P116
50 Years Ago April 28, 1966
Hare scrambles racing from Holiday Hills (Lancaster, California), scrambles
racing from Sprockets Park (Bakersfield, California) and half-mile racing from
Ascot Park (Gardena, California) were featured on the front page of Cycle News
50 years ago… In our Meet The Racers section, we featured Sammy Tanner
and Chris Draayer… We featured the Montesa Scorpion in our Two-Wheel
Tryout section… We previewed the third edition of the Cycle World Show to
be held at the L.A. Sports Arena… Cycle News
announced its new managing editor Carl Sims.
40 Years Ago April 27, 1976
To illustrate our diversity, we featured a little bit of everything—speedway, desert
racing, road racing and motocross on the cover of Cycle News 40 years ago…
We gave you a close-up look at Jim Pomeroy's twin-carb 250 Bultaco Pursang
GP motocrosser… One of our feature stories was the World Championship
Mini Grand Prix that was held at Indian Dunes in Valencia, California. Brian
Myerscough outdueled Jeff Ward to win the Race of Champions… We
covered the French 500cc and Spanish 250cc MX GPs. Adolf Weil (500cc)
and Heikki Mikkola (250cc) claimed the wins.
20 Years Ago April 24, 1996
John Kocinski was featured on the cover 30 years ago for winning the
opening round of the World Superbike Series in Italy… Jeremy McGrath also
got a part of the cover for clinching the supercross championship at Pontiac
for the fourth consecutive year but just as impressive was that his win streak
was still in tact after 12 races… We tested the 1997 Honda F6 Valkyrie… We
interviewed 18-year-old flat tracker Kenny Coolbeth… We gave you a close up
look at some of the factory motocross bikes on the circuit.
Subscribe to nearly 50 years of Cycle News Archive issues: www.CycleNews.com/Archives
30 Years Ago April 30, 1986
Aussie Geoff Ballard made the cover after edging out Larry Roeseler for the
win at the Tulsa Two-Day ISDE Qualifier at the John Zink Ranch in Skiatook,
Oklahoma… Alex Jorgensen held off Bubba Shobert to win the Ascot TT…
We covered Team Hammer's victory at the opening round of the WERA/EBC
National Endurance Series in Indianapolis Raceway Park in Clermont, Indiana…
Honda won the World Endurance round at
Le Mans 24-Hour… Jacky Vimond won the
250cc MX GP in Austria.
LOOKING BACK
