Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

Voices America's weekly motorcyclenewspaper Volume XXXVI ent Sharon Clayton, Presid MichaelKlinger, Publisher LEITERS TO THE EDITOR And w hispered, "Come wi th me." Wit h tearful eyes we watched him, And saw him ride and pass away. Although we loved him dea rly, We could not make him sta y. A golden heart stopped beating, Ou r true buddy at rest. God broke our hearts to prove to us, He on ly takes the best. Nick Camlin Rock Island, IL Editorial Paul Carruthers, Editor KitPalmer, Associate Editor Scott Rousseau, Associate Editor Keith Bush. Assistant Editor/Corry Editor Matt Free ma n, Assistant Editor Alan Cathcart, EUrop<'I1n Editor David R. Holther, Assistant Editor Jennifer J. Dutcher. /lroofreader Advertising Western States (714) 751-7433 N ick Cam/in is the Tl-vear-old nephew of the late Davey Camlin ... Editor Terry Pratt, National AccouJlts Manager Mark Thome, Wt. tern Sales Ma nag~ . Forrest Hayashi, Western Salt.. Manager Dan Legere. 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Oil leak Davey Camlln (27) won back-to-back Springfield mil es on labor Day Weekend In 1996. .A powerful letter of thanks This is a letter th at I never th ought I wou ld need to write, and it has been very d ifficult to find the right words to exp ress to all of you how I feel. I ha ve known Da ve si nce I was 14 years old and he was 16 years old . Even then, Dave was alr ead v on a miss ion to be a mo to rcycle ra cer on th e Grand Na tional circui t. I started going to races with him as his gi rlfriend, th en as his fiancee, and finall y as his wife. I always u n de rs tood th e - d a n g e rs of being a motorcycle race r, but I also understood completely that this was Dave's dream. I watched Dave crash so many times; some were not so bad, and others were terri ble. I was bv his side when he had to be away fro~ racin g, and watched how mu ch it hurt him not to be a part of everything. I am also proud to say I was a lw ays a part o f the good ti mes, too . Watch in g Dave win a Gr and Nationa l race filled my heart wi th joy and mad e m e realiz e e v en m or e w hy h e h a d always worked so hard on his race progra m a nd s tr ived to b e th e best. Bad times or good times , Dave was al ways co nfident that racin g mot or cycles was wha t he loved and wan ted to do . Qu ittin g was not an optio n for him or for me. Believe me , 'a s a wife of a racer, the thoughts go through your mind a billion times: What if something terrible happens that he cannot recover from? I wou ld always push tho se thoughts out of my head because they h urt too much to think about, even for just a moment. I Subscription rates: Rates for the United States and its posSt'Ssicns for one year (SO issues), $58.00 two years (100issues). ; SI11.00;six months (25 issues), $29.00; trial sub 0 5 issues), $21.00. Canada and Foreign. one year (50 issues), $105.00; two veers (100issues), $195.00;six months (25 issues). $5S.(X); trial sub (15 issues), $42.00. Cycle News welcomes unsolicited editorial material including stories. cartoons. photos, etc. Such material, if published, becomes the exclusive propt't'ty of Cycle Ne",:'S. Reprinting in wholc or part only by permission of th~ publisher. Advertising rates and circulation Inform ation w besent upon ill request. SeeS.R.D.5 . W/BD'A V -r~ INTERVIEW Dirt-tracker Willie McCoy 4 FEATURE Jay Springsteen 25th ~ nniversary / Frankie Lamp ben efit par ty 8 HILLCLIMB Roun d 5 - AMA Na tional Cha m pio nship Hill climb Series from Jefferson, Pennsylvania 10 FIRST LOOK 2000 Benelli 900 Tornado 12 MOTOCROSS Round 12 - World Cha mpio nship 250cc MX Series fro m Cdynia, Poland Round 9 - World Cham pionship 500cc MX Series from Na mur, Belgium 24th annual NM A Grand Cha mp ionships from Ponca City, Okla homa Round 3 - AMA Western Four-Stroke National MX Series from Wash ou gal, Washing ton DEPARTMENTS NEW PRODUCTS 26 EVENTS 32 LEADERBOARD 6 AUDITED Printed in U.S.A. God saw him ge t injured. And healing was not to be. So he put his arms around him , SPEEDWAY Round 4 - World Individual Championship Series from Coventry, 16 England FEATURES ORCULATION Co,?yright C Cycle News, Inc. 1999.Trademark Cycle News registered U.s. Patent Office. All righ ts reserved. God ble ss 27 I believe Jim Leonard was referring to the fact that the oil leak was so slight that it uiasn'Fgetting to the race track - instead it was dripping on the exhaust pipe and burning off. Some of the riders behind Bostrom, however, would disagree with that notioll... Editor INSIDE : ISSUE #32 AUGUST 18, 1999 POSTMASTER: See d address changes to Cyd e News, P.O. Boll 50&1, Costa Mesa, CA 92628-5084 . To dete rmine the expiration dille of your subscription, check the four numbers on the first line of your addre ss label. The firat two digits indicate the last issue numb er you'll receive and the last two cha racters ind ica!e the year of the last issue• . never belie ved it could happen to Dave becau se everyon e that kn ew him kne w what a good person he was and how big his heart was for everyo ne around him. I firml y believe that racing motor cycles d id not take Dave's life. God sim ply had a bett er plan for his grea tness . During thi s unbearabl e time in my life, all of you, family and friends, have joined toge the r a nd given me so much sup po rt . 1 have recei ved e-rnai ls, hundred s of cards and endless phon e ca lls. Believe me wh en I tell you that this has helped me tremendou sly, along wi th the res t of our family. O ne of Dave's on ly fears abo ut racing was not of dying but of leaving me alone . I kn ow Da ve is wa tchi ng over us and smiling ha ppily because so many of you have reached ou t to me to help take care of me. Thi s wo uld have bee n the nu mber-one thing that was important to him. . I mi ss Dave terribly, and m y heart ac hes every minute o f th e day bein g w itho u t him . I love him wit h all of my heart. And thanks to all of yo u, I kn ow t h at I a m n ot alo ne . We will a ll rem ember Da v e forever in o u r ow n ind ividual w ays, wit h ou r own mem ories, and I am cer tain that everyone of u s w ill fi nd 'ou rselves sm ili ng as we remember. . Missy Camlin Rock Island, IL Ha vin g been a scram bler 35 yea rs ago and more recen tly a vintage road racer, am I bein g a bit too alarmist or sensitive ab out oil leaks ? Jim Leon ard ' s (cre w chi ef for the Vanc e & Hi nes Ducati team) statement about Ben Bostrom ' s oil leak - "if it w asn 't leakin g o n th e pipe , no one would have kn own about it" - is quite incredulous, to my thinking . I' ve even read rider interviews wher e they ha ve sta ted that they knew they we re oiling the track because th eir feet were slipping off the footpegs. Unbelievable! Oka y, racin g (a ny kind ) is dangerou s - and on two w heels it's more so. On a tra ck that 's being oiled, it' s so mewhere between folly and assisted su icid e. Do they really need "Dr. Jack " on the track? If Jim Leonard is really a pro fessional, is it a requisite to leave one's spo rtsm a n ship, m o r a ls a n d co nscie nce a t hom e when yo u go racing? Does th is type of ment ality have to exist? If I were ru nni ng the show, there wo u ld be scrutineers in the pi t, and at the end of the race anvo ne with an obvious oil leak wo uld ~ gra n ted an automatic one- race suspension. Come in d u ring th e race a nd park it w he n yo u n otice an oil leak - a nd yo u ' re h om e free. I gua ra ntee th er e wo u ld be a lot of screaming for a whi le, but I also guarantee less rid ers and ma chines would be turned into expensive tumblew eed s. Phil Mahony Lime Rock, CT .49 CALENDAR : 50 RESULTS 19 57 WANT ADS 58. FINAL MOTO 18 75 LOOKING BACK 75 ON THE FRONT COVER .2i 24 Benell i recently in trod uced its 900cc To rna do to membe rs of th e press in Italy. We we re there. Phot o by Kel Edge. The wo rld comes to Poland . Pit Beirer wi ns th e Polish Grand Prix. Pho to by Geoff Meyer.

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