38-495: Trippe may refer to: People with the surname [ edit ] Gavin Trippe (born 1940), English motorcycle racing promoter, journalist, and publisher Leo Trippe (1891–1964), Canadian hardware merchant, farm implement dealer, and political figure Juan Trippe (1899–1981), American airline entrepreneur and founder of Pan American Airlines John Trippe (1785–1810), officer in
76-604: A Grand Prix event by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM). It was the 7th round of the 1973 Trans-AMA, the only US event at the time to pay points in the FIM World 500 cc Championship. For the race, Trippe-Cox Associates made improvements to the Carlsbad facility, including new water sprinklers, fencing, spectator bridges and billboards. The series proved commercially successful, with
114-641: A detailed technical account of how to build Formula 450 racer from a donor motocross bike. Formula 450 was not run in 2010 or scheduled for 2011. Inspired by Trippe's development and promotion of this idea, the AMA announced in July 2009 there would be a single cylinder series to be called Formula 450, but as a spec series , with identical bikes built, owned, and maintained by single manufacturer provided to all riders, rather than bikes adapted by riders from motocross bikes. Two months later, AMA Pro Road Racing announced that
152-478: A few years of development and testing, Formula 450s became motocross bikes which had been converted to road racing by installing 17-inch wheels, larger front brakes, clip on handlebars and aerodynamic fairings . Replacing the forks with parts from supersport sport bikes was unsuccessful because the forks were too short, leading to too little trail . Instead the stock motocross front and rear suspension components were kept, but reconfigured. According to Trippe,
190-615: A major international venue. The 1971 motocross race at Carlsbad Raceway attracted 21,000 spectators and 15 million television viewers. In 1973, his company, Trippe-Cox Associates, secured the sponsorship of leisure apparel maker Hang Ten International , and the event became the Hang Ten Carlsbad United States Grand Prix (USGP), run under the auspices of the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA), and sanctioned as
228-642: A motorcycling magazine, Motor Cycle Weekly , in the United States in 1969. In the early 1970s he brought European style motocross racing to the US by founding the Carlsbad USGP. Trippe was also the creator of supermoto racing, which attracted a large US television audience from 1979–1985, and had a resurgence, first in Europe and then beyond, since the early 2000s. Since 2007 Trippe worked to create
266-407: A significant television audience. For second year of the event, 1974, the course was lengthened by ¼ mile, to 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (2.4 km), with the new section having a left turning uphill corner followed by a sharp right turn into a ravine. The 1974 purse grew to US$ 30,000, and 60 riders from 13 countries competed in the race, by then the eighth stop on the race circuit earning points to
304-683: A single cylinder racing class with low barriers to entry for amateur racers and young riders. After working for the British publication Motor Cycle News , he co-founded, with Bruce Cox, Motor Cycle Weekly in America in 1969. Motor Cycle Weekly ceased publication in 1975. He wrote "The Spoken Wheel" column for the online publication Motorcycle USA. Trippe started the Carlsbad United States Grand Prix in 1973, and invented supermoto in 1979. Trippe also helped create
342-421: A square tube steel perimeter frame which wrapped around the outside of the engine, rather than the older hidden round-tube frames. It was a water cooled V4 with four valves per-cylinder. Originally Honda had planned only to make enough to meet the requirement for production racing, but the bike was extremely popular, even at the price which was higher than the older CB-750, and it went into full production. Honda
380-507: Is a great way to encourage young riders. It's back-to-basics racing, emphasizing riding skill over horsepower, and you don't need a six-figure sponsorship just to make the grid." One reviewer described the machines as, "a single cylinder 450 cc dirt bike that's been converted into an entry-level road racer. The frame, subframe, swing arm, motor and transmission are all stock, but the wheels, tires, suspension and bodywork have all been modified for on-track use and general skulduggery." After
418-402: Is a way we can pitch them all in together. We've tried to lay out a course where all branches will be competitive," said Trippe. Motocross riders won five of the first six Superbikers championships, promoting Trippe to consider changing the course to have less off-road and more paved stretches to give the track and the road riders a better shot. He trademarked it as "Superbikers" and was one of
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#1732782307575456-649: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Gavin Trippe Gavin Trippe (1940 – 2 July 2018) was a motorcycle racing promoter, journalist, and publisher who was inducted to the Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2005. He died following an automobile accident in California. Trippe was a motorcycling journalist in the UK until he founded
494-517: The MotoAmerica Road Racing Series beginning in 2015. MotoAmerica chose to align the multiple racing classes closely with those used by FIM, which simplifies the work that manufacturers must do to compete in both series. The most successful riders included Doug Chandler , Scott Russell , Ben Spies , Miguel Duhamel and Mat Mladin , who holds several series records including seven championships. Five non-Americans won
532-667: The AMA Superbike Championship in 1976. Other events Trippe promoted included the Trans-AMA motocross series , the Trans-Atlantic Match Races , and Ascot half-mile dirt track racing. In 2007 he proposed a new American single cylinder class based on the success of European supermono . Trippe introduced European-style 500 cc motocross racing to the US in the early 1970s, creating an event at Carlsbad, California which grew into
570-485: The 500 cc championship. Carlsbad was the oldest venue of the US motocross season's main events until the last USGP there in 1986. Motocross popularity declined in the 90s, and by 1995 there was no motocross Grand Prix in the US, until the FIM championship returned in 2010. In 1984 Trippe began to worry that development was encroaching on Carlsbad Raceway, and that the site would be sold when his lease expired. Trippe
608-602: The AMA Superbikes series. This increased the visibility of Superbikes even further, and cemented in the minds of many Americans that the Superbikes were now the de facto premier motorcycle racers, eclipsing the FIM 500cc series, with their unavailable two-stroke racing machines. In late 2002 AMA Pro Racing, the promoter in charge of the AMA Superbike Championship at the time decided to open up
646-508: The AMA. The AMA, not pleased with motorcycle counts and participation in their events, stripped the DMG organization of the sanction and awarded it to a new organization led by Wayne Rainey , KRAVE, with assistance from Dorna (which organises the FIM MotoGP and World Superbike Championships). KRAVE organized multiple championship road racing series for the AMA, which are collectively known as
684-582: The Superbike class to 750cc. Honda, which had been competing in the series on their CB 750F was ready with a new bike in 1983, initially planned as a "homologation special" that is, a bike which is built in just enough numbers to satisfy the production rule. (Typically 5,000 units sold worldwide). That bike, the Honda Interceptor VF750F was a huge departure from the air-cooled, four valve per cylinder CB-750F launched in 1979. It featured
722-879: The United States Navy during the Quasi-War with France and the First Barbary War Robert Pleasant Trippe (1819–1900), American politician, lawyer, and jurist Other [ edit ] USS Trippe , various United States Navy ships Trippe Holly Grove Cemetery , near McGhee, Arkansas, USA Trippe, Arkansas , city in Desha County, Arkansas with its own junction on Arkansas Highway 159 See also [ edit ] All pages with titles beginning with Trippe All pages with titles containing Trippe Trip (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
760-438: The beach in 1935, and had moved to the asphalt auto-racing track in 1961, switched to Superbikes. The race had been one of the few venues where FIM style Formula 1 500cc machines raced in the United States, but by 1988 the speeds the machines were reaching on the high-banked tracks were simply too high for safety given the tire technology of the time. In 1985 the race format moved from GP bikes to Superbikes, and it became part of
798-613: The beginning 750 cc Harley-Davidson flat trackers competed as well. The seed of the idea for Superbikers began was when reporter Bob Iger asked Trippe at a motocross event why Kenny Roberts wasn't competing, and Trippe replied, puzzled, "Because he is a road racer." Trippe began thinking that, "The huge mass doesn't know the difference between dirt track, motocross and road racing." The ten best riders from each discipline, motocross, dirt track and road racing, would be race together because, "All these riders know one another and respect one another, but they never race one another. This
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#1732782307575836-506: The cost of preparing such a bike was under US$ 10,000 and tires last three race weekends, longer than a 600 cc class supersport. For the 2009 season, the United States Grand Prix Racers Union (USGPRU) club-level racing organisation added a Formula 450 class on a trial basis to five of their rounds, to test the prototype motorcycles and gauge interest in adding the class. The USGPRU also published
874-448: The creation of a new US single cylinder road racing class based on repurposed 450 cc (27 cu in) motocross bikes. It was to be called "Super Single" but later the proposed name was changed to Formula 450, or F450. Trippe had been lobbying for the creation of a Formula 450 class because it would be more affordable to rookie and under-21-year-old riders, compared to 600 cc supersport sport bike racing. He said, "Formula 450
912-567: The first half of the 1977 series, but after two seasons of work the Team Racecrafters Kawasaki KZ 1000, again piloted by Reg Pridmore, won the first race for the Japanese. With the advent later that year of the better handling Suzuki GS 1000, the less powerful twin-cylinder European bike's race domination was over. As the series gained more and more attention in America the factories took note, and in 1980 Honda entered
950-497: The guidance of the FIM, or Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme , had a much more developed motorcycle road racing world championship, but it didn't include any American venues in the series. In 1986, the AMA recognized the changing nature of motorcycle racing by making the Grand National Championship into a dirt-track-only series; road-racing rounds were branched off into a separate championship which
988-599: The more experienced teams racing European twin cylinder bikes, which included the BMW R90S, Ducati and MotoGuzzi motorcycles and the teams racing the more powerful Japanese inline fours from Kawasaki, Suzuki, Honda and Yamaha. While the Japanese bikes produced more horsepower, the European bikes tended to have superior handling. The inaugural series in 1976 was won by rider Reg Pridmore on a BMW R90S owned by Team Butler and Smith. European machines won every race in 1976 and
1026-595: The new class would be called GT3, an expansion of the SunTrust Moto-GT. AMA Superbike Championship AMA Superbike Championship is an American motorcycle racing series that has been run every year beginning in 1976. For most of its existence it has been considered the premier motorcycle road racing series in the United States. It is sanctioned by the AMA American Motorcyclist Association since its inception, and
1064-483: The original promoters of the Superbikers segment on ABC 's Wide World of Sports from 1979–1985. Besides combining road racing with dirt racing, Superbikers brought together top riders from different specialties, like an all-star game . After the end of Superbikers television run, supermoto declined in the US but grew in Europe, until 2003 when AMA Pro Racing began a supermoto championship. Trippe proposed
1102-531: The promotion of the series has been licensed to several organizations over the years. Since 2015 the series has been run and promoted by MotoAmerica , who also manage several other AMA professional road racing championships, including the popular 600cc Supersport class. The AMA Superbike Championship was created in 1976 as a new motorcycle road racing series taking advantage of the newest large displacement production road-going motorcycles of up to 1000cc's that were increasingly popular with American riders. The series
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1178-419: The same time had been phased out for road use in many countries. The American Superbike Series was suddenly more relevant and appealing to manufacturers. The speeds that the 1000cc four cylinder bikes producing up to 150 horsepower were able to achieve were overwhelming the stock frames, suspension and tires of the era. Thus for 1983 the AMA, working with the top teams, decided to reduce the maximum capacity of
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1216-403: The series to 1000cc production bikes. Their plan called for allowing near-stock 1000cc machines to compete against the then-current state of the art 750cc Superbikes that were the incumbent series competition machines. In addition, they would be allowed to increase their capacity to 800cc. The complicated rules allowed "claiming" of the 1000cc stock machines, a technique where competitors can buy
1254-493: The series with a factory team and brought a top rider from their stable, Freddie Spencer, to compete on their behalf. Up until this point Honda and the other Japanese manufacturers were more focused on the International Grand Prix and in particular its premier 500cc Series, which was run on purpose built 500cc racing motorcycles. By 1980 the 500cc class was completely dominated by two-stroke machines, which at
1292-498: The winning machine from the owner for a set amount of money, and intended to keep modifications down in near-stock racing classes. Ultimately this complicated mix of machines and rules was not liked by many of the competitors. In 2006 Ducati withdrew factory support from AMA Superbike racing, and in 2008 Honda followed suit. From 2009 to 2014, the Daytona Motorsports Group was the organizer under supervision of
1330-497: Was initially called "Superbike Production" and was initially modeled on a regional series that had been run in California in the previous years. Up until this the most prestigious racing series in the United States was the AMA Grand National Series which required competition in five different formats 1/4 mile, 1/2 mile, 1 mile and TT courses, which were all run on dirt ovals, and pavement racing. Europe, under
1368-406: Was named the AMA Superbike Championship. The fact that the rules were set up to compete using the same large displacement production bikes that people saw in the showrooms quickly made the series popular with fans, racers and after several seasons motorcycle manufacturers took a direct interest and began sponsoring teams and riders. At the inception of the series there was stiff competition between
1406-524: Was the inventor and early promoter of supermoto, which combines on a single course three genres of motorcycle racing: the hard-packed, flat dirt of track racing , the uneven obstacles and jumps of motocross, and the high speed straights and turns of paved road racing. The original purpose was to find out who was the best overall motorcycle racer from the three disciplines. Trippe built first course at Carlsbad Raceway. The machines are motocross-style motorcycles, but with smoother, road race style tires, though in
1444-467: Was unsuccessful in winning the championship with the new bike in 1983, as Wayne Rainey riding on Team Muzzy Kawasaki GPz 750 won the inaugural 750cc Superbike championship, but Honda went on to win the next five years in a row of series championships with the Interceptor. As the popularity of the series grew the long established Daytona 200 motorcycle race, which had begun on a course constructed on
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