Ups & Downs
Ups & Downs
ROUNDUP
UP: To Shav Glick, for putting out the good word. Promoting the Anaheim, California, opening round of the EA Sports Supercross series, the longtime Los Angeles Times staff writer penned a half-page feature on 17-year-old motocross superstar Travis Pastrana. Glick asked Pastrana, who has a 3.9 grade-point average at the University of Maryland, why he is so different from the popular perception of high-flying X Games freestyle motocrossers—wild-haired teenagers with tattoos, earrings, tongue studs and little education." Pastrana replied, "My dad is a Marine. He wouldn't stand for anything like that."
DOWN: To former President Clinton, for raising yet another ruckus. In Janu ary, the country's outgoing head honcho announced a roadless-area conservation policy called the largest change in land status in the U.S. So much so that Alas ka Governor Tony Knowles headed a suit to stop the "illegal and ill-advised execu tive fiat." On the flipside, if President Bush instructs forestry officials to ignore the bill, green groups will most certainly file a suit of their own. Sheesh, can't we all just get along?
UP: To Business Week, for laying it on the line. Its recent "Top Products 2000" feature included a pair of two-wheelers, Itaijet's Velocifero scooter and Honda's RC51. Of the former, editors wrote, "The $3150 Velocifero is the anti-Haney. The refined, stylish model is also in the per manent collection of the Museum of Modern Art." And the V-Twin Superbike? "Honda set hearts racing when it priced s RC51, the street-legal version of its champion Superbike-class racer, at $9999." What's next, fellas, road tests?
