Cycle News is a weekly magazine that covers all aspects of motorcycling including Supercross, Motocross and MotoGP as well as new motorcycles
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III donlt know too much about dirt 1 track - but now 1m hooked. 11 regarding the schedule, not to mention I just finished reading - and thoroughly enjoyed - your coverage of the Sonny rate as heroes to this 49-year- following the lead of other motorsport The Eight Hour old senior class rider. disciplines, and at least try having the JIm Vlverlto Glen Helen National on Saturday for a Chlcago,IL change. The potential for more spec- Suzuka 8 Hours. What a great race, even if Alex Barros is trying to start a "conspiracy theory" to cloud the results. In the tators and happier significant others and wives sound good to me! What could it hurt? Michael RIgdon end, Valentino Rossi and Colin Y7a the Intemet Edwards, both masters of their respective classes, prevailed in a Best Cover Ever? deserving win. Dirt Track TV Heck yeah, baby - dirt track racing finally on Speedvision! I saw the first episode tonight and absolutely loved it. The racing was close and the riding was awesome. The good-old-boy riders were great in all their interviews While being awed at the perfor- The cover photo on the August 15 as well. The only request I could ask mance of the number-one Honda issue is the best cover Cycle News for is some lower camera angles and team, a question comes to mind. I has ever had. You (or Yamaha) really closer zooming on the bikes during would really be interested in knowing should consider a poster. I would buy the races. why Ducati didn't send Ben Bostrom a dozen in a heartbeat. The article by Other than that, fantastic coverage. and Troy Bayliss to Suzuka. For me, Matthew Birt was just about as good As a big fan of road racing, I don't at least, it would have made for a as the photo. You now need to get know too much about dirt track - but more interesting race and a very Honda, Suzuki and Kenny Roberts to now I'm hooked. Whew! allow the same access to their GP interesting pairing. Kent Sheldon Pleasanton, CA Rodney Travar1s weapons. Thanks for a peek at some San DIego, CA real unobtainium. John Hagan Ducati doesn't National point standings. What did participate Ochelafo. OK in endurance events... Editor Beating A Dead Horse the winner get to win the main - Best Cover Ever II? $1500? On pages 40-4], there was maybe We Stink half a page on the Hot Shoe race in Dayton, Ohio, from June 9 - where Scott Rousseau wants to blame dirt there were six riders from the top 20 track shortcomings on Harley-David- and the winner got $10,000 - with all son and its riders and teams, but I the proceeds going to charity. It was think the blame lies with the AMA six weeks late in Cycle News. Why so officials at the tracks. I have been little mention of the Hot Shoe Series - that picture available from anyone? I'd I hate to beat a dead horse, but see- I just received the issue with Mad Max's bike torn apart on the cover. Is going to motorcycle races for 45 other than the early Florida races? pay for a poster of it if it was available. years and they still can't get an event ing the 2002 National Motocross Pete Plassmann started or ended on time. When the mention two young men who met RIchmond, VA track is ready and the people are in their demise in the West Coast Series the stands, start racing - no matter this year. How much closer to the what the clock reads. edge do you want to get? schedule in Cycle News motivates me to write once again regarding haVing the Nationals starting on Mother's Best Cover Ever III? Day. First off, I applaud the AMA and National Promoters Group for swap- Please tell me that you are going to ping the Unadilla and Troy race be offering full color posters for sale dates. The reason given for the of Mad Max's bike taken apart like your cover shot. If they get hung on at both locations and trading race the wall, they will be less likely to be dates was the logical thing to do. drooled on and will last longer. Is it too much to ask that this wYn BeloflJsky same common-sense approach be T1tusvlffe, R. Helen opener on Mother's Day week- Why do you want to blame Harley- Why don't we have an outcry for Davidson for being the only brand in the foreign Superbikes to have Oldest Ever? dirt track racing? Didn't Honda build restrictor plates - so Harley could be a good race bike in the 1980s? I don't more competitive? What a howl that think it is Harley's fault that Honda would cause. As for the factories in got out of it. Look at all the rules they Superbike racing, why don't you ask have in the Formula USA Series to the privateer if he likes to be blasted beat the restricted Harleys. Why don't by at 20 mph faster on the straight- the manufacturers make a 750cc to aways by the $] 00,000 bike on tires race the Harley? Whose backyard do that he cannot afford or get for his they want to play in? They all have change was lack of accommodations taken regarding having the Glen In your Perris article, you also $10,000 bike. Then the announcers end? Since an alternate weekend isn't While I certainly admire George available on the schedule, at least Richtmeyer's accomplishment of You were at the Lima races, Mr. have the National on Saturday and making the main at the Harrington Rousseau. Did you notice how much the amateur races on Sunday. This Grand National half mile, I'm not so of the crowd left after the 750 Nation- If road racing does so well, why do change would more than likely have sure he can lay claim to being the al was over? Probably over half of they have so many double events at a major positive impact on atten- oldest rider to qualify for a National. them. Why didn't they watch the some tracks? Without that they would dance, since it eliminates the more money than Harley-Davidson. and reporters condemn him for getting in the way. This is really filling the grid. Supertrackers? There were four dif- only have about] 0 races a year. Now woman/motorcycling conflict on the main at the Peoria He was 47 ferent brands in the final with some that is a lot for your big bucks. What Mother's Day. at the time. His post-race comment very good riders. The fans want to a dark day it is going to be for some went something like this: "After rac- watch the 750s. of you people when Harley wins a In the past, there has been discus- In the mid-'80s, Sonny Burres made n. sion about haVing the Nationals on ing a 10-lap heat, and a 12-lap semi, One thing I've noticed with Cycle Superbike race. But then they will Saturday, so why not start with Glen I was just coming off the jump on lap probably get as much (or should I say Helen as an experiment and leave it 20 [of the main] when I felt something up to the NPG to decide if their atten- hit my gas tank. I looked down to see News is if it happens east of the Rocky Mountains, it gets very little attention. For example, in the July 25 dance figures would increase by hav- what it was and realized it was my issue, on pages 20-21, there is a very issues of Cycle News. Lima on page ing their respective Nationals on Sat- tongue!" good article on the Perris, California, 60? Boo! urday? Let's keep using common sense little) coverage as dirt track racing. I still have some of those] 963 Burres was riding a Champion- race from June 30 - a race that had JIm Gravenhorst framed Triumph. Both George and one rider in the top 20 from the Monroevtlle, OH eye I e n e \IV S AUGUST 29. 2001 5