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• ....... ... •... . .... _: -1.1'1 ... .. . ~.'-- •• -. 1'1'" Happenings In Motorcycling Ong Fox Racing's Keely Marks recently sent us this photo of a Navy jet mechanic wearing a pair of Fox Axis knee guards. According to Marks, back in November, Greg Fox heard about the need for knee guards for the jet mechanics that are stationed on the USS Carl Vinson. These mechanics spend many hours on their knees servicing the jets and needed something to protect their knees. Fox responded by sending a case of knee guards to the mechanics. One of the mechanics mailed Marks this photo of him wearing the Fox Axis knee guards. By Now here's a park ranger that off-roaders shouldn't be afraid of. William Schwartz is a BLM ranger at the Clear Creek riding area in Coalinga, Califomia, and he's obviously an off-road enthusiast. Here, Schwartz offers words (and visual) encouragement to competitors climbing a muddy hill during the Quicksilver National Enduro. When Schwartz is out on patrol, he rides a late-model KTM four-stroke. ALAN CATHCART • • Aprilia Really, Really Won Aprilia's reputed cash squeeze will have been helped by victory in the British Court of Appeal on January 24 for the Italian manufacturer in its claIm against the Spice Girls, the formerly chart-topping 'girl power' gtoup, Aprilia enlisted the Spice Girls in 1998 to promote Its Spice Sonic scooter model In a campaign aimed at promoting Aprilla scooters to those under the influence of this music industry phenomenon. Only one thing wrong, though. said the three judges hearing the group's appeal against a previous judgement ruling against them, after claiming that Aprilia should pay them an estimated $350,000 plus costs (which totaled over $1.5 million) for the canceled sponsorship deal: at the time the Spice Girls signed the contract with AprUia In May 1998, one of the group's founder members, Geel Halliwell, had already told the oUler four !hat she intended to leave the group to go solo. To casl your vole. log on 10 ww;cycle. ews.c .",.---ohllp~11 6 MARCH 6, 2002' C u- ofU~ C • ... This threw Aprilla's carefully designed promotional campaign into chaos, the j~ agreed. finding that the Spice Girls had been guihy of misrepresentation over Halliwell's departure when they signed the contract with ApriJia to promote Its scooters, knowing full well that one of them was about to leave the group. Aprilla was awarded over $70.000 in damages against the Spice Girls, as well as the costs of tl:le appeal, Should pay for a few engine rebuilds on Regis Lacon;'s RS Cube three-cylinder four-stroke GP racer•.. italian I11811Utactuntr Aprtlfa _ recentIy_rded .......... aMmnIIng from • lawsuit with tile former oup The SpIca GIlt rutad tINrt: tile band 1IIIsrapre........ ItMIf bafara .........IllIIntD. p-'IonaI_lbac. with tile . . . . . . . 1Iup ~.