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| 1989 Season 2/7 Test Sears Point 3/6 350GP Daytona 2nd 3/6 500SP Daytona First 3/6 Premier Daytona 5th 5/14 350GP Sears Point First 7/16 350GP Sears Point 3rd 7/22 350GP Westwood DNS (ignition problem) 7/22 500GP Westwood 11th (ignition problem) 8/13 350GP Sears Point First 9/9 350GP Steamboat First 9/9 500SP Steamboat First 9/9 Premier Steamboat 2nd 1989 AHRMA-West 350GP Champion - Mike Green 1989 AHRMA-West 500 Sportman Champion- Mike Green 1989 AHRMA National 500 Sportsman Championship-3rd. |
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| Below: Mike Green with son Richard after winning the AHRMA-West 350GP road race at Sears Point, May 1989. |
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| Above: Mike Green does a last minute gear change on the 350 at Daytona... Dave Roper would run into Mike Green just after the kink and nearly knock him off his bike. Green recovered to finish 2nd. |
| Also at Daytona in '89... WCBR would enter the 350 in the 500-Sportsman race, more so to prove a point than anything else. At that time Mike was Secretary of AHRMA and on the RR Rule Committee. Someone had proposed a 350 Sportsman Class (Green is the author & creator of the Sportsman class rules), in short, he was against the new class, saying, "we don't need a 350 class, as a 350 is competitive in the 500 class!" With that said we put our 350 into a 50+ rider field. We removed the fairing, fitted a yellow front # plate, and proceeded to wax the class... in fact, Green lapped the whole field up to 4th place! (4th was then 500 Sportsman Champion), 2nd & 3rd were held by Dave Walden & Dan Phillps, both from California. The 4th place rider then proceeded to protest all three machines ahead of him (no joke, really!). He couldn't quite grasp how a 350 Ducati had lapped the field. He was soon educated that the WCBR Ducati 350 was approx 200+ lbs, produced near 40-bhp and its rider was 130-lbs. When compared to his Triumph 500 that was over 300 lbs, produced 30-bhp on a good day, and he was way over 200 lbs! Power to weight wins every time. He withdrew his protests in the end. In the 500 Premier race, always hotly contested, the 350 made good by coming home in 5th place (first non-500).. At Sears Point we pulled off a first in May, a third in July, whereas August was another first. Our first venture to British Colummbia, to the Westwood course, saw us having continued ignition troubles. At Steamboat Springs, Colorado... Green's favorite course, the 350 would tear the place apart. 350GP class was pretty much Dave Roper's class. We'd made a run at him at Daytona, but after the banging mishap, we were unable to regain the lost ground. Since then a new cylinder head had been built using a smaller carb, it's wins up to this point were promising. Roper was on row-1 with Green on row-2 in the 350GP class, and as always Green had a good start, leaving him 2nd by turn-2. The pair went lap after lap, Roper always out front. Lapping traffic into turn-1 Dave spooked a rider who ran wide, in doing so Green clipped the haybails! Two turns later Green had caught Dave again... "at this point I knew it was my race, Dave was toast!", said Green after the race. The battle some had hoped for still hadn't materialized with three laps to go. "I watched Dave's every move, where he braked, turned in, picked up the throttle, the works. I had him dialed. I also knew where I was able to out brake him - I'd hang back and late brake by myself, that way I didn't show my hand to Dave" said Green. On the last lap Dave lead at start finish, he lead at turn-3 and into the esses at the concrete. Then Green made his move; as they pair neared the top of the concrete (in front of the pits), Dave sat up and braked, as he did Green pulled up on the inside and braked, leaving nowhere for Dave to go... Green pealed of to the left and down the hill he went, putting two back-markers in between himself and Roper for good measure. Smooth into the right-hander at the bottom of the hill went Green, he repeated the same at the chicane - where Dave closed quickly on the brakes... but fast in means slow out, Green rocketed the 350 out of the chicane and over the line to win! One pair of well wishers told Green, "we're going over to Team Obsolete's camp, we've never been there when they were beaten!" Green and the 350 would flat dominate the 500-Sportsman race on the 350, then finish 2nd in the Premier race to Roper's 500 Matchless. |
| Right: Mike Green and the 350 dominated the 500-Sportsman race at Steamboat 1989. In 1991 MG would win the 500-Sportsman race with his 250! Below: Mike takes the lead to win 350GP... Below-Right: Roper leading Green... before the pass and victory.... |
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| Below: L-R; Bret Morshead, Mike Green and Craig McLean discuss post race BS at Daytona '89. |
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