American Motorcyclist 07 2010

THE JOURNAL OF THE

JULY 2010JULY 2010JULY 2010

‘It’s All Come From

Riding Motorcycles’

[ Malcolm Smith’s Amazing

Life On Two Wheels ]

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July 2010

Volume 64, Number 7

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Cover Malcolm Smith, at his motorcycle shop in

Riverside, Calif., photographed by Holly Carlyle.

Navigation Photo It’s that time of year again—to think and live

“vintage.” Get pins galore, and more, at AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days, July 9-11, at the Mid-

Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio.Photo by Ken Frick.

8. LETTERSYou write, we read.

10. GRANT PARSONS“Typical Malcolm”

12. RIGHTSPossible national monument designations drawing more heat.

18. RIDINGThe sport-tourer tire dilemma, member bike impressions, and more.

26. RACINGSupercross Champ Ryan Dungey crowned, racing registration made easy.

32. HALL OF FAME1959 Harley-Davidson dirt tracker, and Danny “Magoo” Chandler.

36. IT’S MALCOLM SMITH’S WORLDThe rest of us just ride in it.

44. AN END TO THE BAN?New federal legislation could fi x the ban on kids’ dirtbikes.

48. GO RIDEWhat to do, where to go.

58. DAVE TUCKERStarting over.

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stan simpson, Chairman

Cibolo, Texas

Jim Williams, Vice-Chairman

Irvine, Calif.

Jon-Erik Burleson, Assistant Treasurer

Murrietta, Calif.

Perry King, Assistant Secretary

Northern California

John Ulrich, Executive Committee Member

Lake Elsinore, Calif.

andy goldfine, Duluth, Minn.

charles goman, Winder, Ga.

Michael lock, Cupertino, Calif.

Maggie McNally, Albany, N.Y.

scott Miller, Milwaukee, Wis.

art More, Surprise, Ariz.

Jim viverito, Chicago, Ill.

Holly carlylE, Photographer You’ve seen plenty

of Holly’s work in this magazine, with cover shoots of Neil

Peart and Carson Daly. Last year, we also relied on Holly

to capture the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame Induction

Ceremony and AMA Racing Championship Banquet. This

month, she pointed her able lens at off-road racing legend

Malcolm Smith.

davE tUcKEr, guest columnist Dave Tucker may be

what some people consider a late bloomer. He started his

motorcycling love affair in his mid-60s. That hasn’t slowed

him down, however. Dave is on his fourth bike—this one a

BMW GS—and is planning a riding trip to Alaska. Read more

about how he got to where he is today on page 58.

Nora McdoNald, Production coordinator The CB360

is pointed toward the coast, cans tied firmly to the tailpipe,

sappy and suggestive one-liners scrawled in soap on

the 40-year-old fuel tank. Nora grips the bars, eyes fixed

forward. And the horizon rolls ever closer. Hang on, Mike. It’s

going to be one heck of a ride.

JEN MUEcKE, designer Somewhere, Jen found a sucker

who traded her a like-new DRZ supermoto bike for a

22-year-old Honda and something called a “Baghira.”

graNt ParsoNs, Managing Editor “Why do I need a

car? I have the KLR for longer trips and the Moo-Scoot for

around town. I think I’ll sell the car now and get something

this fall.” That, kiddies, is the incantation for conjuring up a

freak mid-May, two-week-long snow storm for central Ohio.

MarK laPid, creative director Can you believe that

Mark actually pulled off a one-for-two swap, trading his

decidingly single-purpose supermoto for a do-it-all dual-sport

and a “barely ridden” Honda Hawk GT for tearing up the

twisties? There’s one born every minute.

Bill KrEsNaK, government affairs Editor Krez was

really, really jazzed to ride an AMA KTM National Dual

Sport Trail Riding Series event until he found out the riders’

meeting wouldn’t be held in his living room and the start area

wasn’t in his driveway. Oh well, back to Mech Warriors.

JaMEs HoltEr, associate Editor New bike. ’Nuff said.

other contributors include: Dave Hoenig, Jeff Kardas,

Karen Harrison Photography, Dove Photography, Jeff

Buchanan, Grogan Studios, Adam Kaempf, Tacoma MC,

Motorcycle Safety Foundation, Hendrik von Kuenheim.

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FRAZIER WELCOMED

I savored your June

2010 issue, especially the

guest column by Rashmi

Tambe and the articles

by Doug Wothke (“Back

in the U.S.S.R.”) and the

always-interesting Dr.

Gregory Frazier (“Still

Traveling...”).

Frazier has been

a welcome read in many motorcycle

publications over the years and is

thought-provoking and smart. He is able

to impart knowledge without sounding

over-important. His “Riding the World”

paperback is as useful and entertaining as

any book of its kind.

Stew Salowitz

AMA No. 904874

Normal, Ill.

RASHMI ROCKS

Thank you, Rashmi Tambe, for your

excellent essay, “Worth Every Moment,”

in the June 2010 issue of American

Motorcyclist.

You told more story in fewer words than I

can recall reading anywhere else.

Leonard Lloyd

AMA Life Member No. 291270

Oakley, Calif.

WHAT IS A MOTORCYCLE?

The June 10 edition of American

Motorcyclist asked for input on defi ning a

motorcycle.

I think the

number of

wheels is

irrelevant (one,

two, three or

four—the Viper-

engined Dodge

concept bike fi ts

this category).

I believe the

major distinction

of a motorcycle is the rider straddles

the chassis. So, if you sit in it, it is not a

motorcycle. It’s a scooter or contraption.

Straddling is a key tenet.

So, a motorcycle is motor-driven (internal

combustion or electric), enclosed or not,

but the rider must straddle the chassis.

Thank you for the opportunity to add my

two cents.

Tony Fettig


Discovery Bay, Calif.

We received plenty of thoughts in

response to the column by AMA Senior

Vice President for Government Relations Ed

Moreland on the defi nition of a motorcycle,

and they all illustrate how personal the

answer can be. They also show that when

it comes to classifying motorcycles for

licensing and statistical purposes, the

question, “What is a motorcycle?” will only

get more complicated. A selection of letters

on the issue follows.

MOTORCYCLES HAVE TWO WHEELS

After reading the Viewpoint and

Rights section of the June 2010 issue of

American Motorcyclist, I have come to the

conclusion that a motorcycle is defi ned

as a two-wheeled vehicle. The wheels of

the vehicle are inline with each other. The

vehicle is propelled by a type of motor or

engine or battery or alternate fuel source

not yet developed for this vehicle. The

vehicle is operated by a single operator

and may have a passenger. Operator and/

or passenger will be in a straddling position

on top of the vehicle near its center of mass

when the vehicle is in motion. Steering,

braking, throttle control and training wheel

devices are not part of this defi nition.

In addition, I feel that all types of vehicles

should have a specifi c defi nition. This

would clear any doubts about vehicle types

in the future. Thank you for your time and

excellent articles on this subject.

Ron Smith

AMA No. 605263

Medina, N.Y.

AIRCRAFT FACED A SIMILAR QUESTION

Before sharing my take on a motorcycle,

I’d like to suggest that you contact the

Experimental Aircraft Association and chat

with them about their experience with

defi ning airplane types. Something akin to

what is going on with motorcycles started

years ago in the fl ying business.

There were ultra-lights and powered

kites, and the differences between these

devices and conventional airplanes got

real fuzzy. There were a lot of struggles to

defi ne new categories of fl ying machines

and the licensing and safety standards that

should apply. There may be some useful

knowledge there.

My take on a motorcycle: It is a two-

wheeled powered vehicle that the operator

sits astride. The wheels are in tandem and,

if carrying a passenger, the passenger sits

behind the operator.

I don’t have a problem with trikes and

sidecar rigs and all the variations in-

between. There are some I would consider

riding, some that look pretty cool, and

some I would not want my friends to see

me on. To each his own. But as your story

suggests, there are different considerations

for design, regulation and operator training.

Grouping them all together makes no

sense.

Here in Washington state, they started

requiring a separate license endorsement

for sidecars a few years back. Probably a

good move as the skill test was not relevant

to operating a sidecar.

Ralph Leslie

AMA No. 463673

Kirkland, Wash.

WHAT ABOUT ATVS?

I have the following opinion about what

the new defi nition of a motorcycle should

be defi ned as in the United States.

The motorcycle category should be

divided into three types:

1) Two wheels.

2) Three wheels (with a provision for a

sidecar).

3) Four wheels (all-terrain vehicles).

Some of the criteria that defi nes what a

motorcycle is:

1) You ride a motorcycle. You do not

drive a motorcycle. This means that a

motorcycle has handlebars and not a

steering wheel.

2) No side-by-side seating for

passengers. Passengers should ride behind

the rider. The only exception is a sidecar

passenger.

3) The riding position should be a

straddle position on the bike. No standing.

The law should be changed to include

street-legal manufactured quads that are

equipped with a street-legal kit (the kit

should have mirrors, correct headlights,

signal lights, street suspension, street tires

and odometer), license plate and street

registration.

With a struggling

industry in this bad

economy, adding quads

to the motorcycle

category could be the

boost this industry

needs.

Bryan Lagrange

AMA No. 745661

Leonville, La.

FOUR WHEELS CAN MAKE SENSE

I am a paraplegic who loves to ride. I

have a 500cc scooter with an insta-trike kit

that adds two support wheels, one on each

side, as being a paraplegic, I cannot hold a

Send your letters (and a high-resolution photo) to [email protected];

or mail to 13515 Yarmouth Drive, Pickerington, OH 43147.

Stew Salowitz

Bryan Lagrange

Tony Fettig

MEMBER LETTERS


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two-wheeled bike up.

Technically, though registered as a

motorcycle, I have four tires on the road.

I know of several other disabled drivers

adapting bikes to meet their needs. They

should be registered as motorcycles.

John Welton

AMA No. 1089349

St. Petersburg, Fla.

THIS IS SIMPLE…

I don’t know what the big deal is about

the defi nition of a motorcycle. Look in

Webster’s and you will fi nd: “Motorcycle:

two-wheeled motorized vehicle. Sometimes

fi tted with a sidecar giving it three wheels.”

Why don’t they just use the dictionary?

Jack Coulson


Elk Grove, Calif.

NO, THIS CAN GET COMPLICATED….

If it has a motor and only has two wheels,

it automatically qualifi es as a motorcycle. If

it has more than two wheels, the following

criteria must be met: a) The operator must

straddle the vehicle, and b) there should be

no seat belt or restraint system. The reason

for this is because on a “motorcycle” in

the event of a fall or accident, it is logical

for safety reasons for the operator to not

be fastened to the vehicle, but rather part

ways. So two-wheeled motorcycles with

sidecars, trikes and even conventional

quad-type ATVs would meet the defi nition

of a motorcycle. (The Can-Am Spyder and

even GG Quad, which distributes road-

going quads based on BMW boxers, would

also meet this defi nition of a motorcycle.)

However, as soon as one does not

straddle the vehicle but sits in or on it—

regardless of the controls, be it handlebars

or a steering wheel—it is then logical for

the operator to be strapped in for safety

reasons. I feel this does not meet the

requirement of a motorcycle. So, vehicles

such as the ZapCar or even the T-Rex do

not meet this requirement.

I realize this may make it diffi cult for

specialty vehicles such as the T-Rex, but

I would hope that our laws allow some

exemption to low-volume, specialty

manufacturers not to have to meet the

standards that typical high-volume cars

would have to meet.

I wish the AMA well on helping shape

this defi nition.

Jim Marchbank

AMA No. 374525

Colorado Springs, Colo.

On Facebook? Us, too! Become a fan of the American Motorcyclist Association and you could be leaving comments like these:

Wow! Great news! Congratulations, Jack! — Jeff Reid,

commenting on the AMA’s hire of Jack Penton as

director of operations (see page 24).

It’s about time. Jersey needs this badly.

Illegal riding has damaging consequences. — Daryl

Fornuff, in response to an AMA Action Alert notifying

motorcyclists about possible public OHV parks in New

Jersey.

What percentage of motorcyclists ride in the rain, and

other foul weather? 5 percent? And what percentage

of bike accidents would have different outcomes

using bikes with ABS? I’m guessing about the same

percentage. This is just one more instance where

people justify their jobs by imposing themselves on the lives of

others. Move on to some other safety issue. — Eric Robinson,

responding to an Insurance Institute for Highway Safety call that all

motorcycles be mandated to come with anti-lock braking.

Hey thanks for roadside assistance coverage, AMA!

I used it to get my wife’s minivan towed last week.

It worked great and the gal on the phone was very

pleasant and helpful. It’s a great member benefi t. —

Jay Shannon, about the free roadside assistance that’s available

to all full AMA members who elect to automatically renew their

memberships (sign up at AmericanMotorcyclist.com).

First time my old man took me to a race was up to

Sears Point in Sonoma (now Infi neon). I remember

Magoo and Hannah battling that day. Even at such a

young age, I remember Hannah had such talent, but

Magoo, he had style. — Todd Hayos, commenting on

the passing of AMA Motorcycle Hall of Famer

Danny “Magoo” Chandler (see page 34).

Follow all AMA news—and chat with fellow AMA members—

on Facebook. You can also always get the latest info at

AmericanMotorcyclist.com.

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LETTER OF THE MONTH

John Penton Rules!

I just made a $1,000 donation to the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame in honor of John Penton. The cover photo of your April 2010 American

Motorcyclist magazine was fantastic. I loved the article, and it really made me refl ect back over my many years of riding and what a debt we all owe to Mr. Penton. His vision and passion is the reason we all are riding such great motorcycles today!

Thank you for featuring one of the true heroes of motorcycling!

Steve Fox, President Hoy Fox AutomotiveAMA No. 232419El Paso, Texas

July 2010 9

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One of the great things about motorcycling is the fact

that it’s so accessible.

That’s true when it comes to bikes, since you can get

supercar-level performance for budget-car prices. It’s true

when it comes to other motorcyclists, since conversations

spring up easily among riders. And it’s even true when

it comes to our bona fi de heroes, who somehow remain

approachable at a level that far exceeds other sports.

Take Malcolm Smith, for example.

Few names in motorcycling are as highly regarded by

as many generations of riders. He became an icon among

those who frequent garages, bike nights and rallies for

his starring role in “On Any Sunday” in 1971, for his nine

International Six Days Enduro medals, his considerable

off-road-racing success on bikes and in cars, and his

success in the motorcycle industry with his own product

line and a multi-line dealership in Southern California.

Sit down and talk with him at length, though, as I was

fortunate enough to do for the profi le story on page 36,

and Malcolm comes across as down-to-Earth as ever. Yes,

he’s aged a bit since 1971, but who hasn’t? And at 69, he

may move a little more deliberately, at least when he’s not

behind the wheel of the off-road buggy he planned to race

in Baja a week after I visited.

The trademark smile is still there, as is the somewhat

mischievous outlook, and he displays the same passion

whether he talks about racing motorcycles or traveling in

Baja, Mexico. I particularly liked his advice that applied

equally to business and racing, when he suggested that

most people underestimate perseverance and tenacity:

“You keep at it, and you get smarter.” And pretty soon, he

fi gures, you might be winning the race.

He remains “typical Malcolm.” Those are the words from

fi lmmaker Bruce Brown’s iconic voiceover for “On Any

Sunday” that sum up Malcolm’s riding talent, broad smile

and can-do spirit. They were usually spoken after Malcolm

had done something particularly superhuman, and had

then shrugged it off as nothing. “Typical Malcolm.”

What’s even better is that, thanks to the aforementioned

accessibility of motorcycling’s heroes, you don’t have to

take my word for it. You can meet Malcolm yourself at

AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days, July 9-11, at the Mid-Ohio

Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio. There, he will sign

autographs, meet fans and make some laps of the track

as grand marshal for the country’s premier gathering for

vintage bikes and the people who love them.

If you’ve never been to AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days

before, you really owe it to yourself to make the trek to

central Ohio. And if you’ve been there before, you don’t

‘TYPICAL MALCOLM’Meet The Legend Yourself At

AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days

By Grant Parsons

need me to tell you that it’s a spectacular three-day

gathering of fellow riders enjoying vintage racing, the

country’s largest motorcycle swap meet, seminars, laps of

the track, vendors, used bike corrals and more. You can

get the full details at AMAVintageMotorcycleDays.com.

Fittingly, with Malcolm as grand marshal, the 2010

Marque of the Year is the brand that he helped make

famous: Husqvarna. The lightweight Swedish bikes

became a favorite for Malcolm since he raced them for the

American importer, Edison Dye. He rode one in “On Any

Sunday,” and he still sells Huskys at his dealership today.

Fans of early Japanese bikes will also get a rare treat

as a group of enthusiasts will arrive with an impressive

collection of memorabilia and bikes representing the

Bridgestone brand.

What really makes AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days so

cool, though, is the people. Whether it’s a vendor in the

swap meet selling 100 square feet of gleaming exhaust

pipes, a fellow competitor on the roadrace, motocross,

off-road or dirt track, or the people you meet at the exhibit

tents or seminars, it seems everyone shares the same

thing: a passion for all kinds of motorcycling.

And like Malcolm, the folks who attend AMA Vintage

Motorcycle Days are as approachable as they come. Then

again, as riders you already understand exactly what I’m

saying. See you there!

Grant Parsons is the managing editor of American

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Possible NatioNal

MoNuMeNt DesigNatioNs

DrawiNg More Heat State And Federal Lawmakers

Continue To Fight Back

The battle is heating up over the federal

Interior Department’s plan to designate

some 13 million acres of land in the West

as national monuments.

In two states, officials are sending a

message to federal officials who want to

control land—possibly closing it to off-

highway recreation—without consulting

with local authorities: Back off.

In Utah, lawmakers passed a law to

allow the state to seize federal land. And in

Oregon, a federal lawmaker wants to pass

a law barring the federal administration

from naming any national monuments in

his state without congressional approval.

In addition, federal lawmakers are pushing

a bill to require Interior Department

officials to release all documents related to

the national monuments idea.

At the heart of the issue are numerous

potential national monument designations,

which would make it easier to close the

affected 13 million acres to responsible

off-highway motorized recreation in

11 states: Alaska, Arizona, California,

Colorado, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico,

Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.

In Utah, U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett (R-Utah)

introduced legislation, with U.S. Sen. Orrin

Hatch (R-Utah), to bar any president from

designating Utah national monuments

without a congressional nod.

U.S. Reps. Doc Hastings (R-Wash.),

Rob Bishop (R-Utah) and Jim Matheson

(D-Utah) agree Congress should decide.

In addition, Hastings and Bishop also

introduced a resolution to try to force

the Interior Department to make public

all documents related to its national

monuments idea. The U.S. House

Committee on Natural Resources, chaired

by Rep. Nick Rahall II (D-W.Va.), refused

to endorse the resolution. Rahall and

House leadership now will determine if this

resolution will be heard on the House floor.

Hastings, ranking member of the U.S.

House Natural Resources Committee,

acknowledged the AMA’s support of the

resolution, noting in a news release that

the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the

AMA support it.

Ed Moreland, AMA senior vice president

for government relations, continues to

push for full disclosure on the possible

national monument designations, noting

the Interior Department has released only

383 out of more than 2,000 pages of the

relevent internal documents.

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The AMA’s Government Relations Department is gearing up to set its priorities for the next couple years, and we need your input.

You can help set those priorities by

Your oPiNioN CouNtshelp Steer The AMA’s Efforts

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letting us know where you stand on issues ranging from helmet use to the closure of public land to off-highway riding.

It’s easy to do. Just fill out the short survey in the Members Area of AmericanMotorcyclist.com.

Remember, this is your Association and we listen to you. So let us know what you think.


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At a time when off-highway riding

opportunities are threatened around the

country, there are some bright spots,

thanks to the efforts of dedicated riders

and sympathetic government officials.

On April 29, Harrison, Ohio, Mayor Joel

McGuire, wearing motocross gear, officially

opened the Doug Dunaway Memorial

Motocross Park. In Summit County, Colo.,

officials will decide soon whether to reopen

the Summit County Landfill to riding. And

in Kern County, Calif., officials are exploring

the idea of building an off-highway vehicle

(OHV) park near Bakersfield.

“These are cases where riders didn’t

just sit around waiting for something

to happen,” says Jessica Irving, AMA

grassroots manager. “They got involved

with local officials, pitched in, addressed

any concerns, and saw progress.”

The Doug Dunaway Memorial Motocross

Park, off Campbell Road in Harrison, Ohio,

features a 1.2-mile track. The mayor—a

motorcyclist himself—sees the track as a

way to give riders a place to ride as well as

draw riders from other areas to help boost

the local economy.

In Colorado, the Summit County Off-

Road Riders (SCORR) group has been

working with government officials and local

residents to come up with a plan to reopen

the Summit County Landfill area to OHV

riding.

The area has been closed to off-

highway riding since Jan. 1 while a new

management plan is created. If the new

plan is approved by county officials, the

park could reopen by July 1.

The area, between Dillon and Keystone

on Highway 6, is expected to include a new

motocross park and parking lot.

In California, about 40 people showed

up for a Kern County Parks and Recreation

Commission meeting on April 22 to support

county creation of a new riding area near

Bakersfield.

The county is considering the move

to try to keep riders from trespassing on

private land. County officials are reviewing

about half a dozen parcels it owns, ranging

in size from 22 acres to 237 acres, to see

if one of them is a suitable site for a public

riding area.

For information on getting involved to

create riding opportunities in your areas,

contact Irving at [email protected] or

go to AmericanMotorcyclist.com > Rights >

Get Involved.

A verdict has been handed down in the

case of a woman who was painting her

fingernails while driving, resulting in the

death of motorcyclist Anita Zaffke.

Despite her lawyer’s efforts to persuade

the jury that her actions were no worse than

talking on a cellphone while driving, the jury

decided otherwise and found Lora Hunt,

49, guilty of felony reckless homicide. She

faces up to five years in prison when she is

sentenced in June.

Zaffke, 56, was killed when Hunt, who

police said admitted she was painting

her fingernails at the time of the crash,

smashed into the back of Zaffke’s

motorcycle at a stoplight in Lake Zurich, Ill.,

about 40 miles north of Chicago last year.

Greg Zaffke II of Wauconda, Ill., the

victim’s son, told WGN News: “There are

no winners today. There is no celebration

or happiness. Two families will forever

carry the hurt and anguish caused by one

person’s reckless actions.”

After the fatal crash, Zaffke began

painting his fingernails black as a reminder

to anyone he meets of his mother’s

death. He formed the Black Nail Brigade

Foundation Against Distracted Driving

(www.BlackNailBrigade.org) to publicize

the dangers of distracted driving, and to

boost awareness to share the road with

motorcycles.

Ed Moreland, AMA senior vice president

for government relations, says: “This

episode puts into stark relief the tragedy

that can result from distracted driving,

and we hope that the contined efforts of

Greg Zaffke and the AMA will help prevent

further tragedies.”

Public-Private cooPeration Paying off

for off-highway ridersNew Riding Opportunities In Ohio, Colorado, California

Motorist who Painted nails

while driving convicted in

death of MotorcyclistDriver Faces Up To Five Years In Prison

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Mayor Joel McGuire of Harrison,

Ohio, joined with off-highway

riders and others to open a new

motocross park.

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An insurance industry group that tried to ban sportbikes in the past and, more recently, claimed that sport-style motorcycles are more dangerous than other types of bikes, is now asking the federal government to mandate anti-lock brakes for all new motorcycles.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), which is backed by insurance companies, asked the National Highway Traffi c Safety Administration (NHTSA) on May 6 to mandate anti-lock brakes based on IIHS research.

But Ed Moreland, AMA senior vice president for government relations, says that anti-lock brakes shouldn’t be required for all motorcycles, and that the IIHS has trotted out fl awed research in the past to further its agenda against motorcycles.

“Anti-lock brakes are already an option for some models, and ABS should continue to be an option,” Moreland says. “Mandating anti-lock brakes, however, is unwise.”

For example, Moreland notes that there are situations when anti-lock brakes could increase the risk of a crash, such as when riding an off-highway motorcycle on a trail, or when riding an on-highway or dual-sport motorcycle on a dirt or gravel road. Additionally, adding ABS could increase the cost of a new bike by $1,000 or more.

“It’s simply a bad idea,” Moreland said.The IIHS has a history of grabbing

headlines for its conclusions, which have at times been based on questionable data.

Three years ago, for example, the IIHS released a report claiming that sport-styled motorcycles are considerably more dangerous than other types of bikes. But an AMA analysis of the report showed that the methodology didn’t support the

INSURANCE GROUP WANTS ANTI-LOCK BRAKES

ON ALL MOTORCYCLESAMA Says ABS Should Be An Option, Not A Requirement

BMW is well-known for the anti-

lock braking systems it offers on

some of its machines.

Boston is the latest U.S. city to offer designated motorcycle and scooter parking, with as many as 50 parking spots planned.

The slots will have their own meters and allow bikes and scooters to park perpendicular to the sidewalk.

Other cities that have dedicated motorcycle and scooter parking include San Francisco and Columbus, Ohio.

For information on how to get motorcycle parking spaces in your city, contact AMA Grassroots Manager Jessica Irving at [email protected] or go to AMADirectlink.com/legisltn/mcparking.asp.

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conclusion. In the late 1980s, the IIHS produced a study that it claimed showed sportbikes were dangerous, and enlisted a U.S. senator to introduce a bill to ban them. The effort didn’t discuss miles ridden, whether riders were licensed, or what actually caused the crashes.

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A new report by the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) shows that motorcycling fatalities nationwide dropped by at least 10 percent in 2009—the fi rst decline in 12 years. While many have speculated as to the reasons, nobody really knows why.

Based on preliminary data the GHSA, which represents the state highway safety offi ces nationwide, projects that motorcycling deaths declined from 5,290

in 2008 to 4,762 or fewer in 2009. The projection is preliminary and based on data collected from the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The GHSA cautioned that the report only involves one year, so it’s too soon to predict a steady decline.

“We will need to see three to fi ve years of decline before we are ready to say that a positive trend has developed,” said GHSA Chairman Vernon Betkey.

In fact, the report notes that fatalities

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have signifi cantly decreased in the past but then rose again. For example, from 1980 to 1997 they dropped by almost 60 percent. But then fatalities increased steadily from 1997 through 2008.

“The death of any motorcyclist is one too many, so this news is encouraging,” says Ed Moreland, AMA senior vice president for government relations. “While we are pleased that the number of motorcycling fatalities dropped dramatically in 2009, we need to see that trend continue.”

Moreland notes that there aren’t any solid answers for the drop.

“The motorcycling community looks forward to getting some real answers about motorcycle crashes and what causes them from the new federal crash causation study that is getting under way,” Moreland says. “Then we can put our heads together to fi nd solutions, reduce crashes and save more lives.”

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) formally announced the new crash causation study on Oct. 5. The FHWA is overseeing the four-year, $3 million study, which is being conducted by Oklahoma State University through the Oklahoma Transportation Center in Stillwater, Okla.

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STATEWATCH

COLORADO

The controversial Hidden Gems

Wilderness proposal was recently

submitted to Colorado’s congressional

delegation. The proposal seeks Wilderness

designation for more than 243,000 acres

of public land managed by the White River

National Forest and federal Bureau of Land

Management. Maps depicting the proposal

for Eagle and Summit counties are now

available at local public libraries and the

Colorado Mountain College Campus in

Edwards.

MAINE

A new law cracking down on sound

prohibits a motor vehicle exhaust system

from exceeding 62 decibels at a distance

of 50 feet or greater in an area designated

as a quiet zone. House Paper 1170 was

introduced by Rep. Meredith Strang

Burgess (R-Cumberland) and signed into

law by Gov. John Baldacci.

NEW YORK

Senate Bill 7302, known as the New

York State Consumers’ Right to Repair Act,

would require motor vehicle manufacturers

to make available to vehicle owners,

repair shops and the Department of Motor

Vehicles the necessary information to

diagnose, service or repair a vehicle. The

bill is sponsored by Sen. Jose Peralta

(D-Queens).

OHIO

In April, the AMA joined with the Ohio

Motorized Trails Association, the Ohio

State University Extension and the Wayne

National Forest to educate youngsters

about dirtbike and ATV safety and

environmental stewardship. The Earth

Day event was held on the Logan County

fairgrounds and drew groups from a

number of area schools.

PENNSYLVANIA

Rep. Joseph Markosek (D-Monroeville)

is offering legislation to deal with pesky

“stuck” traffi c lights. His House Bill 590

would permit a motorcyclist or bicyclist,

after coming to a full and complete stop,

to proceed with caution through an

intersection controlled by a traffi c-actuated

signal if the detection system fails to

recognize the motorcycle or bicycle.

TEXAS

A diverse group of trail enthusiasts has

come together in New Waverly to form

the Sam Houston Trail Coalition. The

coalition says it will work closely with the

U.S. Forest Service to plan, develop and

maintain a comprehensive and sustainable

trail network for diverse outdoor recreation

while protecting natural resources and

educating the public. Immediate objectives

include the development of a Master Trail

Plan and securing funding and volunteer

support to construct and maintain the

trails. Information is available on Facebook

at the Sam Houston Trail Coalition page

and through the Yahoo group SHTrails.

WISCONSIN

Senate Bill 456 was signed into law by

Gov. Jim Doyle on May 5. Sponsored by

Sen. Jim Sullivan (D-Wauwatosa), the bill

establishes a “Share the Road” license

plate that provides funds for the Type 1

motorcycle, moped and motor bicycle

safety program. The special license plates

will also feature a logo associated with

Harley-Davidson.

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(Clockwise from above) Donn Anderson on

a 2002 KTM 200MXC at Carnegie SVRA near

Tracy, Calif.—Stefan Anderson of Tracy, Calif.;

“This is a picture from a trip through Colorado

and Utah. I was riding the Ducati 900SS and my

friend, John, was riding the Moto Guzzi Daytona

1000. We were stopped near the summit in

Rocky Mountain National Park.”—Matt Rosen

of Madison, Wis.; Liz Peterson of Fort Bragg,

Calif., rounding the Abert Rim in Oregon. Photo

by Tony Reed.

Brit Iron Rebels on Route 66, Truxton, Ariz.,

at the Frontier Motel.—Jeff Holmes of Gilbert,

Ariz.

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Sport-touring motorcycles have hit new

levels of performance. From Yamaha’s

FJR1300 to Kawasaki’s Concours 14, from

the BMW K1300S to the Honda VFR1200F,

the common denominator is motor—a

lot of it. Tire manufacturers have had to

work hard to keep up. We connected with

Bridgestone’s Adam Kaempf to find out

what it takes to put all those sport-touring

ponies to the pavement.

American Motorcyclist: How do

the horsepower demands of today’s

sport-touring motorcycles affect tire

manufacturers?

Adam Kaempf: Well, the biggest

challenge is getting adequate mileage

out of a tire on a high-horsepower

motorcycle while still affording good

grip and feedback for the rider. In our

latest sport-touring tire, the BT-023,

we have applied a technology called

NanoPro-Tech, which uses RC Polymers

to improve the distribution of silica within

the rubber compound. That improves

tread flexibility for enhanced wet and low-

temperature performance. The tire can be

deformed more to gain a larger contact

patch without over-stressing the rubber

compound.

Another example would be the use of

multiple rubber compounds in a single

tire. A durable center rubber compound

flanked by shoulder compounds with

added traction supplies good mileage

from the center of the tire, while allowing

good grip from the shoulder of the tire

The SporT-Tourer Tire Dilemma Combining High-Performance Grip With Open Road Comfort

when leaned over in a corner.

AM: What does a rider need to know

when they are replacing the tires on their

sport-touring motorcycle?

AK: The most important thing is

safety, so the proper load and speed

rating should always be maintained

when purchasing new tires. Also, bike

owners should not change from the OE,

or Original Equipment, tire size without

first consulting with the motorcycle

manufacturer.

There are many different tires available

to suit the needs of the different categories

of motorcycles being ridden today and the

different riding styles. So each rider should

think about what kind of riding they’re

doing, and choose a tire accordingly. For

example, typically, the more racetrack-

oriented a tire is, the less wet weather

capability it has. Most sport-touring riders

ride in the rain at some point and will need

good wet weather performance.

Don’t overlook the tires that came

on the motorcycle when new. With the

technology and development that goes

into these tires, many times a standard

replacement tire cannot match the

performance, especially in the sport-

touring and touring categories.

AM: What’s the difference?

AK: Typically, an OE tire is developed

in conjunction with the motorcycle

engineers when the bike is being

designed to achieve specific performance

targets. Rubber compounds and tire

constructions are tweaked to suit the

weight, horsepower, ride and handling

requirements of each individual model of

motorcycle. A replacement tire, on the

other hand, must work on a wide range of

applications, which can be challenging.

That is why, with the new BT-023 line, we

have launched a standard 120/70R17 and

180/55R17 as well as a “GT” spec that

is designed for the specific needs of the

heavier sport touring bikes.

AM: What’s the most common tire-

buying mistake?

AK: When a rider puts on a sport or

even track-day tire, even though they

aren’t doing much aggressive riding.

These tires stick well and feel good on

the bike, but usually wear out quickly,

particularly on a heavier sport-touring

bike. Typically, sport-touring riders will not

be satisfied with the rate at which they will

have to replace this type of tire.

Also, any time a new tire is put on, the

rider should allow a 100-mile break-in

period during which sudden acceleration,

maximum braking, and hard cornering

should be avoided. This not only allows

the tire to be scuffed-in, but also gets the

rider adjusted to the “feel” and handling

characteristics of the new tire.

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Tom Bithell: I own a 2007 DRZ400S. It is the perfect do-all dual-sport bike for the guy who can’t afford the spendy high-end models. It is reliable, low maintenance, can go 65 mph on the highway, and yet can take on some serious off-road terrain.

There are plenty of customizations you can do depending on the type of dual-sport riding you do. I ride 80 percent dirt roads traveling all over Idaho, so I put on DOT knobbies, a larger tank, and a rack and saddle bags.

I love the DRZ!Jack Johnson: I have owned an ’05

DRZ400S for three years now, and I love it. I ride trails, two-track, dirt roads, around town, and I have put on a set of 17-inch Supermoto wheels and done a few track days with it. It’s a little Swiss Army bike.

Tracy Payne: I have a 2000 DRZ400E that I bought in 2001. I have performed all the necessary changes to get a California street plate on it (not easy, but I did it!). I have every guard and reinforcement available, a Pro Circuit pipe, an IMS 3.2-gallon tank, Pro Taper handlebars, a Scott’s steering damper, an aftermarket gel seat, a Trail Tech speedo…

Anyway, I love this bike. I have ridden this bike everywhere. I have participated in countless dual-sport events, including the Death Valley 350, the China Lake 250, Barstow to Laughlin—you name it, she’s done it! Thousands of hardcore trail, single-track, sand, forests, etc.

My biggest complaint about the bike is that it is heavy. For a girl, this can be a problem when you drop it (and, whoo boy, I drop it often!). On an off-camber downhill, I have a really hard time picking it up by myself. Also, I have had over-

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heating issues. I have replaced the entire waterpump a couple times because it starts to leak coolant.

All in all, I love this bike. Thousands and thousands of miles, two top ends, countless smiles and laughs, many tears and my DRZ keeps on keepin’ on!

Charles Williamson: I purchased a 2000 DRZ400E in June 2000. With fewer than 200 trail miles on the bike, I hauled

Joe DeWitt: I have been commuting daily on a 2006 ZX-14 for 3-1/2 years and am having the time of my life! My only micro-complaint: It’s a little bit cramped on rides over 230 miles one-way, which occur about once or twice a month.

I can’t recall more than one or two times when I wasn’t at least looking forward to my ride, if not fl at-out being excited to go to work or ride home. On a ZX-14, even the on-ramps are fun: 0 to 65 mph in 3.8

KAWASAKI ZX-14Power And Manners All In One

it to Ouray, Colo., to ride the mountain passes around that area. After logging 700-800 miles that week, I took it to Moab to ride the Shafer Trail, then merging into the White Rim trail and riding all 110 miles on a full tank of gas. Riding along with a friend, a former “A” enduro competitor, he commented that the DRZ400’s handling and power capabilities seemed to make me a better rider.

Properly maintained and ridden within its designed parameters, the DRZ400E or DRZ400S is bulletproof.

My positive comments are:• The large aftermarket support.• Knowledgeable owner/rider input on

the Internet geared toward making a great bike even better.

• Torque and horsepower are suffi cient for intended purposes.

• Adjustable suspension fore/aft (DRZ400E).

• Quick and easy air-fi lter access.My negative comments:• The seat, even the factory gel version,

is uncomfortable after a 30-minute ride. It certainly is not a one-size-fi ts-all perch. Why do consumers have to spend $4,000-plus for a new motorcycle only to fi nd it necessary to buy a more comfortable replacement seat to enjoy riding?

• Many dualsporters would have preferred for Suzuki to have found a way to trim about 25-30 pounds of weight.

• Did I mention that it’s too heavy?

nanoseconds! Then, extremely well-behaved just cruising around.

In talking with other motorcycle friends who are into performance cars, we all agree: Nothing touches the performance-to-cost ratio of a motorcycle!

Dan Campbell: After making some ergonomic changes, my 2007 ZX-14 is the best bike I’ve ridden. I use it as my primary mode of transportation and still get a big smile on my face every time I fi re her up.

The bike is great for commuting, hitting the twisties, or even long multi-day trips.

After owning a few European bikes, the reliability and lower maintenance means a lot more time in the saddle. Right now, I don’t see anything on the market that would make me trade in my 14.

Tom Bithell


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2009 AMA Daytona SportBike Champion


I AMAware is a new AMA campaign

that promotes rider and driver awareness.

On our Facebook page (Facebook.com/

AmericanMotorcyclist), we asked fellow

motorcyclists for safe practices and

strategies that they follow to reduce the

risk of a crash—whether on a bike or

behind the wheel.

Here’s a sample of what they wrote.

Want to contribute? Join the Facebook

conversation at the above address, or

e-mail us at [email protected].

Karen Renkel: Cellphone calls and

texts can wait until I’m done driving! When

there are motorcycles on the road, I let

them go first.

Eric Lloyd: When I’m in my

car, I always check my blind

spot for bikes before changing

lanes.

Sabina Ross: When going on all-day

rides, I take along my clear visor to swap

out with my tinted one for night riding on

the way back home.

Dave Edwards: When I’m

waiting to turn onto another

road, and there’s a car

approaching in the turn lane, I

always wait. There could be a

bike behind the car that you can’t see.

Michael Llanos: I look twice and even

three times when pulling out in an area

that clearly has a blind view.

Particularly if the road has a

higher cruise speed of, say,

50 mph. Here in the suburbs,

the overgrowth is a killer! Also,

I come out with one foot on the gas and

the other the brake. Riders really need to

slow down at blind intersections (T-streets)

if they are familiar with them. Speed is

always a factor!

David Cantey: I’ve totally

stopped texting while driving

and have my passenger look

at Google Maps on the PDA.

On the bike, I expect a vehicle

to come out of every driveway and road

crossing.

Mary O’Mara: I always try to look

ahead and have a way of escape. In

our area, there are a lot of

hidden on-ramps, I check for

oncoming cars to make sure

they’re not merging into me. I

use my bike skills in the car to look ahead.

Wayne Spencer: When I come upon

a group of motorcycle riders in my lane, I

leave twice the distance between us and

give them a wide berth when passing. I

also constantly check my mirrors once I

am ahead to ensure other drivers do the

same.

Bob Dickey: Mirrors show

you what isn’t there. An over-

the-shoulder look shows you

what is there.

Lin Chambers: In our group,

which is made up of all women motorcycle

riders, we don’t drink, text or use a cell

phone while riding. That’s our rule. We are

a no-phone zone!

Dean Mellor: I’m not drinking and

driving, smoking and driving, talking and

driving, texting and driving, eating and

driving. I’m not playing and driving. I’m

driving. It’s your life and mine!

Ron Morris: Most people, including

myself, were always taught to

adjust car mirrors to just barely

see the sides of the car as

you are in your normal seated

position. This is wrong.

Lean in toward the center of the car so

your head is in the middle of the vehicle.

Then, adjust the right mirror to just barely

see the edge of the car. Then lean to the

left and put your head against the driver’s

window and adjust the left mirror to just

barely see the left edge of the car. Sit

directly in the middle then and adjust the

inside mirror normally.

It is a little unnerving at first, but it

eliminates the blind spots. For a test,

watch a car that starts to pass you. You

will see him in the inside mirror then as he

starts to pass, you will see the car leave

the inside mirror and appear in the outside

mirror concurrently. It is really cool the

first time you see this happen.

Even with doing this, I still try to look

over my shoulder, just for safety’s sake.

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This August, Hendrik von Kuenheim

celebrates 25 years with BMW. He

has served in various capacities with

the company, steadily moving up the

corporate ladder in both the automotive

and motorcycle divisions. In 2008 his

devotion, dedication and hard work

was rewarded with promotion to chief

executive officer for BMW motorcycles

worldwide.

Recently, after several hundred

kilometers of demanding off-road riding

in Morocco, he sat down over some

strong Moroccan mint tea to talk with

motojournalist Jeff Buchanan about the

company and products he loves.

American Motorcyclist: Do you see an

evolving trend in motorcycling concerning

displacement, models or customer base?

Hendrik von Kuenheim: In Europe, I

clearly see there will be a forever-growing

demand for urban mobility transportation.

There is a market developing, also

pushed by the European governments in

this direction. You will see in the future

products that, basically from the ground

up, have been designed as electric-

powered vehicles.

AM: You have said that there are two

segments that BMW needs to get into:

scooters and cruiser.

HK: You know, we have naked bikes,

we have enduros—we basically invented

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BMW CEO HEndrik vOn kuEnHEiM Urban Transportation And Cruisers On The Horizon

the enduro segment—we have sportbikes,

we have touring bikes, and in each of

those segments we have enormous

offerings, so we’re well-covered. These

are really two segments. You call it the

scooter market, and I call it the urban

transportation market. Yes, BMW will enter

this, and we will enter that market with

more than just one model.

And the other market is the cruiser

market, which is the single largest

segment in the world of motorcycles

above 500cc. No other segment, not the

supersport bikes, not the enduro bikes,

nothing is as big as the cruisers. Cruisers

are a North American phenomenon. In

North America, roughly 64 percent of

all motorcycles sold above 500cc are

cruisers, so we will have to address this

sooner or later. How? The 100-percent

solution I don’t have yet, but I think 2010

should be the year of our decision.

AM: The GS, is there anything on the

drawing board, something interesting, that

people should know about?

HK: We will constantly update our

bike because it is our bread-and-butter

motorcycle. We created the segment and

we will defend this. There will be a time

coming when even the present GS will

have to be replaced by another GS.

For this we will take a very long time,

to be very, very clear of what we have

and which direction we want to go. We

know exactly the date when there will be

a new GS, this date has been set. It is in

the distant future. Still many, many years

away, but it will be again an absolute

milestone in setting the benchmark again.

Let the competition come on, I’m more

than happy to take on the competition.

Jack Penton,

AMA Life Member

and a member

of the AMA

Motorcycle Hall

of Fame, is the

Association’s

new director of

operations as of

June 1.

Penton reports to AMA President and

CEO Rob Dingman, and assists him in

managing the day-to-day functions of the

AMA. He also oversees the Hall of Fame.

Penton has worked in the motorcycle

industry more than 40 years, starting with

Penton Imports, a brand founded by his

father, AMA Hall of Famer John Penton.

Later, he worked for Kawasaki, MSR and

KTM America. Most recently, Penton

served with Tucker Rocky Distributing, a

world leader in motorcycle merchandise.

On April 24, 1910, the

members of the Tacoma

Motorcycle Club had their first

ride in Eatonville, Wash.

In those days, even club

members saw motorcycling

more as practical transportation than

sport. However, that has changed

significantly over the years. In the 1930s

and ’40s, club activities were centered

around racing, field meets and hillclimbs.

In 1947, the club bought land south of

TaCOMa MCA Century On Two Wheels

Puyallup and built a quarter-

mile dirt oval. Later came the

Graham Speedway, which

featured races nearly every

Friday night for 15 years.

Celebrating 100 years of

history in 2010, the Tacoma

Motorcycle Club has been an

AMA-chartered club for 75

years—since 1935.

Today, the club holds the May 2 Wet

Duck Poker Run, an off-road recreational

event; the June 5 Dinosaur Daze Vintage

Racing Weekend; and the August Dry

Duck Poker Run, a road ride.

More info: TacomaMC.com.

Hendrik von Kuenheim

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UPS&Harrison, Ohio. The elected

offi cials of this small town just

outside of Cincinnati worked

with local businesses to build

the Doug Dunaway Memorial

Motocross Park, which spans

more than eight square miles

and features a 1.2-mile track.

Rockstar Makita Suzuki’s

Ryan Dungey for bringing

home one of the most coveted

trophies in motorsports: the

AMA Supercross No. 1 plate.

The Summit County Off-Road

Riders in Summit County,

Colo., for working with a local

homeowners association to

retain access to a riding area.

Lucas Oil/RoadRacingWorld.

com/RMR Suzuki’s 16-year-

old Elena Myers for becoming

the fi rst woman to win a major

AMA Pro Roadracing event in

the SuperSport class at the

Infi neon round.

Insurance Institute for

Highway Safety, for calling

for an ABS mandate for

motorcycles. ABS can actually

be a hazard in certain riding

conditions.

The Corning, N.Y., Police

Department, for a systematic

crackdown on traffi c laws,

including sound, aimed only

at motorcycles. We don’t

like excessive sound, either,

but plenty of cars sport loud

exhausts or loud stereos, too.

Why focus just on bikes?

DOWNS

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Busabeats qualifi es as a classic when

it comes to websites. This favorite of

karaoke addicts everywhere has been

letting fans lay their own sweet rhymes

over some heavy beats for a couple years

now. New contests, always with a Suzuki

Hayabusa theme, come and go and keep

it fresh.

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To truly experience the Bonneville Salt

Flats, where the world’s speed freaks

converge every year

to set new records for

speed, you need to

see it. It’s one of the

few places on earth

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There’s nothing like getting out and

riding, but

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you’re

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and you need a little vicarious travel,

check out the ever-growing gallery of

AMA-member-submitted pictures at

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yet, submit your own and show the world

your trips.

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p Jacob Cranston during a Collegeboy race

at Delmarva Motorsports Park in Easton, Md.,

at an AMA District 7 (Maryland, Delaware) Gold

Series race, submitted by Bill Evans of Queen

Anne, Md.

u (Clockwise from the left) “Here is a picture

of my son Wyatt’s first race. It was at the

Springfield TT. He was lapped by the field yet

enjoyed it so much we raced all season.”—

Sterling Taber of Mahomet, Ill. Photo by

Flattrak Fotos (Dave Hoenig); a vintage Honda

650 sidecar rig piloted by Lawrence Hanlon

of Manchester, N.H.; dirt-tracker having fun,

submitted by Rob Cavenagh of Mason, Mich.

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Rockstar Makita Suzuki’s Ryan

Dungey has put together one of the

most successful AMA Lites class careers

in recent years, winning both the AMA

SX Lites West Region title and the 250

National Championship in 2009.

This season, Dungey wasted no time

serving notice that his small-bike speed

would translate to the bigger machines,

winning the AMA Supercross premier

class championship in his rookie year.

Although he had already mathematically

locked up the crown, Dungey closed out

his championship run with a 70-point lead

over GEICO Powersports Honda’s Kevin

Windham following his season-ending

win at Las Vegas’ Sam Boyd Stadium on

Saturday, May 8.

“It’s been an amazing year,” Dungey

says. “This has been something I never

thought I would do. It’s something you

have worked so hard for since a kid...

Everything worked out for the best. Roger

[DeCoster] gave me an opportunity of a

lifetime, and everyday I’ll remember that.”

While Dungey was usually the fastest

rider on the track all season, winning

rounds 2, 3, 8, 11, 14 and 17, his title

was partially a function of survival. Early

season favorites, Kawasaki’s Chad Reed

and Yamaha’s James Stewart, were taken

out by injuries, as was Kawasaki-mounted

Ryan Villopoto.

Villopoto had seven wins on the year

and was chipping away at Dungey’s points

lead when he crashed hard in round 14,

ending his season.

Christophe Pourcel Wins East Region

AMA Lites Championship

For the second straight year, Monster

Energy/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki’s Christophe

Pourcel laid claim to the AMA Supercross

Lites Eastern Region Championship.

Pourcel locked up the title at the Houston

round with his fifth win of the season.

The win came with two races remaining

in Pourcel’s remarkable AMA Supercross

Lites career. In SX Lites, Pourcel has 12

wins in 19 starts.

In the West AMA Lites Region, It Was

All Jake Weimer

With Pourcel winning in the East, another

Monster Energy/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki rider,

Jake Weimer, took care of business in the

West. Weimer, of Rupert, Idaho, won four

of eight rounds to win the SX Lites Western

Region title with a 15-point lead over

Honda pilot Wil Hahn.

Weimer also put an exclamation point on

his season with a win at the season-ending

Dave Coombs East/West Shootout, leading

three other Monster Energy/Pro Circuit/

Kawasaki riders to a sweep of the top four

positions at the race.

“I couldn’t be any happier than I am

right now,” Weimer says. “This was my last

Supercross Lites race, and I wrapped up

my career with a win. That No. 1 plate is

heavy, and everyone handles it differently.

I was fired up to come here. Since there

are no points here, I was able to just

concentrate on getting the win. I wanted to

make a statement.”

SupercroSS championS crowned Ryan Dungey Wins 2010 AMA Supercross Title

Ryan Dungey in Vegas.

Bryan Smith

Helping celebrate 35 years of AMA

amateur national championship dirt-track

racing at the AMA Racing Dirt Track Grand

Championships on July 17-23 in Du

Quoin, Ill., will be AMA Pro Racing Grand

National Championship contender Bryan

Smith and famed tuner Bill Werner.

Smith, who will serve as event honoree,

and Werner, as special guest, will meet

and greet the best amateur racers in short-

track, TT, half-mile and Mile competition.

“I remember growing up, going down

there for a week every summer,” says

Smith, who races for Werner’s Monster

Energy Kawasaki Werner Springsteen

Racing Team. “The best in the country

show up there. For the kids, you never

know who you are racing, where they will

be. One could be the world champion

someday.”

Werner, whose team also includes AMA

Motorcycle Hall of Famer Jay Springsteen

as mentor and test rider, says the event

represents the heritage of amateur dirt-

track racing in America.

“For amateur dirt-track racers in

America, it’s the highlight of every

summer, and being involved in the event

is an honor,” says Werner, whose bikes

over the years have won more than 130

Grand Nationals and 13 Grand National

Championships.

The AMA Racing Dirt Track Grand

Championships feature national-

championship racing in TT, short-track,

half-mile and Mile competition. A schedule

and registration information can be found

online at AMARacing.com.

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Obermeyer/Am Pro/FMF Yamaha rider

Charlie Mullin lit the off-road world on

fi re in May. On May 16, he won his third

straight event in the AMA Racing Rekluse

National Enduro Championship Series,

presented by Moose Racing, in Park Hills,

Mo. Then, on May 23, he took his third

overall win at the at the Moose Racing

Mountain Ridge Grand National Cross

Country in Somerset, Pa.

Mullins leads the points race for the

AMA National Enduro Championship

ahead of Husaberg factory pilot Mike

Lafferty. He is second to FMF Makita

Suzuki’s Josh Strang in the battle for

the Grand National Cross Country

Championship.

Mullins credits his recent run of success

to “the elimination of silly mistakes.”

“I’ve been getting a little smarter in my

racing,” Mullins says. “I’m winning, and it’s

great, but there will be a time when I won’t

win, so I’m just going to keep working

hard and take it a race at a time.”

Mullins says he’s learned patience.

“I actually didn’t want to lead right

away,” reveals Mullins. “I was happy to

follow someone and see the lines.”

At the Missouri enduro, Mullins

dominated in diffi cult conditions. He won

four of the six tests outright, and then tied

FMF/KTM’s Cory Buttick for the fastest

time in one other. In all, Mullins fi nished

the 65-mile event almost a minute faster

than Buttrick, who won the fourth test.

“The track held up well and I just tried

to ride to the best of my abilities and

things turned out well,” Mullins said after

the enduro. “I did what I wanted to do, and

that was win and get in the points lead.

This event had a little bit of everything.

The club did a great job.” — Shan Moore

The lesson learned from the fi rst

electric vs. gas dirtbike race? Regardless

of the means of propulsion, it’s still the

rider more than the machine.

Riding a Quantya Track electric

motorcycle, Drew Gosselaar won the fi rst

AMA-sanctioned electric vs. gasoline

dirtbike race, dubbed the Energy

Crisiscross (ECX), held at the Orleans

Arena in Las Vegas, Nev., as part of the

2010 MiniMoto SX.

Electric bikes dominated the tight track,

claiming the top six spots.

Gosselaar says he wasn’t turned off by

the electric power delivery of the Quantya.

“Even though Quantya is a new

company, they’ve made an all-around

awesome machine,” he says. “I was

comfortable from the second I got on the

bike. It just shows the potential of electric

bikes and how easy they are to ride.”

The ECX featured top talent. In addition

to Gosselaar, two-time AMA SX Lites

Champion Damon Huffman raced a

Quantya, while former MX World Champ

Sebastian Tortelli lined up on a Zero.

Finishing behind Gosselaar were

fi ve racers on Zero motorcycles. Chris

Dvoracek took second, while Tortelli

claimed third. In all, 10 electric bikes—fi ve

bikes from Zero and fi ve from Quantya—

and 10 four-stroke gasoline-powered

machines attempted to qualify for the

Friday night main event.

The rules for the ECX restricted the

modifi cations to the gas-powered bikes

and required the stock frame, forks,

cylinder, carburetor and engine cases.

For more information on the ECX and

MiniMoto SX, which also featured some

of the world’s top mini-bike racers, see

MiniMotoSX.com.

Standing in line is lame. Skip the lines

this year and use AMARaceManager.

com instead. It’s your link to quick

and easy signup for several 2010 AMA

Racing Championship events.

There, you can create an account

and register for the July 9-11 AMA

Racing Vintage Grand Championships,

the July 12-14 AMA Racing Road Race

Grand Championships and the July

17-23 AMA Racing Dirt Track Grand

Championships.

CHARLIE MULLINS LIGHTS IT UPWinning In Enduros, GNCCs

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The 2010 AMA Arenacross Series came

to a close with the AMA Arenacross Grand

Championships on Saturday, May 8.

Held at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas,

Nev.,following the Monster Energy AMA

Supercross fi nale, the event featured the

nation’s top amateur Arenacross racers.

Austin Coon, of Spencer, W.Va., and

Beau Judge, of Carmichael, Calif., each

won a pair of national titles. Coon took the

AX Lites Intermediate and AX Intermediate

titles and Judge the Over 30 and Over 25.

Other AMA National Champions from

the event are: 65cc (7-11), Timmy Crosby,

Confl uence, Pa., KTM; 85cc (9-15), Peyton

Malugani, Weatherford, Texas, Kawasaki;

65cc (7-9), Austin Black, Portland, Ore.,

KTM; AX Lites Novice, Tanner Sisson,

Lemoore, Calif., Honda; Over 35, Michael

Faulk, Connersville, Ind., Kawasaki; 50cc

(4-6), Corey Passieu, McDonald, Pa.,

Cobra; 85cc Super Mini, Chase Marquier,

New Castle, Okla., Suzuki; 85cc (7-

11), Mitchell Harrison, Brighton, Mich.,

Kawasaki; AX Novice, Jake Mohnike,

Templeton, Calif., Yamaha; Pit Bike AM,

Tyson Clark, Carlisle, Pa., Kawasaki;

Women, Lauren Volentir, Thornton,

Colo., Kawasaki; 50cc (7-8), Bobby

Semelsberger, Windber, Pa., Cobra; 85cc

(12-15), Logan Karnow, Vermillion, Ohio,

KTM; Collegeboy (16-24), Bretton Engle,

Tahoka, Texas, Yamaha; Girls (9-13),

Allyson Miller, Spring Creek, Nev., Suzuki;

Schoolboy, Zachary Jaynes, Princeton,

Texas, Yamaha; 65cc (10-11), Javier

Loera, San Jose, Calif., Honda; Over 40,

Jack Lambert, Kansas City, Mo., Yamaha;

Expert, Bracken Hall, Rock Springs, Wyo.,

Honda.

Log on to Arenacross.com for more

information, as well as a full list of results.

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Introduced in 1953, the Harley-Davidson

KR 750 had a long and distinguished life

as a dirt-track and roadracing weapon.

From 1954, when AMA Motorcycle Hall

of Famer Joe Leonard won his fi rst title

aboard the machine, through 1962, KR

Harleys won the AMA Grand National

Championship every year.

This immaculately restored 1959 Harley-

Davidson KR 750 is the last motorcycle

that Leonard raced before embarking on

what became a successful car-racing

career. And it’s only through luck that

it landed in the hands of afi cionado Al

Bergstrom.

Riding machines built by Tom Sifton,

Leonard won the AMA Grand National

Championship in 1954, 1956 and 1957,

and lost by only one point to fellow Hall

of Famer Carroll Resweber in 1958. But

in 1959 Sifton stopped building engines

to concentrate on his cam manufacturing

business, and Leonard technically became

a privateer.

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Leonard won Daytona twice, Laconia three times and the Peoria TT seven times on machines similar to this during his career. This particular side-valve, V-twin, 45-cubic-inch (750cc) motorcycle—restored by Marsh Runyon who tuned Leonard’s bikes from 1959 through ’62—won four GNC races.

Bergstrom acquired this bike from a Los Angeles dealership after it was traded in on a Honda trike. The dealer wanted $3,500 and Bergman bought it, not knowing how special the bike really was.

The bike came with a bunch of papers, including one with the phone number of former fl at-track racer Marshall “Digger” Helm. In 1962, Helm was traveling with Leonard on the dirt-track circuit. At the end of the season, he bought Leonard’s bike from Monte’s Harley-Davidson of Fresno, Calif., the dealership that had sponsored Leonard.

In other words, the motorcycle Bergstrom had purchased wasn’t just raced by Helm—it was also the last motorcycle raced by a dirt-track legend.

“I worked on it when it was fresh and new, and then I was able to put it back to the way Joe rode it, which was pretty neat,” Runyon says.

The result is a perfect period piece, preserved just as it was raced in ’62, right down to the hundreds of holes drilled in every possible part to shave critical ounces.

This KR, through the generosity of Bergstrom, is just one of the many exciting machines on display at the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame at AMA headquarters in Pickerington, Ohio.

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Despite appearances to the contrary,

professional motocross is a sport of

precision and finesse. Few riders have

achieved prominence through sheer

guts and abandon, and fewer still have

maintained that prominence over time.

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To all who saw him race, however, there

was one AMA Motorcycle Hall of Famer

who had an unprecedented ability to ride

wide open, adhere to his own laws of

physics and some way, somehow, stay in

perfect, beautiful chaotic control.

Yes, “controlled chaos” had a poster

boy, and it was Danny “Magoo” Chandler.

Chandler’s unorthodox and never-quit

racing style won him legions of loyal fans

at home and abroad. Chandler was known

as one of the boldest riders of any era. He

often attempted jumps on his motocross

bikes that were previously considered

impossible, endearing him to fans and

intimidating his competitors.

Chandler, who passed away at the

age of 50 on May 4 due to complications

from a long-time health issue, was born in

Sacramento, Calif., on Oct. 5, 1959, into

a racing family. He started riding when he

was 4 and first competed when he was 9.

Chandler earned his pro license in 1976

and his first factory ride in 1979, with

Maico. His breakout year was 1981. Riding

a privateer Suzuki, he finished ninth in the

AMA 125cc National Motocross series.

Then, on a Honda, he won the Trans-USA

500cc support series, which earned him a

spot on the factory team for 1982.

Chandler won four AMA 500cc outdoor

Nationals over the next two seasons,

finishing third overall in 1983.

At the end of 1982, Chandler was part

of the American team for the Trophies des

Nations and the Motocross of Nations.

On the smooth and fast racing circuits

of Gaildorf, Germany, and Wohlen,

Switzerland, Chandler came through and

won every moto in both events. Chandler

became the only rider ever to win both

motos of both events in the same year.

He returned to the U.S. as a bona fide

national and international MX hero.

Chandler’s racing career came to a

premature end when he was left paralyzed

after a crash at the Paris Supercross in

December of 1985. Despite his disability,

Chandler became a positive influence

on thousands of people by giving talks

on his life story at schools, hospitals

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IT’S MALCOLM

SMITH’SWORLD

The Rest Of Us Just Ride In ItWords by Grant Parsons

Photos by Holly Carlyle


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On three separate occasions, Malcolm Smith has sworn off motorcycles entirely.

Lucky for Malcolm—and for us—he’s always come back.

Blame adrenaline. Because without that craving, which only could be fi lled by riding off-road motorcycles with blazing speed through some of the world’s most challenging terrain, Malcolm Smith may never have become one of motorcycling’s most highly regarded icons.

That means there would be no appearance in the legendary movie “On Any Sunday.” Or nine medals in the International Six Days Enduro. Or six victories in the Baja 1000, and four more in the Baja 500. There would be no Malcolm Smith Racing gear, or Malcolm Smith Motorsports dealership in Riverside, Calif, no induction into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame. And he wouldn’t be this year’s grand marshal at AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days, July 9-11, at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio.

And this particular afternoon, there would be no easy-going guy relaxing at his comfortable home in the hills above Riverside, reminiscing on how he somehow accomplished all that despite giving up on motorcycles three times.

“It’s almost like it was fate,” he says, offering the trademark smile that millions of motorcycling fans remember from “On Any Sunday.” I’ve been extremely lucky, and it’s all come from riding motorcycles. I have no idea what it’s like to be a normal person. I’d be bored out of my mind as a normal person.”

The key, he notes, has been a lifelong love affair with motorcycling that was jumpstarted when he was 13 by, of all things, a scooter that wouldn’t even run. Born on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia, Malcolm fi rst noticed motorcycles on trips into Vancouver, but it wasn’t until he moved with his family to Southern California at the age of 5 that the obsession took hold.

“I had always loved working on things that were mechanical—ever since I can remember,” Malcolm says. “I was walking home from school one day, and there was

a garage on the way that was open, and I noticed a Powell motor scooter, all apart and in pieces. I had always loved working on things that were mechanical, and my interest was in putting it back together and hearing it run. I don’t even remember thinking about riding it.”

The man said he’d sell it for $50, so Malcolm went out and earned the money by mowing lawns and pulling weeds through the neighborhood. Only problem is that when he came back to buy the scooter, the guy had changed his mind and said he wouldn’t sell.

It broke the young boy’s heart, and he did what anyone else would do in that situation.

“I went home and cried, and my mother took pity on me,” he says. “She just spoiled me, and she took me down to a Lambretta dealership downtown, and we got a 125cc model, a stripped-down ’53 model that was a holdover from the year before.”

After a brief lesson from the dealer, John Burr, in the alley behind the shop on the use of controls, a scooter rider was born.

Living in a farming community near the San Bernardino National Forest, Malcolm rode the scooter through sand washes and orange groves, through the hills and everywhere. Things really got interesting when a friend bought a 150cc scooter, and the two would race.

He learned how to work on the scooter, particularly the carburetors. Lacking knobby tires, Malcolm took screw-on athletic cleats leftover from the local high school football team and screwed them into the tires. They worked pretty well, Smith recalls.

“We’d ride to the base of the mountains, and then ride up to the snow level,” he says. “I was up that way a few years ago on the same roads, and I just can’t believe I ever got that Lambretta up there. Some of it is pretty steep.”

If the Lambretta taught him ingenuity, his next bike taught him riding skills.

“It was a ’49 Matchless single with a rigid frame,” he says. “I was kind of a small kid, though, so I couldn’t kickstart the engine. I didn’t weigh enough. So I’d coast it down the hill to fi re it and go off riding. If I ever killed the

One of the most iconic and outgoing riders in

motorcycling, Malcolm Smith became famous

for his starring role in “On Any Sunday” in 1971.

But that’s only one chapter of a life spent getting

the most from adrenaline, speed and a never-

say-die outlook.

July 2010 37


engine, I couldn’t start it, and I’d have to walk

all the way home to get some friends to help

me push-start it. I really learned how not to

stall a motor while riding.”

The Matchless, in turn, led to his first

motorcycling job. After becoming known

among local motorcycle stores for his

dumpster-diving behind dealerships to find

parts, one of them, Pappy Moss, offered him

a job sweeping floors.

“After sweeping the floors for a while, I

graduated to washing parts,” he says. “We

had these 5-gallon buckets of gas, and

I didn’t wear gloves, and I was washing

magnetos that would make sparks. To this

day I can’t believe that I never caught myself

on fire.”

He also started using his mechanical skills,

putting together some of the first Honda

step-through 50cc machines to arrive in the

States.

“The real mechanics didn’t want anything

to do with them, so at night after everyone

went home, I’d clean an area of the

dealership, open up five or six crates at a

time and put 10 bikes in a circle and start

assembling them,” he says. “They’d come in

the next morning and see what I’d done and

say, ‘My God, how long were you here.’ I’d

tell them 2:30 in the morning, but I was really

home by 8:30 at night—and I was making

more money than they were in a day!”

The racing part actually came pretty

easily—after an initial crash in his first race.

“It was a hare scrambles,” Malcolm

remembers. “I knew how to win races: you

held the throttle wide open, and you went

faster than anyone else, right? Well, we

started in a field and it narrowed down to

a road, and when everyone else shut the

throttle off, I was still going wide open, trying

to pass everyone on the outside. I think I took

out about five guys when I crashed, but all

I could think of was getting up and getting

going again. I think I crashed another eight or

10 times in that race.”

Driving home, he had a revelation.

“I lost the race by 8 minutes, and I figured

I was on the ground about 10 minutes,” he

said. “If I wasn’t on the ground, I would have

won the race. So they had a race the next

month at the same place, with the same

start. This time I was smart. I never hit the

ground, and I won the race.”

The insight stuck with him throughout his

racing: ride smart.

“It’s funny,” he says. “I never had to work

at riding fast. It all just came naturally. What

I had to work at was controlling myself so I

didn’t go too fast. And throughout my career

I’ve reverted to that stupidity from time to

time. I have to work to keep that in check.”

It was about then that Malcolm had his

first bad crash while play-riding with a friend.

The two of them crashed head-on. Malcolm

broke his lower left leg in seven places,

and his upper one in three. It was bad

enough that the doctors were talking about

amputating the limb. His mother, however,

sought a second opinion at a better hospital

and the leg was spared.

Spooked, that was the first time Malcolm

swore off riding motorcycles. And his

motorcycling career could have ended

right there, with Malcolm going on to do

something else entirely, and we’d never have

heard of him. In fact, he even started going to

college to study to be an aircraft engineer.

Of course, the story doesn’t end there.

Malcolm returned to riding again after a long

rehabilitation on his leg. And he returned to

racing, which turned out to be a very good

thing indeed. Racing a Greeves, he made a

name for himself. That opened the door for

his next big break—the one that has forever

aligned him with the Husqvarna brand.

By this time, Malcolm had met Norm

McDonald and Kenny Johnson of K&N

Motorcycles. He had dropped out of school

to start his own business at the age of 25.

He was running the service department at

the shop.

“I was working one day when this guy

sticks his head in the window looking for me,”

Malcolm says. “He had a French beret cap

on, and he said, ‘My name is Edison Dye,

and I’m going to import Husqvarnas, and

I’m looking for a rider to race them.’ I knew

what Huskys were from reading the English

magazines, and I said, ‘Let’s go talk.’”

The problem was, Malcolm didn’t have

much confidence in the bike he saw in the

back of Dye’s truck—at least at first glance.

“It had this spindly little frame,” he says. “I

was kind of running it down, and he wasn’t

getting anywhere with me.”

Then Dye offered to pay Malcolm’s way to

race in the International Six Days Trial (ISDT—

now known as the International Six Days

Enduro, or ISDE) if he’d ride his bikes for a

year. Malcolm was a fan of this European off-

“I never had to work at riding fast.

It all just came naturally.”

—Malcolm Smith

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road racing. In this ISDT, riders must maintain

their own race bikes over the course of a

torturous multi-day event, turning Malcolm’s

tuning skills into an advantage. Malcolm

agreed to test the bike.

“We went up to Nevada State Mountain,

unloaded the bike, and I did one lap on the

course and came in and said, ‘You’ve hired

yourself a rider,’” Malcolm says. “The bike

was that much better. That Saturday, there

was a big race, and I got third overall on the

little 250, and that was when 650s were the

norm in the desert. The key was the average

speed. The next weekend I won the overall.”

He was impressed enough to become

a Husqvarna dealer, buying the bikes from

Dye, putting them on the dealership sales

floor, and splitting the profits with McDonald.

Malcolm bought a Dodge van, put in some

shelves, and every weekend at the races he

would sell parts before and after the races,

and race in-between.

Eventually, the time came for the ISDT,

which was held in Sweden. Dye bought

Malcolm a plane ticket to Stockholm, and

lined up a VW van for him to drive to Oslo for

the race.

“The only problem was that he didn’t know

what color the van was, or where it was

parked at the airport,” Malcolm says. “He just

gave me the keys and told me to keep trying

vans until I found it. Well, I got there at 2:30

in the morning, in the rain, and do you know

how many different VW vans were in the

parking lot?”

He eventually found the van and made it

to the race. Unfortunately, it didn’t go as well

as he would have liked. “I was too over-

enthusiastic,” Malcolm says. “I hit the ground

a lot. I broke my throttle cable, so I held the

throttle wide open and tried to ride using the

kill switch. I was carrying a cable, and if I had

stopped right away and put it in, I would have

stayed in contention.”

Still, he was hooked.

“I loved it,” Malcolm says. “I loved that

the rider was the only one who could take

care of the motorcycle, and I’ve always

been intrigued by flying up over a blind rise

or around a corner and not knowing what’s

coming, but having to deal with it. I really

loved calculating all you needed to do in

those surprise situations.”

The next year, Malcolm broke his

leg a second time, and again swore off

motorcycles. Of course, that second vow

didn’t last, and he was soon back racing.

The dealership family: Malcolm’s wife, Joyce,

his son, Alexander, and his daughter, Ashley.



Again, it was a good thing, because the next

phase of his motorcycling career brought him

fame as the star of “On Any Sunday.”

Still, that life-changing experience

almost didn’t happen. At the time, Bruce

Brown, who was filming and producing the

movie, was well known for the surfing film

“Endless Summer” and was a customer of

Malcolm’s. But when Brown was ready to

start filming “On Any Sunday,” Malcolm had

just bought out the entire dealership and was

overwhelmed.

“I told him I just couldn’t do it, and he said

he’d call me back in about a month when

they were filming. Luckily, by then, I had

enough time to get things under control and

I could do it.”

Filming the movie was a blast, Malcolm

says, but he had no idea that he’d have such

a big part in the film. “There were only three

days of real shooting, but Bruce came to a lot

of the races and filmed in addition,” he says.

His best memory of the time was the day

Bruce shot the closing scenes of Malcolm,

racer Mert Lawwill and actor Steve McQueen

play-riding on the beach. Ironically, that shoot

almost didn’t happen either.

“That was shot at Camp Pendleton, and

when Bruce called up to get permission,

he had been told, ‘No way, absolutely

not!’” Malcolm remembers. “When he told

McQueen, McQueen calls up and says, ‘This

is Steve McQueen, and we’d like to do a

movie with some motorcycles and ride on

the base,’ and the commanding officer says,

‘Yes, sir. When would you like to do it, sir?’”

The rest, as they say, is history. The movie

came out, Husqvarna sales doubled and

Malcolm became an overnight sensation to

motorcyclists everywhere, gaining a legion of

fans—including his mother.

“She was a proper schoolteacher, and

she never liked my racing, but once ‘On Any

Sunday’ came out, she was all, ‘My son, the

motorcycle racer!’”

The movie became an icon for motor-

cyclists.

“I honestly thought I’d be in the movie for

a few minutes,” he says. “I had no idea. I still

meet people at trade shows, and they tell

me, ‘That movie, you and McQueen—that’s

why I’m in the motorcycle business.’ It’s

amazing.”

After the movie, Malcolm continued racing,

excelling as usual and ultimately earning a

total of nine medals in the ISDE—eight of

them gold, awarded to those finishing in the

highest bracket.

It was in 1974 that Malcolm swore off

racing for a third time after another serious

motorcycling accident.

You can probably guess what happened:

He didn’t stop riding, or racing. What he

did, though, was concentrate more on

growing his dealership, and on building

up a line of accessories that started with

nylon-lined throttle cables imported from

Europe and soon branched into clothing and

more. Malcolm Smith Racing Products was

born—an enthusiast-driven product line he

eventually sold to Tucker Rocky Distributing.

Malcolm also focused more on off-road

car racing in Baja. He’s a six-time winner

of the famed Baja 1000—three times on a

motorcycle and three times in a car. He’s also

a four-time winner of the Baja 500, a two-

time winner of the Mint 400, and a two-time

winner of the Roof of Africa Rallye.

Over time, the dealership became quite

successful, and two years ago Malcolm

was able to relocate to a new facility in

Riverside. It’s an impressive place just off the

91 freeway, with a massive sales floor and a

state-of-the-art service area. There’s even a

special area on the second level that honors

his accomplishments and features several of

his racebikes and displays that originally were

part of the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame’s

“Malcolm!” exhibit. He counts himself as

fortunate that he’s able to work with his wife,

Joyce, son, Alexander, and daughter, Ashley,

every day.

“The keys to this have been pretty simple,”

Malcolm says. “A lot of it is picking the right

people to do the job. I’m not good at sales.

I can get people excited about the bike, but

I can’t ask for the sale well. I’m not good

at accounting. Parts I’m OK at, and service

I’m OK at. But picking the right people is

important.”

The other part that people underestimate,

he says, is persistence and tenacity.

AMA Motorcycle Hall of Famer Gunnar

Lindstrom (left), a former motocross

star and current Husqvarna expert,

visits with Malcolm.

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“A lot of it is just keeping at it,” he

says. “You just keep at it, and you get

smarter. Running a business is like a

long-distance race. I’ve been in last place

at the start, and I’ll be behind everybody,

but I won’t give up. I’ll just keep pounding

on, pretending I’m going to be leading.

And pretty soon, the lead guy has a

problem, or the next guy might have a

problem, and pretty soon I might be up to

winning the race again.”

Still, he says, like with racing, there are

no guarantees, as the tough economy in

recent years has shown.

“The motorcycle business is not a

cakewalk as it was for many years,”

he says. “Until about two years ago,

it seemed like you couldn’t miss, and

you were patting yourself on the back

for the great job you were doing—but it

wasn’t you, it was circumstances. These

days, you have to be more careful, more

creative.”

It sure didn’t help, he notes, when

the federal government decided to ban

dirtbike sales to kids when motorcycles

got caught up in a law aimed at lead

levels in children’s toys. Working with

the AMA and others in the motorcycle

industry to fight the ban, Malcolm came

up with his own brand of high-profile

response in 2009. He staged a press

conference and sold a couple dirtbikes

and an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) for kids,

making the point that the machines had

no place being included in the ban.

Yet, to hear Malcolm tell it, as he

approaches the age of 70—he’s 69

now—he admits to mellowing a bit.

He’s devoted more time to a

fundraising project for his beloved Baja.

His newest endeavor, under the name

Malcolm Smith Adventures Inc., leads

a fund-raising ride through some of the

best off-road riding Baja has to offer.

He’s raised hundreds of thousands

of dollars to build an orphanage in Valle

Trinidad. It’s home to more than 50

children—the youngest of whom, from

the orphanage’s early days, are now in

college.

“I really wanted to give back to the

people in Baja,” he says. “They’ve always

been so nice.”

And he still trail rides, and races

buggies off-road. In April, he competed in

the Mexican 1000 Rally, a race for vintage

cars from Mexicali to La Paz in Baja,

and finished third. He raced the Bel-Ray

Bullet, a car that he and Bud Feldcamp

originally fielded in the mid-’70s,

making the car-and-driver combination

appropriately vintage.

At his house in the hills above

Riverside, it’s clear that motorcycling has

been good to Malcolm, that his speed

on the race course and his tenacity in

business have paid off. He has a garage

full of motorcycles and off-road racers

that are appropriately drool-worthy.

He lives in a sprawling, well-manicured

orange-tree-scented home with his family.

But the secret for him, he says, is not

dwelling on what’s happened already.

There are times, such as when he’s

asked about his accomplishments, when

he’s happy to oblige and look back, but

generally, not.

“I may have been lucky, but I never

really look at it backward,” he says. “I look

at what’s next. What am I going to do

next? What’s around the next corner?”•

History Of A LegendFueling The Two-Stroke Revolution

In the United States, the Husqvarna

brand —this year’s AMA Vintage Motorcycle

Days Marque of the Year—is closely tied to

Malcolm Smith, who helped establish the

motorcycles as formidable off-road racebikes

in the 1960s and ’70s. However, the compa-

ny’s history dates back centuries. In fact, the

company started in 1689 when Husqvarna

produced munitions in Sweden.

It wasn’t until 1903 that the company

began selling motorcycles, fitting engines

from makers into Husqvarna frames. Then,

in 1920, Husqvarna began building its own

engine—a 550cc, four-stroke, 50-degree

side-valve V-twin.

Another early milestone for the company

was the legendary “Svartkvarna” built in

1946. It was a lightweight, reliable two-stroke

that could endure hard use. The machine

established a reputation that would define

Husqvarna for decades.

That reputation was mostly written in the

1960s. The two-stroke revolution had yet to

take hold in the United States. U.S. riders

were still tackling the woods and deserts

on converted Harley-Davidsons, Triumphs

and BSAs. AMA Hall of Famer Edison Dye

became enthralled with European motocross,

ultimately teaming with Malcolm Smith to

raise the brand’s profile in the States.

As part of his early marketing, Dye orga-

nized visits to the United States by the reign-

ing Swedish world motocross champion,

Torsten Hallman, who has since also taken

a seat in the Hall of Fame. He came over for

U.S. races and won every moto he entered.

The following year, Dye brought Hallman

over again, along with world championship

motocross stars Lars Larsson, Joel Robert

and Roger DeCoster, each of whom would

later earn a spot in the Hall of Fame.

European heroes racing on American

shores not only helped sell motorcycles, they

laid the foundation for the growth of moto-

cross on tracks across America.

This year, the AMA will celebrate the

storied off-road history of both Husqvarna

and Malcolm Smith at AMA Vintage Mo-

torcycle Days, July 9-11, at the Mid-Ohio

Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio. For

more information on the event, see

AMAVintageMotorcycleDays.com.

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Sean Hilbert was very clear in his written testimony to members of Congress: You’ve made a horrible mistake.

The president of Cobra Moto in Hillsdale, Mich., Hilbert builds competition-level mini motocross bikes, and he fears that his company has less than a year to live because of an unfair law passed two years ago that could end the sale of kids’ dirtbikes.

“As the law is written, we will be closing our doors in May of 2011 because the costs of complying with this law will outweigh our yearly revenues (of about $5 million),” Hilbert told the U.S. House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection on April 29.

He was speaking about the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) of 2008, which bans the making, importing, distributing or selling of any product intended for children 12 and under that contains more than a specifi ed amount of lead in any accessible part.

Aimed at children’s toys, the law ensnared kids’ dirtbikes and all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), as trace levels of lead can be found in parts such as batteries and brake calipers. The law will be enforced beginning May 1, 2011.

The CPSIA also requires all children’s products be tested by an independent laboratory approved by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and be certifi ed that they comply with the law. Plus, the law requires that the product continue to undergo periodic testing.

“On behalf of our 30 employees and nearly 100 family members who rely on Cobra for

their livelihood and medical benefi ts, we urge the committee to draft a law that will allow exceptions for products like ours that pose absolutely no risk of lead ingestion,” he says.

“And we suggest you implement it in such a way that small companies can afford to apply for, and be granted, such an exception,” he adds.

Luckily, thanks to motorcyclists like Hilbert, along with AMA members and lobbyists from the AMA and the motorcycle industry, there may be a solution to this misguided law.

At presstime, a new law was being considered, and it was moving rapidly through committees of the U.S. House.

NEW FIX-IT LAW PROPOSED

The U.S. House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection held a hearing on April 29 to consider the proposed Consumer Product Safety Enhancement Act (CPSEA) of 2010. Drafted by U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), the law is intended to fi x problems caused by the CPSIA.

“Despite recent efforts by the [CPSC] to clarify and improve implementation of the [CPSIA], a number of problems persist,” subcommittee staff told committee members in a memorandum dated April 19.

“Some affected manufacturers have asserted that there are some products that require lead and do not pose a serious threat to public health or safety,” the staff wrote. “Others have claimed that the law’s lead requirements should not apply to used

children’s clothing.“In addition, some affected industry

members have asserted that the third-party testing requirements are overly burdensome for smaller businesses and that alternative testing could be used without compromising public health or safety,” the staff wrote.

As a result, the staff said, the CPSEA is being proposed to:• Give the CPSC fl exibility to grant

exemptions from the CPSIA’s lead limits for certain products, components and materials.

• Provide relief for thrift stores and other retailers from the lead limits through an exclusion for certain used children’s products, and to apply a more stringent lead limit that takes effect in August 2011 only to new products.

• Provide relief for small manufacturers and businesses that may not be able to meet the CPSIA’s testing requirements by allowing the CPSC to approve alternative testing requirements.

RELIEF NEEDED QUICKLY

Paul Vitrano, general counsel for the Motorcycle Industry Council (MIC), painted lawmakers a bleak picture in his testimony about the state of the youth motorcycle and ATV industry because of the CPSIA, and the dire effect it is having on young riders.

The MIC is an industry trade association of manufacturers and distributors of motorcycles and ATVs, parts and accessories, and members of allied trades such as insurance, fi nance and investment,

For two years, the AMA, its members and others in the motorcycling community have been fighting a congressional action that threatens to end the sale of kids’ dirtbikes. Now, the logjam appears to be

breaking up, with a new, fast-moving bill that has the potential to fix the mess. The key is making sure the right bill moves forward.

By Bill Kresnak

AN END TO THE BAN?New Federal Legislation Could Fix The Ban On Kids’ Dirtbikes



media companies and consultants.“The CPSIA has effectively banned the

sale of age-appropriate youth ATVs and motorcycles because of the lead content of certain components,” Vitrano testifi ed. “As a result of its broad reach, the Act has inadvertently crippled an industry unrelated to the toy manufacturers that were the intended target of the lead provision.

“In addition, the resulting ban has resulted in unsafe situations for youth off-highway enthusiasts,” he said.

That’s because with no small kids’ machines available, children who still want to ride risk climbing aboard full-sized machines that may be too big for them to safely handle.

Vitrano noted that the CPSC recognized that risk to children, so it issued a stay of enforcement of lead-content limits until May 2011. But, he said, that hasn’t resulted in children being able to get appropriately sized machines.

“Due to the risks of selling under the stay, many manufacturers and dealers are no longer selling youth-model off-highway vehicles (OHVs) and there is now a limited availability of these products for consumers,” Vitrano testifi ed. “Half of the major ATV manufacturers are no longer selling youth models, despite the stay.”

Vitrano argued that relief is needed because the lead content in metal parts of ATVs and motorcycles poses no risk to kids, and the CPSIA puts kids in more danger because it forces them to consider larger machines since only a limited number of youth-size machines are now available. Vitrano also noted that the CPSIA is unnecessarily hurting the economy and jobs.

“(The) MIC estimates that a complete ban on youth-model vehicles would result in about $1 billion in lost economic value in the retail marketplace every year,” he said.

PROPOSED LAW NEEDS

CLARIFICATION

Offi cials representing the motorcycle and ATV industry, and the AMA and ATVA, which represent riders, are optimistic now that lawmakers are considering the issue as the clock ticks down to May 2011. Some say the CPSEA and a committee report accompanying the measure should fi x the problems with the CPSIA. But others caution that the proposed law is still too ambiguous and believe the legislation’s language needs to be strengthened.

Ed Moreland, AMA senior vice president for government relations, praises lawmakers for tackling the issue. But he argues that the CPSEA proposal needs to be further refi ned to avoid future confl icts.

“With the enormity of the economic hardship caused to families that recreate, and the industry, enthusiasts remain concerned that the current language of the CPSEA does not effectively address the issues that exist, and may create additional barriers to industry and true market relief,” Moreland said in written testimony.

Specifi cally, Moreland believes there are

Path To DisasterConcerns about certain children’s toys containing dangerous amounts of lead ultimately produced a federal law that effectively bans the sale of kids’ motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles (ATVs). Here’s how we got to where we are today.

Sources: U.S. House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection; AMA

2007 The U.S. House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection holds hearings on the safety of children’s products following

numerous recalls of children’s toys due to unsafe lead levels. On Nov. 1, Subcommittee Chairman Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) and others introduce H.R. 4040—the Consumer Product Safety Modernization Act of 2007, which later becomes the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) of 2008.

2006 A 4-year-old Minneapolis boy dies of lead poisoning after swallowing a charm given away with athletic shoes. The Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention recommends restricting or eliminating non-essential uses of lead in consumer products.

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March 2008 The Senate passes an amended version of H.R. 4040. The measure is later massaged by House and Senate conferees and then approved by Congress.

Aug. 14, 2008 President George Bush signs H.R. 4040 into law effective Feb. 10, 2009. The law calls for a ban on the making, importing, distributing or selling of any product intended for children 12 and under that contains more than 600 parts per million of lead in any accessible part. Manufacturers and others must have their products tested at government-approved labs to certify they comply with the law.

Feb. 5, 2009 The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) rejects a request by the National Association of Manufacturers’ CPSC Coalition to delay the law.

Feb. 10, 2009 The CPSIA takes effect.March 17, 2009 U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-Mont.) introduces H.R. 1587 to amend the CPSIA to exempt kids’ dirtbikes and ATVs. U.S. Sen. Jon Testor (D-Mont.) introduces S. 608 to exempt machines meant for kids 7 and older.

March 19, 2009 In an act of defi ance, AMA Motorcycle Hall of Famer Malcolm Smith sells two 65cc motorcycles and a youth ATV at a rally he organizes at his dealership despite the ban.

May 1, 2009 The CPSC delays enforcement of the CPSIA until May 1, 2011.

July 7, 2009 U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-Mont.) attaches an amendment to the Consolidated Appropriations Act that would bar the CPSC from using funds to enforce the CPSIA as it relates to kids’ dirtbikes and ATVs. It’s later removed. Aug. 14, 2009 Under the CPSIA, the

threshold of allowable lead in children’s toys drops to 300 parts per million. It will drop to 100 parts after Aug. 14, 2011.Dec. 2009 The CPSC delays the law’s

lead-testing requirements until Feb. 10, 2011.

Jan. 15, 2010 In a report to Congress, the CPSC says it can’t exempt kids’ dirtbikes and ATVs from the CPSIA unless the law is changed and asks for fl exibility.

April 29, 2010 The U.S. House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection holds a hearing on the proposed Consumer Product Safety Enhancement Act (CPSEA) of 2010 meant to address the unintended consequences of the CPSIA.

April 1, 2009 Chase Yentzer, then 6, says at a Washington, D.C., rally in support of overturning the ban on the sale of youth dirtbikes and ATVs: “I ride dirtbikes with my family. I race dirtbikes. Please give me my dirtbike back. I promise not to eat it.”

April 3, 2009 AMA President Rob Dingman, AMA Government Relations head Ed Moreland, plus MX Sports and Cobra offi cials meet with federal offi cials and lawmakers to ask for relief.

April 17, 2009 The CPSC rejects a request for an exclusion for kids’ machines.

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too many areas in the proposed law that

remain unclear, or too many phrases that are

undefined, which could later cause problems.

The proposed law stipulates a three-part

test to delineate the criteria that must be met

for a product to be exempt from the CPSIA’s

lead limits: (1) accessible lead is required in

the manufacture of a product because it is

not practicable or technologically feasible

to remove it, (2) the lead-containing part is

not likely to be mouthed or ingested, and (3)

there is no measureable adverse impact on

public health.

In believing that the proposed law needs

to be fine-tuned, Moreland notes, for

example, that the phrase “not practicable”

is not defined in the actual legislation, which

effectively means that no one would be able

to prove that it is “not practicable” to make a

part with less lead.

Cobra’s Hilbert says that, in theory, the

CPSEA “offers an avenue for the Consumer

Product Safety Commission to grant

exceptions for products that can be proven

not to pose any lead poisoning risk to kids.

“But the problem is that the three-part

‘test’ that products are forced to go through

is difficult, if not impossible, to pass, and,

furthermore, the third and final test opens up

the floodgates for any overzealous regulator

to permanently ban a product for any

reason,” Hilbert says.

Hilbert notes that the CPSC, under the

third part of the test, may reject an exception

to the law if a product has a “measureable

effect on public health.” He believes this

clause is too broad and may be interpreted

to mean any measureable effect—not one

solely based on lead.

“For example, baseball bats and roller

skates have measurable negative effects on

public health, but not in the context of the

CPSIA,” Hilbert says. “This clause should be

reworded such that the commission must

stay within the context of the CPSIA when

making decisions regarding the granting of

an exception.”

The proposal also contains language

onerous to small businesses, he says.

The proposal states that the commission

may base its decision solely on the

materials presented by the party seeking the

exception.

“This clause is absolutely unfair to

companies that don’t have massive legal and

scientific research budgets and, furthermore,

does nothing to further the safety of

children,” he says.

Finally, Hilbert notes that the definition of

“Small Batch Manufacturer” apparently is

based on craft production of toys or clothes

“but does not serve well for most other small

companies including bicycle, powersports,

medical device and sporting goods

manufacturers” and should be redefined.

Vitrano and the MIC support the CPSEA,

particularly the section that would create an

exception to the lead-content requirements

of the CPSIA if the lead serves a functional

purpose, such as with batteries and certain

metal parts on motorcycles and ATVs.

But he also would like to see the proposed

law clarified.

“We already have submitted evidence

to CPSC sufficient to obtain exclusions

for youth ATVs and motorcycles under the

proposed language of the CPSEA,” Vitrano

testified. “Ultimately, however, it is the CPSC

that will interpret that language to determine

whether or not to grant an exclusion for the

metal parts of ATVs and motorcycles.

“That is why the industry is strongly urging

the committee to provide as much clarity as

possible in developing a legislative solution

so that the CPSC is left with no doubt about

Congress’ intent to ensure the continued

availability of youth-model motorized

recreational vehicles,” he said.

“Throughout our discussions, we have

encouraged the committee to include

statutory language to provide the CPSC

with explicit guidance,” he continued in his

testimony. “Although the committee has

not included this language in the proposed

amendment, we do support the inclusion

of report language accompanying this Act

that defines the words ‘practicable’ and ‘no

measureable adverse effect.’”

The AMA’s Moreland agrees, however

noting that the law provides greater

protection with those terms spelled out in the

bill itself.

“The outstanding issue is that ‘report

language,’ which is guidance intended for

regulators, is not legally binding, which leaves

greater opportunity for misinterpretation,”

Moreland says. “All things being equal, it’s

better for those terms to be made clear

within the language of the bill itself.”

U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-Mont.) told

the committee in written testimony: “I am

concerned that as the bill stands now, the

exception provisions are too broadly written

and will only lead to increased confusion

about congressional intent.

“I firmly believe that the CPSEA’s exclusion

provisions need to specifically include an

exclusion for youth-model motorcycles

and ATVs,” he said. “I ask the committee

to include the language of my legislation,

H.R. 1587, that would exempt youth-model

motorcycles and ATVs from the lead-content

limits in any final version of the Consumer

Product Safety Enhancement Act.”

CPSC CommiSSionerS SPlit

on the meaSure

Inez Tenenbaum, chairwoman of the

CPSC, likes the three-part test.

“Much of the debate over lead limits

in the CPSIA has focused on the issue of

whether there is a ‘safe level of lead’ for

children’s products,” she testified. “Lead is a

toxic substance. The scientific and pediatric

communities have thoroughly studied this

issue, and are near[ly] unanimous in their

opinion that there is no known safe level of

lead.”

Even so, she said she has learned during

her tenure on the CPSC that there are cases

where lead must be used in a product, and

the CPSC doesn’t have the flexibility under

the CPSIA to grant exemptions to the lead-

limit requirements for those products.

Therefore, she said she supports the

three-part test.

“If it is required, then the [three-part test]

allows the [CPSC] to take a common-sense,

health-protective approach to granting an

exception. If it is not required, then it should

not be present in children’s products at levels

higher than the limits [in the CPSIA],” she

said.

Two other commissioners on the five-

member CPSC, however, have concerns.

CPSC Commissioner Nancy Nord, who

is the CPSC’s former acting chairwoman,

believes the CPSEA’s three-part test has

serious problems, including the lack of a

definition for the phrase “not practicable.”

CPSC Commissioner Anne Northup stated

in written testimony: “I believe the bill before

you falls short of resolving the problems...”

She agrees with Nord that the three-prong

test could be eliminated if lawmakers just

stick with the requirement that the product

“will have no measureable adverse effect on

public health or safety.”

She also suggests other changes to the

proposed law that would give the CPSC

the flexibility it needs to grant exemptions to

the lead-content limits of the CPSIA without

endangering children.

What’S next

Lawmakers are expected to act quickly on

this proposal. At presstime, it was unknown

whether they will fine-tune the language, or

even hold another public hearing.

The AMA is urging all motorcyclists

to contact their federal lawmakers and

encourage them to establish an exclusion

for youth-model OHVs and clear up the

potentially confusing language in the bill.

Ask your legislators to consider H.R. 1587,

which will exempt youth-model bikes and

ATVs from the lead limits in the CPSIA.

You’ll find information on your federal

lawmakers by going to Rights > Issues and

Legislation at AmericanMotorcyclist.com,

and entering your zip code on the right side.

You can immediately send an online pre-

written letter by selecting the “Take Action”

option and entering your information. In the

“Issue Area,” select “Commerce.”

For the latest information on this issue,

visit AmericanMotorcyclist.com.•

“But the problem is that the three-part ‘test’ that products are forced to go

through is difficult, if not impossible, to pass, and, furthermore, the third

and final test opens up the floodgates for any overzealous regulator to

permanently ban a product for any reason.” Sean Hilbert, Cobra Moto



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1It doesn’t get any better than this: Husqvarna as the featured marque and off-road racing legend Malcolm Smith as grand marshal at AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days, set for July 9-11 at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio. The weekend includes the world’s largest motorcycle swap meet, new bike demo rides, seminars, bike shows, various forms of vintage racing and lots, lots more. Info: AMAVintageMotorcycleDays.com.

2 The 26th Annual Six Days of Michigan is a must-do event for dual-sport riders. Hosted by the Cycle Conservation Club of Michigan, this year’s Six Days is set for July 24-31 and is based in Newberry. It’s part of the AMA KTM National Dual Sport Trail Riding Series. Info: CycleConservationClub.org.

3 Enjoy 500 miles of gorgeous scenery and backroads by taking part in the 34th Annual “Ramapo 500” Weekend Motorcycle Tour Classic July 17-18 in Congers, N.Y. There’s a reduced fee of $33 (save $12) for road

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4 The best amateur dirt-track racers in the nation will be vying for bragging rights at the AMA Racing Dirt Track Grand Championships July 17-23 at the Du Quoin State Fairgrounds in Du Quoin, Il. Info: AMARacing.com.

5 Don’t miss the high-fl ying action that’s part of the Lucas Oil AMA Pro Motocross Championship Series. The pros will be in Buchanan, Mich., July 3, Millville, Minn., July 17, and Washougal, Wash., July 24. Info: MXSportsProRacing.com.

6 Whether you ride a sportbike, sport-tourer, dual-sport or a scooter, Stevenson, Wash., is the place to be July 28-Aug. 1. The Sound RIDER! Rally in the Gorge, held in the scenic Columbia River Gorge area, offers ralliy opportunities for riders of all

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7 The National Parks Grand Tour presented by the Iron Butt Association is now under way, offering riders a great way to see some of the most beautiful spots in the nation. Visit at least 50 national parks, monuments, historic sites or recreation areas in at least 25 states by the end of the year to complete the tour. Info: IronButt.com/NPT.

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The 29th annual AMA Amateur National Motocross Championships, presented by Amsoil, will be held Aug. 2-7 at the Loretta Lynn Ranch in Hurricane Mills, Tenn. Racers compete nationwide from March through June in the various qualifi ers and regional championships to earn the right to compete in this prestigious event. Info: MXSports.com.

The AMA Racing Hillclimb Grand Championships will be held Aug. 7-8 at the Devil’s Staircase in Oregonia, Ohio. Info: AMARacing.com.

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The following pages list AMA-sanctioned events for this month, up to date at press time. Current listings are in the Riding and Racing sections of www.AmericanMotorcyclist.com.

The biggest events—pro races, national-championship amateur competition, and major rides and rallies—are highlighted. For these series, we list all of the remaining

events for the entire year.Then there are the local events, the

backbone of the AMA’s riding and racing calendar. These events are listed by state and are broken down by type, so you can quickly find the ones near you.

Here’s a guide to what you’ll find in these local listings:

MOTOCROSS

JUL 6 (S,Y): BREAUX BRIDGE: QUALIFIER; 2 DAY EVENT: DIRT BIKE MIKE LLC, ; 6 AM; 1640 MILLS HWY; (870) 342-5373; DIRTBIKEMIKE.COM

Event Class (Competition events only)S - Standard (Amateur classes)Y - Youth ClassesT - ATV classesM - Pro-Am classesR - Recreational

Date

Sign-in Time

Location/City

Type of Event

Contact Phone NumberDirections

Event Promoter

THE GuidE TO EvEnTS

ALASKA

TOY Run

JUL 24 (R): ANCHORAGE: ABATE-AK, CRAIG

BRESHEARS; 9 AM; 7500 E 4TH AVE; (907) 230-

9205; ABATEOFALASKA.COM

CALiFORniA

POKER Run

JUL 10 (R): OAKLAND: OAKLAND

MOTORCYCLE CLUB, LARRY STEWART; 3 PM;

742 45TH AVE /OFF OF COLLISIUM & HIGH ST;

(510) 534-6222; OAKLANDMC.ORG

JUL 10 (R): STOCKTON: STOCKTON

MOTORCYCLE CLUB, ROBERT M KENDALL;

6 PM; 2739 S HWY 99; (209) 956-1505;

STOCKTONMC.ORG

JUL 11 (R): OXNARD: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

MOTOR, JAN STAWS; (310) 387-3974; SC-MA.

COM

duAL SPORT RidE

JUL 10 (R): MCCLOUD: NATIONAL: 2

DAY EVENT: MCCLOUD DUAL-SPORT

ADVENT, MIKE LINGSCH; PO BOX 331 /

EAST OF I-5 ON HWY 89; (530) 925-0151;

MCCLOUDDUALSPORTADVENTURES.COM

JUL 24 (R): BIG BEAR LAKE: BIG BEAR

TRAIL RIDERS CLU, JIM NICHOLSON; 6

PM; BIG BEAR LAKE CONVENTION CTR

/42900 BIG BEAR BLVD; (818) 391-3083;

BIGBEARTRAILRIDERS.COM

SHORT TRACK

JUL 10 (S,T,Y): LODI: LODI MOTORCYCLE

CLUB, JEFF G TAYLOR; 1 PM; LODI CYCLE

BOWL/5801 E MORSE /HWY 99 TO 8 MILE/N

ON FRONTAGE/R ON MORSE; (209) 368-7182;

LODICYCLEBOWL.COM

SCRAMBLES

JUL 17 (S,T,Y): LODI: VINTAGE; LODI

MOTORCYCLE CLUB, JEFF G TAYLOR; 1 PM;

LODI CYCLE BOWL/5801 E MORSE /HWY 99

TO 8 MILE/N ON FRONTAGE/R ON MORSE;

(209) 368-7182; LODICYCLEBOWL.COM

JUL 17 (S,T): LUCERNE: 2 DAY EVENT:

VENTURA COUNTY MOTORCYCLE,

KRISS J KUDLA; NORTH ANDERSON

STAGING AREA /HWY 18 TO CAMP ROCK

RD FOLLOW ARROWS; (805) 485-5271;

VENTURACOUNTYMC.COM

MOTOCROSS

JUL 25 (S): GORMON: PROSPECTORS

MC, DOUG CLAGG; 6 AM; QUAIL CANYON

MOTOCROSS TRACK /I-5 N EXIT SMOKEY

BEAR RD; (626) 285-9104; PROSPECTORSMC.

COM

OBSERvEd TRiALS

JUL 31 (S): NORDEN: NATIONAL; 2 DAY

EVENT: SACRAMENTO P.I.T.S., INC., MIKE

CODDE; DONNER SKI RANCH /I-80E TO SODA

SPRINGS EXIT/19320 DONNER PASS; (530)

426-3635; DONNERSKIRANCH.COM

COLORAdO

MOTOCROSS

JUL 18 (S,T): ALAMOSA: CAT SUPER SPORTS,

DWIGHT E CATALANO; 5:30 AM; COUNTY RD

11 /S ON 285 TO RD 11,E 1 MI. ON LEFT; (719)

589-9717; CATSCLASSICS.COM

JUL 18 (S): DACONO: IMI MOTORSPORTS

INC, BRAD LINKUS; 5 AM; 5074 SUMMIT BLVD

/I-25N OF DENVER/EX 232/2 MI E; (303) 833-

4949; IMIMOTORSPORTS.COM

COnnECTiCuT

ROAd RALLY

JUL 12 (R): EAST WINDSOR: 5 DAY EVENT:

HARLEY DRESSERS, JOSEPH TRAVIS; 8 AM;

CLARION INN /161 BRIDGE ST; (860) 623-9411;

HARLEYDRESSERS.COM

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ROAd Run

JUL 17 (R): PRIEST LAKE: RIDE FOR LIFE,

DAVID CAZEL; 10 AM; CAVANAUGH BAY

RESORT /HWY 52 TO CAVANAUGH BAY

RESORT TO COOLIN RD; (208) 765-3527;

RIDEFORLIFEIDAHO.NET

iLLinOiS

ROAd Run

JUL 18 (R): ELGIN: CHARITY; PEDIATRIC BRAIN

TUMOR FOU, KYLE CLACK; 7 AM; ELGIN

COMMUNITY COLLEGE /1700 SPARTAN DR;

(800) 253-6530; RIDEFORKIDS.ORG

REC TRAiL RidE

JUL 11 (R): JUL 25 (R): OTTAWA: VARIETY

RIDERS MOTORCYCLE, STEVE CHURCHILL; 8

AM; 1414 US RT 6 /USRT 6 WEST OF OTTAWA;

(815) 434-3669; VARIETYRIDERS.COM

1/2 MiLE diRT TRACK

JUL 21 (S,Y): JUL 22 (S,Y): DU QUOIN:

NATIONAL; AMERICAN MOTORCYCLIST

ASSN, TAMRA JONES; 7 AM; DU QUOIN STATE

FAIRGROUNDS /US RT 51; (614) 856-1900;

AMERICANMOTORCYCLIST.COM

JUL 24 (S,Y): DU QUOIN: NATIONAL;

VINTAGE; AMERICAN MOTORCYCLIST ASSN,

TAMRA JONES; 7 AM; DU QUOIN STATE


AMADIRECTLINK.COM

JUL 25 (S,Y): DUQUOIN: NATIONAL; /

VINTAGE; AMERICAN MOTORCYCLIST ASSN,




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SCRAMBLES

JUL 25 (S,T,Y): FOSTERBURG: SPLINTER

CREEK DIRT RIDER, TODD E ROMANN; 6 AM;

2996 TERPENING LN /8 MI N OF RT 140/L ON

TERPENING; (618) 372-4355; SPLINTERCREEK.

COM

HiLLCLiMB

JUL 18 (S,Y): POLO: ROCK RIVER RIDERS

MC, MATTHIAS KEMMEREN; 8:30 AM;

CLUBGROUNDS/WHITE PINES RD /ACROSS

FROM WHITE PINES STATE PARK; (815) 946-

2183; RRRMC.TRIPOD.COM

JUL 24 (S,T,Y): WESTVILLE: 2 DAY EVENT:

PLEASURE RIDERS MC, KELLY BRADY;

STATELINE RD /SEE WEBSITE; (217) 247-2216;

PLEASURERIDERS.NET

MOTOCROSS

JUL 11 (S,T,Y): JUL 25 (S,T,Y): BYRON:

MOTOSPORTS PARK, AARON J VINCER; 6 AM;

MOTORSPORTS PARK /2525 ASH ROAD; (815)

234-2271; MOTOBYRON.COM

JUL 11 (S,Y): WASHINGTON PARK:ARCHVIEW

MX PARK LLC, TODD M RUHL; 6 AM;

5100 ST CLAIRE AVE; (618) 781-0505;

ARCHVIEWMXPARK.COM

JUL 17 (S,T,Y): FOSTERBURG: 2 DAY EVENT:

SPLINTER CREEK DIRT RIDER, TODD E

ROMANN; 6 AM; 2996 TERPENING LN /8 MI N

OF RT 140/L ON TERPENING; (618) 372-4355;

SPLINTERCREEK.COM

JUL 27 (G): GRAYSLAKE: 2 DAY EVENT:

SCHAEFER TRACKS LLC, SHANE SCHAEFER;

3 PM; 1060 E PETERSON RD /CORNER OF

PETERSON RD & MIDLOTHIAN RD; (608) 330-

3600; FAIRMX.COM

HARE SCRAMBLES

JUL 11 (S,T,Y): COLONA: WFO PROMOTIONS,

RON E WHIPPLE; 7 AM; SWANS FARM /

FOLLOW SIGNS OFF I-80 EXIT 7; (309) 314-

3343; WFOPROMOTIONS.COM

JUL 25 (S,T,Y): GLASFORD: WFO

PROMOTIONS, RON E WHIPPLE; 7 AM; 26897

E BIRDS CORNER ROAD /FOLLOW ARROWS

FROM GLASFORD CANTON; (309) 314-3343;

WFOPROMOTIONS.COM

OBSERvEd TRiALS

JUL 31 (S,Y): LENA: 2 DAYS: NORTHERN

ILLINOIS TRIALS, JEN MAUPIN; 9 AM; 8835 IL

RT 73 N; (630) 690-1625; NITROTRIALS.COM

MiLE

JUL 23 (S,Y): DU QUOIN: NATIONAL;

AMERICAN MOTORCYCLIST ASSN,




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indiAnA

ROAd Run

JUL 11 (R): SOUTH BEND: CHARITY; PEDIATRIC

BRAIN TUMOR FOU, KYLE CLACK; 8 AM;

PINHOOK PARK /2801 RIVERSIDE DR; (800)

253-6530; RIDEFORKIDS.ORG

duAL SPORT RidE

JUL 11 (R): MATTHEWS :MUDDOBBERS

MC INC, DOUG SPENCE; 9:15 AM;

BOX 236 /COVERED BRIDGE NORTH

SIDE OF MATTHEWS; (765) 998-2236;

MUDDOBBERSMC.ORG

1/2 MiLE diRT TRACK

JUL 31 (S,Y): GOSHEN: GOSHEN IRON

HORSEMEN, RANDY DILLON; 8 AM; ELKHART

CO FAIRGROUNDS /17746 CR34; (574) 825-

3399

HiLLCLiMB

JUL 11 (S,T,Y): GOSHEN: GOSHEN IRON

HORSEMEN, JEFF COLE; 11 AM; 19919 HIDDEN

MEADOW TR /2.5 EAST OF IN STATE RT 13 ON I

120; (574) 825-3399

HARE SCRAMBLES

JUL 18 (S,Y): COLUMBUS: STONEY LONESOME

M/C, BEN B BREEDLOVE; 7 AM; 14001 W HWY

46 /8 MI W OF COLUMBUS ON HWY 46; (812)

350-5732; STONEYLONESOMEMC.COM

dRAG RACES

JUL 31 (S): INDIANAPOLIS: 2 DAY EVENT:

AMA DRAGBIKE, BRANDI NEITHAMER; 9 AM;

OREILLY RACEWAY PARK; (513) 943-9700;

AMADRAGBIKE.COM

CROSS COunTRY

JUL 10 (S,T,Y): GREENFIELD: MID AMERICA

CROSS COUNTRY, MIKE GIBBS; 6 AM; 9673

WEST 1050 N; (317) 418-6084

iOWA

MOTOCROSS

JUL 10 (S,T,Y): JUL 24 (S,T,Y): CEDAR RAPIDS

:CEDAR VALLEY TRAIL RIDERS, CURT HEJDA;

1 PM; HAWKEYE DOWNS /4400 6TH ST SW;

(319) 363-7800; CVTR.ORG

KAnSAS

ROAd Run

JUL 25 (R): OVERLAND PARK: CHARITY;

PEDIATRIC BRAIN TUMOR FOU, KYLE CLACK;

7:30 AM; JOHNSON CO COMM COLLEGE

/12345 COLLEGE BLVD; (800) 253-6530;

RIDEFORKIDS.ORG

KEnTuCKY

ROAd RALLY

JUL 9 (R): CARROLLTON: 3 DAY EVENT:

MOTORCYCLE SPORT TOURING, JANET

CAMPBELL; COMFORT INN; (513) 932-3341

MARYLAnd

SHORT TRACK

JUL 23 (S,Y): JUL 30 (S,Y): TIMONIUM:

BALTIMORE COUNTY TRAIL RI, BRETT

FRIEDEL; 3 PM; MD STATE FAIRGROUNDS

/I-83 TO TOWN/TIMONIUM RD; (410) 557-7043;

BCTRA.COM

MOTOCROSS

JUL 11 (S,T,Y): BUDDS CREEK: BUDDS CREEK

MOTOCROSS PAR, JONATHAN BEASLEY; 8

AM; BUDDS CREEK MX PARK /27963 BUDDS

CREEK RD; (301) 475-2000; BUDDSCREEK.

COM

MiCHiGAn

ROAd Run

JUL 10 (R): LAKE ODESSA: I-96 SPEEDWAY

LLC, MIKE MOUCH; 3823 WEST PORTLAND

RD; (616) 299-2534; I96SPEEDWAY.COM

JUL 18 (R): TAYLOR: CHARITY; AXEMEN

PROFESSIONAL FIRE, STEVEN

KUZMANOVICH; 5 PM; 14100 TELEGRAPH;

(248) 506-4326; AXEMENMC.ORG

duAL SPORT RidE

JUL 24 (R): NEWBERRY: NATIONAL; 8 DAY

EVENT: CYCLE CONSERVATION CLUB O,

LEWIS SHULER; 12 PM; HWY M-28 /N M. I-75

TO M-28 WEST TO NEWBERRY; (517) 781-4805;

CYCLECONSERVATIONCLUB.ORG

1/2 MiLE diRT TRACK

JUL 3 (S,T,Y): ADRIAN: BOULIS RACING,

ETHEL BOULIS; 12 PM; LENAWEE COUNTY

FAIRGROUNDS; (810) 686-7083;

JUL 24 (S,T): STANDISH: LUCKY THUMB MC,

GENELDA STOLZMAN; 12 PM; STANDISH FAIR

GROUNDS; (989) 635-2282;

JUL 29 (S,T,Y): CARO: FLINT MOTORCYCLE

CLUB, LINDA LOWELL; TUSCOLA

COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS; (810) 687-7379;

FLINTMOTORCYCLECLUB.COM

SHORT TRACK

JUL 4 (S,T,Y): ADRIAN :BOULIS RACING, ETHEL

BOULIS; LENAWEE COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS;

(810) 686-7083

HiLLCLiMB

JUL 11 (S,Y): WEST BRANCH: PORT HURON

MOTORCYCLE CLU, LARRY TACK; 8 AM; 3247

COOK RD; (810) 531-0031; PHMC-USA.ORG

JUL 31 (S,Y): IRON MOUNTAIN: BIG BEAR

TRAX LLC, CYNTHIA HALADA; 8 AM; PINE

MOUNTAIN SKI HILL /US 2 TO PINE MOUNTAIN

ROAD; (715) 674-7802; BIGBEARTRAX.COM

MOTOCROSS

JUL 10 (S,Y): JUL 11 (S,Y): BLOOMINGDALE:

DUTCH SPORT PARK, DREX AKIN; 6:30

AM; 13566 CR 665 /5 MI N OF GLENDALE

(M43) ON CR665; (269) 683-4418;

DUTCHSPORTPARKMX.COM

JUL 10 (S,T): BARK RIVER: 2 DAY EVENT:

ZAMBON’S MX PARK, JESSE E ZAMBON;

2 PM; 2231 12TH RD /FRM MENOMINEE:

US 2&41 N 50 MI TO TOWN; (906) 420-2794;

ZAMBONSMXPARK.COM

JUL 11 (S,T,Y): CADILLAC: CADILLAC

MOTORCYCLE CLUB, RICK AUGUSTSON; 7

AM; 3747 S 39 RD, PO BOX 236 /.25 MI N OF

34 RD (BOON RD) ON 39 RD; (231) 884-3729;

CADILLACMC.COM

JUL 17 (V): JUL 18 (S): MIDLAND: POLKA DOTS

M/C, THOMAS WOODS; 7 AM; 760 W BROOKS

RD /8 MI N OF M46 OR 5 MI S OF M20; (989)

832-8284; POLKADOTSMC.NET

JUL 17 (S,T,Y): ATLANTIC MINE: 2 DAY EVENT:

RANGE MOTO X, MATT SOLKA; 12 PM; 47350

HWY M-26 /1 MILE EAST OF HOUGHTON

ON HWY M-26; (906) 231-7733; RANGESNO-

MOBILECLUB.COM

JUL 17 (S,Y): NEWAYGO: 2 DAY EVENT:

BIG AIR MOTOCROSS, MATT POWERS; 7

AM; 1262 SPRING DRIVE; (231) 652-5225;

BIGAIRMOTOCROSS.COM

JUL 24 (S,T,Y): JUL 25 (S,T,Y): PORTLAND:

PORTLAND TRAIL RIDERS, LUKE T ADAMS;

7 AM; 11999 SANDBORN RD /4 MI S OF

TOWN ON CHARLOTTE HWY; (517) 647-7045;

PORTLANDTRAILRIDERS.COM

JUL 31 (S,Y): BELDING: GRATTAN

RACEWAY MOTOCROSS, SAM FAASEN;

7 AM; 7201 LESSITER; (616) 691-7221;

GRATTANRACEWAYMX.COM

HARE SCRAMBLES

JUL 18 (S,T,Y): BENTLEY: VALLEY TRAIL

RIDERS, BRAD BOTZAU; 7 AM; 4957 E BROWN

RD; (989) 879-6397; VALLEYTRAILRIDER.

TRIPOD.COM

EnduRO

JUL 25 (S): MOORESTOWN: NATIONAL;

LANSING MOTORCYCLE CLUB, JEFF HUNT;



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OBSERVED TRIALS

JUL 17 (S,Y): JUL 18 (S,Y): VERMONTVILLE:

MICHIGAN ONTARIO TRIALS A, PAUL

LAGRAND; 9 AM;; (616) 821-6920;

MOTATRIALS.ORG

MINNESOTA

ROAD RUN

JUL 18 (R): WHITEBEARLAKE: CHARITY;

PEDIATRIC BRAIN TUMOR FOU, KYLE CLACK;

8 AM; CENTURY COLLEGE /3300 CENTURY

AVE N.; (800) 253-6530; RIDEFORKIDS.ORG

1/2 MILE DIRT TRACK

JUL 10 (S,T,Y): CAMBRIDGE: ON TRACK

PROMOTIONS INC, ROBERT ANDERSON;

1 PM; ISANTI CO FRGRNDS /HWY 95 E OF

CAMBRIDGE; (612) 328-4410

JUL 11 (S,T,Y): CAMBRIDGE: ON TRACK

PROMOTIONS INC, ROBERT ANDERSON; 8

AM; HWY 95 & HWY 47 /HWY 95 TO HWY 47 N

1 1/2 MI ON LEFT; (612) 328-4409

HILLCLIMB

JUL 18 (S,T,Y): RED WING: INDIANHEAD CYCLE

CLUB, DAN PREBE; 400 CHERRY STREET; (651)

764-1220; KINGOFTHEHILL.ORG

JUL 31 (S): MANKATO: KATO CYCLE CLUB,

JOHN E WINCH; 3 PM; 19836 539TH

LANE /7 MI S OF TOWN; (507) 381-4708;

KATOCYCLECLUB.COM

MOTOCROSS

JUL 4 (S): JUL 5 (S): MAZEPPA: HURRICANE

HILLS MX PARK I, JEFFERY GRAY; 6:30 AM;

43560 232ND AVE /6 MI E OF ZUMBROTA

ON CR10 TO 232ND AVE; (507) 843-5154;

HURRICANEHILLS.COM

JUL 11 (S,Y): MANKATO: MOTOKAZIE INC, LEE

M THEIS; 6:30 AM; 44.117663,-94.114499 /169S

THRU MANKATO, LT ON 169S LT ON 539TH LN;

(952) 601-1169; MOTOKAZIE.COM

JUL 16 (S,Y): MILLVILLE: HI WINDERS, JOHN

C MARTIN; SPRING CREEK MX PARK /63633

298TH AVE/9 MI E OF HWY 63 ON HWY60;

(507) 753-2779; SPRINGCREEKMX.COM

JUL 18 (S,Y): JUL 25 (S,Y): KELLOGG:

MOTOKAZIE INC, LEE M THEIS; 6:30 AM; 58374

HWY 42 /ON HWY 42 BETWEEN PLAINVIEW &

KELLOGG MN; (952) 244-9996; MOTOKAZIE.

COM

JUL 25 (S,Y): BROOK PARK :BERM BENDERS

RACEWAY, KURT CASWELL; 6:30 AM;

2393 SHERWOOD ST /HWY 23E 8 MI TO

SHERWOOD ST CR 68N; (320) 679-2582;

BERMBENDERS.COM

ENDURO

JUL 24 (S,Y): MORA: 2 DAY EVENT: NORSEMEN

MOTORCYCLE CLUB, TODD MATHWIG; 7 AM;

SNAKE RIVER FOREST /HWY 65 17 MI. N OR

MORA, FOLLOW ARROWS; (763) 753-2287;

NORSEMENMC.ORG

JUL 31 (U): WOODLAND: NORSEMEN

MOTORCYCLE CLUB, MATT STUKEL HWY 65

17 MI N OF MORA; FOLLOW ARROWS; (612)

867-5049; NORSEMENMC.ORG

OBSERVED TRIALS

JUL 17 (S,Y): JUL 18 (S,Y): THEILMAN: UPPER

MIDWEST TRIALS ASSO, GORDON BOGGIE; 9

AM; COUNTY RD 4 SOUTH TO WHIPPOORWILL

CAMPGROUND; (952) 881-9427; UMTA.ORG

MISSOURI

MOTOCROSS

JUL 3 (S,T,Y): FARMINGTON: 2 DAY EVENT:

SEAT TIME MOTORCYCLE CLUB, ED

LACHANCE; 6 AM; WASHITA OFF ROAD

TRAILS /410 THOMAS RD; (573) 701-8674;

WASHITAOFFROADTRAILS.COM

NEVADA

ENDUROCROSS

JUL 17 (S,Y): LAS VEGAS: INDOOR; SOURCE

INTERLINK MEDIA, BECKY J KOONS; 9 AM;

ORLEANS ARENA 4500 TROPICANA; (817) 246-

6751; ENDUROCROSS.COM

NEW HAMPSHIRE

ROAD RACE

JUL 24 (S): LOUDON: VINTAGE; 2 DAY EVENT:

UNITED STATES CLASSIC RAC, ROBERT S

COY; 8 AM; NH INT’L SPEEDWAY /RT 106/N

OF CONCORD; (413) 498-4433; RACE-USCRA.

COM

NEW JERSEY

FUN RUN

JUL 18 (R): RED BANK: RARITAN ROAD

RUNNERS, FRED BUTCH DELLA PIETRO;

11 AM; 40 W FRONT ST /EX 35 TO W.

FRONT STR. RED BANK; (732) 603-8434;

RARITANROADRUNNERS.COM

NEW YORK

ROAD RUN

JUL 11 (R): CONGER: BLUE KNIGHTS-NY

XVIII, GUY A COOK; 9 AM; KENNELLY’S GRILL

HOUSE /RTE 9W TO KENNELLY’S ACROSS

FROM ROCKLAND LK; (845) 386-2852;

BKNYXVIII.ORG

JUL 17 (R): CONGERS: 2 DAY EVENT: RAMAPO

MOTORCYCLE CLUB IN, RAY PORCELLI; 7

AM; VETERANS MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION

/65 LAKE ROAD EAST; (914) 523-6642;

RAMAPOMC.ORG

JUL 18 (R): MILTON: IRON RIDERS MC NY, LIZ

CRISPELL; 9 AM; CLUETT-SHANTZ PARK /S

OF MID-HUDSON BRIDGE; (845) 691-9312;

IRONRIDERSMC.NET

JUL 18 (R): DEERFIELD: CHARITY; PEDIATRIC


DEERFIELD VFD /5476 TRENTON RD/N OF I-90;

(800) 253-6530; RIDEFORKIDS.ORG

DICE RUN

JUL 25 (R): HAVERSTRAW: SECOND

GENERATION MOTORCY, KAREN HILLEY; 8

AM; HAVERSTRAW MOTORSPORTS /66 N RT

9W; (845) 629-1942;

1/2 MILE DIRT TRACK

JUL 17 (S,T,Y): JUL 31 (S,T,Y): PORT CRANE:

SQUARE DEAL RIDERS M/C, CRAIG

ESTELLE; 2 PM; 163 ALLEN RD /EX 5 I-88

RT 7 W TO ALLEN RD; (607) 206-5494;

SQUAREDEALRIDERS.COM

SHORT TRACK

JUL 11 (S,T,Y): PATTERSONVILLE: ELECTRIC

CITY RIDERS, FRANK J CARPINELLO; 8

AM; INDIAN LOOKOUT COUNTRY CLUB

/1142 BATTER STREET; (518) 542-2144;

.ELECTRICCITYRIDERS.COM

HILLCLIMB

JUL 25 (S,T): CAROGA LAKE: ROYAL

MOUNTAIN SKI AREA, JAMES BLAISE; 6 AM;

3072 RT 10; (518) 835-6445; ROYALMOUNTAIN.

COM

MOTOCROSS

JUL 3 (S,T): CAROGA LAKE: 2 DAY EVENT:

ROYAL MOUNTAIN SKI AREA, JIM BLAISE;

3072 RT 10; (518) 835-6445; ROYALMOUNTAIN.

COM

JUL 10 (S,T,Y): RICHFORD: BROOME TIOGA

SPORTS CENTE, TOM HURD; 7 AM; 50

SHAFFER RD /I-81 EX 8/RT 79W 8 MI; (607)

849-4438; BROOME-TIOGA.COM

JUL 11 (S,T,Y): AUBURN: FROZEN OCEAN

MOTOCROSS IN, BILL M DENMAN; 7 AM; 4415

VANDERSTOUW RD /NYS THRUWAY EX 40 TO

34S; (315) 784-5466; FROZEN-OCEAN.COM

JUL 17 (V,Y): NEW BERLIN: NATIONAL; 2 DAY

EVENT: ROBINSON ENTERPRISES, LLC, JILL

ROBINSON; UNADILLA MX 5986 ST HWY 8 /ST

HWY 8, 30 MINS. SOUTH OF UTICA; (607) 965-

8784; UNADILLAMX.COM

JUL 18 (S): CAROGA LAKE: ROYAL MOUNTAIN

SKI AREA, JIM BLAISE; 3072 RT 10; (518) 835-

6445; ROYALMOUNTAIN.COM

JUL 24 (S,T,Y): WALLKILL: WALDEN MX,

JAMES H WILD; 6 AM; 300 ORCHARD DR /

GPS/W74 07.281, N41 37.518; (845) 895-2537;

MXWALDEN.COM

JUL 25 (S,T,Y): NEW BERLIN: THUNDER

RIDGE SPORTS, JAMES L SIMMONS; 224

MICHAEL LANE /CO HWY 18 S EDMESTON

JUST OFF STATE ROUTE 8; (607) 847-6520;

THUNDERRIDGE.BIZ

HARE SCRAMBLES

JUL 18 (S,T,Y): NEWARK VALLEY: BEATEN

TRAILS, DAN M LEONARD; 5912 WEST CREEK

RD; (607) 657-8433; WNYOA.NET

JUL 25 (S,T,Y): FULTON: HIGH GEAR DIRT

RIDERS, STEPHEN GEER; 68 COUNTY RT 35;

(315) 598-1590;

OBSERVED TRIALS

JUL 18 (S,Y): PINE CITY: AMA-DIST 4 TRIALS

COMMITT, KIDU DIFASI; 10 AM; 48 LEWIS RD;

(607) 742-6648;

OHIO

ROAD RUN

JUL 10 (R): PLASON: TRAIN MRO INC, MIKE

BALLARD I-71 TO KINGS MILLS; (513) 404-

4034; TRAINMRO.ORG

JUL 17 (R): ORIENT: CAPITAL CITY

MOTORCYCLE C, MARY HAMILTON; 3 PM;

9700 BORROR /3 MI S OF SR665/1 MI W OF

SR104; (614) 877-1777

JUL 24 (R): MARYSVILLE: CHARITY; PEDIATRIC


SCOTT’S PARK /14111 SCOTTSLAWN RD; (008)

002-3653; RIDEFORKIDS.ORG

JUL 25 (R): AKRON: GREATER AKRON

MOTORCYCLE, RICH ROBINSON; 10 AM; 1540

SMITH RD; (330) 760-3715;

POKER RUN

JUL 10 (R): ZANESVILLE: ABATE-OH INC,

JAMES ELGIN; 11 AM; 1633 PUTNAM ST /I-70

X@S. 6TH ST S ON 6TH BECOMES PUTNAM ST;

(614) 319-3644; ABATE.COM

JUL 25 (R): GREENVILLE: TREATY CITY

MOTORCYCLE CL, DAN R KNECHT; 12 PM;

CLBGRNDS/7270 MOTORCYCLE DR /3.5 MI

NW OF TOWN OFF SR 571; (937) 548-7197;

TREATYCITYMC.COM

ROAD ENDURO

JUL 31 (R,T,Y): WELLSTON: APPALACHIAN

DIRT RIDERS I, WILLIAM DEPUE; 1 PM;

JAYMAR/JOLLY MINE /5 MI E OF TOWN ON SR

32; (740) 384-6379; ADROHIO.ORG

ROAD RALLY

JUL 9 (R): LEXINGTON: 2 DAY EVENT:

AMERICAN MOTORCYCLIST ASSN,

TIGRA TSUJIKAWA; 8 AM; MID-OHIO

SPORTS CAR COURSE /VINTAGE MC

DAYS/I-71 EXIT 165; (800) 262-5646;

AMAVINTAGEMOTORCYCLEDAYS.COM

BIKE SHOW

JUL 25 (R): CLEVELAND: MYSTIC KNIGHTS,

RUSHIE DENNIS; 11409 MILES AVE; (216) 641-

1525; MKMCCLEVELAND.COM

1/2 MILE DIRT TRACK

JUL 9 (S,Y): ASHLAND: NATIONAL; VINTAGE;

AMERICAN MOTORCYCLIST ASSN, TAMRA

JONES; 11 AM; ASHLAND CO FAIRGROUNDS;

(614) 856-1900; AMERICANMOTORCYCLIST.

COM

JUL 24 (V,Y): ASHTABULA: NATIONAL; 2

DAY EVENT: FISCHER CYCLE SALES, BUD

FISCHER; 3924 MAPLE RD; (440) 997-4166;

FISCHERCYCLERACING.COM

ROAD RACE

JUL 10 (S,Y): LEXINGTON: NATIONAL;

VINTAGE; AMERICAN MOTORCYCLIST

ASSN, CONNIE FLEMING; 7 AM; MID-

OHIO SPORTS CAR COURSE /VINTAGE

MC DAYS/I-71 EXIT 165; (614) 856-1900;






MC DAYS/I-71 EXIT 165; (614) 856-1900;


JUL 13 (S,Y): LEXINGTON: NATIONAL; 2 DAY

EVENT: AMERICAN MOTORCYCLIST ASSN,

TAMRA JONES; 7 AM; MID-OHIO SPORTS CAR

COURSE /VINTAGE MC DAYS/I-71 EXIT 165;


COM

HILLCLIMB

JUL 24 (S,T,Y): JUL 25 (S,T,Y): MARIETTA:

PIONEER MOTORCYCLE CLUB I, RUTH

HUGHES; 8 AM; 114 MASONIC PARK RD /ST

RT 339 TO WATERFORD OHIO FOLLOW SIGNS;

(740) 373-9566; PIONEERMOTORCYCLECLUB.

COM

MOTOCROSS

JUL 3 (S,T,Y): JUL 4 (S,T,Y): JUL 24 (S,T,Y):

JUL 25 (S,T,Y): NELSONVILLE: FAST TRAXX

PROMOTIONS LLC, SHAWNA BICKLEY; 8 AM;

5999 WARREN DR /BTWN ATHENS & TOWN

ON RT 33; (740) 767-3740; FASTTRAXXRACING.

COM

JUL 4 (S,T,Y): MARYSVILLE: AMERICAN

MOTOSPORTS LLC, MATTHEW D EASTMAN; 7

AM; 24400 YEARSLEY RD /FROM MARYSVILLE

TO SR 31N TO SR 347 W; (937) 358-2427;

AMERICANMX.COM





MC DAYS/I-71 EXIT 165; (614) 856-1900;






MC DAYS/I-71 EXIT 165; (614) 856-1900;


JUL 11 (S,Y): BLANCHESTER: DIRT

COUNTRY, CYNTHIA KING; 6901 RT 133 /3.5

MI S OF TOWN ON RT 133; (513) 625-7350;

DIRTCOUNTRYMX.COM

JUL 17 (S,T,Y): JUL 19 (S,T,Y): HILLIARD:

AMERICAN MOTOSPORTS LLC, MATTHEW D

EASTMAN; 3 PM; FRANKLIN CO FAIR /I-270

EX HILLARD CEMETERY RD; (937) 358-2427;

AMERICANMX.COM

JUL 18 (S,T,Y): SUGAR GROVE: WILD

WILDERNESS RACEWAY L, TONY A

KILBARGER; 6 AM; 9171 BUCKEYE RD /6 MI E

OF LANCASTER/LEFT AT LIGHT; (740) 216-0010

JUL 20 (S,Y): NEW LEXINGTON: / AMERICAN

MOTOSPORTS LLC, MATTHEW D EASTMAN;

4 PM; PERRY COUNTY FAIR /SR 37; (937) 358-

2427; AMERICANMX.COM

JUL 22 (S,T,Y): WELLSTON: AMERICAN

MOTOSPORTS LLC, MATTHEW D EASTMAN; 4

PM; JACKSON CO FAIR /SR 93; (937) 358-2427;

AMERICANMX.COM

JUL 25 (S,T,Y): JUL 26 (S,T,Y): SPRINGFIELD:

AMERICAN MOTOSPORTS LLC, MATTHEW D

EASTMAN; 4 PM; CLARK CO FAIR /OFF I-70;

(937) 358-2427; AMERICANMX.COM

HARE SCRAMBLES

JUL 9 (S,Y): LEXINGTON: NATIONAL; VINTAGE;

AMERICAN MOTORCYCLIST ASSn, CONNIE

FLEMING; 7 AM; MID-OHIO SPORTS CAR



COM

JUL 11 (S,T): AMESVILLE: / ATHENS

MOTORCYCLE CLUB, JIM C BARNHART; 7 AM;

ST RT 550 690 /OFF 33 TO 550 GO 8 MILES;

(740) 541-2095; ATHENSMOTORCYCLECLUB.

COM

JUL 18 (S,T,Y): LOGAN: FIVE BROTHERS

RACEWAY, MARIE WESSELHOEFT; 8 AM;

15111 ST RT 664 S /EX US RT 33 TO ST RT

64 S 3 MILES TO TRACK; (740) 385-3532;

FIVEBROTHERSRACE.COM

JUL 25 (S,Y): CHILLICOTHE: CHILLICOTHE

ENDURO RIDERS, TOM MEEKER; 7

AM; 322 CATTAIL RD; (740) 773-6115;

CHILLICOTHEENDURO.COM

ENDURO

JUL 18 (S): CHANDLERSVILLE: ZANESVILLE

TRAIL RIDERS, KORY T YOUNG; 6 AM;

CHANDLERSVILLE SCHOOL /SR 146

SOUTHEAST FROM ZANESVILLE; (614) 204-

1438; ZTR.CC

OBSERVED TRIALS

JUL 11 (S,Y): LEXINGTON: NATIONAL; VINTAGE;

AMERICAN MOTORCYCLIST ASSN, CONNIE

FLEMING; 7 AM; MID-OHIO SPORTS CAR



COM

GRAND PRIX

JUL 3 (S,T,Y): NELSONVILLE: FAST TRAXX

PROMOTIONS LLC, SHAWNA BICKLEY; 8 AM;

5999 WARREN DR /BTWN ATHENS & TOWN

ON RT 33; (740) 767-3740; FASTTRAXXRACING.

COM

JUL 17 (S,T,Y): LOGAN: FIVE BROTHERS

RACEWAY, MARCIE WESSELHOEFT; 7:30

AM; 15111 ST RT 664 S /EX US RT 33 TO ST

RT 64 S 3 MILES TO TRACK; (740) 385-3532;

FIVEBROTHERSRACE.COM

JUL 24 (S,T,Y): LITTLE HOCKING: WILDWOOD

LAKE RACEWAY, BRENT WINDLAND; 7 AM;

2392 WILDWOOD LAKE RD /SR50/7 TO SR555

TO WELCH RD TO WILDWOOD LAKE; (740) 331-

5163; WILDWOODLAKERACEWAY.COM

JUL 31 (S,T,Y): NEW LEXINGTON: KRASH

RACING DIRT PARK, JAYME KONKLER;

8 AM; 7250 TWP RD 219; (740) 605-2711;

KRASHRACINGDIRTPARK.COM

PENNSYLVANIA

ROAD RUN

JUL 5 (R): LEBANON: H.O.G.-PA BLUE

MOUNTAIN C, JOSEPH C WHITE; 9 AM;

LEBANON VALLEY MC /11 S 22 ST; (717) 272-

4986; [email protected]

JUL 11 (R): LEBANON: LEBANON VALLEY

MOTORCYCLE, HENRIETTA STEINER; 9 AM;

LEBANON VALLEY MC /11 S 22 ST; (717) 270-

9797; LEBANONVALLEYMC.COM

JUL 18 (R): KRESGEVILLE: ZINC CITY MC,

PHYLLIS KRESGE; 11 AM; ZC CLUBGROUNDS

/1 MI SO. OF KRESGEVILLE ON ROUTE 209;

(610) 681-9903; ZINCCITYMC.ORG

POKER RUN

JUL 11 (R): LANCASTER: GENTLEMEN MC

SPORTSMEN, E DEAN VITATOE; 9 AM; GMC

CLUBGROUNDS /10 MI S OF LANCASTER ON

272; (717) 284-2270



JUL 18 (R): YORK: YORK MOTORCYCLE

CLUB, JERRY MYERS; 9 AM; 2333

WHITEFORD RD /83-30E MT ZINN RD(NORTH)

WHITEFORD RD(LF); (717) 755-1311;

YORKMOTORCYCLECLUB.COM

JUL 25 (R): COLUMBIA: THUNDERBIRD

MOTORCYCLE CLUB, SAM BRINTON; 11 AM;

1472 HABECKER RD /CALL FOR DIRECTIONS;

(717) 898-0871

CARNIVAL RUN

JUL 18 (R): SCHUYLKILL HAVEN: SCHUYLKILL

COUNTY MOTORCY, BEVERLY A MILLER; 9

AM; 958 SCHUYLKILL MTN RD /E OFF 183;

(570) 385-1460; SCHUYLKILLCOUNTY

MOTORCYCLECLUB.COM

BIKE SHOW

JUL 10 (R): BOYERTOWN: MOTORCYCLISTS

FOR JESUS M, FRED MCCLINCY; 4 PM;

BOYERTOWN PARK/MADISON ST /SW OF INT

RTS 100 & 73; (215) 234-8611; GO2MJM.COM

JUL 23 (R): CARLISLE: / 3 DAY EVENT:

CARLISLE PRODUCTIONS, EDWARD

SCHOLLY; 9 AM; 1000 BRYN MAWR

RD /FAIRGROUNDS; (717) 243-7855;

CARLISLEEVENTS.COM

1/2 MILE DIRT TRACK

JUL 31 (S,T,Y): YORK: SHIPPENSBURG MC,

DARRYL L BAER; 8 AM; YORK FAIRGROUNDS;

(717) 796-0294

MOTOCROSS

JUL 2 (V,Y): JOHNSTOWN: NATIONAL; 3 DAY

EVENT: PLEASURE VALLEY RACEWAY, JEFF

CERNIC; 6 AM; 500 COOPER AVE; (814) 539-

4114; PVRMX.COM

JUL 4 (S,T,Y): JUL 17 (S,T,Y): JUL 18 (S,T,Y):

CLIFFORD: HURRICANE HILLS MOTORSPOR,

JOSEPH C FRITZ; 4 PM; 200 RTE 106 /RT81

EX206,374E TO 106E TRACK 3 MI ON R; (570)

222-9290; HHMOTOCROSS.COM

JUL 4 (S,T,Y): MT MORRIS: RACER

PRODUCTIONS INC, RITA COOMBS;

HIGH POINT RACEWAY; (304) 284-0084;

RACERPRODUCTIONS.COM

JUL 9 (S,T,Y): JUL 23 (S,T,Y): LATROBE: MX

PRODUCTIONS, GEORGE TESLOVICH; 5

PM; 5114 PLEASANT UNITY RD /RT 981 S.

PAST AIR PORT 2 MILES; (724) 322-0415;

LATROBEMOTORSPORTS.COM

JUL 10 (S,Y): JUL 31 (S,Y): BIRDSBORO: 2

DAY EVENTS:PAGODA MOTORCYCLE CLUB,

RANDY KASTLE; 7 AM; 441 RED LANE /422 TO

82 TO LINCOLN RD TO RED LANE; (610) 582-

3717; PAGODAMOTORCYCLECLUB.COM

JUL 11 (S,T,Y): CLEARVILLE: AMA-DIST

05 MC ASSN, DENNIS BATES; 6 AM; 4626

ROBINSONVILLE RD /SEE WEBSITE; (814) 734-

3605; BREEZEWOODPROVINGGROUNDS.COM

JUL 11 (S,T,Y): JUL 25 (S,T,Y): SUGAR GROVE:

MAPLE SHADE MX, SHERRY LAWSON; 7 AM;

5920 MATTHEWS RUN RD /RT 27 BETWEEN

TOWN & YOUNGSVILLE; (814) 489-3266;

MAPLESHADEMX.COM

JUL 16 (S,T,Y): JUL 30 (S,T,Y): GREENSBURG:

DBL SPORTS PROMOTIONS, D BUDD LITTLE;

5 PM; GREENSBURG/MT PLEASANT RD /

RT30-GREENSBURG/MT PLEASANT EX; (724)

929-5396; DBLSPORTS.COM

JUL 17 (S,T,Y): ELKLAND: 2 DAY EVENT:

MILES MOUNTAIN MX, PHILLIP EGLESTON;

6 AM; 446 RIVER ST; (814) 258-5593;

MILESMOUNTAINMX.COM

JUL 18 (S,T,Y): BOSWELL: DREAM

PROMOTIONS INC./FIE, TINA BERKEY; 7

AM; 473 BERKEY RD /OFF RT 30 FROM

JENNERSTOWN ON 985N; (814) 629-6774;

FIELDOFDREAMSMX.COM

JUL 18 (S,Y): SHIPPENSBURG: DOUBLIN GAP

MX PARK INC, RODNEY YENTZER; 8 AM;

100 REASNER LANE /6 MILES NORTH OF

DOWNTOWN SHIPPENSBURG; (717) 249-6036;

DOUBLINGAP.COM

JUL 24 (S,T,Y): JOHNSTOWN: STATE CHAMP;

2 DAY EVENT: PLEASURE VALLEY RACEWAY,

JEFF CERNIC; 6 AM; 500 COOPER AVE; (814)

539-4114; PVRMX.COM

JUL 25 (S,Y): HANOVER: HAPPY RAMBLERS,

SHARON L FISHER; 7 AM; 4340 HANOVER RD

/RT 116/5 MI W OF TOWN/SEE WEBSITE; (717)

633-7708; HAPPYRAMBLERS.COM

HARE SCRAMBLES

JUL 4 (S,T,Y): JUL 25 (S,T,Y): MARKLEYSBURG

:BRADDOCK’S TRAIL RACEWAY, HEATHER

SAVAGE; 7 AM; 4834 NATIONAL PIKE /

GPS: 39.770894,-79.48028; (724) 880-5416;

BRADDOCKSTRAILRACEWAY.COM

JUL 17 (U): VALLEY VIEW: NATIONAL;

RAUSCH CREEK POWERSPORTS, TIFFANY

TOBIAS; 6:30 AM; TBA; (570) 682-4600;

RAUSCHCREEKRACING.COM

JUL 18 (S,T,Y): VALLEY VIEW: NATIONAL;

RAUSCH CREEK POWERSPORTS, TIFFANY

TOBIAS; 6 AM; TBA; (570) 682-4600;


JUL 18 (V): VALLEY VIEW: NATIONAL;

RAUSCH CREEK POWERSPORTS, TIFFIANY

TOBIAS; 6:30 AM; TBA; (570) 682-4600;


JUL 31 (S,Y): CATAWISSA: NATIONAL; HIGH

MOUNTAIN DIRT RIDERS, MICHAEL N SOUDA;

7 AM; SOUTHSIDE CONSERVATION CLUB;

(570) 954-7799; HMDR.ORG

ENDURO

JUL 11 (S): GILLET: SOUTHERN TIER ENDURO

RIDE, MATT EGGLESTON; 144 SITZER RD; (607)

792-3760; STER-MC.ORG

JUL 18 (S): BLAIN: SUSQUEHANNA OFF ROAD

RIDE, MICHAEL H VANOVICH; BLAIN PICNIC

GROUNDS /RT 274/ARROWED; (717) 533-2242;

SORRMC.ORG

JUL 25 (S): CROSS FORK: BRANDYWINE

ENDURO RIDERS, ROBERT T STUART; 6 AM;

QUIET OAKS CAMPGROUND /212 GAROY RD;

(610) 914-5530; BER.US

TENNESSEE

ROAD RALLY

JUL 30 (R): ERWIN: 3 DAY EVENT:

MOTORCYCLE SPORT TOURING, JANET

CAMPBELL; HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS; (513)

932-3341

MOTOCROSS

JUL 10 (S,T,Y): JUL 11 (M,T,Y): BLOUTVILLE

:VICTORY SPORTS INC, SAM R GAMMON; 7

AM; MUDDY CREEK RACEWAY/450 RIDGEWAY

DR; VICTORYSPORTSRACING.COM

OBSERVED TRIALS

JUL 2 (U): SEQUATCHIE: NATIONAL; 3 DAY

EVENT: SOUTHEASTERN TRIALS RIDER,

CATHERINE BEDLEY; 7 AM; TRAILS TRAINING

CENTER /300 WOODLAND RD/I-24 EX 155/30

MIN W OF CHATT; (423) 942-8688

TEXAS

ROAD RALLY

JUL 15 (R): ALVARADO: STATE CHAMP; 4 DAY

EVENT: BIKERS ADULT RALLY, SHEILA QUICK;

8 AM; 8901 E HWY 67 /STATE RALLY; (972) 551-

0024; BIKERSADULTRALLY.COM

VERMONT

ROAD RUN

JUL 6 (R): STRATTON: 3 DAY EVENT: WOMEN

ON WHEELS (R), JOYCE A SHOOK; 7 AM;

STRATTON MTN RESORT; (800) 322-1969;

WOMENONWHEELS.ORG

VIRGINIA

ROAD RUN

JUL 15 (R): BRISTOL: 3 DAY EVENT:

ROADRUNNER MOTORCYCLE TOU, HEATHER

OLIVER; 2 PM; 3005 LINDEN DR; (276) 466-

4100; ROADRUNNER.TRAVEL

SCRAMBLES

JUL 10 (V,Y): SUTHERLIN: NATIONAL;

BIRCHCREEK PROMOTIONS, LL, KEN

FERRELL; 12725 KENTUCK RD; (434) 836-7629;

BIRCHCREEKMXPARK.COM

MOTOCROSS

JUL 3 (S,T,Y): JUL 31 (S,T,Y): PETERSBURG: 2

DAY EVENTS:VMP MX, STEFFANIE EDEN; 6 AM;

8018 BOYDTON PLANK RD; (804) 732-7888;

VMP-MX.COM

JUL 10 (S,Y): PETERSBURG: 2 DAY EVENT:

MIDDLE ATLANTIC MOTOCROSS, RUTH ANN

BENSON; 6 AM; VIRGINIA MOTORSPORTS

PARK /I-85S FROM TOWN EXIT 63A/4 MI ON

RT; (410) 375-1059; MAMAMX.COM

JUL 17 (S,T,Y): DISPUTANTA: 2 DAY EVENT:

SOUTH FORK COMPETITION PA, LAWRENCE

SHAIA; 6148 BAXTER RD /20 MIN FROM

PETERSBURG OFF I-95; (804) 339-8565;

SOUTHFORKMX.COM

JUL 18 (S,T,Y): WYTHEVILLE: VICTORY SPORTS

INC, SAM GAMMON; 7 AM; PRO SPORT MX

PARK /2036 ATKINS MILL RD; (423) 323-5497;

VICTORYSPORTSRACING.COM

JUL 24 (S,T,Y): SUTHERLIN: BIRCHCREEK

PROMOTIONS, LL, KEN FERRELL;

12725 KENTUCK RD; (434) 836-7629;

BIRCHCREEKMOTORSPORTS.COM

GRAND PRIX

JUL 24 (S,Y): BRISTOL: VIRGINIA

CHAMPIONSHIP HAR, DARRYL DALTON;

HARLEYWOOD FARM /I-81 EXIT 7; (276) 669-

0981; VCHSS.NET

WASHINGTON

CONVENTIONS

JUL 28 (R): STEVENSON: 4 DAY EVENT: SOUND

RIDER!, TOM MEHREN; 9 AM; 710 SW ROCK

CREEK DR /HWY 14 BETWEEN VANCOVER &

GOLDEN DALE; (206) 329-7808; SOUNDRIDER.

COM/RALLY

MOTOCROSS

JUL 11 (S,T,Y): PORT ANGELES: OLYMPIC

PENINSULA MOTORCY, MELISSA BAAR; 7 AM;

1306 DEER PARK RD /HWY 101W/S ON DEER

PK RD; (360) 417-7509; OPMC.ORG

JUL 22 (S,Y): WASHOUGAL: 2 DAY EVENT:

WASHOUGAL MX PARK LLC, CAROLYN

HUFFMAN; WASHOUGAL MX PARK /40205

NE BORIN/205 TO HWY 14E; (541) 673-1671;

WASHOUGALMXPK.COM

JUL 31 (S,T,Y): PORT ANGELES: OLYMPIC

PENINSULA MOTORCY, MELISSA BAAR; 7 AM;

1306 DEER PARK RD /HWY 101W/S ON DEER

PK RD; (360) 565-0303; OPMC.ORG

WEST VIRGINIA

ROAD RUN

JUL 16 (R): SNOWSHOE: 3 DAY EVENT:

SNOWSHOE MOUNTAIN INC., ANITA PHILLIPS;

10 SNOWSHOE DRIVE /CONSULT WEBSITE;

(877) 441-4386; SNOWSHOEMTN.COM

MOTOCROSS

JUL 24 (S,Y): HEDGESVILLE: 2 DAY EVENT:

MIDDLE ATLANTIC MOTOCROSS, RUTH

ANN BENSON; 6 AM; TOMAHAWK MX/863

TOMAHAWK RN RD /I-81 EX 16W/6 MI TO RT

7/L; (410) 375-1059; MAMAMX.COM

JUL 24 (S,T,Y): GRN SULPHUR SPR: STATE

CHAMP; 2 DAY EVENT: LICK CREEK MX, PHILIP

GWINN; 6:30 AM; EX 143 ON I64 FOLLOW

SIGNS; (304) 673-7992; LICKCREEKMX.COM

WISCONSIN

ROAD RALLY

JUL 12 (R): TOMAH: 5 DAY EVENT: CONCOURS

OWNERS GROUP INC, GUY B YOUNG II; 9 AM;

319 WITTIG ROAD /CRANBERRY COUNTRY

LODGE; (804) 745-1439; COG-ONLINE.ORG

SHORT TRACK

JUL 17 (S,T,Y): LAKE MILLS: AZTALAN CYCLE

CLUB INC, JUDY E SUMNER; 1:30 PM; N 6643

GOMOL RD /I94N TO 26 S TO B-W. TO GOMOL-

RIGHT; (414) 297-9367; AZTALANCYCLE.COM

MOTOCROSS

JUL 4 (S,T,Y): HILLPOINT: SUGAR MAPLE MX

LLC, JASON W ERDMANN; 5 AM; S5711 SUGAR

MAPLE ROAD /1/2 MILE N OF HILLPOINT ON

SUGAR MAPLE RD; (608) 393-8812;

JUL 10 (S,Y): LAKE MILLS: 2 DAY EVENT:

AZTALAN CYCLE CLUB INC, JUDY E SUMNER;

6 AM; N 6643 GOMOL RD /I94N TO 26 S TO

B-W. TO GOMOL-RIGHT; (414) 297-9367;

AZTALANCYCLE.COM

JUL 21 (S,T,Y): PORTAGE: CMJ RACEWAY

LLC, CHRIS HALVERSON; 3 PM; PORTAGE

FAIRGROUNDS; (608) 220-6853;

CMJRACEWAY.COM

JUL 23 (S,T,Y): CHILTON: GRAVITY PARK

USA, ROBERT SCHNEIDER; 3:30 PM; W2571

HICKORY HILLS RD /1 MI N OF TOWN ON HWY

57; (920) 849-7223; GRAVITYPARKUSA.COM

JUL 25 (S,T,Y): WITTENBERG: FANTASY MOTO

LLC, SCOTT BIESE; 6 AM; MOHAWK STREET

/INTERSECTION OF 292 ROBIN RD S ON

ROBIN; (920) 419-2863; FANTASYMOTO.COM

JUL 31 (S,T): ARKANSAW: 2 DAY EVENT:

ARKANSAW CREEK CYCLE CLUB, RANDY

RICHARDSON; 6 AM; ARKANSAW CREEK

CYCLE PARK /HWY 10 TO TOWN/S ON

CR N/R ON CR SS/L CR D; (715) 285-5679;

ARKANSAWMX.COM

JUL 31 (S,T,Y): TOMAH: CMJ RACEWAY

LLC, CHRIS HALVERSON; 3 PM; TOMAH

FAIRGROUNDS; (608) 220-6853;

CMJRACEWAY.COM

HARE SCRAMBLES

JUL 11 (S,Y): STONE LAKE: STRAIGHT ARROW

ENDURO RID, JESSICA KIGHT; 7 AM; SUMMIT

LAKE GAME FARM /WI HWY 70 TO STONE

LAKE/E TO CR ‘F’/ARROWED; (651) 456-0224;

STRAIGHTARROWS.ORG

OBSERVED TRIALS

JUL 10 (S,Y): BARABOO: 2 DAY EVENT:

WISCONSIN OBSERVED TRIALS, JAMES

VOIGTLANDER; 9 AM; MT ROAD; (608) 434-

5530; WISCONSINTRIALS.ORG

WYOMING

MOTOCROSS

JUL 11 (S,Y): CHEYENNE :LARAMIE COUNTY

RIDERS ASS, CHRIS GLECKLER; 5:30 AM; I-80

EAST TO EXIT 370 TURN RT; (307) 214-7861;

LARAMIECOUNTYMX.COM

MUSEUM EXHIBITS

AMA MOTORCYCLE HALL Of fAME MotorcycleMuseuM.org

The Hall of Fame is located on the AMA campus in Pickerington, Ohio, and is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. seven days a week. Closed: Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day.

AMA Motorcycle Hall of fame: Recognizing those who have made significant contributions to all aspects of motorcycling.

Honda Of Marysville: Gold Wings aren’t the only machines that Honda produced at its plant in Marysville, Ohio. This exhibit showcases the many wonderful bikes.

founder’s Hall: Honoring the Hall of Fame’s generous contributors.

AMA PRO RACING

AMA PRO SUPERBIKE CHAMPIONSHIP AMAProrAcINg.coM

July 16-18: Lexington, Ohio: Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course

July 23-25: Monterey, Calif.: Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca

Aug. 13-15: Alton, Va.: Virginia International Raceway

Sept. 3-5: Millville, N.J.: New Jersey Motorsports Park

Sept. 24-26: Birmingham, Ala.: Barber Motorsports Park

LUCAS OIL AMA PRO MOTOCROSS CHAMPIONSHIP MXsPortsProrAcINg.coM

June 19: Mechanicsville, Md.: Budds Creek Motocross

June 26: Lakewood, Colo.: Thunder Valley Motocross

July 3: Buchanan, Mich.: RedBud

July 17: Milleville, Minn.: Spring Creek Motocross

July 24: Washougal, Wash.: Washougal Motocross

Aug. 14: New Berlin, N.Y.: Unadilla

Aug. 28: Southwick, Mass.: Moto-X 338

Sept. 4: Delmont, Pa.: Steel City Raceway

Sept. 11: San Diego: Pala Raceway

AMA PRO fLAT TRACK CHAMPIONSHIP AMAProrAcINg.coM

June 26: Lima, Ohio: Lime Half-mile, Allen County Fairgrounds

July 10: Lake Odessa, Mich.: I-96 Half-mile, I-96 Speedway

July 31: Calistoga, Calif.: Calistoga Half-mile, Calistoga Fairgrounds

Aug. 7: Hagerstown, Md.: Hagerstown Half-mile, Hagerstown Speedway

Aug. 14: Grove City, Ohio: Beulah Park Mile

Aug. 22: Peoria, Ill.: Peoria TT

Aug. 28: Indianapolis: Indiana Mile, Indiana State Fairgrounds

Sept. 4: Springfield, Ill.: Springfield Short Track, Illinois State Fairgrounds

Sept. 5: Springfield, Ill.: Springfield Mile II, Illinois State Fairgrounds

Sept. 11: Minneapolis: Canterbury Park Mile

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Sept. 18: Knoxville, Iowa: Knoxville Half-mile, Knoxville Raceway

Oct. 9: Prescott, Ariz.: Yavapai Downs Short Track

Oct. 10: Prescott, Ariz.: Yavapai Downs Mile II

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July 11: Avoca, n.Y.: Avoca-Howard Hillclimb

Aug. 1: Muskegon, Mich.: “All-Star Challenge,” Muskegon MC

Aug. 15: Dansville, n.Y.: Poags Hole Productions

Aug. 29: canaan, n.H.: Ridge Runners MC

Sept. 12: Steel city, Pa.: Bushkill Valley MC

Sept. 26: Jefferson, Pa.: White Rose MC

Oct. 10: Oregonia, Ohio: Dayton MC

AMA nAtIOnAl cHAMPIOnSHIP SerIeS

AMA rAcIng/nAtc OBServeD trIAlS nAtIOnAl cHAMPIOnSHIP SerIeS

June 19-20: exeter, r.I.: Bob ONeil, Stepping Stone Ranch; Rhode Island Trials Club; (508) 285-6074; [email protected]; RITrialsClub.com

June 26-27: cayuta, n.Y.: David Reed, (607) 796-9558; District 4 Trials, District4Trials.org

July 24-25: Howard, colo.: Stan Hensley, (719) 564-6476; Rocky Mountain Trials Assoc (RMTA), [email protected]; RMTA.org

July 31-Aug. 1: norden, calif.: Mike Codde, (530) 426-3635; Sacramento P.I.T.S., Inc.; [email protected]; DonnerSkiRanch.com

AMA rAcIng nAtIOnAl HAre & HOunD NAtIONAlhAReANdhOuNd.COM

Oct. 10: tBA: SoCal MC, Justin Shultz; (949) 981-6776; SoCalMC.com

Oct. 24: lucerne, calif.: 100s MC, Ryan Sanders; (949) 584-9395; 100sMC.org

AMA reKluSe nAtIOnAl enDurO cHAMPIOnSHIP SerIeS PreSenteD BY MOOSe rAcIng NAtIONAleNduRO.COM

June 20: upton, Wyo.: Paul Douglas, Inyan Kara Riders; (307) 468-2840; NationalEnduro.com

July 25: Moorestown, Mich.: Jeff Hunt, Lansing Motorcycle Club; (231) 267-9534

Aug. 22: north Berwick, Maine: Peter Anania, Seacoast Trail Riders; (603) 436-4331; SeacoastTrailRiders.org

Oct. 2: Matthews, Ind.: Doug Spence, Muddobbers MC; [email protected]; Muddobbers.org

geIcO enDurOcrOSS eNduROCROSS.COM

July 17: las vegas, nev.: The Orleans Arena

Aug. 14: guthrie, Okla.: Lazy E Arena

Aug. 27: Indianapolis: Pepsi Coliseum

Sept. 11: everett, Wash.: Comcast Arena

Oct. 30: Denver: Nat’l Western Complex

nov. 20: las vegas, nev.: The Orleans Arena

cAn-AM gncc ScHeDule GNCCRACING.COM

June 26-27: Snowshoe Resort, W.Va.

Sept. 11-12: New Berlin, N.Y.

Sept. 25-26: Lafayette, Tenn.

Oct. 9-10: St. Clairsville, Ohio

Oct. 23-24: Crawfordsville, Ind.

AMA DrAgBIKe cHAMPIOnSHIP SerIeS AMAdRAGBIKe.COM

July 31 - Aug. 1: Indianapolis: O’Reilly Raceway Park

Sept. 10-12: Atco, n.J.: Atco Raceway

Oct. 9-10: norwalk, Ohio: Summit Motorsports Park

nov. 12-14: valdosta, ga.: South Georgia Motorsports Park

AMA rAcIng eASt HAre ScrAMBleS AMARACING.COM

July 17-18: valley view, Pa.; Tiffany Tobias, Rausch Creek Powersports; (570) 682-4600; RauschCreekRacing.com

July 31-Aug. 1: catawissa, Pa.: Mike Soudas, High Mountain Dirt Riders; (570) 954-7799; HMDR.org

Aug. 7-8: Hill city, Minn.: Paul Otto, Range Riders MC; (763) 229-1177; RangeRidersMC.org

Aug. 28-29: cortland, n.Y.: Cindy Davis, Knobby Acres; (607) 756-5277; WYNOA.org

Sept. 18-19: lynnville, Ind.: Kenny Moore, IN, IL, KY Enduro Riders; (812) 549-8385; Blackcoal.org

AMA rAcIng WeSt HAre ScrAMBleS AMARACING.COM

June 19-20: elkton, Ore.: Toni Bamford, (541) 688-5428;

ETRA.net

Aug. 21-22 - Big Sky, Mont.: Jamey Kabisch, Lone Peak Racing Big Sky XC; (406) 223-0478; BigSkyXC.com

nov. 6-7: rancho cordova, calif.: Ed Santin, Dirt Diggers North MC; (800) HANGTOWN; HangtownMX.com

AMA vIntAge nAtIOnAl DIrt trAcK cHAMPIOnSHIP SerIeS AMARACING.COM

June 25-26: Short track, Harpursville, n.Y.: Square Deal Motorcycle Club; Don Miller, (607) 725-3069, Squaredealriders.com

July 9: Half-Mile, Ashland, Ohio: AMA Racing; Ken Saillant, (614) 856-1900, AMARacing.Com

July 24: Mile, Du Quoin, Ill.: AMA Racing ; Ken Saillant, (614) 856-1900, AMARacing.com

July 25: Half-Mile, Du Quoin, Ill.: AMA Racing ; Ken Saillant, (614) 856-1900, AMARacing.com

Sept. 11: Half-Mile, Waco, texas: Waco Eagles Motorcycle Club; (254) 875-9955

Sept. 12: Half-Mile, Waco, texas: Waco Eagles Motorcycle Club; (254) 875-9955

AMA PrO-AM MOtOcrOSS ScHeDule AMARACING.COM

June 13: Mt. Morris, Pa.: Racer Productions; (304) 284-0800, RacerProductions.com

June 20: Mt. carroll, Ill.: MC Motopark; (815) 238-1614, [email protected], MCMotoPark.com

July 4: Buchanan, Mich.: Red Bud Recreation; (269) 695-6405, RedBudMX.com

July 11: Kingsbury, Ind.: Motoland, (219) 988-6686, Motoland.com

July 11: Blountville, tenn.: Victory Sports; (423) 323-5497, VictorySportsRacing.com

July 22-23: Washougal, Wash.: Washougal MX Park; (360) 837-3975, WashougalMXpk.com

Aug. 2-7: Hurricane Mills, tenn.: MX Sports; (304) 284-0084, MXSports.com

Aug. 13-16, new Berlin, n.Y.: Unadilla Valley Sports Center; (607) 965-8784, UnadillaMX.com

Aug. 22: Armaugh, Pa.: Pleasure Valley Raceway; (814) 695-2453

Aug. 29: Millville, Minn.: Spring Creek MX Park; (507) 753-2779, SpringCreekMX.com

Sept. 4-6: Millington, Mich.: Baja MX; (989) 871-3356, BajaMX.com

Sept. 5: Delmont, Pa.: Bellco; (304) 284-0080

Sept. 5: Athelstane, Wis. Pine Ridge Raceway; (715) 856-6612, PineRidgeRaceway.com

Sept. 19: Prentiss, Miss.: Golden Pine Raceway; (601) 506-8669, GoldenPineRaceway.com

Sept. 19: richford, n.Y.: Broome-Tioga Sports Center; (607) 849-4438; Broome-Tioga.com

Sept. 26: canton, texas: Kingdom Motorsports; (214) 939-4321, BuffaloCreekMX.com

Oct. 2-3: englishtown, n.J.: Raceway Park; (732) 446-7800, RacewayPark.com

Oct. 3: gaylord, Mich: Baja MX; (989) 871-3356, BajaMX.com

Oct. 10: Mason, Ill.: Crossroads MX; (618) 686-2769, CrossroadsMX.com

Oct. 16-17: Blountville, tenn.: Victory Sports; (423) 323-5497, VictorySportsRacing.com

nov. 6-7: Pell city, Ala.: RPM Sports; (205) 699-8857, MillCreekMotocross.com

nov. 22-24: gainesville, Fla.: Unlimited Sports MX; (813) 470-7498, UnlimitedSportsMX.com

nov. 25-27: gainesville, Fla.: Unlimited Sports MX; (813) 470-7498, UnlimitedSportsMX.com

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June 17-21: Fairbanks, Alaska: Aerostich Tours, Roger Pattison; AerostichTours.com

July 10-11: Mccloud, calif.: McCloud Dual Sport Adven-tures, Mike Lingsch; McCloudDualsportAdventures.com

Aug. 7-8: Hancock, n.Y.: Bear Creek Sportsmen, Linda Rizzon; (973) 953-6308, BearCreekSportsmen.com

Aug. 21-22: Mccloud, calif.: McCloud Dual Sport Adven-tures, Mike Lingsch; McCloudDualsportAdventures.com

Aug. 21-22: columbus, Ind.: Stoney Lonesome MC, Nathan Gaskill; Stoneylonesomemc.com

Aug. 23-27: north cascades, Wash.: Sound Rider!, Tom Mehren; Soundrider.com/dsport

Sept. 11-12: cadiz, Ky.: KT Riders, Jesse Thomas; [email protected]

Sept. 11-12: logan, Ohio: Nutcracker 200, Buckeye

Dual Sporters, Bill Kaeppner; [email protected], Kaeppnerswoods.com

Sept. 18-19: Mccloud, calif.: McCloud Dual Sport Adv, Mike Lingsch; McCloudDualsportAdventures.com

Sept. 18-19: Diamond lake, Ore.: Motorcycle Riders Assn; Jeff Moffet; (541) 773-7433; [email protected]

Sept. 18-19: Morganton, n.c.: JB Saki Promotions; (704) 483-6833, [email protected]

Sept. 25-26: Wolverine, Mich.: Great Lakes Dual Sporters, Jeramey Valley; GLDSmc.org

Sept. 25-26: Wabeno, Wis.: Wisconsin Dual Sport Riders, Duane Baer; WIDualsportriders.org

Oct. 2-3: renfro valley, Ky.: 4-Fun Trail Riders, Vicky Stephenson; 4FunTrailRiders.com

Oct. 9-10: Mccloud, calif.: McCloud Dual Sport Adventures, Mike Lingsch; McCloudDualsportAdventures.com

Oct. 23-24: chatsworth, n.J.: Meteor MC, Mike Reign; MeteorMC.com

Oct. 23-24: Prescott, Ariz.: Arizona Trail Riders, Frank Staley; ArizonaTrailRiders.org

nov. 6-7: Port elizabeth, n.J.: Tri-County Sportsmen, E. Polhaumus; TeamHammer.org

nov. 26-27: Palmdale, calif.: L.A.-Barstow to Vegas: AMA D-37 Dual Sport, Paul Flanders; (626) 792-7384, District37AMA.org

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June 19-20: Bend, Ore.: China Hat Dual Sport National, Lobos MC, Billy Toman, (503) 656-5801; [email protected]; Lobosmc.com

July 24-31: newberry, Mich.: 26th Annual Six Days of Michigan, Cycle Conservation Club of Mich., Lewis Schuler, (517) 781-4805; [email protected], CycleConservationClub.org

Aug. 7-8: Hancock, n.Y.: Bear Creek Sportsmen, Linda Rizzon; (973) 953-6308, BearCreekSportsmen.com

Aug. 21-22: columbus, Ind.: Buffaloe 500 D/S Adventure Ride, Stoney Lonesome MC, Nathan Gaskill, (812) 343-9772; [email protected]; StoneyLonesomemc.com/DualSport/index.html.

Sept. 11-12: cadiz, Ky.: LBL 200, KT Riders, Jesse Thomas, (270) 522-3703; [email protected]

Sept. 11-12: logan, Ohio: Nutcracker 200, Buckeye Dual Sporters, Bill Kaeppner; (740) 380-3050, KaeppnersWoods.com

Sept. 18-19: Sterling, Ill.: Cow Patty Cruise, Brushpoppers MC, Jack Sumption, (815) 622-4099; [email protected], BrushPoppersmc.com

Sept. 18-19: Diamond lake, Ore.: Motorcycle Riders Assn; Jeff Moffet; (541) 773-7433; [email protected]

Sept. 25-26: Buck Meadows, calif.: Yosemite Dual Sport Adv, Family Off Road Adventures, Lawrence Borgens, (209) 649-3633; [email protected], FamilyOffroadAdventures.com

Sept. 25-26: Wolverine, Mich.: Ted’s Chandler Hill Challenge, Great Lakes Dual Sporters, Jeramey Valley, (989) 751-6863; [email protected]; GLDSmc.org

Sept. 25-26: Wabeno, Wis.: Big Woods 200, Wisconsin Dual Sport Riders, Duane Baer, (920) 350-2030; [email protected]; WIDualsportriders.org

Oct. 2-3: Mt. Solon, va.: Shenandoah 500 Dual Sport, Northern VA Trail Riders, Detter Merz; (703) 505-9123, NVTR.org

Oct. 9-10: McArthur, Ohio: Baby Burr Nat’l Dual Sport, Enduro Riders Assoc., Steve Barber, (614) 582-7821; EnduroRiders.com

Oct. 23-24: chatsworth, n.J.: Meteor Ride in the Pines, Meteor MC, Mike Reign, (856) 287-8170; MeteorMC.com

Oct. 23-24: Study Butte, texas: 13th Annual Terlingua Nat’l Dual Sport Ride, Trail Riders of Houston, Jack Jennings, (713) 248-7222; [email protected]; TRH-cycle.org

Oct. 23-24: Prescott, Ariz.: Arizona Trail Riders, Frank Staley, (623) 826-1092; ArizonaTrailriders.org

nov. 6-7: Port elizabeth, n.J.: Hammer Run, Tri-County Sportsmen, E. Polhaumus, (856) 785-2754; [email protected]; TeamHammer.org

nov. 26-27: Palmdale, calif.: L.A.-Barstow to Vegas: AMA D-37 Dual Sport, Paul Flanders; (626) 792-7384, District37AMA.org

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Sept. 15-19: ruidoso, n.M.: Golden Aspen Rally: Golden Aspen Motorcycle Assn; Patric Pearson, (800) 452-8045, Motorcyclerally.com

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Jun 12-20: Laconia, NH: Laconia Motorcycle Week: Laconia Motorcycle Week Assn; Charlie St. Clair, (603) 366-2000, LaconiaMCWeek.com

AMA VINTAGE MOTORCYCLE DAYS

July 9-11: Lexington, Ohio: AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days: American Motorcyclist Assn; Tigra Tsujikawa, (614) 856-1900, AMAVintageMotorcycleDays.com

SIGNATURE EVENTS

July 11: South Bend, Ind.: South Bend Indiana Ride For Kids; Pinhook Park; (800) 253-6530; PBTUS.org/rideforkids

July 18: White Bear Lake, Minn.: Minnesota Ride For Kids; Century Colleage East Campus; (800) 253-6530; PBTUS.org/rideforkids

July 18: Deerfi eld, N.Y.: Utica Ride For Kids; Deerfi eld Volunteer Fire Department; (800) 253-6530; PBTUS.org/rideforkids

July 18: Chicago: Chicagoland Ride For Kids; Elgin Community College; (800) 253-6530; PBTUS.org/rideforkids

July 24: Marysville, Ohio: Marysville Ride For Kids; Scotts MiracleGro Headquarters; (800) 253-6530; PBTUS.org/rideforkids

July 25: Overland Park, Kan.: Kansas City Ride For Kids; Johnson County Community College; (800) 253-6530; PBTUS.org/rideforkids

July 28-31: Stevenson, Wash.: Rally Week in the Gorge; Sound Rider!; Tom Mehren, (206) 329-7808, SoundRider.com/rally

Aug. 1: Central Valley, N.Y.: Hudson Valley Ride For Kids; Central Valley Elementary School; (800) 253-6530; PBTUS.org/rideforkids

Aug. 1: Middleton, Wis.: Wisconsin Ride For Kids; Firemans Park/Next to high school; (800) 253-6530; PBTUS.org/rideforkids

Aug. 8: Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Ride or Kids; Home Depot, 25 Ditilh Rd., Cranberry Township; (800) 253-6530; PBTUS.org/rideforkids

Aug. 14: Salt Lake City: Utah Ride For Kids; This Is The Place Heritage Park; (800) 253-6530; PBTUS.org/rideforkids

Aug. 15: Fiskdale, Mass.: New England Ride For Kids; Tantasqua Regional High School; (800) 253-6530; PBTUS.org/rideforkids

Aug. 29: Ashville, N.C.: Asheville Ride For Kids; Tantasqua Regional High School; (800) 253-6530; PBTUS.org/rideforkids

Aug. 29: Ann Arbor, Mich.: Michigan Ride For Kids (and Dual Sport); Washtenow Community College; (800) 253-6530; PBTUS.org/rideforkids

Sept. 12: Carnation, Wash.: Puget Sound Ride For Kids; Remlinger Farms; (800) 253-6530; PBTUS.org/rideforkids

Sept. 12: Indianapolis: Indianapolis Ride For Kids; Indianapolis Motor Speedway; (800) 253-6530; PBTUS.org/rideforkids

Sept. 12: Leeds, Ala.: Birmingham Ride For Kids; Barber Motorsports Park; (800) 253-6530; PBTUS.org/rideforkids

Sept. 19: Cottleville, Mo.: St. Louis Ride For Kids; St. Charles Community College; (800) 253-6530; PBTUS.org/rideforkids

Sept. 26: Ellicott City, Md.: Baltimore/Washington DC Ride For Kids; Turf Valley Resort; (800) 253-6530; PBTUS.org/rideforkids

Oct. 3: Grapevine, Texas: Dallas/Fort Worth Ride For Kids; Grapevine Mills Mall/SE Parking Area; (800) 253-6530; PBTUS.org/rideforkids

Oct. 3: Las Vegas, Nev.: Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation; Las Vegas Motor Speedway; (800) 253-6530; PBTUS.org/rideforkids

Oct. 3: Fairfi eld, Calif.: Northern California Ride For Kids; Solaro Commuity College; (800) 253-6530; PBTUS.org/rideforkids

Oct. 17: Mesa, Ariz.: Phoenix Ride For Kids; Desert Ridge High School; (800) 253-6530; PBTUS.org/rideforkids

Oct. 17: Cardiff, Calif.: San Diego Ride For Kids; Mira Costa College-San Elijo Campus; (800) 253-6530; PBTUS.org/rideforkids

Oct. 17: Andersonville, Tenn.: Knoxville Ride For Kids; Norris Dam Tail Water; (800) 253-6530; PBTUS.org/rideforkids

Oct. 24: Lafayette, La.: Louisiana Ride for Kids; SLEMCO; (800) 253-6530; PBTUS.org/rideforkids

Nov. 7: Lithia, Fla.: Tampa Ride for Kids; SLEMCO; (800) 253-6530; PBTUS.org/rideforkids

AMA GRAND TOURS WITH KOA ALONG THE WAY

Through Sept. 15: Titanic Grand Tour: Great Lakes Motorcycle Club; Lee Bruns, [email protected]; GLMC.org/grand-tour.html

Through Nov. 30: USA 4 Corners Tour: So. CA Motorcycling Assoc; David L. Johnson, (909) 271-0137, USA4Corners.org

Through Nov. 30: Call of the Wild Grand Tour: Midnight

Riders; Charles Kirkman, (765) 566-3807, Midnight-Riders-MC.com

Through Nov. 30: I’ve Been Everywhere Classic Grand Tour: Road Winders Motorcycle Club; Joseph Sloan, [email protected]

Through Dec. 31: The National Parks Grand Tour: Iron Butt Association; Mike Kneebone, [email protected]; IronButt.com

DISTRICT RALLIES AND TOURS

June 19: Kingston, Idaho: D-24 Tour – Gyro Daze Run:

Hi-Rollers MC; Ed Harris, (509) 326-7154, Community.

Spokane.net

June 21-24: Galena, Ill.: MTA Gathering: Motorcycle

Touring Assn; Harvey Wilson, (800) 397-1320,

ChestnutMtn.com

Aug. 29: Dallas, Pa.: D-6 Tour – Endless Mountain District

Tour: Back Mountain Enduro Riders; Marty Moon, (570)

675-1814, BMER.org

Sept. 4-6: Groveland, Calif.: Hey Day Rally: Dist 36 Road

Div.; Kay Neelyl, (209) 983-9106, AMA-D-36.com

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GUEST COLUMN

In 2006, I ended a self-imposed hiatus from

motorcycling. Off a bike for almost 50 years, I hoped to

replicate the motorcycle experiences of my teenage years.

For me, that meant simplicity.

The most common bikes when I grew up in western

Massachusetts were Triumphs, BSAs and Arials. There

was the occasional Harley-Davidson and a few CZs,

Jawas, NSUs and Puchs. This was the era before mega

horsepower, cushy passenger seats, trikes and traction

control. Maybe you needed to be a shade-tree mechanic

to keep your motorcycle on the road, but systems were

simpler, bikes were more forgiving and speeds were more

manageable. In 1953, Hollywood released “The Wild One”

with Marlon Brando riding a 650cc Triumph Thunderbird.

In those days it seemed like everyone wanted to ride.

Of course, this is not the mid-1950s. Times have

changed, and as I planned my return to motorcycling, I

had no desire to spend the money and effort to run down

a ’50s Brit bike and fulfi ll my fantasies of yesteryear. But I

was determined to return to riding. It helped that three of

my older brothers, then aged 76, 72, and 67, continued to

ride. I didn’t want to be left out of the fun any longer.

After taking a Motorcycle Safety Foundation weekend

motorcycle course to earn a state motorcycle license

endorsement, I needed a motorcycle. Since I was

unashamedly chasing the past, so to speak, I decided the

bike for me was a new 500cc Royal Enfi eld Bullet. Riding

a Bullet was like stepping back into the 1950s. I found a

new white 2005 sitting in a showroom in Sarasota.

The following September, my brother Ken and I trailered

our bikes from Tampa Bay, Fla., to Portsmouth, N.H., for a

couple of weeks of riding with our brother Alan. The Bullet

was great on the back roads of New England but had

diffi culty keeping up with the big boys on their Harley-

Davidsons. On Sept. 11, along with nephew Steve, we

rode from Portsmouth to the top of Mount Washington.

At 6,288 feet, natives insist that the mountain has “the

world’s worst weather.” However, on that day, the sun god

was smiling.

I ultimately decided that if I wanted to ride with Ken and

Alan, I should be on a comparable bike—a cruiser. So, I

kept the Bullet as my Sunday bike and purchased a 2007

Hyosung GV650. Sporting a PPALLI (Korean for “fast” or

“hurry up”) license plate, the Hyosung and I were ready to

run with my older siblings.

Another year, another trip to Portsmouth and 17,000

miles later, I traded in the GV650 for a 2008 BMW F800ST,

and in September 2008, Ken and I rode north to Bryson

City, N.C. Brother Alan rode down from New Hampshire

and joined us. From there, we rode the Tail of the Dragon,

made a side-trip to Seneca, S.C., and visited The Wheels

STARTING OVERFull Throttle Ahead At 70 And Counting By Dave Tucker

Through Time motorcycle museum in Maggie Valley, N.C.,

before heading north to Washington, D.C.

I thoroughly enjoyed my time on the F800ST, but after

I did some dual-sport riding I traded it in on a new 2009

BMW R1200GS. The shakedown trip for that bike in

October was a ride north to North Carolina and Tennessee

to ride the Cherohala Skyway from Robbinsville, N.C., to

Tellico Plains, Tenn.

My return to riding has evolved over four years. My

skills have improved, as have my bikes and gear. At age

70, I will never be the dual-sport rider that I fantasize I

could become, but with more than 10,000 miles on the

R1200GS, I feel it is the ultimate riding machine for me. It

will be with me for a long time. Very soon, I look forward to

an advanced skills class and a cross-country trip to visit

family and friends in the Pacifi c Northwest.

Then, in 2011, I hope to do “Tampa Bay to Prudhoe

Bay.”

David Gary Tucker, Ed. D. is a former military intelligence

offi cer, professor and leadership consultant who now

dabbles in international consulting, mentors doctoral

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