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Jimmy Ellis and his Can-Am were pictured
on the cover of Cycle News 50 years ago.
Ellis won the 250cc International class at
the fourth running of the Oly Superbowl
of Motocross at the Los Angeles Memorial
Coliseum. Gaylon Mosier won the 500cc
International class... Cycle News traveled to Canada to
cover the Laurentide 125cc Championship at Du Monde MX
GP, Canada's first 125cc MX GP. Antonin Baborovsky (CZ) was
the winner... Gary Scott won the Sacramento Mile... Malcolm
Rathmell won the Wagner Cup Trials in Rhode Island.
Our 1985 four-bike 250cc MX Shootout was
featured on the cover of our 29th issue of
1985. The $2499 Yamaha YZ250 was the
clear winner... We had coverage of the Vetter
Fuel Economy Run... Shawn Moran topped
the overseas Championship Speedway round at Odsal
Stadium in Bradford, England... Peter Cli"ord gave us an
inside look of some of the top GP road racers, including
Wayne Rainey's Yamaha RS250R and Freddie Spencer's
Honda RS250RW... Terry Vance won the NHRA
Summernationals at Englishtown's Raceway Park.
Our 1985 four-bike
featured on the cover of our 29th issue of
1985. The $2499
clear winner... We had coverage of the
Fuel Economy Run
the overseas Championship Speedway round at Odsal
Stadium in Bradford, England... Peter Cli"ord gave us an
inside look of some of the top GP road racers, including
Wayne Rainey's Yamaha RS250R
July
29, 1975
and his Can-Am were pictured
50 years ago.
Ellis won the 250cc International class at
Oly Superbowl
at the Los Angeles Memorial
won the 500cc
(CZ) was
Malcolm
July
31, 1985
LOOKING BACK
Winner Gary
Scott looks back
and sees no
one during the
Sacramento Mile
50 years ago.
Twenty years
ago, Yamaha
ran this cool
ad—featuring
Colin Edwards,
Kenny Roberts
and Valentino
Rossi—in
Cycle News
celebrating the
company's 50th
anniversary in
motorsports.
