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IIRoncada has gone out of his way... to brighten a young manls day.11 Letters to the editor should be sent to Voices. Cycle News. ~~. Mesa. CA 926285084. faxed to 714/751-6685 or e-mailed to editor''9 Published letters do Well, I just watched another frustrating morning of laughable supercross coverage from ESPN - "the leader in sports television." I'm confused: I thought the saying was "lead by example." You need to hire a writer for Todd Harris. "A PhD in Dirtology"? "He must know Fred Astaire 'cause he's dancing out there"? Geez, Todd, are they holding a gun to your head? I heard a six-year-old comment on how lame those jokes were. Once again, action on the track, but we get to see a fan looking through binoculars. Mr. Director, hold your head high on a job well done. In the 250cc main from Minneapolis, you skipped more laps than you showed, but fortunately we got to see five minutes of the KTM Junior Challenge. Wait a minute - didn't we see that last week? And the week before? No matter, touchy-feely vignettes are far more important than trivial things like the main. Chad Reed's seat flew off. I saw it, my kids saw it; what were David Bailey and Harris watching, girls in the stands? There was absolutely no mention of it. I'm starting to understand. The average IQ of the audience must be under 100, so that's what the coverage is designed to appeal to morons. It's embarrassing when NASCAR gets much better coverage than supercross. I mean, have you seen the hats and T-shirts they wear? The dumbing down of America continues. Thank you, ESPN, for your concerted efforts for the ca use. John Cox vfa the InfrNnef Not Happy With TV II Here we go again. The ESPN super- race Saturday, 1 already knew who won on Sunday, so your coverage is useless. Thus, I don't watch it, and your advertisers don't get their ads viewed. Getting a clue yet, bean counters? To the director: What could possibly make you think that when there is some very exciting racing action on the track, and we're just about to see a great pass, you cut to a fat guy in including his last ride at Sugartree, and he never failed to impress. I not necessarily reflect the position of Cycle enjoy hearing his insight of super- News. Inc. letters cross, but I just want to see more rac- should not exceed 200 ing. I also could bring up the absurd words. and all are race scheduling, but that would take subject to editing Anonymous letters will another letter. Eddie Elmore Orange, VA not be considered for publication. All letters should contain the writer's name. address the crowd eating nachos. Just when I think your stupidity and incompe- and daytime phone number. .. Editor. tence can't get any worse, you surprise me. Good job! NASCAR, and you came back from commercial 20 laps later in the race with everybody in different positions, you'd be stoned to death by cans of Bud. But you have no problem doing that to us. In Wanting To Save 250s It was heard with great sadness and disgust that AMA Pro Racing is dropping the 250cc Grand Prix road racing class follOWing this season. For me personally, the sight, sound and smell of the two-stroke GP racer can passes; they don't even get mentioned! This is coverage for idiots, but fortunately we aren't idiots! Get a freakin' clue! Have you done your homework? That rider is Stephane Roncada. My never be equaled. The two letters TZ speak volumes about what a real race bike is all about. Every person I have spoken to who follows road racing is sickened by AMA Pro Racing's shortsighted handling of this class. We need to let them know that this is not acceptable. There is a petition that can be signed online at www.tz250racing.com that will hopefully wake up AMA Pro Racing. Robert Leuer Fremont CA Do you know your demographics? Motorcycles cost money. Motorcyclists have money, and they spend it. Wow, what a revelation, huh? Your coverage of hunting is better than Roncada - Good Guy supercross, and these are guys who call dogs, shoot guns and drink beer. Quite the athletes. I am writing this letter to you to say something positive about a professional rider who went above and beyond to help a fine young man. ed. Last year in San Diego, I got there friend's 11-year-old son Justin crashed and broke his lower leg while two hours early, and the lot was full. riding in the Mojave desert on Febru- There were 70,000 people there. Get your heads out, ESPN, and wake up! ary 16 - ironically these are the same Not Happy With ·TV III et) Ben Gelssel via the InfrNnef Commercial's over, wait a minute, wasn't Ricky Carmichael in fifth? Now he's in second. We never see the John Cox Son Marcos, CA o _. n I am sure Justin and his parents feel the same way. I wish Stephane a speedy recovery. To the editor: If I was watching Supercross is the next NASCAR. Ten years ago you could buy a ticket the day of the race and find a parking spot 15 minutes before the race start- <.1- " P.O. Box 5084. Cost., cyclenews.com. Not Happy With TV -:p .. . c..... f.. ,. bones that Roncada broke just days before. I contacted Stephane via his website at ronronmx.com to see if he could send anything to Justin to cheer him up. Stephane responded instantly and said that he would and Biker Boyz After seeing the previews for the new movie Biker Boyz, I have a few predictions: 1. Increased sales in sportbikes to young, inexperienced riders; 2. Increased crashes and deaths resulting in more interest of govern- cross coverage is deplorable. It's impossible to find out when the show is on because you do your best to hide it. A different time-slot every We used to get both heats, both semis and a glimpse of the LCQ. Now that he was sorry to hear of Justin's accident. There has been a lot of neg- ment regulations in the motorcycle industry; 3. Sportbike riders' reputations getting worse among other week, and throw the dice whether the we get a lot of crowd shots, crossover 250s or 125s are on first. Here's a clue: If you actually paid attention to the racing, you'd know that the 125s race first. I do my best not to know who won the previous week so I can enjoy the race, but you decide to show Anaheim III on Sun- races and what the riders do at home_ I don't care what they had for lunch I just want to see the races. They should make Motoworld an hour long ative media about our current group of supercross/motocross stars, and I thought everyone should know about motorcyclists and automobile drivers. Although it's nice to have an day, so since I went to the San Diego so they could put all that filler crap in there. I'm not knocking David Bailey. I saw him ride a couple of times, how Roncada has gone out of his way, while suffering through an injury himself, to brighten a young man's day. Ron Ron and team Sobe Suzuki action movie about sportbikes, I think a lot of us motorcyclists will be affected by the results of this stunt and crashfest movie. And not in a good way. Thanks, Hollywood. GaryWh~n have gained a lifetime fan in me, and cue' e ElJ{1efle, OR neVllS MARCH 5, 2003 5