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clists will be able to proudly display their
love of motorcycles while driving their
automobiles. Although this has been a
long time coming. I am proud to have
been able to fight to get this approved.
The success of our efforts shows the
power of partnership to accomplish
goals." The plates are available for passenger vehicles. trucks and motorhomes
for a one-time extra fee of $20. which
goes to the Pennsylvania Department of
Transportation. The plates are not currently available for motorcycles or trailers. but if there is enough interest in the
car plates. the Pennsylvania Department
of Transportation may be convinced to
make them. To get an application for
these special plates. Pennsylvania AMA
members should contact Sharon Titus in
the AMAis Government Relations
Department at 614/856-1900. ext.
1252; or bye-mail at: stitus@amacycle.org.
The Acura Palos Verdes Concours will feature iA Salute to Racing
and Competition Cars and Motorcycles;
on Sunday. September 22. Racing legend Parnelli Jones is slated to be the
Grand Marshal. and the show will feature two classes of motorcycles - Racing
Pre-1939. and 1945-1976. There will be
unique and historic racing bikes on display at the Ocean Trails Golf Club on the
Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern California.
The second annual Long Island
Lupus Poker Run & Party will take
place on September 22. starting at the
Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in
Uniondale. Long Island. The poker run
will end in Eisenhower Park in East
Meadow. New York. To raise awareness
for this disease. American Iron Magazine
and RoadBike staffs have joined forces
with The Lupus Foundation of Long
Island/Queens. For more information on
the ride. call Joe Knezevic at 203/4258777. ext. 26. For more information on
Lupus. contact the Lupus Foundation of
Long Island/Queens at 800/850-9000.
Road racer Robert Ulm. World Supersport Championship rider and former
World Superbike pilot. is ready for new
challenges. according to an e-mail sent
out by the German rider. Without a contract to any team in the World Supersport Championships. Ulm is searching
for a new job in the World Supersport
Championship or in the World Superbike
Championships. in MotoGP or in a
national series in Great Britain. Italy. the
USA or Germany. or as a test rider.
according to Ulmis e-mail. Ulm started
this season with the BKM Honda team.
but left the team in April. Since then. he
has been used as a replacement rider
for several teams while also working on
his Supermoto career.
Bobby Sanders. 46. died on June 12
at his home in Victorville. California.
Sanders was a dirt track racer in the late
1960s. racing at Ascot. Perris and Lake
Elsinore.
Ken Maely and Walt Mahony will
join Jay Springsteen and the late
Will Davis as they are inducted into
the Dirt Track Hall of Fame at its induction banquet on August 2 at the
Delaware State Fairgrounds in Harrington. Delaware. Maely is best known for
making steel shoes for most of the top
AMA Grand National and World Championship speedway competitors from the
1950s to present. A former racer. Maely
is much more than one of the best steel
shoemakers in the country; he also runs
a flat-track training facility in Southern
California. Three generations of dirt
track and speedway riders have worn
Maely's shoes. and his impact on dirt
track can be seen even today whenever
a race is held and the riders depend on
his shoes to bring them home to victory.
Mahony is best known for his hundreds
of thousands of photographs that span
five decades of dirt track racing. He also
helped found the Los Angeles Speedway. which later became known as
Ascot. the legendary dirt track in Southern California. Mahony also managed
and owned Trackmaster Racing Frames.
ed out. For more information. call
408/737-8848 (weekdays). 408/7370783 (evenings and weekends). or email gmartinson@hotmail.com.
In the early '90s, when Ascot closed.
Mahony moved to Missouri to "retire."
but he is still taking racing photos. along
with his son. Dan. There are over
300.000 negatives in the Mahony
Archives. and a good many of them are
Walt·s. Advance tickets to the Hall of
Fame Banquet are available by calling
Edward Moreland. vice president for government relations at the AMA. called on
Congress to fund a new in-depth
study into the causes of motorcycle
crashes, in testimony before the U.S.
House Subcommittee on Highways and
Transit on Thursday. July 25. according
to the AMA. "The last such study was
completed and released over 21 years
ago," Moreland testified. "The changing
dynamics of motorcycling, infrastructure
and safety measures demand modern.
comprehensive and impartial research."
The decades-old research Moreland
referred to is "Motorcycle Accident
Cause Factors and Identification of
Countermeasures." commonly called the
Hurt Study after lead researcher Harry
Hurt. The research is still the most comprehensive study to date on the causes
of motorcycle crashes. Moreland was
testifying on congressional plans to
renew the Transportation Equity Act of
1998, which relates to a variety of transportation issues. The Motorcycle Riders
Foundation also testified. In addition to
calling for comprehensive research into
the causes of motorcycle crashes. Moreland asked lawmakers to make motorcycle safety a priority, to include motorcycles in research involving vehicle
collision-avoidance systems. to continue
the ban on lobbying at the state and local
level by the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSAl. and to
retain provisions in the law that give
motorcycles full access to any highway
or portion of a highway that used federal
funds for planning, design. construction
or maintenance. Moreland also asked
lawmakers to stay away from imposing
penalties on states that don't adopt
mandatory helmet-use laws. to require
motorcycle parking in parking facilities
built with federal funds, and to establish
lower tolls for motorcycles on highways,
bridges and tunnels that collect tolls.
Moreland also noted that off-highway riders continue to struggle to get their fair
share of federal Recreational Trails Program money that goes to build and maintain motorized and non-motorized trails.
"The Recreational Trails Program allows
motorized and non-motorized users to
benefit from qualifying trail projects that
are funded by the host state's portion of
gas tax revenues attributable to nonhighway use." Moreland testified. "It is
unfair that those directly supporting the
program receive the least benefit." he
said. Finally. Moreland suggested that
the law be strengthened to ensure that
the NHTSA focuses on crash prevention
rather than injury prevention. "Each of
these issues is an important piece in a
comprehensive approach to safer riding.
less congestion. more parity (with cars)
and a better quality of life for everyone
on America's roads and highways."
Moreland testified.
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M.S.C. District 34 racer Evan Reimer
suffered serious injuries on July 17. As
of presstime. Reimer was paralyzed
from the neck down. An expert in District 34. Reimer has a wife. Hedi. and
two sons. with a third child due in September. Donations and get-well cards
can be sent to: Reimer Family, Box 73.
North Branch. NYt 12766,
Summit Point Raceway in West Virginia will host the WERA National Challenge Series and the WERA/GMD Computrack National Endurance Series,
August 2-4. Round seven of the National
Endurance Series will be held on Saturday. August 3. with the race slated to
run for six hours. featuring five classes.
The WERA National Challenge series
gets under way the follOWing day with 12
sprint races consisting of 10 laps each.
featuring the likes of Tray Batey, John
Jacobi. Scott Harwell. Mark Crozier and
Dave Yaakov. One of the highlights of
the weekend at Summit Point will be the
third and final qualifying race for the
Suzuki World GSX-R Cup for Suzuki
GSX-R750s. The winner of the race will
receive an all-expenses-paid trip to
Magny Cours. France. where they will
compete against riders from all over the
world in the World GSX-R Cup race on
September 14. For more information,
call 3041725.8444.
A fundraising golf tournament for District
36 riders going to the ISDE