49 minutes in the past | Phrases: Andy Wigan | Images: Getty Photographs
4-time AMA MX champ, Gary Jones, tells the weird story behind Evel Knievel’s suicidal Snake River Canyon ‘leap’ in 1974 and the $100,000 motocross race he held together with it.
Query: What is that this “Gary Jones Motocross Cup” that Australia’s Hunter Lawrence wrapped up a few weeks in the past?
Reply: It’s the perpetual trophy awarded to the AMA Professional Motocross 250 Nationwide Champion. And for HRC, it’s been a advertising dream in 2023 as a result of Hunter’s title win comes throughout a yr when Honda marks the 50th anniversary of its first manufacturing motocross bike, the CR250M Elsinore, aboard which Gary Jones rode to Honda’s first AMA Motocross 250 Championship manner again in 1973.
So, seeing as a bunch of the youthful members of Transmoto’s viewers have been asking who the hell Gary Jones is, and why his title seems on the 250MX class’ Out of doors trophy, we thought we’d get them on top of things…
Other than successful the AMA Motocross Championship in 1971, ’72, ’73 and ’74 – on Yamaha, Honda and Can-Am equipment – plus the 1971 Baja 500 and a Hillclimb Championship, Jones has at all times been a larger-than-life character and a fascinating storyteller. Living proof: this all-time ‘Ripping Yarn’ Jones shared with Transmoto again in 2012; the weird story behind Evel Knievel’s suicidal Snake River Canyon ‘leap’ in 1974 and the $100,000 motocross race he held together with it. The stunt was a part of a pageant that’s been described as “Woodstock on two wheels”!
This memorable article first appeared in Difficulty #22 (August, 2012) of Transmoto Dust Bike Journal…
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