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Racer X has produced this cool Team USA MXdN sticker you can buy to support the team. Until the site is done, you can read DC's Racerhead for details on how to get one. Here's Racerhead.
Photos:
340 Photos from the Lake County Stadium Motocross!
Shades: Check out Utopia Optics. Timmy Weigand was spotted using these at the nationals. Bikers and Monster Truck driver Madusa are supporting the World Trade Center Miracles Foundation with a 12-day ride across America. Here's a link.
Team USA for the 2003 MXdN is: RC, Tim Ferry, and Ryan Hughes. (unofficial until the press release comes out) OK the press release did come out...
For news and photos from Ponca's, go to MX West's board right
here... In a nod of respect to the upcoming X Games in Los Angeles the Anaheim Angels have invited Mike Metzger to throw out the first pitch at tonight’s Angles vs Toronto Blue Jays match up. Metzger will rely on his previous minor league experience when he threw the first pitch at a Lake Elsinore Storm game earlier this year. This time he hopes to get it over the plate. Metzger said “I can’t believe a big league club is going to give this honor. It really shows how far action sports have come toward being part of our culture.” For more information on the 1st annual Motorcycle Product News MotoBusiness Off-Road Expo, check out: This preview site.
Gerald Langston weighs in on Washougal's flagging and more...Don't miss his "Racing Lines" column on www.langstonracing.com.
Life as a Privateer with Zeb Armstrong, Part 3 Sure, you read about the fancy race teams with the great results every weekend, but for every RC out there, there are dozens of privateers out there in the trenches battling for every AMA point they can grab. They have stories to tell too. Motonews is pleased to feature the "Life as a Privateer" series with #310, Zeb Armstrong, and this section with Keith Johnson. Here's Zeb's latest: Life as a Privateer with Zeb Armstrong, Part 3
THIS COULD BE YOU!! MC is living the "On Any Sunday" life these days. Just a couple of weeks after racing Red Bull Supermoto, he tried something else! Transworld posted this about MC at a hillclimb in Montana. Check out the video! Johnny Aubert. Entre temps, je vais aller passer quelques jours aux Etats-Unis pour tester les motos du team Suzuki ECC de Mike Craig, je vous tiendrai au courant de la suite qui sera donnée.
Photo: 150 Photos
from WML Round 3 at Washougal!
Business:
AMA Announces
Trial des Nations Team
Racing: 125
Racing at Washougal
KW turned two holeshots into a pair of runaways at Washougal. RC could not catch him in either moto, and in moto 2 got stuck a while behind Reed. Ferry had the fastest practice time Saturday but had bad luck Sunday, finishing a disappointing 13th. LaRocco was also on the podium with a 3-4. KW is riding so good right now, and so hard to catch if he has the lead on a clean track, the real question for RC for the rest of the summer is can he beat KW to the first turn. Crowds have been cheering them both, and when they get together they run off and leave everyone. It's cool. Bubba was unreal, again, an easy 1-1. In moto 1 he got the holeshot and checked out. In moto 2 his start was awful (for him) but he was in the lead in 2 laps and gone. There is no one in the 125 class that is on his level. Bad flagging had people in the pits angry all day. The first was at the end of the first 125 practice that resulted in a huge pileup at the finish tabletop that ended up damaging several bikes and taking Pingree and Bentley out for the day, plus some others. It almost took out Langston and wrecked his title hopes because he hurt his wrist, but he rode anyway. He had to keep his wrist in an ice cooler all day. KTM people were obviously quite unhappy. The second bad flagging incident involved Brown in moto 2, who fell while in second. He fell on the step up after the start corner, and stood up, only to be hit really hard by Hughes' front fender and number plate at high speed, sending Brown cartwheeling into the air. Hughes said it was too hard to see the flag because the flagger just held it out still, instead of waving it like you would expect with a rider down in the track where people are going to be. Brown was lucky it was just a separated shoulder, but it cost him 22 points. Hughes felt awful and apologized, and put the troubles they had earlier in the season behind them. Hughes really railed on the bad flagging in the press conference. Hughes ended up second overall and Byrne third, with a 7-2. Langston took over the points lead, with 282. Brown has 271 and Hughes 254.
Doug Chandler at the Czech Round of the FIM World Supermoto. (Mario Marini photo) FIM WORLD SUPERMOTO CZECH ROUND by Mario Marini
Bauer goes around a banner on the left. Photos: Here's 135 Photos from Unadilla's MPN Minibike Nationals This race featured a TFS/Bauer showdown! Bauer was #3 on a TTR 90. Check him out cutting the track! He's the Sorby of minibike racing!
Future Millionaires club: Marc "Merc" Estabrooks and Lisa Rousar, who are going big with "Rider Apparel." (One day) CCE has announced the largest online ticket sale ever! Here's how you can order SX, AX and FMX tickets right now.... Kudos to the NPG's Pat Schutte for organizing the Thor Celebrity Race at Glen Helen, which got good airtime in ESPN2's Unadilla feature today. These races take a lot of time to organize and sometimes people grumble, but the end product was a good feature with interviews of Metzger, Carey Hart and Pink, and top athletes from skiing, surfing and other sports familiar with ESPN's audience. MX needs to mix it up with "sports" as much as possible, and this is the best thing going. 2004 OFF LIMITS MX CALENDAR
Photos:
400 Photos from Unadilla
Ryan Clark made himself an extra face guard for Unadilla after getting a busted lip from a rock in practice. Motonews Hall of Shame: Here's a nightspot to avoid: Austin's Pub and Eatery in Libertyville, Ill. Here's their site. What a bunch of jerks!
It's going to be a busy weekend at Washougal. Besides the nationals, there is Round 4 of the Motorcycle Product News Minibike Nationals presented by Motonews.com, Round 3 of the WML Women's Nationals, and a demo race with big famous skiers.
Subway Racing now has these cool metal team lunchboxes. The feature Ted Campbell, Joe Oehlhof, and Jason Thomas. They are a little smaller than the standard metal boxes but still cool. Go to www.subwaymx.com and get one now. You can put your weed in there! More news and photos from Lake County: Here's night #2... Travis Pastrana was in the news again in Maryland for his crash last month. Here's an article about him getting a pretty big ticket for his driving. Speaking of Pastrana, SX fans will be happy to hear he is entered in the US Open in October. Bubba has plans to race the 250 class too, but he is not confirmed yet. That means the first professional RC/Bubba showdown will also have Travis in it! Metzger to Appear on the Tonight Show Friday Night 07/25/03. Mike Metzger spent some time the other day with American Idol's Ryan Seacrest filming a segment for the Tonight Show at Disney's California Adventure X Game Xperience. Watch for the piece tomorrow night on the NBC Tonight Show. Check your local listings for airtimes.
Demuth cleaned up at night one of the Lake County Fair Stadium Motocross in Illinois. He won every race except the 4-stroke class, which was a wire-to-wire battle with winner Jeff Gibson. Overall the night had a lot of close, intense racing. 125 Pro: 1. Josh Demuth 2. Tommy Hofmaster 3. Jeff Gibson 4. JT$ was impressed with how many fast riders were at Lake County to race for the $20K purse. When he made the podium in one race he said "It's like Anaheim 1 out here." Thanks to announcer Dave Deringer for sending in the results. Racing: Lake County Fair Stadium MX, 1
What's that on Josh's helmet?
Young Zeegan Braun, regional Arenacross announcer, needs to move up. He was helping his dad Erv at Unadilla. Eric Sorby got pulled from racing at Washougal due to the incident at Unadilla where the AMA black-flagged him for going around banners.
Life: 4 Questions
with Lee Bowers of AGP Graphics, who runs a WML team. KTM has hired Casey Lytle as full-time 250 tester. Team USA for the MXdN has not been officially announced yet, but it's looking like RC, KW and Tim Ferry. Here's a link to Kenny Bartram's backflip to heelclicker! Even though a few holdouts still use smelly strips of plastic to record photo data, Kodak is slowly going the way of the 8-track. Here's an article about them cutting the workforce. PR:
AMA Announces 2003 ISDE Team Doug Chandler (USA), three times AMA Superbike champion and former 500cc Grand Prix rider will be competing in this weekends FIM S1 Supermoto World Championship round in Sosnova, Czech Republic. Chandler will be riding a KTM, carrying race number 99. Don't miss out on Kevin Windham's personal appearance on July 28th. Meet Kevin at Grody Ford at Carlsbad, CA. He will be signing autographs between noon to 3pm & 5pm to 8pm, FREE event t-shirts. Win No Fear apparel. The radical Sobe/No Fear bus & Van will be there!!!
The popular and very cool Lake County Stadium Motocross starts tomorrow night (Wednesday) in Grayslake, Ill, just north of Chicago. The event features two nights of racing on a track built right at the annual Lake County Fair, so it brings in unique mix of motoheads and curious people who walk over from the pig judging. The purse is huge and even draws away some pros from Washougal. Leading the lineup is Josh Demuth and Tommy Hofmaster of Shogun, the Subway Racing team, Crossroad Powersports' Damien Plotts, and more. Turnout is already good. Last year Demuth dominated and took home about $8K for two nights of winning. The event's web site is www.fairsx.com. Our own Shyla from Mototalk is organizing the post race party! Speaking of Plotts, he had an awesome day at Unadilla on his Honda CRF450, with great starts and 9th overall in the bag until his crank started to go one the last lap. The damaged started to let go and damaged a wire, which caused his bike to cut out just before the finish flag. He had to push it to the finish line, Ryno style, for 13t overall. Still impressive! A Motonews reader sent in this site on the MXdN facilty in Belgium. Here's the link. Renthal and
Kawasaki Motor Corporation have
come to terms on a new, long-term Racing Contract. Team Chevy
Trucks/Kawasaki will be using Renthal Twinwall handlebars, Renthal
Sprockets and Renthal grips. "We're very happy, and look
forward to a continued relationship with Renthal that will pay
championship results!" ....Bruce
Stjernstrom, Team Chevy Trucks Kawasaki
Are you one of those people that posts "the announcer sux" after every event? Now it's your turn! CCE is looking for announcers. Here is more detail-put up or shut up!
Here's newborn Brandon Barnhart, son of Megan and Brian.
Oops. Mike Veracka bent a metal plate in his wrist at Dilla.
Oops. Chris "Hollywood" Gosselaar got stitches in his forehead in the Asterisk Mobile Medical Unit after taking a rock between the eyes at Unadilla.
The longest and most impressive win streak in outdoor motocross history was ended at Unadilla with a KW 2-moto sweep over RC. KW got the start in both motos, and in moto 1 he just checked out like Bubba in a 125 moto. In moto 2 KW and RC made the first turn side by side, setting up an awesome moto-long chase that left the rest of the pack far behind. In the closing laps, RC gave it all he had and had KW on the run, but KW kept it together and went 1-1! RC was gracious on the podium and in the press conference. Ferry was third with a 3-3. Bubba won both 125 motos, despite an early crash in moto 1 that broke his front brake. Langston was all over Bubba for a few laps, but Bubba still pulled away and won. Jesseman was on fire in moto 1 but fell in moto 2. Sellards was sick and missed moto 2. Sorby had a wild and crazy day that ended with him getting black-flagged in moto 2. KTM's Brett Metcalfe took one for the team and let Ryno by in moto 2, putting Ryno on on the podium instead of Mike Brown. Everts and Melotte were the winners at Namur, round 8 of the MX GPs. http://www.motonews.com/mototalk2/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=motomain&Number=78582&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=0&fpart= Team USA is on for the legendary Motocross des Nations, this year in Belgium-Oct 4-5, the weekend before the US Open. The team should be announced this week. Honda is backing the trip so expect RC and KW's names to come up first. Yamaha is already talking to Ferry about going too. Hughes is also a top pick. Bubba is very unlikely to be on the team because Kawasaki doesn't want this race to be his professional 250 debut, and they don't want him battling Europe's open class 4-strokes on a 125. He's 17 and will have his time for the MXdN, just not this year. The trip was pretty much off until the word got out that USA wasn't getting any love from DORNA to help go, but the public outcry that you saw on Mototalk was heard and the AMA folks met to approve the trip. The race is popular with Americans, so we are going to go win it! Motonews will be there! Speaking of Bubba and 250s...since he will race the supercross opening rounds on a 250, and they want him to win a 125 east title before he goes 250 full-time, what if Bubba raced both classes at Houston on Feb 14, 2004? He could be the first one with a real chance of winning both classes at a Supercross in one night. Whoa! People are already talking about the possibility.
Bubba and RC at Dilla practice Saturday. KW set the fastest lap time of the day at Saturday's practice at Unadilla. His best lap from the AMA transponders was 2:08.009 in practice #2. Ferry was second fastest with a 2:09.063. RC's best was 2:09.811 in practice #1, Bubba was slightly faster than RC's best with a 2:09.585. On the last lap of each practice the RC and Bubba managed to get together to test each others speed a little. Weather was perfect Saturday.
The Motorcycle Product News minibike nationals, Round 4 at Unadilla were a blast! Here's a quick report.
Life: 4Q with Anita Helmin on Supercross Tickets PR: GPs returning to Namur. (Someone tell Pichon its time to start thinking about a 4-stroke 450 or something) West Florida Motocross Park in Milton Fl. is organizing an arena motocross race in the Pensacola Civic Center Labor Day weekend, Aug 29th - 31st. They are having 2 pro nights with a $12,000 purse and freestyle mx with Rudy Waller, Kenny Yoho, Travis Willis and Greg Hartman who will be doing a backflip. Greg is a friend of Travis Pastrana's and has been practicing and can nail the backflip perfectly. They also have an amateur day on Sunday. They have a web site - www.fullthrottleproductions.net that has all the info and entry forms. Round 4 of the Motorcycle Product News Minibike Nationals, presented by Motonews.com, will take place this weekend at Unadilla!
Pit Beirer update: Here's an article on MotoGP.com.
Business: 03/04 AX and IFMA Tickets Go on Sale The AMA has confirmed that the Troy national is confirmed for Sept 7, which will make it the last round instead of Steel City. Here's the press release.
VOR creates a new bike for the 2004
Supermoto World Championship Ogio has teamed up with WML
pro rider Sarah Whitmore.
Here's the
press release.
Life: New Feature! Privateer Keith Johnson writes in. Some injury updates:
Mike Alessi won the 150cc Supermoto race at Laguna Seca after falling and getting back up for a last lap pass, and his brother Jeff was 3rd. Bobby Fong was second.
Business: 2004 Supercross Tickets on Sale!
Life:
4 Questions with
Steve Matthes (Ferry's Mechanic) Second Annual Racer X ‘Dilla Dodge Ball
& Street Hockey Showdown:
Rumor: Derek Costella signs with ECC. Roncada to road racing?
Jeff Ward won the Red Bull Supermoto final, Kurt Nicoll was second, MC finished third. Photos added to Red Bud pages: Between Unadilla and Washougal, the cool place to be is the Lake County Fair Stadium Motocross! Motonews hits this race every year because its just cool. Here's the site. The Lake County fair event features a huge purse and lots of contingency for two nights of racing and an after-party by Shyla!
(Mario Marini photo) KTM’s Boris Chambon won the Super Final at the World Supermoto GP at Monza, Italy. He finished ahead of Jurgen Kunzel and local hero Massimo Manzo. Chambon leads the series ahead of Kunzel and Belgian Frederic Fiorentino. Here's the press release.
(Rainman Photo) Kenney Bartram gets the "don't take your camera off this guy" award for Saturday at Laguna!
Kurt Nicoll won the KTM Unlimited Class at Laguna Seca.
Jeff Ward at Laguna (Photo Legrand) Jeff Ward took the pole in the 4th qualifying heat at Laguna Seca for Sunday's final in Red Bull Supermoto. Here's the Cycle News update with complete heat race results. The KTM Unlimited final is Saturday, and the Red Bull Supermoto class final is Sunday. Go here for official AMA Supermoto Updates. Mike Alessi won his heat race in the 150cc class and his brother was third. Troy Lee was in a gnarly first turn crash on Saturday and hurt his shoulder. Here are some Supermoto photos by Stephan Legrand Frederic Fiorentino took the pole in qualifying for S1 Supermoto at Monza, Italy. Here's the press release. Check out MotoGP contender John Hopkins' web site (OK, well check out the babe page)! Here's the link. Also check out the Moto Journal where they talk about Pastrana's day in an F1 car.
MC greets the Alessi brothers at Laguna Seca. The Alessis are in the mini Supermoto event on CRF150s.
The full entry list for Loretta Lynn's 2003 is posted, not including alternates. Here's a link to the official list on MX Sports. The list sorted by class is unofficial but easier to read. If you see any corrections, please contact MX Sports right away. Congrats to Megan (Janson) Barnhart on the birth of her first baby, Brandon, on Tuesday, July 8th at 9:48 pm. He weighed in at 9lbs 5oz. The papa is Big "B," aka Brian Barnhart, who drives a rig for KTM.
Lamont Racing's Jeremy Israel broke a T4 and T5 vertebrae and some ribs at Red Bud, but he will recover OK. He is expected to be out just 6 weeks. Motoworld Racing's manager (and Mototalker) Paul Lindsey has a torn ACL in his knee and will need surgery. Brock Hepler, signed for factory Suzuki in 2004, will start early this summer. He is getting ready to do some nationals, probably starting at Millville. In case you missed it, our own Steve Bauer is a partner in a track opening up in southern California. Check out www.rivermx.com.
Business: APR Spray for Arm Pump? Tragic news: Here's a newspaper article about a young boy who died from injuries in Las Vegas. This was at Las Vegas Motorspeedway (LVMS), which closed the MX track since with no reopen date set yet, according to LVMS. In case you missed it, here's a link to a Pink Video "Feel Good Time" featuring Charlie's Angels 2. You can even see Amsoil/Chaparral's Chris Gosselaar in it too. This weekend is the exciting debut of Red Bull Supermoto, which has attracted a dream team of MX, FMX, Road and whatever superstars. Where else will you find MC, Metzger, Kevin Schwantz, and fast Euros all on the same track?
Life: New feature! Motonews is pleased to announce a new section with privateer Zeb Armstrong! Never heard of him? Who cares? Zeb is on the cool/crazy/mixed up Racerhouse.com team. Here is some amateur news lifted off a newsletter from www.Sponsorhouse.com. - Bryan Johnson to Team Green
Kawasaki from American Suzuki
The pre-entry list for Red Bull Supermoto at Laguna Seca is impressive! Here's the list for "Red Bull Supermoto." Cycle News talked to Pastrana and they report he's not racing. There are two classes in AMA Supermoto, here's the list for "KTM Unlimited." Racing:
125 Racing at Red Bud Oops: Paul Lindsey from Motoworld Racing dot com hurt an ACL at the MPN minibike nats last weekend.
Here's Roncada's lip right when he got it stitched up after that first turn crash at Red Bud.
Photos from MPN Minibike Nationals Round 3, Red Bud! See Jeff Stanton, Dick Burelson, Guy Cooper, Denny Stephenson, and plenty more having pure fun on minis! Racer Productions is having a fun day at Steel City, Saturday, July 12, featuring Doug Henry and Barry Hawk. Here's a link. Everts won two classes again at the GPs, taking the 125 and MotocrossGP (250) class. Smets won the 650 class. Damon Huffman won round 4 of the Canadian nationals. JSR still leads the series, with Craig Decker second. Suzuki's Evan Laughridge won the 125 West title! Bart Stephenson was second in the series, and Jimmy Nelson third.
Life: 4 Questions with Tim Cotter (Horrible Webcast Announcer)
This Team Green News digital cover was his first in the format for veteran photohound Kinney Jones. He took it with a digital Nikon D1X.
The Troy national that was to be next weekend has been postponed, tentatively for Sept 7th. The track is flooded! Kardas went there to shoot some photos for Racer X, and reported there are actually large fish swimming at the start gate area. Here's the link to the photos at Racer X. Folks at AMA Pro were working the phones all day talking to the teams and industry folks. They issued this press release.
Racing:
125 Racing at Red
Bud
Stanton at Red Bud (Steve Cox photo). Jeff Stanton rode a couple of classes at the Motorcycle Product News minibike nationals presented by motonews.com and stole the show in front of a huge 4th of July crowd Saturday night at Red Bud. Here's a quick summary.
So far its wet at Red Bud. MPN Minibike nationals tonight! Racer X says Ryno is in for this weekend. You already knew Jesseman will be back. Business:
MPN Minibike
Nationals Round 3 at Red Bud Check out the web site for Australian female rider Alyssa Culley. Here's the link. Culley is racing the WML championship and Lorettas. The 100th Tour de France bicycle race gets under way this weekend. All the hype is about USA's Lance Armstrong, who is going for a 5th straight win! If he does it, he will be the second rider ever to pull it off.
More talent to Supermoto. The latest buzz is Cinqmars and Shaun Palmer will to the series on Yamahas.
MX: The Way of the Motocrosser in Stores Now Transworld MX mag's site has posted it's impression of the 2004 CRF450R. It's written by Mark-Paul Gosselaar! Here's the link. Sean Hamblin is out for the season due to his knee requiring surgery. Here's a link to his press release on Mototalk. Branden Jesseman will be back in action at Red Bud. Here's a link to his press release on Mototalk. The truth is finally out in that case in Florida where that clumsy oaf Rich Cain actually is trying to sue a popular motocross track near Orlando. Cain claims his injury was due to a "single to table" jump and that its the track's fault he crashed (alledgedly) into the face of the table. Read all 5 pages of the lawsuit right here: Here's page 1, page 2, page 3, page 4, page 5. Cain has been denying on the Motodrive message board that the suit against the track was his, trying to make his friends think his hospital was behind it. No so. This is a simple case of an irresponsible oaf suing to pay his doctor bills. He only other option would be bankruptcy but he won't so it because it is also cost him his real estate license. There you have the whole ugly story. One idiot falls off his bike and sues, and tries to make a track pay for it to keep his stupid job. Cain has even admitted he is just suing to cover his bills to people who have also posted this info on message boards. Here's one of the more important posts about his lying about everything.
Business: 4 Questions with Andy Bell (Ogio rep does backflips!) Vuillemin makes it official, 2 more years with Yamaha. Here's his own update.
McGrath's Semi is for sale: This one of a kind rig is just two SX seasons old. It is fully loaded. It is ready to have a team move in. The base color of the Tractor & Trailer is blue. All the rest of the sharp detailing is decals that can be removed. It is a Peterbilt Tractor and a custom Featherlite Trailer. Anyone interested in more details, call Tracy J @909-805-7202. Sale price available on request, and specific details for interested parties. Mototalk: Here's a video of Ogio rep Andy Bell's three backflips! Damon Huffman won round three of the Canadian nationals, trading moto wins with Canadian champ JSR. Huffdaddy is now third in points behind JSR and Craig Decker. Evan Laughridge is leading the 125 west with one round to go. Supercross.com has a cool Mammoth journal, check it out! Pastrana is testing a Yoshimura 450 for the supermoto this weekend in case he wants to race the same bike Kevin Schwantz has.
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