscreen; riders must file a 1995 contingency-registration form to be eligible; all model FZR600s will be eligible; th~ FZR600 Challenge is a Novice-only series. Riders who have formerly been ranked as an Expert with any orga",ization will not be allowed to compete." In addition, since the Yamaha FZR600 Novice Challenge category is governed by WERA's Superbike rules, components beyond engine and frame may be changed and the engine may be modified. For more information call 803/681-9372. Road racer Jason Pridmore will return to raci ng on August 25-27 during round nine of the AMA National Championship Road Race Series at Sears Point Raceway in Sonoma, California. Pridmore, who has been out of action for nearly a year due to a broken leg suffered in an off-season motocross accident, will return to race in the 600cc class after a successful day of practice at Willow Springs Raceway. "1 had surgery two weeks ago (to remove the external fixator from his leg)," Pridmore said. "1 went out to Willow and I surprised myself a lot. I won't be riding my Supe.rbike at Sears, but I'll be out there on the 600. I got down to some good times at Willow. I'm pleasantly surprised." The last time Pridmore road raced was at the AMA season finale at Road Atlanta last September. CORRECTION: The dates we printed for the 1996 NMA World Mini Grand Prix in Las Vegas last week were incorrect. The item should have read April 12-14, not August. Also, the NMA has rescheduled the Grand Nationals at Ponca City, Oklahoma, from August 6-10 to July 30 through August 3. For more information, call the NMA at 909/657-6782. HIRED: Ken Kondo, as assistant director of media relations for the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team. Kondo formerly held down the position as account executive for Lapin East/West, a national public relations and marketing agency. One of Kondo's responsibilities for Lapin was handling press and media relations during the 1995 U.S. Su percross Series. MOVED: The California Off-Highway ~ Motor Vehicle Recreation (OHMVR) Division to 1725 23rd Street, Suite 220, Sacramento, CA 95816,916/324-4442, 916/324-1610 (fax). The mailing address is as follows: OHMVR, P.O. Box'"924896, Sacramento, CA 942960001. e MOVED: Hyperformance lnternation- ~ al Inc., to 715 Acme Street, Denton, 0\ Texas 76205, 817/381-2300 (voice), ,...... ... 817/464-6651 (fax). o .... C'"l CORRECTION: The caption accompanying the Battle of the Legends photo from the Vintage Motorcycle Days story (Issue #31, page 23) named Yvon DuHamel as the number-77 rider chasing Dave Aldana, when it was in fact Chris Draayer. £N CfJ f 3

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