Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

Element ofthe plan illegal. The Vehicle Access Element of the plan is vi tal to motorcyclists beca use of its im pact on trail riding, casua l ri ding and compe tition events. Many of th e AMA's arguments have been cen tered on the principle that the plan as a wh ole was done improperly, and tha t all of the elemen ts of the plan are interdepe ndent. Therefore, if one elem ent is defi cient, the who le pl an sh ould be declared illegal. The judge, by hi s recent decisi on , seem s to have rejected thai concep t. While the whole sit uation seems pretty bleak, this most recen t event may have forced an ap peals court into making an expedited decision on the AMA's appea l of the prelim inary injunction den ial. At its m ost recent mee ting, the AMA Board of Trustees voted to contin ue the legal action against the BLM 's desert plan . There was a full two pages elsewhere in this issue dedicated to Danny LaPorte's championship winning performance in the Swedish 250cc MXGP. Those two pages were dedicated to t hat purpose right up till Tuesday afternoon, when the editors, tea ring their hair out at the very thought, realized t he international postal system had let us down and that the coverage sim ply would not arrive in time for t his week's issue. So lo ok for a full two pages of coverage, next week. In the meantime, w it h all the American success. overseas, we- could export a little rapid transport technology abroad... ', Due to a lack of entries, the SCORE short co ur se off-road race scheduled for Sears Po int Raceway on Sep t: 1112, h as been postponed. According to ' Sears Point officia ls, no new da te ha s been announced , but they say it will be lat er on in the fall or in the spring of 1983. If you ever wondered how some of the extreme pro-wilderness types act, an item from t he Aug. 4 Con.....sIon.' Record ou ght to be of int erest. The wife of t he president of the Montana Wilderness Association pushed four unattended motorcycles down a hill near Ram· shorn' Peak in J uly . A complaint has been filed agai nst the wilderness group's presiCtent, but no action is expected un less he fails to make restitution f or tha dam ages. With all th e rumors running ra mpant about who 's going to rid e here or there, Yamaha 's Bob " H urr icane" H an na h doesn 't plan to ride anywher e. " I' m not going to ri de the CMC series, and unless something changes, I'm not going to be riding th e fina l Su percross of the year, ei ther," sai d H a n na h . " You al so shou ld tell your readers tha t I had planned to skip the Superbowl for six weeks, Mike Goodwin knew it and had no right to advertise my name. " Hannah sai d he missed the final AMA Nationa l MX of ' the year at Carlsbad because of illness. racers Harry Klinzmann and Thad Wolff took to the track for the first time. The duo, winners of the Budweiser Endurance race at Riverside International Raceway earlier this year, are the first two confirmed major, entries for the $20,000 event. The race will precede the Coors Can-Am event for full-bodied cars. The Motorcycle Safety Foundat ion recent ly revised its information sheet on protective riding gear. The .brochure, " Riding Gear for t he Motorcyclist, " contains useful inf orm at ion on all types of rid ing apparel. Single copies are free, with additional copies costing 15C each. Yc;»u can get a copy by writing Order Department, MSF National Headquarters, P.O. Box 120, Chadds Ford, PA 19317. Peter Starr's feature film Take it to the limit, long delayed due to distribution pro blems, will open for a oneweek run in th e San Diego area. The movie will play citywide in 10 theaters beginning Sep t. 17 and ending Sept. 23. And as part of a special promotion, you can enter a free drawing for a Yamaha Virago 750. Just sign upat any of the 10 theaters while to movie is in town, or stop by South Bay Yamaha. The drawing will be conducted sometime around Sept. 23; exact date and location to be announced. World Speedway Champion Bruce Penhall has traded his Weslake 'in for this trailerl Penh~1I has turned his leathers in for a CHiPs uniform, and the on-motorcycle speaking parts are filmed on this little gem. shoulder and three broken ribs, Bernardy finished th e event. After undergo ing surgery to have two pins placed in th e shoulder, Bernardyisconvalescing at home. You can drop him a card to 2463 Bali Cove , San Diego, CA 92139. Long Beach Honda is sponsoring a Junior Invitational race at the season-ending Winston Pro Series half mile at Ascot. Interested Juniors are asked to send a postcard with their name, address, number, bike type and sponsor to Agajanian ' Enterprises, P.O. Box98,Gardena, CA 90247. Te am Gree n is now accept ing appli cations for their 1983 program. To obt ain an applicat ion, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to Team Green, 106 2 M cGaw Ave., Irvine, CA 927 14. A ppli cat ions will be accepted until Nov. 1, and the Team Green folks say that they'll finalize their selections as soon as possible and all appl icants w ill be notified. " HosP ITal STOP: Honda su p port rider Ray Go ttschalk was inj ured in an auto accident near Sad dl eback Park . Go ttsch alk su ffered a broken leg, knee and facial lacera tions. H e's curren tly in room 506 of Chap man General Hospital, and cards and letters can be sent to hi m there. The address is 260 1 Chapman Ave., Orange, CA 92669. With the Aug. 13 departure of Mary Petty, Jens Pl ougman has taken over the phones and books for Presto n Petty Products. J ens is taking dis tributor orders and overseeing shipping, while Preston is still prodigiously pumping products from his plastic plant. New items include a Holeshot H eadligh t to replace the old headlight/numberplate, along with small five-inch enduro numbers fashioned after the pl astic numbers Preston pioneered. Distribu tors can reach Jens at 602/ 841-8209. ' Entries are open for the Sept. 19 Junior Invitational at the San Jose Mile. Those interested should con. tact Bill Spencer at Mountain View Distributing . The honorable Mr. Spencer can be reached at 415/ 969-1682. Mark Williams, the former National #7 0 who was paralyzed in a crash at San Jose in 1975, is staying active these days. He was second in the Oregon Sailboat Championships, and is now the manager of Eastside Cycles in Springfield, OR. Kenn y Ro berts, whom we interviewed in th e last issue, was reportedly looking for a m icrosurgeon to operate on his inj ured finger. Roberts missed th e Sept. 3 San Marino G P in Mugello, Italy and now may miss the season fin al e in Hockenheim, West Germany. Reportedl y, Roberts has no con trol of the small finger on hi s righ t hand. California Senate Bill 2056, the bill introduced by Sena tor Alan Robbins (D-Van Nuys) to req uire the repayment of $8.5 million taken from the state's OHV Fund, di ed in the Assem bly's Ways and Means Committee. The Desert Daisies will be having a racer reunion party on Sept. 17.The locale will be the M onrovia HowardJohnsons, 200 W . Huntington Dr. The celebration w ill go from 8 p .m, to 1 a.m., and there will be a live band and free beer. Admission is $5 a couple and $3 per single. For more informat ion on what certainly sounds like a fun evening, 4 call 714/591-61. 4 . The 1983 models will be lntroduced soon, and already the rum ors are starting to fly about w hat we'll be seeing. Yamaha motocrossers are said to be basically similar to this year's , although the single shock is mounted more vertically, and the water-cooled m odels will have frame-mounted radio ators. Over at Suzuki, we hear their biggest MXer will get a displacement boost, and t hat there will be m o re than one Katan a m odel. At a m id week press conference for the Sep t. 26 Coors Motorcycle G P 'to be pr esen ted by Kawasaki as part of the Las Vegas Caesar s Palace GP, road HosPITal STOP: CRC Open A enduro rider Ben Bern ardy Jr. was injured at the recent Gringo E~duro in Baja . Despite suffering a broken ·What were two-time Daytona 200 winner Dale Singleton and Peter Op de Beeck, chief engineer for Porache 's car racing program, talking about over dinner at Singleton's Dalton, Georgia, home last week? Singleton, who has been actively seeking a race car ride, said , " A II I'II say at this time is that we finished off what was left of Elmer after my recent Winston Pro Series party. " The dinner was also attended by European representatives of Singleton's road race effort sponsor, Beaulieu, the Belgium based rug manufacturer. I Road riders who have been waiting for a big displacement sport bi ke fro m H o nda may get the ir wis h in '83. Reports are out that a CBIIOOF will hit the U.S. next year . The bik e will reportedly be offer ed ' in red or blue and be equipp ed with a cafe fair ing. Yamaha factory MXer Bob Han. nah is reportedly looking to add another two wheels to his act. Hannah is said to be looking for a ride with an off-road four-wheel team, and eventually hopes to move into ' NASCAR Grand Na " tionalstock car rac ing . Rod Bush , KT 1\1' s national sales manager: has announced his team's newe st su pport rrider. He's Robert Christo pher Bush , who specs in a t 20 . inches overa ll leng th with a not so dry weight of six pounds. three ounces. Rod and his wife Cheri accepted delivery on Sunday, August 29~ at 6:52 a.m. The American ISDE team has been granted an additional two slots by the Czechoslovakian organizers to raise the team to 30 ' members. Kevin Davis and Alvin McCannon will fill those two slots. Originally granted 35 slots, the team was subsequently cut to 28 . The Povaska Bystrica, Czechoslovakia, will be the site of the 57th ISDE on September 20-25: It is the same site where the 1977 event was held. . ~\ ' ~~ee~ ~ W inst on .Pro doubleheader 7

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