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Happenings in Motorcycling o5KI ha!i a new ride. • The venerable mascot of the University of California Golden Bears football team will make all of his 2005 home-game entrances into Memorial Stadium at Berkeley, California, aboard a customized blue-and-gold Harley-Davidson Fat Boy motorcycle. The gleaming 2005 motorcycle has been customized and provided by Bob Dron's Oakland Harley-Davidson. The bike will be on display weekdays between games at the Oakland dealership, at 200 Hegenberger Road. OSKl's chauffeur for his triumphant stadium entry ahead of the UC Berkeley Marching Band is Mike "Woz" Wozniak, a retired Oakland Pollee Department motorcycle patrolman. Wozniak is a member of the Oakland HOG Chapter and an employee of Bob Dron Harley-Davidson. The customized Cal motorcycle will be sold at the end of the season and proceeds received above the cost price of the stock motorcycle will be donated by Oakland Harley-Davidson to the University of California football scholarship program. For Information on Cal football. contact the UC website at www.caIbears.com. For information about 05K1's custom ride, contact Bob Dron Oakland Harley-Davidson at (5 10)635-0 100. University of Callfomla at Berkeley's malCat 05Kl the Bear sits with Mik. "Woz" Wozniak _ top of the brandcustvln·macIe "Cal" Harley-DavIdSon mato'6le, cou.....,. of Bob Dron Oakland Hartey.DavldIOR. SKI and Wozniak w1111eac1 the Cal Faoiball e.am Inlo the alodium riding the bike before every home game. Haga Hit:!i 100 Noriyuki Haga has done it all In motorcycle racing, Including winning the 1997 All Japan 5uperblke Championship and winning the Suzuka 8 Hour with Colin Edwards in 1996. But his true home has always been the Wortd Superbike Championship. Haga made his World Superbike debut as a wild-card rider at Sugo In 1996 and made an immediate impact by taking second place. Later he was enlisted to replace the injured Colin Edwards at the end of 1997 on the factory Yamaha team. Haga stayed with the team until Yamaha pulled out of the program at the end of 2000. After a miserable year on a Red Bull Yamaha YZRSoo In 200 I, Haga moved back to the World Superbike Championship to ride the factory Aprilia in 2002 where he would finish fourth in the championship. When Aprilia also withdrew from the series, Haga found himself back In MotoGP in 2003 on the Aprilia MotoGP bike. which was also an extremely difficult year; he finished 14th at the end of the season. Last season, Haga was back in World Superbike on the Renegade Koji Ducati, and he won six races on his way to third in the series. Now, in 2005, Haga is back on a Yamaha, albeit the latest-generation YZF-R I fielded by the Yamaha Motor ltalia team, and he is making big waves at the front of the championship fight. 1--------------------- 76 SEPTEMBER 28, 2005 • CYCLE NEWS The Assen round of the World Superblke Championship saw Haga compete in his 1000h World Superbike Race on a Yamaha motorcycle, and his I52nd total In World Superblke (as of Lausitz on all brands). To mark the occasion. Haga had on display In his pit not only his current RI but his old YZF750 and YZF-R7 race bikes to commemorate the achievement. Haga is currently third In the World Superbike Championship with 239 points. trailing Chris Vermeulen In second with 329 and Troy Corser with 389.