Cycle News - Archive Issues - 2000's

LOOK/N' ~. ,(IIaa: !3 @ 30 YEARS AGO•.• JULY 28, 1970 Th e cover of Issue 1128 was gra ced by D a ve Kribe ll ( Sac). wh o w on the 125cc Ju ni or D iv ision Tw o co n test at t he Com bocross Moto -Prix held at Bay Mare in Moor p ark , Californ ia . Th e track was 2.5 mil es long, with everyth ing fr om asphalt, dirt trac k and motocr oss sections incorporated into a lap around the track . Mike Chamb erlain (Mai) won th e premier 250cc Expert class... The Am erican Cycle Association hosted a road race at Willow Springs Raceway in Rosamond, California. The 500 cc Senior Grand Prix was won by J ody Nicholas (Suz ), with Dave Damro n (Kaw) fin ishing second ... We interv iew ed Lyn n Wils on , who becomes Wonder Woman every sunday. A 33-year-old mother of four who lives in a very comfor tab le San Fernando Valley home, Wilson held down 10th place in the AMA District 37 Desert points stand ings and listed Barstow-to-Vegas as her favorite race... The Grand National Championship series visited Ascot Park in Gardena, Californ ia , with def endin g Grand Nat ional Champion Mert Lawwill (H·D) tak ing the lead on lap 28 and cruising on to the win. Ken Roberts (Suz) won the Novice main the night before. 20 YEARS AGO.•• JULY 23, 1980 On e o f ou r Eas t Coast staffers was photographed for the cover of Issue 1128 as he tip toed across a waterfall aboard Can-Am 's new 250cc Qualifier. Inside, we tested th e ora ng e machine and found it to be pretty mu ch th e n ew e st out d ate d machine on th e market... The Superbowl of Motocross ran its two-day affair in the Los , Angel es Co liseum, with Yamaha ' s golden boy, Broc Glover, winning both nights. On Saturday , Kent Howerton (Suz) and Donnie Hansen (Hon) fo llo wed him across the finish line . while on Sunday it was the Hondas of Jim Gibson and Chuck Sun with the honors of fillin g out the podium ... Lodi , California, pla yed host to an Ama t eur T T National Qualifie r , with numb er-one-plate holder Chris Carr (Suz) taking the victo ry in two of the three races he co m pete d i n. He won the 100 c c Schoolboy class ahead of Dana Douglas (Yam) and Doug Chandler (Ya m), the 100cc Open class ahead of Todd Beecher (Yam) and Douglas, and finished second in the 85cc Modifi ed ( 12-14) class beh ind A aron Hill (Kaw) and ahead of Chandler. ·" 'l~ @;'l :"';l:l E __ ~....J:,J. 10 YEARS AGO... JULY 18, 1990 T eam Kawasa ki 's Jeff Ward was pictured on t he cover of Issue 112 8 after sweep in g both motos at rou n d five of the AMA National Mot ocross Champi - ' onship . Ward took over the points lead with his victory, while Jeff Stant on (Han) suffered 7-2 moto finishes to drop to second in the points standings. Yamaha's Damon Bradshaw used 2-5 mot o fi nishes to garn er second overall and hold third in the series points standings. The 125cc class was won by Suzuk i' s Guy Cooper, who went 2 - 1 and sat second in points to Honda's Jean- Michel Bayle, 234-2 11... Also pictu red on the cover was some of the action from the 23 r d Annual Mamm oth Moun t ain Motocross, where Johnny O'Mara (Kaw) earne d th e lion's share of the $25 ,000 Expert-class purse with consistent finishes i n t he three c la sses.. . John Kocinski (Yam) and Kevin Schwant z (Suz) won the 250 and 500cc GPs respectively , at round eight of th e World Champi onsh ip Road l:N Race Series from Assen, Holland . gon e lo c o. Forced t o slo w, an d seri Ro berts was st u n ned at the speed h at k ind of a m on st er has been at which it h ad all t u rned nasty . H is ousl y rattled, h e crashed on the last brought into life in Spain? Until unpopu l arit y do es ha v e so me m ali c orner and lost t he rac e. th e st a rt of t h i s year 's E ur o p e a n Spani sh r ider s f e l t t he heat a t Gra n d Prix seas on , it was t he proud cious, but und erstandable lo gi c - he C ata lun ya, too, a couple of weeks an d h is Su zu k i tea m are spo n sored boa st o f that c ou ntry that m o t o rcy cl e b y Telefon i c a M ov i star , taking the a go. Cri v ille fell o ff, and he too was G P ra cin g was second on ly to footpelted w ith rocks and cans - just as an b all as a spe cta t o r spo rt . N ow t h e ple n ty pesetas previousl y spent on ambu lance had been two years sam e st at istic is spoken w ith some before, containing the injured Suzuki dread. r ider Katsuaki Fujiwara, after h e' d Th e re a so n i s s impl e . Those colli ded wi th Cri ville o n the first lap . ma ss iv e crowds , throng ing to t he Ch eca als o crashed, and a truly te r-: three races al re ady in Spain (wit h a rifying p iec e of fi lm showed fans rip fourth this year in neighb oring Por p ing and te ar ing at the fence as he tug al ) , a re n o w se rio u s ly o u t of w alk ed p ast . Nobody, probab ly not con tro l. Just like so cc er crowds . even t h em selv es , knew what they T his c ase , h ow ev er , is unli k e t h e Spanish Pons -Honda team . N o t w o u l d ha ve done had the y broken so c ce r , w he re se ri o us damage te nds surprising ly, Si to Pons is more than through - but it is li k ely to have been to be confined t o fan-an-fan , with the worst con seq u ence to play er s bein g a a little m iffed at th is l oss , a n d is ugly. cou p le o f cruel in su lts to the ir famiin fl uent ial en ough t o us e the pres s to So fa r, Spani sh racing o rg ani zer s ha ve been r ema r kabl y co m p l a c en t w hip up hostility towards th e rider, li es , o r p erha ps a sh red o r t w o o f abou t the problem. which Ro be rt s the n co m pou n d ed by lavatory paper on their shaven hea d s. beatin g th e Spaniards on the tr ack . " It w o n 't h appen at Cata lun ya ," It' s a bit d i fferen t i n moto rcycle But he is n ot the on ly ta rget, and said Dorna , a ft e r t h i s year' s Jerez racing , where if the participants ta k e t he hooli gan tenden c y has been inc id ent , o n the gr ounds that the a d ive, t hey som et imes d on 't ge t up again. g oi ng on for a bit longer than th at. more northerl y Catal ans are more c iv iliz e d a n d sen si b l e One p r inci p al tar g e t ha s be en Ke nny Ro b erts than t h os e c razy southerners d own in An d al u Jr. He came up with one c ia . Th at h a s bee n of the b e st quotes o f t he y ear a t J er e z, wh en he p ro ved comp re he ns ive ly wrong . st opped out o n th e tra c k N o w Gran d Pr ix ra c (rather prem aturel y, as it in g is se r iou sly wo rri ed t urned out ) t o c elebrate abo ut th e trip to Valenhi s v i ct ory ov er home cia i n m i d-S eptembe r. heroes Alex Criv ille, CarThe lo c al s have a re p u los Checa and Set e Gibertat io n for pe lting sportsn au. m en with ora n ges '" n e v er sa w a ny bo dy and/o r firewo rks at t he throw a bottle t h at fa r : h e best o f t imes , w h i le t he sai d later , wi de -eyed, havn ew track th ere resern ing b een forced to vaca te b es s ta di um r a c in g , his t racks i d e pos it io n ra ther h ast ily as he faced bu i lt t o ensure th at a b a rr a g e o f ro cks, bot grand stand c ro w d s are as c lose as p ossible to tl es, cans - not all o f t h em t h e ac t ion. empty . H e was a m u s e d afte r It is u p to th e organ iz that even t, bu t w h en they ers to protec t t he rid er s sta rt ed throwing t hing s from a sit ua ti on that ha s ev en before the race was escalat ed ala rmingly . ov e r at Catalun ya, an d The bi g c ro wd s in Spa in whe n the m i s s il e atta ck generate big r eve n u es was redoub led on t h e sofo r the c i rcuits . N ow Kenny Roberts Jr. lightheartedly rou ghs up Spaniard Carlos Checa calle d " l a p of honor, " a t h ey 're going to h av e to W "I never saw anybody throw a bottle that far," Roberts said. after their on e-two sh owing in Jerez, Spain. d i f f e r ent e mo tio n s ur face d . He wa s r un ning sca red . " I think it's b etter if we don 't talk about it in t he press. It mig ht m ak e it worse t h e n ext ti m e," he said, ad ding, whe n aske d i f t he ai m h a d been di rec ted at hi m: "When so rn e orie t hrows a bottl e and you 're ra c in g , it doesn 't m atter w here y o u swerve. It alw ays com es right at y ou ." dig i n to t heir p o c k e t s an d spen d so m e of tha t lov ely lo ll y on secu rity - ran gin g from stron g e r , hig her an d closer -mes h f e n c e s t o Vi gilan tes p at r olli n g t he gra n ds tands . E ither th at, or t he pride of Sp ain is going to t urn to d isg race, and Gra nd Prix rac ing w ill have to go away and find o t h er p laces t o p lay I - c an - g o eN fa ster- than -y ou -can . Alex Cr iv ill e himself w a s an early v icti m , when h e was set fai r t o be at Mick D oohan at J erez in 19 96. The crowd b ec am e so ex c ited tha t t h e y inva de d the t ra c k on th e f in al lap on -b ike fo ot ag e from C r ivi lle's lead in g Hond a , n e v er b roadcast , ma kes terrify ing v iewing and shows h ow cl os e he came to m owing d own fan s Coming up in Cycle News • • • • Unadilla MX National Mid-Ohio AMA Superbike Baja Bound Adventure Texas National Enduro cue ' e n e _ S • J ULY 19, 2000 95

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