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50 Years Ago October 5, 1967
Triumph-mounted Gary Nixon was pictured on the cover of Cycle News
50 years ago. He had just won the 75-Mile National Championship Road
Race at Carlsbad Raceway. It not only got him on the cover but also into the
AMA points lead… Perris Raceway hosted the Hilltoppers M.C.'s Charlie
Coughran Benefit Scrambles… J.N. Roberts added another win to his list of
accomplishments, this time at the Spoke Benders Desert Do Hare Scrambles
near Palmdale, California… Dick Mann was
tearing it up at Tulare flat track.
40 Years Ago September 28, 1977
We featured photos from the first Motorcycle Olympiad on the cover 40 years
ago; Gaylon Mosier, Kent Howerton, Mike Bell and Gary Jones were all
pictured in action from Saddleback. Howerton was the big winner… The ISDE
was held in Povazka Bystrica, Czechoslovakia, and the home team took the
win. Team USA—Tom and Jack Penton, Dane Leimbach, Frank Gallo,
Gary Younkins and Kevin LaVoie finished fourth… Jay Springsteen won the
Louisville Half Mile, edging out Garth Brow at the checkers.
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30 Years Ago September 30, 1987
Bubba Shobert was caught in action from the San Jose Mile on the cover of
Cycle News 30 years ago. He edged out Scott Parker and Chris Carr for the
win… We covered the third annual World Veteran-cross Motocross in Gaildorf,
West Germany. For the second year in a row, Roger DeCoster took the win
after battling long-time nemesis Heikki Mikkola… Eddie Lawson out-dueled
Randy Mamola for the win at the Portuguese Grand Prix…Terry Kizer topped
the Funny Bike class at the Mr. Turbo Summer
Nationals at Great Lakes Dragway.
LOOKING BACK
20 Years Ago September 24, 1997
We put 500cc winner Mick Doohan and 250cc winner Ralf Waldmann on
the cover from the Grand Prix of Cataluyna. Doohan became the first person
ever to win 12 500cc GPs in one season… Scott Parker won the Excelsior-
Henderson Half Mile in Wisconsin; it was Parker's 82nd career GNC victory,
doubling that of runner-up Jay Springsteen… Pit Beirer captured his first
250cc GP MX victory at Gaildorf… Scott Summers won the combined hare
scrambles/GNCC in Millfield, Ohio… Charlie Bogard won the Suzuki Cup
at Cooperland MX.
