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V o lu m e XXX IV
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Misunderst ood
In regard to Don Wal ter's recent letter
(Issue #28 , july 16), Wayne Gardner
m a y have sounded like he was discounting Michael Doohan's record and
Eddie Lawson's influence at Honda, and
I can see how you may have drawn
those conclusions from that one story. In
the same interview, Gard ne r described
Doohan's recent eclipse of Mike Hailwood's record of 37 500cc GP wins as
"terrific" and had nothing but praise for
his current status as the undisputed bet
rider in the world . Ga rd ne r added that
he visi ted Dooha n recen tly in Europe,
spent time on h is boat. and said the ir
relationshi p is very good. Many expected Ga rdner to be jealous of Doohan's
s uccess, but if anyt hing he's been
singing his p ra ises.
As fo r Lawson, they ce rtai n ly were
fierce ri va ls , b ut Gardner ha s always
had grea t res pect for him . Wayn e's comments regard in g Eddie's inp ut in to the
1990 NSRSOO were sim ply the way he '
saw it - rig ht or wrong.
Please don't th ink I'm on the Wayne
Ga rd ne r payroll. I just thought I'd try to
clarify a few aspects you picked u p from
tha t story.
D arryl Flack
Syd ney, Au stralia
Flack is a regul ar contributor to Cycle
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Liking Laguna
Se rvice and S u ppo rt
Susan Moren o, Receptic
mist
Yes, yes , another magnificent display of
skill and courage by the men of World
Su pe rbike ra cing this past weekend at
Laguna Se ca • but it was stunt r ider
Gary Rothwell who rocked my s hor ts
right down to the ground .
"len s Ha ert er
San Diego, CA
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In regard to Kit Palmer's Day Six column (Issue #28, july 16) - Viva America n-ru les enduros!
Matt Freeman
Rialto, CA
Sedalia almost perfect
I feel fo rtuna te a rrd p ro u d to have
atte nded the 25-lap Gra nd National Dirt
Track at Sedalia, Missouri, an d cou ld n' t
wait to receive my copy of Cycle News so
I cou ld relive fro m sta rt to fi n ish th e
d ramatic events that occ urred there.
In a n otherwise excelle nt a nd accu ra te a r ticle b y Scott Ro usseau, I w a s
m ystified th at no t on e lin e of co py o r
one p hoto was included abou t the Don
& Ga ry Scan la n Memorial " Da s h for
Cas h." To my kn o wl ed ge , the $3500
pu rse for the top six non-qualifiers fro m
t he Na tiona l was th e larg es t p urse of
the yea r. The group fro m the St. joseph
and Kansas Ci ty area, along w ith Dale
Walksi er and the Wheels Through Time
H eritage C hallenge, are distu rbed and
d isgusted by this unpa rdonable omission.
joe Neff
St. josep h, MO
Unfortunately, weather conditions prompted the memorial "Dash for Cash" to be run
last on tire night's program. At that paint,
RousSl'l1u was t'!ling to talk to those riders
who had jllst fillished racing ill the Nationaf. If nothing else, we should have included
the results... Editor.
We st in k
I may not know a lot about motocross,
bu t I just ha ve to comment on the photo
of a bespectacled Greg Arnette in you r
most recent issue (Issue #29, july 23) .
It's no wo nder w hy he started designing
his own line of sunglasses ...
julie Joh nson
Manhattan Beach, CA
We misidentified Kent Hoioerton's mechanic
in one of the photos that accompani d the
e
bad C hand ler and all the other regulars
had such a disastrous weekend. It seems
like there was a g remlin in the pits for
ou r AMA boys .
W hy wasn't there any coverage of
Gary Rothwell? Pictures, commen ts
from him anything? The stuff that he
did was u n believable. And the o nly
cr edit you gave him was a three-sentence p a ra g raph a t the e n d of your
Briefly... comments. Come on, people,
give cred it where it' s d ue. Ever try a
stand-up burno ut? It's no wa lk in the
park.
Other than tha t, th e pa per is good.
j im Van d erbec k
s kel etc rsspacbell.net.
You r coverage of the World Su perbike
ro und at Lag u na Seca (Issue #29, july
23) was very disa p poin ting. It wou ld
have bee n nice to have more information on ou r boys from the Wo rld Su pe rbike ran ks. Russell, Kocinski , H ale an d
Edwa rds all d eserved m o re em p hasis .
Don' t ge t th e w rong id ea - every body
that was an AMA regu lar d eserved the
credit yo u ga ve them . But this wasn' t an
AMA-sa nc tio ne d race. It's good to see
that Du Ha me l d id such a good job. Too
The TL1000
No w r e p o r ts are coming ba ck fro m
S uz u k i T L o w n e rs tha t t he b i k e is
" u nsta ble" a nd sha kes its head a t eve ry
cha nce . Please a llow me to ven t. You
TL owners k new wh a t y ou w ere g e tting in to before yo u bough t th e bike an d if yo u d idn ' t, y o u s hou ld have .
Look a t the geo metry and the performance figures . T he bi ke's $8999 li s t
p rice pl us the cos t of a qua lity stee ring
damper is still a ba rgain (and I am n ot
a Suz uki fan ).
Having pu t a bo ut 60 very hard miles
on a TL, I'll sit back and wait for you
frail wankers to sell the bikes at a los s,
and laugh all the way to the apex. The
bike has aga in ra ised the stakes in the
sportbike wars, a nd at a grea t p rice to
boot, The instability p henomenon is
me rely a growing pain in the sportbike
life cycle. Bring on 1998 a nd beyo nd,
with mort' radical geometry and more
horses.
j eff Shank
Omaha, NE
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FEATURES
ROAD RACE
Round 7 - AMA Superbike National
Champion sh ip Seri es from Lexington,
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Kentucky
Round 9 - World Champions hi p Road
Race Series from Germany
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MOTOCROSS
Round 8 - AMA 125/250cc
Nat ional Championsh ip
Motocross Series from New Berlin,
New York
VINTAGE
AHRMA Vintage Motorcycle Days from
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Lexington, Ohio
RIDltlG IMPRESSION
1998 Kawasaki KXSO and KXl 00
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FEATURE
1997 Hollister Rally
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DEPARTMENTS
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DIRT TRACK
Round 10 - AMA Grand National
Cham pions hi p Series from Oklahoma
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City, Okl ahoma
EVENTS
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RESULTS
CALENDAR
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LEADERBDARD
WANT ADS .....•..•...............................................64
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INTHE PADDOCK
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LOOKINGBACK
ON THE FRONT COVER
Fou r ra ces , o n e Sunda y. Mi guel
DuHamel, j eff Erni g , Will Davis and
Michael Doohan all emerged from tne
weekend w ith victo ries. Photos by
Henny Ray Abrams, Kin ney jones, F:at
Trac k Fotos an d Go ld & Goose.
