P114
Can-Am's Jimmy Ellis won the Trans-AMA
250cc support class at the Lake Whitney,
Texas, round and was pictured on the cover
50 years ago... A week later, the Trans-
AMA Series was in Puyallup, Washington,
where Gerrit Wolsink and Gary Semics
split moto wins in the 500cc class, but Roger DeCoster
came away with the overall... We took a closer look at Fox's
revolutionary Fox Air Shox, which sold for $219.50 a pair.
We featured a cutaway view of the 1986
GSX-R1100 on the cover 40 years ago. The
Gixxer was said to make 128 horsepower at
9500 rpm... We reported that Wayne Gardner
signed with Rothman's Honda Team for the 1986
500cc World Road Racing Championship... Rob McElnea signed
to join Eddie Lawson on the Marlboro team... The AMA held a
$100-a-plate banquet to celebrate 100 years of motorcycling….
The Cycle Tech team won the final WERA Endurance Road Race
round and claimed the title.
We featured a cutaway view of the
GSX-R1100
Gixxer was said to make 128 horsepower at
9500 rpm... We reported that
signed with Rothman's Honda Team for the 1986
500cc World Road Racing Championship...
to join
$100-a-plate banquet to celebrate 100 years of motorcycling….
The Cycle Tech team won the final
November
25, 1975
won the Trans-AMA
250cc support class at the Lake Whitney,
Texas, round and was pictured on the cover
50 years ago... A week later, the Trans-
AMA Series was in Puyallup, Washington,
Gary Semics
Roger DeCoster
25, 1975
November
27, 1985
LOOKING BACK
(Left) The Cycle Tech
team (David Aldana,
John Kocinski and Joey
Osowski) celebrates
winning the Six Hours
of Road Atlanta and the
1985 WERA Endurance
Championship. (Right)
Formula One driver
Gerhard Berger hangs on
as Randy Mamola does
a stoppie with the
Ducati Desmosedici at
Valencia in 2005.
Tony DiStefano won
the 500cc class at
the 1975 Trans-AMA
Texas round.
