We liked this color photo of our Yamaha 250 Enduro test bike so much
that we ran it on the cover before publishing the test 50 years ago. Color
cover opportunities didn't come often, so we ran what we had... We
covered the World Speedway Championship from Poland... We revisited
the just concluded ISDT in Dalton, Massachusetts... Our bike test of
the week was the 125cc motocrosser from Italy, the Moto Villa 125... We
asked the question: The camper and the trail rider; can they coexist?
YEARS AGO
OCTOBER ,
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LOOKING BACK I
We featured Randy Goss on the cover of Cycle News 40 years ago to
accompany our interview with the rising flat track star... Rick Graham
won the Springfield Mile for the third time... The final round of the
AMA Superbike Championship took place at Daytona International
Speedway, while Fred Merkel edged out Wayne Rainey for the win...
Nearly 17,000 fans turned out for the CMC Trans-Cal Supercross at
Sacramento's Cal-Expo, where Yamaha's Broc Glover took the win
ahead of teammate Ron Lechien.
YEARS AGO
OCTOBER ,
We featured Randy Goss on the cover of
accompany our interview with the rising flat track star...
won the Springfield Mile for the third time... The final round of the
AMA Superbike Championship took place at Daytona International
Speedway, while
Nearly 17,000 fans turned out for the CMC Trans-Cal Supercross at
Sacramento's Cal-Expo, where Yamaha's
ahead of teammate
Honda recognized five of their motocross riders
who finished the 250cc National Championship in
the top 11 with this ad in Cycle News 50 years ago. It
was Honda's first year on the National circuit.
(Below)
Sixteen-year-old
Jorge Lorenzo
celebrates his
first career GP
win in the 125cc
class at the
Nelson Piquet
Circuit in Brazil.
