Cycle News is a weekly magazine that covers all aspects of motorcycling including Supercross, Motocross and MotoGP as well as new motorcycles
Issue link: https://magazine.cyclenews.com/i/128173
.. .... ::. • =- = 1 ... _: -1_ I .1'1 .. ~ ~- ~ Happenings In Motorcycling [[iJM~@ M@u@(@~ ~mJU~W~ u[fD® ~@mJ©®[g)--,--U _ This is what KTM's MotoGP entry could look like, according to the concept drawings of Damon Moran. Complete with rumored Red Bull sponsorship, the V-four, 990cc KTM is expected to be a player in 2004. By ALAN CATHCART • .. Germany's Big Bloc(k) Contingent BMW may be the biggest, but it Isn't Germany's only motorcycle marque, and several of the smaller ones look set to launch ~ novelties at Intermot. Chief of these is Nuremberg-based Sachs, which has been working hard on productionizthe dramatlcaUy atyled, minimalist Beast showbike that was the star of Intermot 1998. FOlD' years on, the Beast Is almost ready to burst its cage and take to the streets, powered by Sedls' own l000cc V-twin engine. Also reedy to ride the lOads is MZ's first multi-cylinder model, the parallel-twin loooS 1poItblke, which waslallnchecl at MunIch two years ego and is set \10 enw YOIume production the week of InIennot - If lIII goes according to plan for this adler 1iWlIysIan-owned European ~. Mrs ferm« pertner In the old Cam ] Iflt DDlt's state-owned motorcycle ins Sheryl Just Wants To Have Fun Musical entertainer Sheryl Crow recently spent a day riding her KTM with some KTM staff members at the Meadowlarks Motorcycle Club facility in Amherst, Ohio. Among those in attendance was former Grand National Cross Country Champion Shane Watts, who took time to give Crow some riding tips. We're not sure, however, if that's why she's holding an ice pack on her right elbow. industry, Simson. Is set to win the shockblke stakes at Intermot with a futuristically styled, hub-center showbike powered by its own 2000cc V4 engine producing in excess of 250 bhp - but it's not known If that other German mega bike manufacturer, Munch_ will be present with its turbocharged, two-liter Mammut 2000, because rumors insist that produc:tlon of the Polish-manufactured, Ciem\anbuilt bike has just been stopped after only 15 examples of the handbuilt $80.000 machine were shipped to the first of the 80 customers under deposit to receive the bike. But, even if the Mammut's gone into hibernation. the Simson sounds as if it'll more than adequately replace it... To CBSt your vote, lag an to ".--_bttp:/ I ww;cydenews.co • Of the four first·time winners in the AMA [jrand National Championship ....... Wlliiie .... ifVi1 Seri A. Rick Winsett winning the Dayitanlit~!ihcm-T,.idr------ B. Johnny Murphree winlnn~i~;~~;~;~~~~~:----------C. Chris Hart winning th~ D. Jake Johnson winning the TunltB n _ _ ,. 6 SEPTEMBER 25, 2002' c u e • • , p...r.... 8eoIle . . . . f;IctIrecI), Ita deIIut In weII_• • pr....ctlonfomlet ..... ..........."wt ............. MZ n ....' ...... ....