Cycle News - Archive Issues - 2000's

Tony Dlstelano and lim Weihert Sraced the cover of C/cle NelYs 30 years ago... More than 73.000 people witnessed Can-Am's limmy Ellis dominate the 250cc Sirperbowl of l"loto- cross at the Los Angles Co liseum, while a conseftative eighth-place finish was enough to Sive Weinert the series title-.. Martin Lampkin won the Wagner Cup atthe ljnited States round of the World Trials Championship on a nearly stock Bultaco... We tested Honda's all-new 1977 CRl25 motoaross machine. The bike made nearly 2l horsepower at the rear wheel on the dyno. and featured revised dual rear shocks and a new tubular swingarm. KTM to Release a l44cc SX More info has arrived on the all-new line of 2007 KTl"l SX mod- els. Photos of an all-new model, the 505 SX-E have already been released, but the latest press info includes specs on onother all- new model - a l44cc lwo-stroke. Limited information thus far indicates that the 144, compared to the 2007 production 125 SX. features a 56mm bore and a crankhaft with a lonSer stroke of 58.3mm. lt will also come equipped with a new power valve, exhaust pipe and CDI box, tuned for l44cc. Current AMA rules state that 2006 competition l44cc tlvo-strokes can be bored only - not stroked - from their l25cc base models. But fiM assuredly states that their new 144 SX is designed to "meet the new displacement changes in AMA amateur racing. ' Will o bored-ond-strcked verrion of KTM's veneroble t 25 SX be E r o s ""iiili,iilt ;t[t+.'l ,.F xDrS ZA Yedrs Ago Augutt 6, ,945... Kawasaki's KDX and Can.Am's ASE battled it out for the top 200cc enduro honors on the cover of Cycle News 20 yearc ago. The bikes went head to head in California's Sierra- Nevada Mouhtains, with the KDX keepinS its place atop the enduro market... Bubba Shob€rt edted out Chris Cara to take round 12 of the Grand Na(ional Championship ar the DuQuoin Mile... Eddie laryson took his Yamaha to the 500cc French Grend Prix win over Randy Marnola and Christian Saron, extending his lead in the points standings... Geofi Ballard won the AHA Natlonal Hare Scrambles at Devils Ridte,,. lim Vreeke was the man at Willow Sprints, beating Doug Polen to win both ofthe Formula USA feature races. tL Yedrs Ago Julg 3r. ,996,.. lohn Kocinski and a treen-haired Anthony Gobert shared the cover of c),cle News l0 yea6 ago.,, (ocinski and Gobert split race wins at the United States Wo rld Su perbike races at Laguna u Seca. Miguel Duhemel won the AMA 600cc Superspon races tha! weekend, while l'latt wait held oll Ben Bostrom to win *le Supertwins final... Former world MX Champion Gret Albertyn beat Jeremy lYcGrath to win round eight of the 250cc AMA Motocross Championship at Unadilla. Steve l.arnson was the man in $e l25cc ranks... Mick Doohan topped Alex CrMlle to win the British 500cc GE further extending his points lead entering the second half of the season. lt was Doohan's looth aareer GP Kanney Takes His First AMA Win The AHA National Hare Scrambles Series saw a new winner last weekend, and also marked the fi.st career AI4A win for RER Motorcity's Nathan Kanney. ln true ironman style, (he privateer .ompeted in the firsr day of the World Enduro in Hancock, New York, where he earned nanth in lhe E2 class. Then he hopped in his van with a freshly prepped bike and headed to Pennsylvania for round seven of the Hare Scrambles Series. Though he was bummed to miss the second day of the GP of USA. Kanney's doubleheader proved to be worthwhile and a h'thl'Eht of his bud- ding career Kanney battled for the lead with GNCC rookie Charlie Mullins on the muddy Rausch Creek course. The two diced back and forth until l'4ullins picked a wrong line and wound up stuck in a mudhole. "lsaw Mullins pass me, and I thouSht he was still out front," Kanney said, "until I saw the pit board saying he was in fifth place." lYullins' masfortune left him pla),,ing catch-up for the rest of the race. on the last lap, Mullins had closed the gap to only a few seconds, but the checkers fell for RER Motorcity's Nathan Kanney. "l crashed a lot today, most on the first lap," Kanney said. "Then lSot mad and decided to treat each lap like a test area in Nolhon Konney's win ol the Pennsylvonio Horc Scrombtes morked his firsl .oreer ArvlA vi.lory. E i o an enduro taae. f'lore or less, I went as fas! as I could each lap and stayed focused, and it worked for me. I got my first Al'4A win. This win helps me in the points for the championship. With lenkr finishinS founh, I was able to gain some points on my [rival] this weekend." One of the best privat€ers in off-road, the native New Yorker is a regular top-10 linisher in the GNCC series. Other care€r accompl'shments include a podium flnish at the Unaditla GNCC last year and a second place in the Red Bull Last f4an StandinS. with his steadily increasrng results. hope- fully we'll be able to see Kanney aboard a factory ride in 2007. HIRED: Wendy Black, by The Creative Works, American Suzuki's race-win advertisinE specialists. as the comPany has also been contracted to begin handling Suzuki's 5uPer- cross, motocross and road-raaing public relations. "l am really excited about working with Suzuki and The Creative Works," said Black, who has coordinated the Suzuki factory teams' PR since 2002. "Our overallgoal is to increase the PR support for the race teams, as well as broaden the range of PR support for the satellite race teams. Although I've worked in a limited way with TCW in the past, this col- laboation will take Suzuki's racing PR to a whole new excitin8 level. I'll continue to provide PR suPport for racing and TCW will continue to provide advertising suPport for racing. Together, we'll provide a complementary service that will completely cover Suzuki in regards to race-orient- ed marketing." OPENED: The Viper Motorcycle Company's new home page on the Wodd Wide Web. The site can be found at the followinS address: wwyv.vipermotorcycle.com. ETtr. CYCLE NEWS AUGUST 2,2006 I5 atl YeaE Ago Auryrt 3, ,976,.. !ilEllir CI hitting fre morket? r I I I ( t-: , -J) n

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