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o o o c o Continued from page 3 sion show will showcase both the sport of freestyle and arenacross with more hours of programming than ever before." Peter Englehart. senior vice president. programming & production for OlN added: "Capturing the raw energy and talent of the athletes who tackle National Arenacross and IFMA Freestyle Motocross into an exciting one-hour program helps to complete the OlN experience. Arenacross and freestyle accomplish the same thing OlN does bringing outdoor thrills to the comfort of an indoor environment. We're thrilled to add the new program to our lineup." The leader in adventure TV. according to the CCE press release. Outdoor Life Network (www.OlNTV.com) offers more outdoor recreation programming than any other network. The 24-hour cable network. now available in more than 51 million homes, is the leading source of television coverage of outdoor adventure sports and outdoor leisure recreation, according to the release. coin in Chicago Illinois. For more information on Kendall's, call 773/348-7200. Host hotel for the event will be the Hotel 71 in the heart of Chicago, less than one mile from Kendall's. Rooms are set at $89 per night (a complimentary 10-passenger limousine service to and from the awards ceremony is included in thiS costl. For Hotel 71 hotel reservations, call 312/475-0777 and ask for the CCS award weekend rate. Or to make reservations to attend any of these ceremonies, contact Tiffiney Ingram at 817/332-4822. The Southwest. Northeast. and Florida CCS banquets regional awards banquets are still to be announced. For more information, visit www.ccsracing.com. C r U C C C C o o P L n Chaparral Motorsports, co-sponsor of Team Amsoil/Chaparral/Honda, is offering a ticket giveaway for supercross fans for the remaining rounds of the AMA Supercross Series. To sign up to win the tickets, visit www.chaparralmotorsports.com. Winners will be determined by random draWings to be held from January 15 through June 15 based on event dates. '-- n Clear Channel Entertainment's motorsports has announced the dates and ;=. venues for its 2002 CCS regional awards presentations and banquets. CCS's newest region, the Pacific Roadracing Championship. will host its second annual Regional Champion's Awards Ceremony at The Desert Inn. 44219 Sierra Highway in lancaster, California. on February 1. The banquet will start at 7 p.m. The Desert Inn will also act as the host hotel for the event, and room reservations can be made by calling 661-942-8401. CCS rates are set at $60 per night. The cost for the banquet is $25 per person. which will feature a cash bar and a festive Mexican buffet. The annual banquet will be held in conjunction with the 2003 CCS season opener at the "Streets of Willow" facility in Rosamond, California, which is the --' first round of racing for the CCS Pacific and Southwest regions. The Mid-AtlantiC and Southeast Championship Cup Series Regional Champion's Awards Ceremony will be combined this year to create one glorious event at Virginia International Raceway's Pagoda Restaurant on the VIR grounds, on April 13, during CCS's first of three visits to the facility in 2003. This event is also a MidAtlantic and Southeast CCS regional points event. The CCS banquet will start at 6:30 p.m. The cost is $15 per person for a Southern-style barbeque dinner. The Mid-West, Great Plains, and Great lakes Championship Cup Series Regional Champion's Awards Ceremony will all be combined this year to create one grand event at Kendall's bar and grill in Chicago's Lincoln Park district. The banquet will be held on the same weekend as the Chicago "Cycle World" Motorcycle Show, February 8, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. The cost is $25 per person for an all-youcan-eat buffet and an open bar. The address for Kendall's is 2263 North Lin- 72 JANUARY 1 S. 2003' cue Wataree Sport Group, AMA Pro Racing's merchandising partner. has added woman motocrosser Steffy Bau to its list of pro riders. Bau souvenirs will be available at all AMA Pro motocross events. Because of the rain that hampered testing during the Dunlop Daytona tire test at Daytona International Speedway in December, the Yoshimura Suzuki team of Mat Mladin, Aaron Yates and Ben Spies will test at the Sepang Circuit in Malaysia. January 12-18. The team will join the Suzuki MotoGP team of Kenny Roberts Jr. and John Hopkins at the test. The team will only bring the GSX-R 1000 Superbikes and not the GSX-R600 Supersport bikes to the test. The team will also test at California Speedway in Fontana early in February. American Suzuki Motor Corporation, in conjunction with the Motorcycle Mechanics Institute (MMIl, has announced the new Suzuki/MMI dyno clinic for Phoenix, Arizona. and Orlando, Florida. campuses. The new three-week clinic will proVide MMI students with an excellent hands-on training experience that focuses on dyno testing, and troubleshooting and after-market accessory problems. MMI will be adding four dynos to its program so that each loca· tion will have available two Dynojet dynamometers for demonstrating, measuring and testing performance- and modification-related problems using Suzuki motorcycles exclusively. The installation of the dynos represents a substantial investment (approXimately $150.000) in addition to the aggressive facility-expansion plan that MMI already I e n e vv s has underway. MMI needed motorcycles that have a high performance reputation and the durability to handle repeated full throttle dyno runs under load day after day. Suzuki accepted the challenge with a fleet of fuel-injected GSX-R750s and carbureted 1200 Bandits representing street applications and DR-Z400s to represent the dual sport market. Dynojet and Yoshimura R&D have agreed to join the project with technical support and training. Yoshimura has further agreed to supply a variety of performance products to demonstrate proper fit, installation and tuning. Like Suzuki. Yoshimura jumped at the chance to show the high-performance capability of its products on the dyno for all to see. Suzuki's exclusive sponsorship of thiS program will proVide the MMI student with a perfect learning environment for understanding the techniques and methods used in testing and troubleshooting on a Dynojet dynamometer with Suzuki motorcycles. Grand opening ceremonies for the Suzuki Dyno Clinics will be held on January 9 for the Phoenix location and on March 6 at the Orlando location. The Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum has announced that Scott Parker, winner of 94 AMA Grand National races and 9 series titles, will be the keynote speaker at the 15th annual Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum Friend-Raising Breakfast, to be held during Daytona Bike Week at the Holiday Inn in Deland, Florida, on Saturday, March 8 at 8 a.m. Parker, a native of Flint. Michigan, is arguably the greatest dirt-track racer of all time. After breaking the legendary Joe Petrali's all-time win record a mark that had stood for 55 years Parker went on to nearly double Petrali's total. He won the Sacramento Mile 13 times. the Springfield Mile 14 times. and was the youngest rider ever to win an AMA National. Earning Rookie-of-the-Year honors in 1979. Parker retired from professional racing after the 2000 season. At this year's FriendRaising Breakfast, Parker will be joined on stage by Speed Channel personality and well-known racing announcer J.B. Norris. Admission to the 15th annual Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum Friend-Raising Breakfast is $15 per person. Associate Sponsorships are available for an additional tax-deductible donation of $50 or more: Event Sponsorships are available for an additional tax-deductible donation of $500 or more. Donors will be recognized in the event program. To make reservations, call the Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum at 614/856-2222, or e-mail info@motorcyclemuseum.org. For information about sponsorships, contact Dan Smith at 614-856-2222 ext. 1198 or dsmith@motorcyclemuseum.org. The Motorcycle Riders Foundation's (MRFl commissioned economic impact study of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposed emissions standards for street motorcycles confirmed that the costs of these proposed standards will be significant in terms of rider safety, small business, fuel conservation. traffic congestion and road wear, according to a release issued by the MRF. Dr. Garrett Vaughn. a noted economist. completed the study just in time for motorcyclists nationwide to incorporate his findings into their public comments submitted to the EPA The follOWing is a brief summary of Dr. Vaughn's economic analysis. 1. When realistic cost estimates are used. EPA's proposed emission standards for onhighway motorcycles would cost from $3500 to more than $7500 per ton (2001 dollars) - far higher than the per-ton costs of previously implemented mobile source pollution prevention programs. 2. The EPA did not meet its obligations under the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996 (SBREFA) because its analysis of the proposed emissions considers only motorcycle manufacturers - and especially a handful of large motorcycle manufac- . turers. EPA never considers the economic impacts that the proposed standards would have on the tens of thousands of small businesses that also belong to the U.S. motorcycle industry: franchised dealers, performance shops and aftermarket suppliers. 3. The EPA ignores the issue of rider safety. None of the major EPA documents that discuss the proposed standards make even a single mention of either "rider safety" or "consumer safety." 4. The EPA's analysis ignores possible impacts of the proposed standards on future motorcycle sales by assuming sales will grow smoothly at 1 percent annually, despite the historical evidence showing that national sales are subject to radical yearto-year swings and despite the long-term downward trend between the early 1980s and the late 1990s (despite the recent upswing in annual sales). 5. The EPA wants to "harmonize" California's proposed emission standards to the other 49 states (regardless of those states' air pollution regulatory needs) but ignores that state's 7.7 percent reduction in motorcycle registrations between 1996 and 2001 when registrations increased by 32.2 percent in the other 49 states. Even a cursory look at the data suggests that government regulations explain much of the fall in California's motorcycle registrations. 6. The EPA did not meet its obligations under Executive Order 12866 to consider a less-stringent alternative to the proposed emission standards. Yet ample warnings abound that the catalyst-forcing Tier 2 standards will produce negligible environmental benefit at conSiderable cost to jobs and personal freedom, compared to only a slightly less stringent standard. eN