Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

. '~ ." VOICES ~ America's weekly motorcycle newspaper . ' r',' Editorial Paul Carruthers, Editor Kit Palmer, Associate Editor Scott Rousseau, Associate Editor Mark Hoyer, Managing Editor Keith Bush, Assistant Editor/Copy Editor Cameron Coatney, Assistant Editor Advertisi ng Terry Pratt, National Accounts Manager Mark Mitchell, Eastern Accounts Manager Mark Thome, Western SalesManager Thomas Genter, WesternSales Manager Forrest Hayashi, Western SalesManager Greg Mitchell, Eastern Sales Manager RickMatheny, Eastern Sales Manager Rhonda Crawford, Western Ad Coordinator Carla Allen, Eastern Ad Coordinator . Laurie Snow, Assistant Marketing & Promotion Mark Thome, Manager New Media Developme nt Mark Mitchell, Director RickMatheny, Operations Classified Ads Sharon Van Hazelen Graph ics and Production . Ree Johnson, Production Supervisor Mandy Loo, ProductionManager .Dennis Greene. Lab. Tech. . Stacey Guest, Grap hicArtist Vance Laney, Graphic Artist Administration Judy Klinger, Coordinator Lea nne Sim s, Ad ministrative Assistant AccountinglData Processing Donna Bryan-Diamond, A/R Coordinator Geneva Repass. Assistant Herlane Lewis, Credit Circulation Rheba Smith, Manager Alma Anguiano, Proc essing Coordinator Pam Klein, Billing Coordinator . Carol Begovic, Dealer. . tor Service and Support Bridgett Bobrofsky, Recepti nist o National Headquarters 2201 Cherry Ave., Long Beach. CA 90806, P.O. Box 498,Long Beach. CA 9080 1-0498 (310) 427-7433; (213) 636-8844. FAX (31 0) 427-6685 Eastern Office 4188First Ave., Tucker, GA, 30084; mailing addr ess P.O. Box 805, Tucker, GA 30085-OS05. (770) 934-7850. FAX (770) 934-3112 e-mail editor@ cyclenews.com subscribe@cyclenews.com advertising@cyclenews.com Internet http:/ /www.cyclenews.com CycleNews (USPS 141...340) is published weekly except the last two weeks of the calendar year for $50.00 per year by Cycle News, Inc., 2201 Cherry Avenue, Long Beach. CA 90806 . Periodicals Postage Paid at Long Beac CA and at additional h, mailing office. Canada Post International Publications Mail . . #546615. Hangtown MX Th e 1996 H angt own m o tocro ss classic was the best one that w e have atten de d in yea rs . W e s up ply th e even t wi th PowerBars (for the riders and staff) . The facility, track prep ar atio n, cam era production, and eve nts w er e all conducted in a very profession al manner . Our hats off to Glenn Long, Ed Santin and th e res t of th e Dirt Diggers (the prom ot ers ) fo r th e ir m o nu m e nt a l effo r ts , which did n ot go u nnot iced . We wou ld a lso like to recognize the superb efforts of Duke Finch and th e staff, w ho ran a well-organized race prog ram. However, w hy w asn' t there an amateu r d ay write-u p in Cycle News? There w er e so me am ate u r ra ce resu lt s publi sh ed , but n ot all cl a ss es th at ra ced w ere represented . John Silva, a w riter and anno u ncer, vo lu n tee red to do th e job, but for so me re ason it didn' t w ork o ut. ·Wh y? Th er e were ove r 300 ri d ers participating o n a m ateur d ay, whi ch resulted in some exciting racing. This is o ne of t he b iggest annual amat eur even ts in Northern California , and we feel it merits pro pe r coverage. Let's not forge t w here th e roots of pro fessio nal motocross racing comes from - amateur racing. Greg Quinones Corte Madera, CA An unfortunate set of circumstances prevented us from having coverage of the amateur portion of the HangtoumMX . Unfortunately, there was some miscommunication between ourselves and contributor John Silva... Editor. Where's Dallas? I ju st fo u nd ou t that the AMA Grand Na tional Half Mile race on Jun e 15 at the Devils Bo w l Speedway was cancel ed d ue to th e loss of sponsorship. When I ask w hy the spons o r pulled out, I w as informed that it was mainly due to the amount of mon ey that is req uired by the AMA to hold the event at any give n site. T h e amount r equi r e d was $18 ,000, whic h I think is way too high fo r a smaller half mile race track to be ab le to get sponsorship for. Wh er e d oes th is money go? Is it prize 'IN#25, June 26,1996 S E: . ID .Issue POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Cycle News, P.O. Box498, Long Beach, CA 90801-0498. . To de termine the expiration dale of your subscription, check the fou r nu mbers on the firs t lin e of your address label. The first two digits indica te the last issu e numb er you' ll recei ve and the last two cha racters indicate the year of the last issue . ROAD RACIN G Loud on AMA National . Isle of Man IT 22 GingerMan WERA Enduranc e .34 SPEEDWAY AUDITE D a RCULA TION... P rinted in U .S.A. COI?Yright' CycleNews lnc.1996.TrademarkCycle News , registeredU.S. Patent Office. All rights reserve d. Budds Creek AMA Nationa l 14 Commotion by the Ocean IX .42 Overseas Final INTERVIEW . Rob Muzzy C heck out th e ac tion-packed "s till " of Michael Doohan on th e front cover of th e June 5 Cycle News. Another incred ible example of th e Gold & Goose photo m a gi c. How d o they always seem to find just the right shot? An article or an interview w ith Gold & Goose would be in teresting. Bud Beebe Fair Oaks, CA Thanks, Bud. Now David Goldman and Patrick Gosling will want another raise... Editor. Barstow to Vegas I jus t fi n ished r e a d in g t h e B- t o-Y upda te in my June 19 is su e of Cycle News. It ma d e m e r em emb er so me thi ngs. I re me mbe r seeing Dan As hcra ft being towed in after br eaking down on the fo u rth loop in th e "wa te rme lo n pa tc h ." I re me m be r C hr is Cra nda ll smoking all the factory H uskys on the •• " new " ATK. r rem ember th a t the best desert pilot of th em all - Larry Roeseler - never man aged to w in B-to-V, no matter how hard everyone pulled for him . A nd w h o co u ld fo rget t h e fi nis h in 1989, th e closest ever. I'm tired of just re me m bering . Thi s race has meant m ore to motorcyclists, and I mean all of us - street, offroa d, racing, or otherwise - than anyone t ca n really fathom. It re presen ts ev eryth in g w e rid e for, an d our con tinued struggle agains t th ose w ho are ignorant of our sport and jus t d on 't understan d . It is so w on d erfu l to see those legal-battli n g w ord s bein g p rin ted agai n. Mr. Og ren, thank yo u, and I rem ember wha t it's all about. I urge everyone who reads th is to sen d th e Deser t Vipe rs $30 because they will need every penny to ren ew our faith. I kn ow, I' ve been there. Quack, quack A concerned Duck Vacaville, CA AMI thanks I am w riti ng to th ank Mr . Williams, the presiden t of the America n Motorcycle In stitute (A M I), a nd Neal H aynes, an instructor at the Daytona Beach, Florida, AMI. Mr. William s ope ned his doo rs to many racer s, in clu di ng m yself, to use his institu te for our racin g needs. Some racer s worked on their bikes the re until all hours of the nig ht and into th e m orning. I am sure th ey are all very tha nkful. .I kn ow that wi thout bein g able to use th e sho p facilities, I would ha ve had to pack my ba gs and tak e my br oken racer back to California. I just wa n t to thank the people at AM I. . I would a lso li k e to thank Kenny Coolbeth, Georgie Price and Pop Sweeten for loaning m e the parts I needed to get things w orking ag ain. Thank yo u all. Steve Johnson Felton, CA Letters to the editor shou ld be sen t to Voices, Cycle News; P.O. Box 498, Long Beach, CA 90806-0498, faxed to 310/4276685 or e-mailv edi torfscyclenews.ccm. Pub li shed le tters d o not n ecessarily refl ect the p osition of Cycle News, Inc. Letters should not exc eed 200 words .. and all letters ar e su b je ct to editing. An onymo us letters will not be considered for p ublicati on . All lett ers sh oul d contain the writer's name, address and da ytime pho ne n u mber ... Editor. .38 DRAG RACING West Lebanon AMA /Prostar .40 ENDURO New England C'ship Enduro 44 ON THE FRONT COVER DEPARTMENTS MOTOCROSS VI .m!""!!. 4 6 18 W/BnA The Golden boys HILLCLIMB Bushkill Valley AMA N ational Italian WSB Cycle News welcomes unsolicited editorial material including stories.cartoons, photos, etc. Such material, if published, becomes the exclusive property of CycleNews. Reprinting in whole or part only by permission of the publisher. Advertising rates and circulation information will be sent upon request. SeeS.R.D.5 . money given to the rid ers o r is it going to pay for so me AMA executive's new Harley so he can show up at Stu rgis and preten d like he belon gs there? It's bad enough tha t severa l races have been canceled due to rain this year, but to have one ca nceled due to price go uging by the AMA is unfathomab le. Wh en will th e AMA and Harley-Davidson co me out of th e closet abo u t th eir rela tio nship with one a nother ? I agree with Chris Agajanian when he sta te d that Harley-Dav id son should be d oing a lot more to promote The Gra nd Na tional dirt track eve nts - not the local dealers bu t Harley- David so n itself, th e com pany th at has been m akin g hundred s of m illi o ns of d oll ars every year for the past few yea rs . Every d irt tr ack fan kn ows th at for some reason, due to AMA ru les, the bike setup th e riders are forced to ad he re to m a ke s it w h ere m ost en d up riding Harleys, so w hy can't H arley go ahead and give so me big money to sponsor the whole season like Ca me l us ed to d o to keep the races going . If Harley an d the AMA agreed to .d o tha t then the fans m ig ht learn to overlook the hig h ticket prices or even be a little more forgiving when it co mes to being fo rce d to sit through those boring 883 races. . Chip Clark CUCl@msg.ti.com .. FEATURES Subscription rates. Rat~ for the United States and its possesslons for one year. (SO issues), $50.00; two years 0 00 issues), $9S.00; six months, (25 Issues), $26.00; trial sub OS issues), $19.00. Canada and Foreign, one year (SO issues), $90.00; two ; years (100issues).$175 six months (25 issues), $45.00 trial .00; sub OSissues), $38.C9. ~ • 1. Leiters to theednor . " Vol ume XXXIII . Sharon Clayton, President, Michael Klinger, Publi her s NEW PRODUCTS 30 LEADERBOARD EVENTS 32 , .46 CALENDAR 57 26 WANT ADS 65 AVIEWFROM THE FENCE .79 .36 LOOKING BACK 79 (To p) '9 7 Yamaha YZ250, and (be low) the new al uminum-framed ' 97 H onda C R250 . (M id d le) 250cc N a tional ge ts under way at Bu d ds Creek . Pho to by Kar l O ck ert. (Mid d le rig h t) Migu el Du Ha mel wi ns Lo u don Na t'l Superbi k e. P ho to by Hen ny Ra y Abrams . (Bo tto m ) Car l Foga r ty le ad s P ierFrancesco Chili at Monza Wo rld Superbike. Photo by Gold & Goose.

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