Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

the Over 25 classes will run on Saturday, and the Over 30 classes will run on Sunday. For more information, call 602/437-5411. Kolbe Cycle Sales, the Woodland Hills, California, Honda and Yamaha dealership, has added Kawasaki to its line of motorcycles. For more information, call 818/348-7865. Bob Elliott, long-time motorcycle industry insider, died on Friday, August 18. Elliott, 39, might best be remembered during his heyday as a pro motocrosser who virtually dominated Saddleback Park in the mid-70s. Back then, Elliott worked as a factory Suzuki technician on the works Suzuki motocrossers and later became an instructor at the famed Suzuki School of Motocross held at Carlsbad Raceway. Afterwards, Elliott continued working in U.S. Suzuki's testing department before leaving the company. For the past seven years, Elliott has been a suspension technician at Noleen Racing, working on the race team's motorcycles, including Larry Ward's Yamaha YZ250. Elliott is survived by his wife, Carol, and three children, Christine, Wes, and Adrianne. Services were held on Thursday, August 31, in Victorville, California. Donations can be sent to the family at the following address: Elliott Family Memorial fund, Desert Community Bank, 10474 Rancho Road, Adelanto, CA 92301. GFI Wednesday Practice Days at Perris Raceway in Perris, California, will feature new hours beginning on August 30. The new hours are from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.. The first Saturday session will be held on September 16 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. EPM Promotions announced_that it has doubled the Pro purse at its SRAC Kawasaki Supercross State Championship from $5000 to $10,000. According to SRAC Publicity Director John Clifford, the event will again be held at the recently rebuilt Greeley Stadium in Greeley, Colorado, on September 9. The site now has 2000 additional seats as well as additional sky boxes, many of which have already been sold for the event. Clifford also wanted to announce that the practice schedule has been changed in anticipation of a larger Pro turnout. Pro signups are scheduled to start 'at 1:45 p.m. Practice will now start at 3:15 p.m. instead of 7 p.m. For more information, call 303/988-7722. CMC's Arizona Copperstate will host eight rounds in 1995 at five different Smets clinch'es World 500cc MX championshil! A tracks, featuring full manufacturer contingencies. The opening round will be held on September 16 at Cottonwood MX Track in Cottonwood, Arizona. For more information, call 520/526-7959 or 602/846-4967. David Skinner was the Grand Prize winner in the Harley Card 1995 Open Road Sweepstakes, sponsored by Harley-Davidson Credit. Skinner, a 22year-old Private in the U.S. Army, wins a 1996 Harley-Davidson Heritage Softail Classic valued at $15,000. Skinner entered the contest by purchasing a Harley-Davidson collectible and charging it on his Harley Card. fter placing third in the championship for two years running, Husaberg factory rider Joel Smets (right) finally clinched the SOOcc World Motocross Championship at the August 27 series finale, held on a muddy ReutJingen track in southern Germany. In a tense finale, the 26-year-old Belgian eventually beat KTM's Trampas Parker by 42 points, thus denying the American, who already has 125 and 250cc titles to his name, the cherished Triple Crown. Eric Geboers is the only rider ever to have claimed the title in all three displacement classes. Smets settled matters in the first race as he finished second after pulling over at the last comer to wave Dietmar Lacher through for a home-country win, while Parker had been forced to fight through the field to fifth after getting caught up in a firsttum collision. Smets finished the season with 344 points to Parker's 302. Kiwi Darryll King (Kaw) finished third in the championship with 261, while Peter Johansson (Hus) was fourth with 236 in front of Jacky Martens (Hus), second last year, who scored 194 points. When Supercross and MX sensation Jeremy McGrath offered to take on all cQmers on the golf course, the first person to accept the challenge was his father, Jack McGrath. Jack McGrath was the first person to enter the December 16 charity golf tournament which his racing champion son will co-host in Las Vegas, Nevada, with the AMA. And all players who manage to beat Jeremy's 18-hole score will receive commemorative awards autographed by the winningest rider in Supercross history. The tournament will benefit the Clayton Foundation, a non-profit foundation which provides financial support to injured motorcycle racers. The event is expected to attract a large field of international motorcycle racing stars and industry personalities, since it has been scheduled in conjunction with the FIM World Championship Awards Ceremony on December 15 and the AMA Pro Racing Awards Banquet on December 16. The festivities will take place at Bally's Casino Resort. For more information and a brochure on all of the weekend's activities, contact Angie Myers or Connie Fleming at the AMA, 614/8912425. Perhaps the hottest road racer in the history of AMA road racing is a wanted man for 1996. That .,.acer is none 9ther than Miguel DuHamel. Reliable sources say that DuHamel and his manager Alan Labrosse have asked Honda for a truckload of money for the 1996 season. Labrosse confirmed rumors at Sears Point Raceway on August 26 that he has spoken to Harley-Davidson about the possibility of DuHamel returning to ride the VR1000 again in '96. However, the r

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