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50 Years Ago January 26, 1968
A drawing of scrambles racer Dan Carlton was featured on the cover of Cycle
News 50 years ago… In the previous issue, we covered Evel Knievel's big
crash at Caesar's Palace and a few days later, he called Cycle News to let
everyone know that he was okay and was already planning another jump in
Las Vegas during the grand opening of the Circus Circus Hotel & Casino. But
he had bigger plans in the future—jumping the Grand Canyon.
40 Years Ago
January 25, 1978
We featured an action photo of the
Harley-Davidson XLCR 1000 on the
cover. We tested the new café racer.
We said: "Fun? Yes! Racer? No"… We
introduced a new series that was going
to run in the next few issues of Cycle
News—riding tips by Bob Hannah. We called it: "How To Ride Like The
Hurricane"… We interviewed former Penton employees John Penton and
Jack Lehto, new managers at the newly formed KTM America. Topics on
the table included the future of the Penton brand and KTM.
20 Years Ago January 21, 1998
The opening round of the AMA Supercross Series got underway at the LA
Coliseum and the surprise winner was Frenchman Sebastien Tortelli who
came out and dominated the race. His plan was to race just the first few
rounds of the series before heading back to Europe to do the MXGP series…
We covered the FBI (Fred Bramblett Invitational) Trail Ride in Kentucky.
You could say it was one of the first true extreme trail rides… Josh Demuth
won the AMA PJ1 Arenacross round in the Forth Worth, Texas.
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30 Years Ago January 20, 1988
Rick Johnson was pictured on the cover of Cycle News 30 years ago
for winning the Sandhill Ranch round of the Golden State MX Series in
California… Micky Dymond was also on the cover to accompany our at-
home and down-to-earth interview with the 125cc National MX champ… In
the Florida Winter AMA MX Series, Fred Andrews and Keith Bowen were
some of the big winners… Jeff Emig
drove from his home in Missouri to
compete in the amateur portion of the
Golden State Series at Glen Helen and
won the 125cc Intermediate class.
LOOKING BACK
