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Cycle News 2014 Issue 17 April 29

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IN THE WIND P20 STEWART OKAY FOR VEGAS SX W hen James Stewart pulled up lame after wrenching his knee on the third lap of the main event in Saturday night's New Jersey Supercross, things didn't look good for the Yoshimura Suzuki rider and his team. But it now appears that the injury isn't as bad as originally feared. The word from the Suzuki camp is that Stewart currently plans on competing at the Vegas Supercross final on May 3, but not after a good dose of knee rehab. After almost a couple of days, Stewart's knee is, according to the team, "in much better shape" than they thought it would be. So, for now, it looks as though Stewart is good for Vegas. Shan Moore James Stewart is likely to be healthy for the Vegas Supercross finale this coming weekend after tweaking his knee in the New Jersey Supercross on Saturday night. PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIT PALMER THE RACE THAT ALMOST WASN'T M any of the racers who com- peted in the latest round of the AMA Hare & Hound National Championship in Lucerne Valley, California, on April 27, might not have known how close the race came from nearly not happen- ing. Instead, the fifth round of the championship went off without a hitch. The original promoting club - the Vikings M.C. - discovered late in the game that the course they'd laid out months ago evi- dently breached a portion of Johnson Valley that the U.S. Marine Corps recently acquired. Ryan Sanders of the NHHA (and a longtime member of the 100s Multiple desert clubs joined together to make the latest round of the AMA Hare & Hound National Championship at the Johnson Valley OHV Area a reality. PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARK KARIYA

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