50
Years Ago
DECEMBER 7, 1971
40
Years Ago
DECEMBER 2, 1981
P118
LOOKING BACK
One of the two photos on the cover has AMA State MX champ Jim
Tarantino jumping toward the camera, and the other shot has AMA
Athletes of the Year Donnie Hansen, Chuck Sun, Bruce Penhall and
Danny LaPorte posing with their trophies…. Yamaha's Mike Bell won
his third consecutive Stefan Superbowl of Motocross at the Lang Park
Stadium in Brisbane, Australia…. The NMA/Suzuki Fall National Finale
at Saddleback Cycle Park in Orange, California, featured some of the
top minibike racers in the country.
A photo montage on the cover includes a bird's-eye view of the Barstow
to Las Vegas Hare & Hound start line. The inset photo is the overall race
winner, J.N. Roberts… The Trans-AMA series moved to Nor Cal, which
Roger DeCoster won; the highest-placed American was Mark Blackwell,
who took 11th place overall… Cycle News was at Ascot Park in Gardena,
California, covering the track's last motocross race…. Ontario Motor
Speedway held a motocross race on Thanksgiving Day with a $3000 purse.
(Above) Spectators at the 2001 SCORE
Baja 1000 cheer on race winner Johnny
Campbell as he slides his Honda XR650R
to his fifth Baja win in a row.
(Below) Members of the San
Gabriel Valley Motorcycle
Club pose for a photo after
extricating the Cycle News
van out of the sand after it got
stuck at a pit stop in the 1971
Barstow to Las Vegas race.
