50
Years Ago
FEBRUARY 1, 1972
40
Years Ago
FEBRUARY 3, 1982
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LOOKING BACK
A photo of Eddie Lawson was featured on the cover of Cycle News
40 years ago to accompany our interview with Superbike Champion...
Donnie Hansen, Brad Lackey and Johnny O'Mara were the big
winners at the CMC Golden State Series at Lake Huron, California... We
showed our readers the latest production motorcycles from Kawasaki,
which including the KZ1000R and KZ1000S Superbikes.
Cycle News' Man of the Year was pictured on the cover 50 years ago. The
honor went to the AMA's Executive Director Russ March, who came on
board in 1970 and made things happen—all good things—for motorcyclists...
We showed our readers Kawasaki's latest open-class motocross prototype
that was ridden by Bruce Baron at a local motocross race at Saddleback
Park... A "smog-free" smoke bomb was praised at the OCMC Hare
Scrambles in Lucerne Valley, California. Two upright poles with a bright
orange Dacron cloth stretched between the two kept the racers on track.
(Left) James Stewart
celebrates his first-career
AMA Supercross (125cc) win
20 years ago at San Diego's
Jack Murphy Stadium.
(Below) Alan Cathcart
tested the exotic Honda
NR 750 30 years ago.
