Cycle News - Archive Issues - 2000's

o ~ o Continued from page3 on a M erkel , Harley-Davidson and Excelsior facto ry tea m rider. In additio n to dirt t rac k races, Jones compe te d in bo ard t rac k , road rac e and hillcli mb events. A lth o ug h mo t o rc yc le-rac in g history is sketchy at bes t for the early part of this ce ntury, it is known that durin g the 1915 raci ng season , Jon es won 24 of the 42 races he entered up to Au gust. o o o o [j The deadline is rapidly approachinq for motorcyclists to lodge their objections to the Clinton administration 's Roadless I niti at ive that could c lose off some 60 million acres of public lands to a var iety of recreational activities, according to t he AMA. The draft proposal now bei ng considered by the U.S. Fore st Se rvice wo uld ban all road co nstruction and reco nstructi on o n an area of nation ai fores t la nd equa l in size to t he s ta te of W yomi ng . Ove r ti me , th at wo uld elim inate the dirt access roa ds on that land , many of w hic h have been in use for ge neratio ns. W it ho ut t ho se roa ds, recreational activities suc h as ca mpi ng, fishing, hunti ng, mo unt ain biking , off- highway mo torcycle riding and even hiking would be gradua lly choked o ff , according to the AMA. The comment period for this co ntroversial proposal ends July 17, mean ing there are just days lef t fo r those c o 8 o o o o o o c I) '-.1 ;l U The Grand Prix racing Hall of Fam e is gro wing, with the inductio n of six more legends. The riders who joi n first inductee Mick Doo han numb er 44 World Championships between them . They are Giaco mo Agostin i (15 titles ), Angel Nieto ( 13), the late Mik e Hailwood (nine), Ken ny Rob erts and Way ne Rainey ( t hree apiece) and Kev in Schwantz (one) . Only Nieto and Roberts were pre sent for the cerem ony , while Hailwood's widow Pauline flew in from Spain, saying: "Mike would have been very honored, proud and a littl e surprised that so many people still remem bered him so fondly 19 years after his death." Barry Sheene was at the track , but was not honored, occasioning the same sort of surpris e as when four-times cham pion Doohan was inaugurated as the first memb er in Italy, the country of Agostini, earlier this year. Rainey (le ft) and Schwantz (right), meanwhil e, were at the combination AMAfWorld Superbik e weekend at Laguna Seca Raceway in Mont erey , California - ju st a few m iles from Rainey's home . Michael Scott interested in ou tdoor rec reation to make their co ncerns know n to th e Fo rest Ser vice . The AMA has filed its comments on the proposal, objec ti ng to the sho rt tim e period se t aside for the public to unde rstand and co mme nt o n a plan that runs more th an 700 pages . Th e A MA also note s that the plan appears to circum vent the Fo re s t S e rvic e ' s ma ndate , estab lished by C o ng re s s in 1960, t o manage pub lic lan d s according to t he princ iple of " mult iple use .' And it no te s that further protectio n for these areas is unnecessary, since th ey are already subject to a pleth o ra of law s and regu iation s gove rni ng t hei r use. " Basica lly , we 've to ld the Forest Serv ice that it sho uld not be attempting to impose ano ther se t of ru le s furt her res tricting act ivities o n th ese lands," sai d Rob e rt Rasor, vice president of government relat ions for the AMA. "This proposal ta kes no account of the history of uses on these lands and the impact of essentially closing a w hole existing 400cc four-stroke, which won the world enduro title for its class In 1999 , a fact tha t can be checke d when the bike is launched at Intermo t. Britain 's CCM is also working on treadi ng the 250cc four-stroke route , with a range of three new quarter -liter models scheduled to debut at the Birm in gh am NEC Show in Novemb er , powered by Rotax's new watercooled 250cc four-valve engine whose compact build will enable the stripp ed-out MX race version to scale just 209 pounds. Developed in conj unctio n with Vepro - the design consultancy founded a year ago by fonn er Triumph chief engineers Rick Cronk Husqvarna's response to Yama ha's WR250F four-stroke is expected and Neil Wright on their return from work ing at Excelsior-Henderson to ma ke its debut at the Intermot show - and its competitio n debut a in the USA - the new CCM 250cc lineup will also include an enduro month later in October's ISDE. The Italian firm 's 250 cc four-s troke model which will be the comerstone of the range, as well as a dualenduro model is currently reputed to be producing over 50 horsepurpose tarm ac traille with shorter suspension travel and full street power in prototype competi tion guise from its extrem ely light, com pact , watercoo led, four-v alve engine. Designed by Am pelio Macchi, equipment. Production is expected to begin early 'in the New Year. father of the current family of four- strok e Husqvarna MX , . . . - - ' - - ' - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -..,,-, and enduro models, th is is based on the existing Husky family of enduro race motors, so it has no oil pump , bal ance shaft or electric , start. It is, how ever, exp ected to spawn a series of customer models , up to , and includ ing, a 250c c MX version whi ch under AMA rules is permitted to run against the two -strok es in the 125cc MX cl ass (it will be regal for the AM's 125cc class starting in 2003). Husqvarna isn't the only European company preparing • • European YZ250F? o o o o o o o o o o o o G o o to com bat eve r -stricter o ff -road emissions regula tions - especi all y in the USA - with a quarter-l iter fou r-str oke rang e of bik es which will eventually replace its existing lightweigh t two -strokes. KTM' s 250cc four-stro ke proto typ e has alrea dy appe ared in Italian nationa l enduro events, where it h as won three of the first four rounds of the cham pionship in the hands of Arna ldo Nicoli. Though externally simi lar to the Austrian firm's larger- cap aci ty EXC/LC4 models, the 75 x 56mm electric-start power unit is all-new, fit ted wi th a six -speed gearbox and 36 m m Kehin c arb o Cycle pa rts appear very sim ilar to KT M's To cast your vo te. lag an to http://www,l:ytlenews.l:om. 8 o . cyclenews.com reader poll question of the we ek o o o 92 JULY 19. 2000' cue • e n e vv s network of exis ting roads. By eliminating th ese roads over the next seve ral years , t he Fo re s t S e rv ic e w ill be clos ing th e door on man y types o f re c re at io n and shutting the pub lic o ut of publi c lands. " The co mplete draft pro po sal is available t hro ug h t he Fo res t Se rv ic e we bsi te at ro ad le ss .fs.fed .us . C o m m e nt s ca n be se nt t o t he Fo re s t S e rv ic e by mail at US DA Fo rest Service-CAET, Attention : Roadless A rea Propo sed Rule , P.O . Box 221090 , Salt Lake C ity , UT 84 122 . O r you can fax comments to the Fo rest Service at 877/703-2494 or e-mail them to: roadlessdeis@fs.fed.us. PACE Motor Sports has released the standings of the $ 100,000 Privateer Bonus Fund fo r the 2000 EA Sport s S upe rc ro ss S easo n. Heath Voss led the field of privateers this season and was awarded the C .E. A ltman Top Privateer A w ard . The followin q is a list of those privateer ride rs w ho made the main eve nt and the portion of the bonus fund tha t t hey won: Heat h V o ss ($ 14, 131) : Ky le Lew is ($ 10 ,79 7) : J ean -Sebast ien R oy ($ 9479 ) : Mike C ra ig ($8 8 5 8) : G ray s on G o o d m an ($8 4 0 5) ; J a so n T hom a s ($ 6 5 1 1): J a m e s Po v o lny ($ 6 0 5 9) : Greg Sc hn ell ($4 39 2) ; Isaiah Jo hnson ($ 4 331) : Tyler Evans ($4000): P hi l Lawren c e ( $ 3 3 3 3 ): J ason M cC orm ic k ($3 2 12 ) ; D u s t in N e l so n ($ 26 0 6 ): J eff Hed d e n ($ 2 180) : Ped ro G on zalez ($1 8 18) ; M att S hue ($ 12 12) ; Ty Kady ($ 952); Au st in Sq uires ($ 952); J ason Frenette ($833 ); Z eb A rmst ro ng ($ 83 3); Billy Binkley ($ 740); J im N eese ($ 6 6 6); B a r ry C a r s t e n <$ 6 0 6) ; B ria n S t o ne ($ 6 0 6) ; Jimmy W ilso n <$ 6 0 6); T ra vi s H o dg e s ($606); D o ug D e haan eN ($606).

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