P142
LOOKING BACK
May 14, 1986
A view from the cockpit of a Honda VFR700F
that broke the world record for the highest
average speed over six, 12 and 24 hours was
on the cover 40 years ago... Bubba Shobert
won the San Jose Mile... Rick Johnson won
the Mickey Thompson O•-Road Gran Prix
at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena... Dave Bertram won the Little Polecat
National Enduro.
May 8, 1996
We featured Ben Bostrom and Matt Wait on the cover
30 years ago for our special road-racing issue... We
also had interviews with John Kocinski, Rich Oliver
and Scott Zampach... Doug Chandler won the AMA
Superbike National at Laguna Seca... Je• Emig
became the first person after 14 races other than
McGrath to win an AMA Supercross in St. Louis.
(Left)Jeff Foland
swept both motos
for the overall at
Saddleback AMC
MX in 1976. (Right)
Harley teammates
Chris Carr (20) and
Scott Parker (11) lead
a tight pack at the
1986 San Jose Mile.
May 11, 1976
The Ossa 250 GP we tested was featured on
the cover 50 years ago... We covered Jimmy
Weinert's win at the 250 National Motocross in
Forsyth, Georgia... In Le Mans, Barry Sheene
won the 500cc Road Race GP... We covered
Tom Kelly's victory at the California City Grand
Prix... We featured an extensive review on many
motocross products, mostly protective gear.
