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The new TFS e-mag Empire "Logo of the Millenium" was designed, produced, saved, and e-mailed by the one-and-only Chris Tedesco, smpmxracer@aol.com, who will now be showered with e-mail requests for more. Check out his site at www.dirtrider.net/mxro.
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Check out "The Big Wednesday Show" on www.Motoradio.com. You can hear interviews from Sunday's race at High Point! Also let them know what you think of the deal on Mototalk, they would like to hear from you.
Check out this killer photo by Chris Tedesco The first motorcycle: Most sources claim that the first motorcycle was built by Gottlieb Daimler, an assistant to Nicholaus
Otto (who invented the Otto cycle, a kind of engine). In 1885, Daimler
added a gasoline motor to a wooden bicycle, replacing the pedals. Daimler's motorbike was (So who says you don't get good stuff on this web site!?)
Geoff Meyer writes about last weekend's 125 GP.
High Point - The only thing clean on this bike was the goggles.
"THE EVENT IS CANCELED" A few hours after the 125 GP runned on saturday and won by british
James Dobb, the 250 and 500 British GP was canceled by the International Jury of the
event.
Round three of the AMA/Chevy Trucks U.S. Motocross championships at High Point looks like it will be muddy tomorrow. If not it will at least be rainy like it was today. Our buddy Todd Galley reports Tortelli rode the 250A class saturday to get practice, and he had his hands full dicing with Ben Riddle! Yamaha's Keith McCarty says Vuillemin likes the track, and he does good in mud. At last year's muddy Supercross at Stade de France Vuillemin was amazing. According to Todd, riders who looked good saturday were Albee, DV, KW, Tortelli, RC, Travis, Vohland, Lamson and Roncada. The last time High Point was muddy was 1997, when Damon Bradshaw won the 250 class. That was his last national win, but his fourth at High Point. Scott Sheak won the 125 class that day, which was his only national win.
Last year's podium at High Point, RC, Vohland, and Brandes. Friday's USA Today ran a half-page feature on the growing popularity of Supercross, Arenacross, and motocross!
Bauer's daughter Gabriella has this cool Button backpack for school. All the other kids are jealous.
(Mike Bruhn photo -yea that's my bro) Rick "The Lumberjack" Burgett won the 500 class at High Point, 1978! Yamaha's Mike Bell got hurt that year and Burgett filled in and won the 500 title. Yamaha swept the classes when Broc Glover was 125 champion, and Bob Hannah took the 250s.
Astute Mototalkers have noted that FMF/Honda's Danny Smith has been haulin lately. Yea he has.
Danny Smith - fourth at Hangtown. At last the moto universe gets to see a Cannondale race at a national. It is supposed to be nearly impossible to hop right into professional racing with a startup, but if any one can pull it off, Cannondale would be a good bet. Cannondale started with smart designs on bicycles that bucked the trend for small diameter frame tubes. They correctly figured a big diameter thin-wall tube would be stiffer than a small tube with thicker walls - pound for pound you get a stiffer frame. Now everyone is familiar with big tube Cannondale bicycles. You can learn more about their stuff at www.cannondalemotorcycle.com. The weather is reportedly so bad at Foxhill, England for the GP triple header this weekend, they moved qualifying to Friday instead of Saturday. Foxhill was the location of the super-muddy MXdN in 1998, which got out of control when parts of the track became unrideable, and some crazy brits started streaking on the track. Sunday might get muddy for High Point too, www.weather.com says rain Saturday and scattered thunderstorms Sunday.
Moto-media's conversion to digital images is accelerating. Cycle News again has a digital photo on the cover. This week it's a photo of Mike Brown e-mailed in by our buddy Geoff Meyer. Before this national series is over we should start to see a few outdoors done all digital, and e-mailed in sunday after the races.
Jessica Patterson of Florida won
the women's National ay Hangtown. Mark at www.Speedvision.com has been busy. You can find articles about Hannah and a preview of the GP Triple Header at Foxhill, where the 1998 MXdN was held. What's that music all about?
Here's Vohland, Ramsey and Pastrana going at it at the front of the second 125 moto at Hangtown. Lamy passed all of them.
Oh yea, and Vuillemin and Lamson won at Hangtown, photos on the way, really!
The TFS emag 2000 got a pile of new updates on the weekend's GPs. The backlog of stuff to post was getting pretty big when I cut back for a couple of days due to a bug picked up in California. Honda just released a pile of new 2001 model photos on their web site. Honda has also been running results and photos of the races, here is a short cut.
That cool new MXNats.com banner on the top was courtesy of our good buddy Steve G, and www.motodrive.com.
No more waiting... Keith Johnson will ride the Cannondale at High Point, May 28.
Hehe - One of my rebel friends from college days sent this in from an action they just had at the Fashion Fair Mall in Fresno. Check out the new name on the mall.
The Great Outdoors
So who will surprise at Glen Helen 2000? Lamson, Vuillemin, or Chiodi?? People say Vuillemin is turning heads in practice. In the 125 class, anything can happen - but one thing is for sure, Travis will be worht watching.
The excitment is building for the first round of the AMA/Chevy Trucks U.S. Motocross Championships at Glen Helen this weekend. Witnesses from Glen Helen say Carmichael, Vuillemin, and Windham are looking fast. Some of McGrath's friends say he will win it. I know who will win though, you can read about it on the official NPG site, www.mxnationals.com. GP Superstar Stefan Everts should be visiting California this weekend to be at Glen Helen. According to Euro journalist Geoff Meyer, Everts will be here to do promotional work for Husky and No Fear. He is out of racing until August due to an arm injury. People at the Las Vegas EA Sports Supercross probably thought some kind of alien race fan landed, but it was really just this guy:
"It was an awesome event." reports Bauer, who went to the Golf Tournament yesterday. Hoppen also went to do photos and said it was a blast. Congrats to Dorina at Chaparral for organizing a hit. In what may be the largest, craziest party report ever, the TFS emag 2000 has 175 photos from the annual PACE Motor Sports Awards Banquet, held the day after the EA Sports Supercross finale in Las Vegas. Relax and get some coffee, the total size of the party report is over 12 Megs... (What else do you have to do?) If you aren't yet a motonews subscriber, you wont get the emag 2000. The good news is it's only $25 a year, and you get about 35 first hand race reports and info you won't find anywhere else. To sign up e-mail hutch@motonews.com, or just call in at LCS Racing, (972) 271-7180.
Today is the Glen Helen/Chaparral Celebrity Golf Tournament, have fun! A view of the MGM Hotel and a preview of the next US Open
That's a real pile of 100s Mitch Payton won in Vegas.
The annual PACE Motor Sports Supercross awards banquet at the Hard Rock in Las Vegas was again a smash success. The event featured the standard trophies and awards, a video tribute to MC, MC joking about his third Toyota Truck, Roncada with the Academy Awards-length acceptance speech, and again, a great dance featuring the 70s band "Boogie Nights." Parts Unlimited's Walker Garrison also gave a speech and talked about how much he missed the racing family when he was in the hospital last year. LaRocco's mechanic Paul Delaurier was mechanic of the year. Dowd's mechanic Jeremy Albrecht was the (break) dancing animal of the night! Hoppen did studio style "yearbook photos" for Racer X. Mitch Payton was showing off a huge pile of money he won, I think it was over 5 grand.
PACE's CEO Gary Becker mentioned after the Supercross finale in Denver a few years ago, they had a banquet and no one showed up. Last night's awards had about 750 people. A night like this gives everyone a chance to reflect and compare the year with the others - and the consensus is Supercross is bigger and better than ever, and it's still growing fast. The TFS emag Empire salutes PACE and all their great folks for the best season ever!
MC wasn't about to let Vuillemin win that $.5 million he if could help it. Read what he told the TFS emag after the main in the TFS emag 2000, Las Vegas report, 250 racing page. There is much to report from this weekend, but some will have to wait. The annual PACE awards banquet is in a few hours, and the digicam batteries are on the charger. What's coming up? Vegas photos featuring Jimmy Button sitting with Donovan Mitchell, Shaun Palmer in press, Art and David doing live TV for the first time ever, babes, that crazy maniac Raymond Gundy of Pittsburgh, who flew in for the race and painted himself like NFL fans do - complete with PACE, EA Sports, and other logos, a bird's eye view of the MGM Grand thanks to a helicopter ride courtesy of the US Open, more babes, racing photos, and Mad Mike Jones!
This happy guy won the Toyota Truck giveaway when he picked the lucky key.
Last minute update: According to people who watched Friday's practice, there may be a spoiler going for the win Saturday night. It's not MC... find out who has people talking on the TFS emag 2000... Bauer reports Emig is going in for back surgery at 7:30 saturday morning. Wish him the best.
PACE is testing the waters with a pay-per-view this weekend for the first time. For about $15 you can relax at home and watch the entire evening program, heats and all. For a show that is about as long as a football game and a lot more interesting, it should be a good move. How fast is Vuillemin right now? In outdoor testing he is turning heads. People are starting to say he might overshadow last year's early series leader Tortelli. Maybe the outdoor series will be a Carmichael/Vuillemin battle. Maybe Vuillemin will give the outdoor front-runners as much of a challenge as he did with MC in Supercross. Art Eckman pointed out in his column at www.pacesupercross.com that this was the closest points spread in any of the seven years McGrath finished with the top honor.
Dale Spangler from Smith sent in this cool link where you can find results and photos from the World Mini Gran Prix.
No luck! Bad news - Racer X's Beeker reports Jeff Emig suffered a nasty broken leg at Glen Helen today. His throttle stuck on the finish jump and he got launched. Yes, there really is such a thing as a Cannondale motorcycle. After some occasional delayage and some skepticism, the smart folks at the ultimate bicycle company will be shipping out the motor scoots May 24th.
Excitement is building for this weekend's all-time richest motorcycle race ever, the $.5 million Vans Triple Crown EA Sports Supercross, where David Vuillimen has a shot at the big bucks. McGrath has the title in the bag, but he likes to finish with a win at Vegas to remind everyone he is McGrath. If you can't make it, check out the pay per view deal, which you can order from PACE's site, www.pacesupercross.com. Honda's Gary Martini has done a cool web site to describe southern California's numerous tracks, and what happened to them. Check it out!
Two-time 125 national champion Steve Lamson is ready to take on the 125'rs again! The latest sponsor list includes Works Connection/DGY/Troy Lee Designs and Hansen's Energy Drink. His team manager Eric Phipps at Works Connection says he wants to show people he still has the speed to win and and the desire. He will have a "Factory" Honda 125, but Bauer knew that already since he saw it at Honda today. LaRocco to race a 500 GP? It is still looking likely at this point, assuming details are worked out.
(Special thanks to Steve G for the cool new graphics!)
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