Our cover story 50 years ago was our battle of the thunder twins
comparison test of the Norton 850 ($1795) and Yamaha 750 ($1554).
We favored the Norton... Dave Aldana was a double winner after taking
back-to-back National TT victories at Ascot... Mitch Mayes was the
overall winner at the Buzzards Hare Scrambles in the Southern California
desert. Bruce Ogilvie won the Trailbike class... Jaroslav Falta finished
ahead of Heikki Mikkola at the Inter-AMA Motocross at Delta, Ohio.
YEARS AGO
JULY ,
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LOOKING BACK I
Tammy Kirk was pictured on the cover of Cycle News 40 years ago
to accompany our interview with "racing's fast first lady"... David
Bailey took over the Supercross points lead from Mark Barnett after
winning in Foxboro, Massachusetts... Seventeen-year-old rookie
Doug Chandler, in only his second National start, won the Santa Fe
Short Track... Fred Merkel won the AMA Superbike round at Portland
International Raceway... A heavily faired 185cc Yamaha went 372
miles on a gallon of gas (five cents' worth) to win the Craig Vetter
High Mileage Run.
YEARS AGO
AUGUST ,
Tammy Kirk
to accompany our interview with "racing's fast first lady"...
Bailey
winning in Foxboro, Massachusetts... Seventeen-year-old rookie
Doug Chandler
Short Track...
International Raceway... A heavily faired 185cc Yamaha went 372
miles on a gallon of gas (five cents' worth) to win the Craig Vetter
High Mileage Run.
(Left) Stefan Everts
won the 250cc MXGP at
Budds Creek 30 years
ago. (Below) Seventeen-
year-old Doug Chandler
celebrates winning
the Santa Fe Short
Track in 1983.
