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50 Years Ago April 7, 1966
Half-Mile racing kicked off at Ascot Park and Sammy Tanner picked up where
he left off last season—winning! He made front-page news of Cycle News 50
years ago… We also featured motocross racing from Sycamore Park in Irvine,
California. Paul Hunt, riding his Triumph, was one of the big winners… The
Barstow Stake Scrambles got our full attention in the issue, as well.
40 Years Ago April 6, 1976
Jimmy Weinert was featured on the cover of Cycle News 40 years
ago to accompany our report on the Pontiac Supercross in Michigan.
Marty Smith came away with the win over Pierre Karsmakers and "The
Jammer," Weinert… We announced that Cycle News was about to move its
headquarters to a new and larger office building in Long Beach (Signal Hill),
California… Cordis Brooks won the Shamrocks' Two-Day Qualifier in the
California desert.
20 Years Ago April 3, 1996
Our massive eight-bike 250cc off-road shootout was our feature story 20
years ago. Our favorite bike? The CRE 250 Enduro. Remember that one?
The Italy/Japan hybrid was a CRE Import-kitted CR250R that you could
buy ready-to-race right from U.S. importer Kevin Hines… Jeremy McGrath
continued his perfect season at the Dallas Supercross, round nine of the
series… Ricky Carmichael was the talk of the town at Lake Whitney GNC…
We previewed the upcoming Road Race Grand Prix Championship. We were
high on Australians Mick Doohan and Daryl Beatie.
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30 Years Ago April 9, 1986
Larry Roeseler was pictured on the cover to accompany our interview with the
off-road star. We chatted mostly about his performance at the ISDE in Spain a
few months earlier when he was top American… Ed Lojak won the third round
of the AMA National Hare Scrambles Series at Loretta Lynn's… We covered
Rick Stetsen's victory at the NHRA Gatornationals in Florida… We took a look
at the Knight Racing Frames/Honda RS600D project flat trackers that were
being specially built in limited numbers.
LOOKING BACK
