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40 Years Ago November 19, 1974
Speedway racing made the front page 40 years ago with an artist's rendition
of Rick Wood… Speaking of speedway, we were on hand to cover Steve
Bast winning the U.S. Speedway Championship at Costa Mesa… What's it
like to ride around town on a sidehack? We gave it a shot and told you about
it… It was a wet one at the Lake Whitney Trans-AMA MX round in Texas. It
was more of an enduro than motocross, but
Roger DeCoster won it anyway… We visited
the Can-Am factory in Canada.
30 Years Ago November 21, 1984
We got the chance to take a close-up look at Jimmy Adomo's Cagva Super-
bike, which was featured in action on the cover 30 years ago… We also dis-
sected the Harley-Davidson's prototype Nova V-4… We interviewed "the man
behind The King," Kenny Roberts' tuner Kel Carruthers… Terry Cunningham
did what he usually did back then—win National Enduros. We covered his
latest victory at the Delaware National… We honored recently retired Kenny
Roberts with a look back at his career through photos.
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20 Years Ago November 16, 1994
We packed the cover full of photos in issue 45, 20 years ago, but the
standout shot was that of Steve Hatch who clinched the National Enduro
Championship in Delaware… Carl Fogerty also claimed the World
Superbike title with a solid 1-2 performance in Australia; Anthony Gobert
won the second leg… Dale Quaterley won the final WERA round at Road
Atlanta but Michael Martin won the war…
Fred Andrews outdueled Scott Plessinger
at the Luzerne Park GNCC in Pennsylvania.
LOOKING BACK
10 Years Ago November 17, 2004
Kawasaki rider Darcy Lange made the cover 10 years ago for winning the
opening round of the 2004 Arenacross Championship in Des Moines, Iowa…
We interviewed 250cc road race champ Rich Oliver… Oak Hill Raceway in
Decatur, Texas, hosted the penultimate round of the WORCS Series and
Nathan Woods left with the 2004 title already in hand… Alan Cathcart tested
the KTM 950 SuperMoto dual purpose machine.
