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40 Years Ago June 18, 1974
Our topic on the cover of Cycle News 40 years ago focused on local racing
all around the country, but our feature race story was Corky Keener's win
at the Louisville Half Mile… We tested the Yamaha 175 MX… Brad Lackey
came close of winning his first overall victory in an international motocross
race when he went 1-2-2 at a French International. Arne Kring edged him
out with a 3-1-1 score… Torlief Hansen
won the 250 MX GP in England, while Jim
Pomeroy DNF'd both motos.
30 Years Ago June 20, 1984
At the time, the Yamaha RZ350, which was pictured on the cover, was
the hot bike and even hotter were the aftermarket exhaust pipes for it. We
took the little RZ to the strip and found out which pipe made it go faster…
We covered the Road American GNC/Camel Pro Series Road Race that
was won by Mike Baldwin… Terry Poovey won the GNC Dirt Track in
Delaware… We toured the Spandau factory in West Berlin where the
BMW K100 was built… Dan Smith and Dan Ashcraft won the Baja-to-
Barstow desert race.
10 Years Ago June 16, 2004
Road racing made front-page news 10 years ago, with Miguel Duhamel win-
ning both AMA Superbike races as well as Formula Xtreme at Road America;
Valentino Rossi won a wet one in Italy… Geoff Aaron swept the AMA/NATC
Trials in Colorado… Shane Watts won the Funky Chicken Hare Scrambles in
Oregon… Stefan Everts won both MX1 motos at the Grand Prix of France at
St. Jean d'Angely… MX star Rich Thordwaldson was seriously injured in a
road race accident at Infineon. He passed away three weeks later.
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20 Years Ago June 15, 1994
Jeremy McGrath was pictured on the cover at the San Jose Supercross
where he clinched his second straight Championship, but it was also his
third race loss in a row, his longest, at the time, non-winning streak of his
career; Damon Huffman claimed the 125 West title… Scott Parker won
the Parkersburg Half Mile… Scott Russell won the World Superbike in
Misano… Kevin Windham and Ricky Carmichael were the big winners at
the High Point Team Green Spring Nation-
als… Billy Liles won his first 500cc GP
since 1992 in Italy.
LOOKING BACK
