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"Jammin' Jimmy" Weinert was featured
on the cover of Cycle News 50 years ago
after he clinched his second consecutive
National Open Motocross Championship in
a nail-biting final in New Orleans. Five riders
had a mathematical chance of winning the
title that day... Corky Keener won the Syracuse Mile... We
showed our readers for the first time Yamaha's new SOHC 500cc
four-stroke motor that would later see production in the TT500
o•-roader... We had coverage of the Western Region Can-Am
Motocross Qualifier from Santa Maria, California.
We featured our Honda CR500R test bike on the
cover 40 years ago... We ran the announcement
of the North American version of the Paris-
Dakar Rally, the Trans-Americas Rally, a planned
9000-mile race running from Mexico City to
Prudhoe Bay, Alaska... Jay Springsteen chalked up his 40th
career win at the Syracuse Mile... Erik Kehoe, Willie Surratt
and Willy Simons were the big winners at the opening round of
the CMC/Skoal Bandits Lady Liberty Trans-Cal Motocross at
Quail Canyon MX in Gorman, California.
We featured our
cover 40 years ago... We ran the announcement
of the North American version of the Paris-
Dakar Rally, the
9000-mile race running from Mexico City to
Prudhoe Bay, Alaska...
career win at the
and
the
Quail Canyon MX in Gorman, California.
September
16, 1975
was featured
50 years ago
after he clinched his second consecutive
National Open Motocross Championship in
a nail-biting final in New Orleans. Five riders
had a mathematical chance of winning the
... We
SOHC 500cc
TT500
Western Region Can-Am
16, 1975
September
18, 1985
LOOKING BACK
The race for the win at the
Syracuse Mile 50 years ago was
hard-fought.
Corky Keener
emerged as the winner.
