A pair of Maicos were pictured on the cover of Cycle News 50 years
ago. We compared the Maico 400 to its bigger 450cc brother... We
had coverage of the Four Ace's Moose Run desert race that A.C.
Bakken won... We also had coverage of the SCORE Parker 400.
Kawasaki-mounted Al Baker took the win... Bernie Schreiber won
the SCTA trials in Aguanga, California, ending Marland Whaley's win
streak... Dave Hansen won the main event at the Portland, Oregon,
round of the American Indoor Short Track Championship race.
YEARS AGO
FEBRUARY ,
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LOOKING BACK I
Johnny O'Mara was pictured on the cover 40 years ago for winning
the one-o… Wrangler Dash following the regular Seattle Supercross
doubleheader. Je• Ward and Rick Johnson won rounds two and
three, but O'Mara won the lucrative Wrangler Dash, which paid
$25,000 from the $70,000 purse to the winner of the nine-rider field...
The Husqvarna duo of Dan Smith and Dan Ashcraft teamed up to
win the Parker 400... Husqvarna introduced its water-cooled WR400
o…-roader.
YEARS AGO
FEBRUARY ,
(Left) David Lykke won the
AMA National Enduro opener in
Arizona 20 years ago. (Below)
Husqvarna introduced the
first liquid-cooled Open-class
production bike with its ISDE
Replica WR400
