Ups And Downs

UPS AND DOWNS

UP: To Sports Illustrated For Kids magazine, for its feature on three-time AMA National Cross-Country Champion Scott Summers. In addition to chronicling Summers’ rise to off-road stardom, author Pohla Smith detailed the 26-year-old’s favorite hobbies and training techniques. A pull-out poster of Summers accompanied the eight-page article.

UP: To Cabin Fever Entertainment, for its video, “Harley-Davidson: The American Motorcycle.” Narrated by singer/actor Hoyt Axton, the starstudded production combines classic movie footage, celebrity interviews and rare photography in an entertaining and often humorous history of Harley-Davidson. An edited version of the video aired earlier this year on TBS and, reportedly, was one of the station’s highestrated primetime specials. For more information about the video, call 800/55-FEVER.

DOWN: To the Lemont Metropolitan, for its shortsighted view of motorcycling. “Just think of motorcyclists as the poets of death and paralysis,” wrote the Illinois paper’s anonymous columnist, S.O. Mundane. “They drink death and high risk like wine...They are in love with easy death.

“Lots of motorcyclists die young... then (are) rushed to hospitals while being given CPR,” the author continued. “The internal body cavity organs in many cases are in great shape. We need those young healthy kidneys, livers and hearts for smart people.”

“I though it was rather harsh and stereotypical,” said Greg Norfleet, the paper’s editor. “But the publisher (Norfleet’s father) has seniority, and he said to run it.” □