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.-. . .. ... •. - ...._ :.-1- .. .~ ~~ • . ... ~ ~ Happenings In M otorcycling ~- [1fiJffJ@@@@ !P@G!JfJf1DD ~(1 ffJ@({) !X3G!J({} fXi]fliJ 12!l[l@[;3(1D@[;3' !P@f? ~ @@@({} ©fiJG!J[;3@ KTM Off-Road racers Joey Lanza (below, far right) and Kurt Caselli (second from right) were invi ted to t h e Ana V er d e Elementa ry School in Palmda le , Ca liforni a, on Octob er 22 , to part icip ate in the celeb ra tion o f Red Ri bb on week . Red Ribbon week is an educa tiona l pr ogram d es ign ed for eleme ntary school children. It teach es them how to say no to dru gs and alerts them to the dangers of drug use. T he two ri d ers sho wed their tru e KTM colors and arr ived in sty le with th e team box van. and r ace bikes in t ow . The rid er s sign ed autograph s f or n ear ly thr ee hours for th e stud ents and tea ch ers and gave away alm ost 750 po sters each . After the signing, the two athletes visi ted two seco nd-grade and fourth -gr ade classroo m s and talked to the kid s about how bad dru gs are for th em and to never use them . To ma ke this lesson understood, fourth graders lin ed up to arm -wres tle Joey and Kurt. Th e tea cher wanted the ch ildren to recognize tha t dru gs are very powerfu l and on ce you take them, you nev er win ... just like when you arm-wrestle Joey and Kurt. "The k ids were great ," Lanza said. " Kurt and I had so much fun hanging out with them and trying t o m ake th em un d er stand that drugs ar e very bad for them . Hopefully we made a differenc e... eve n if it was for only one kid . Yo u kn ow, I t h i n k I al most got beat by one of the fourth grade rs... the y're stro nger than they look !" By ALAN CATHCAR T - • Another Ital-Asian Connection For a week in October, Kuala Lumpur was the capital of the motorcycle world. For just a few days before the Proton/MV Agusta signing ceremony, at a presentation on October 23 offi ciated by Malaysia's Sports Minister in the gallery of the world's tallest building, Petronas Tow - To cas ] your vote. log on to _ - - _ http:/ / www.t yt le news .t om . B. 5upe rstock will b ecome more nnportanl. 84 N OVEM BER 19, 2003 ' cue • e n e uv 51; It was a familiar scene: A dad wa tchi ng his son race for t he first time. :Helping h im get ready in the pi ts, givIng hi m advice on the sta rtin g li ne, runn in g across t he t rac k t o help him up when he fa lls . Th e onl y t hi ng tha t wa s different last week end at Red Bud w a s t ha t th e d a d i s one of the greatest dirt bik e ride rs of all time. Mike LaRocc o ' s six -yea r-o ld son Ryder (on bike) competed in hi s first -eve r offic i al ra c e, o n a crisp fall day at the legendary south ern Michigan motocross fecl lity . Aboard the #5 repli ca Honda mini cycl e, deca led up to look j ust like his dad's Amsoil /Factory Connection/Honda , Ryd er raced to two fourth-place fin ishes on th e Pee Wee tra ck , surviving a couple of get offs and nearly making th e podium in the fi rst moto. Through it all Mike laRocco (pictured far righ t) was taking in the histori c moments with th e co ol, calm dem eanor that ha s been his trademark ov er the years . Th ough inside you had to wonder if he was go ing wild. " Ryder really j ust started ridin g m ore serio usly this summer," said Mike_ "When I was hom e (in Indiana ), we'd ride on m y mini bi ke tr ack, and he im proved a lot in the last few months, enough so th at we tho ught Red Bud 's grass race wou ld be a goo d opportunity for him to try raci ng for the fi rst time. So I was prett y much both nervous and excited at the sam e time." ers, the co untry 's petroleum gi ant Petr onas unveiled the street version of the three -cy li nder 900cc Foggy Petronas FP-I Superb ik e. Thi s is a road model of the machin e that Tro y Corser and J am es Haydon hav e been racing with a ce rtain degre e of succ ess this year in the bike's debut season in the World Superbike series, riding forthe team run by Carl Fogarty, wh o was also present at the cerem ony . A total of 150 units of the road version of the FPI hav e already been manufactured to meet Superbike homolo gation rules , with the first batch of 75 units manufactured in the UK and the sec ond 75 assembled in Malaysia at the country's Modenas factory in Kedah, Of the 150 bikes already built, Petronas will sell 100 to customers arou nd the world, exclusively by email - log on to fp I ®Virgin-bikes.co.uk if you have $45,000 to spare for a street-legal close replica of the Foggy race bik e.