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Mladin Fast at Barber Test 3D YEAR5 AGO... April 15, 1975 .. ~ The Hangtown ~IV.=~~ Classic Motocross in Sacramento, Cali- fornia, was a muddy mess. Tim Hart won the 125cc class, while Kent Howerton took the victory in the 250cc class... Off-road legend Larry Roeseler took the 250cc Expert-class victory at the annual Orange County Motorcycle Club Grand Prix in Riverside, California. jim Fishback was also a winner at the event. He took first twice over the weekend, once each day... We covered the Rat's Hole Custom Bike Show at Daytona Bike Week. At the time it was the largest custom bike show in the world, drawing 35,000 people to it each year. i!0 YEAR5 AGO... April 17. 1985 r.!"T.1:T:tr~:rrrr:ll We got an exclusive li!~~:=~'~~~ test aboard the MStar GM250. We found it to have a few shortcomings; however, it was one of the best-handling bikes we had ridden ... World Cham~t.:~~ pion Eddy Lejeune won the second round of the World Championship Observed Trials Series. It was his first win of the season ... Brad Lackey won the Vet Expert class at an amateur motocross at Hangtown Motocross Park in Sacramento, California. Taking second was Kinney Jones. a well-known motocross photographer... Pete Hames won the Expert main event at the 13th annual Gardena Golden Cup at Ascot Raceway in Gardena, California. Doug Chandler was the early leader, but he pulled off after the third restart. fmCT1r.i!hir.¥iTf~ Mike Hale appeared ~~~~~;~ on the cover for his I win at the second round of the AMA Superbike National Championship Series. It was his first-ever AMA National Victory and ended Honda's three year winless streak... Jay Springsteen carded his 41 st career dirt track victory at the second round of the AMA Grand National Championship Series in Pomona, California... Scott Summers won a hard-fought battle for the win, with Scott Plessinger, at round two of the Grand National Cross Country Series in Hickory, North Carolina. The two riders dueled until the last lap when Plessinger ran out of gas. He still finished second ... Damon Bradshaw was reportedly planning a return to racing that would see him compete in the Outdoor National Series. Yoshimura Suzuki's Mat Mladin emerged from the two-day AMA Superbike test at Barber Motorsports Park with the fastest times, the Australian setting his best lap on the opening day of the test. Mladin ended up quickest on both days, his I:24.460 on the first day backed up with a I:24.684 on the second day, putting him nearly a full second faster than his teammate Aaron Yates, the second-fastest rider at the test. Yates clocked a I:25.627 on the second day, vaulting the Georgian well past the I:27.309 that was the best he could muster on day one. Team Austin Ducati's Neil Hodgson also went quicker on his second day at Barber, the former World Superbike Champion recording a I:25.931. Then came Yoshimura Suzuki's Ben Spies, who cut a best lap of I:25.988 on his 34th and final lap of the afternoon session of day two. Jake Zemke was the quickest of the Honda men, turning in a time of 1:26.203. CORRECTION: Our coverage of the AHRMA BOT F2 race from Daytona inaccurately stated that Barrett Long won the race. Long actually won the BOT Two-Stroke race, and Derek Keyes won the BOT F2 race. AUTOGRAPH SIGNING: At Roseville Yamaha in Roseville, Michigan, on Friday, April 8 from 6 to 7 p.m. Factory Yamaha riders Chad Reed, David Vuillemin and Tim Ferry, factory supported rider Heath Voss, and Yamaha of Troy riders Brock Sellards and Kelly Smith are scheduled to appear. For more information, call 586/859-2575. HIRED: Reece White as public relations manager for Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, effective mid-April. White will work in conjunction with press officer Ed Nicholls in the PR department. White comes to the Laguna Seca staff from the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, where he had been the media and marketing coordinator since 2002. "We are pleased to have Reece White join us with his extensive background in media relations," Campbell said. "He understands the dynamics of promoting a road course such as Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca and will be a welcome enhancement to our public relations staff, particularly as we gear up for the return of MotoGP to Laguna 5eca. Reece will work alongside press officer Ed Nicholls, whose major focus will be preparations for the Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix, which has the potential to be the biggest event ever held at Mazda Raceway Laguna 5eca." Briefly.•• Continued from poge " inch supermoto and 19-inch dirt track tires available, as well as a tire changing service. For more information, call 6S0/6S4-1669. The National Promoters Group has announced that Concept Haulers has been named as the presenting sponsor for the 2005-2007 AMA Motocross Championship round at Red Bud. Kevin Boyle, president of Concept Haulers, has been racing at Red Bud since 1973 and looks forward to continuing his long-standing relationship with the Ritchie family (promoters of the Red Bud round) through a sponsorship program for this year's AMA National. "1 grew up racing with the Ritchies and got to know Tim [Ritchie] really well," Boyle said. "Tim approached me and said they have a space open for a sponsorship and, since I strongly believe in advertising, decided to get involved. Red Bud is close by to our factory [Concept Haulers is headquartered in Morris, Illinois] and we have a ton of people there that ride for us. There's always a lot of hype at Red Bud - it's consistently one of the highest-attended Nationals of the year and always a huge race for us. So Concept Haulers is looking forward to continuing our great relationship with the Ritchies and Red Bud." Teams and athletes using Concept Haulers rigs include: Travis Pastrana, Ryan Clark, Maxxis Tires (which has two of them, one for each coast), Bob Gilberson (NHRA funny car driver), Keith Foulke (Boston Red Sox pitcher), Atomic 22 race team, Ron Joynt (SoCal Decal), Kevin Hanson (AMA road racer) and top pro privateer Clayton Miller, along with numerous top amateur motocrossers. For more information on Concept Haulers, visit concepthaulers.com. According to the FIM, the World Supermoto round in Ingolstadt, Germany, on july 10, has been withdrawn from the schedule. This event will be included in the Supermoto World Championship in 2006, the FIM says. A replacement event is currently being studied for the same date. The calendar is now as follows: May I - Castelletto di Branduzzo, Italy; May 8 - Namur, Belgium; May 22 - 50Snova, Czech Republic; June 19Melk, Austria; july 10 - TBA; September 10Belfast, Ireland; October 2 - Jesolo, Italy; October 30 - Athens, Greece; November 13 - Latina, Italy; November 20 - Finestrat Spain. The Tony D. Motocross School will be in Macon, Georgia, on April 23, and Team Makita Suzuki's Davi Millsaps will be a special guest. For more information, call 410/635-6916. Beginning on August 7, Thunder Road in Sturgis, South Dakota, will host the exhibition Arlen Ness, Godfather of Choppers. The exhibit walks the viewer through nearly 40 years of Ness' career, his bikes, the culture surrounding him, his attention to detail and his passion for creating a unique piece of rolling art, according to event promoters. The exhibit features a dozen of Ness' concept motorcycles. Complementing the exhibition, world-renown motorcycle photographer Michael Lichter will feature limited-edition prints highlighting the evolution of Ness design, decade by decade. "The scope of the exhibition examines the roots of custom motorcycle design and fabrication," says Lon Nordbye Jr., editor of the Sturgis Rally News. "The trend right now is for bike builders to elevate their creations to the level of art, and no one does it better than Ness. He doesn't bolt together bikes; he hand fabricates them using modern techniques adopted by architects, painters and sculptures. Ness' bikes cannot only be considered as artistry in iron, Ness can be considered the godfather of the trend itself." Thunder Road is located 3 miles east of Sturgis on Highway 34, across from the Full Throttle Saloon. The Motorcycle Riders Foundation has recently issued two letters in response to separate incidents involving the public maligning of motorcyclists and motorcycling. The MRF has joined with other motorcycle organizations and individual riders in a united expression of concern, according to MRF. On Monday, March 14, Dr. jeffrey Runge, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration director, addressed the delegates attending the Lifesavers Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina. Numerous attendees reported Runge's disparaging remarks regarding motorcyclists. The MRF has responded and is currently in the process of working with staff to Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta to address Runge's remarks. The Department of Transportation oversees NHTSA. On Monday, March 21, an editorial column, titled "No Brain, Our Gain," written by Brian Dickerson, appeared in the Detroit Free Press. In his column, addressing ABATE of Michigan's recent success moving legislation in the Michigan State Senate to amend the Michigan helmet law, Dickerson called for mandatory organ donation and alluded to motorcyclists being denied emergency medical coverage. Furthermore, he likened this legislation, and the motorcyclists who support it, to Jack Kevorkian and the tragic case of Terri Schiavo in Florida. The MRF responses are now posted on the MRF website at www.mrf.org/positionpapers.php. The Riverside Old Timers MX Club is holding its seventh annual International at Glen Helen Raceway in San Bernardino, California, April 16-17. ROTMX features classes for riders over 40 as well as support and mini classes. For more information, visit, www.rotmx.org. CYCLE NEWS • APRIL 13, 2005 13