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Photos:  Here are shots of those 5 SX billboards made from digital photos that CCE put up in Vegas.

Business:  Nicky Hayden signs on with AMA/Wateree Merchandising.

New GNCC:  Racer Productions announces the newest GNCC, the Wisp in McHenry, Maryland, as round nine of the 2002 series. Wisp, part of the Deep Creek Mountain Resort, is a ski and golf resort that will soon open its doors to off-road racing.  For more info on the GNCC series, go here:  http://www.gnccracing.com/frameset.htm.

www.sxdirt.com, aka "What is Dougie up to now " dot com, reports that Doug Henry is racing Southwick next weekend.

Nosey Medical Board and Pesky Lawyers:  Sheesh, can't anyone just do their job?  Cycle News has a story about meddling officials bothering a Dr for Suzuki's road race team, read it here.   You would think people have something better to do that get in a team Dr's business.

From Southwick last year.

Dreamco released this photo of the new MC Bobblehead toy they are making.  More are on the way!  For more info go to www.dreamcoinc.com.  They make cool stuff like those extreme bears too.

05/30/02:

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Business:  Here are 4 questions for ASA's Chris Carnicella, and his answers.

Nicky Hayden wins TT last weekend on Honda 450.  (Dave Hoenig photo)

Hayden bros make cover of Cycle News for going 1-2-3 at Springfield TT.  For more info go to www.1800flattrack.com. 

05/29/02:

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Life:  People photos from Dallas.  Dallas!?  yes catching up.
Life:  People photos from Salt Lake City.

Here's a web site for the thingy that Kyle Lewis has on his rear swingarm:   It's called Inertial Suspension

Photos!  Here's the regional Miss Arenacross, Rebecca!

05/28/02:

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(Photo by Andrew)  A Honda ATC 90 sits by its more modern counterparts at High Point.

Since the rowdies got out of hand Saturday night at High Point last weekend, that track and Steel City are having a no alcohol policy from now on.  

05/27/02:

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Racing:  125 Racing at High Point
Racing:  250 Racing at High Point
Photos:  Here's Eric Sorby doing the step up triple in practice at High Point

RC gave a riding school at High Point, weather was great this time, and Reed went 1-1 while Brown hurt a knee, Bubba hurt a knee and DNF'd a moto with a leaking radiator.  Reed now leads the 125 series after 3 of 12 rounds.

According to Marini,  Tallon Vohland injured a vertebrae at the Italian GP in a crash with Alex Puzar.  There does not appear to be nerve damage at this point.

Now I Have Seen Everything Dept:  Our own Brad Z, maker of web sites for folks like MC, Ferry, Langston, Reed, Fonseca, and www.mxnationals.com, melts down his PCs, so here is a page about a water-cooled PC he built!

Robbie Skaggs left 3D Racing and raced High Point in different graphics. 

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Pichon got the pole position for the Italian GP this weekend, his 4th out of 5 races.  Kawasaki's Kenneth Gundersen was second.  Everts got the 500 class pole by a small margin over Smets. 

Racing:  Fastest lap times and a short summary of High Point's Saturday are here.  Windham and LaRocco are still out.  Pingree also isn't racing but is expected to be with Plano Honda next weekend.  Skaggs moved out of the 3D racing pits and is on his own.  Arenacross regulars Robby McQuary, Demuth, Hofmaster, Tom Kelley, and Travis Hodges rode Saturday.

Check the usual moto sites Sunday afternoon to see if someone with Bubba news can snag a phone line!

05/25/02:

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Photos:  Photos from High Point Saturday practice

Weather was great for Saturday practice at High Point-no rain!  Tortelli had the fastest lap times. Bubba crashed hard in the second practice but tried to ride again, then pulled off.  Hamblin is full-on Suzuki factory now, with No Fear gear and a deal that will take him to the rest of the nationals.

Racer X says Bubba may see a Dr tonight, and we aren't sure about tomorrow.

Tim Ferry had the least trouble with the step up triple Saturday.

New human!  Vance Coombs.

05/24/02:

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Langston is out for this weekend.  In interviews after the races at Hangtown he said the knee was hurting worse than the weekend before and he would see a Dr. Then we hear he is missing this weekend.  Bummer.

Also out:  Steve Lamson and Ramsey.

Supercross will be getting a new title sponsor very soon.  An announcement is expected.   

New faces at the nationals:

Cool rider site:  The website for the "next" Costa Rican to come to the States - Pro Circuit/No Fear/North Texas Yamaha's Edgardo Rojas - is up. The link is www.rojasmx.com.  Here you can find reports from the Costa Rica Nationals and Arenacross and the same will be up soon in Spanish for Edgardo's fans in Costa Rica and Latin America.

Reynard was 5th in the first moto at Hangtown, and was slowed in the second when he lost his brakes.  His bike is so fast it has attracted the attention of the Honda folks, who wanted a peek inside the motor to see what they did.  Reynard's dad told them sure, you can look, just hand over some brakes.  Done deal.

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Hard working dad:  Travis Pastrana's dad Robert spends time at the nationals sweeping concrete start gates for everyone.  It doesn't matter what riders or what team-he stays out there while practice starts to make sure everyone gets a clean spot to practice burnouts.  (Kristen Cheatwood photo)

Racer X's Scott Wallenburg doubles as a rock star.

Business:  Here's a complete list of the EA Sports Supercross awards from the banquet.

From journalist Dave Deringer:   In for High Point: Tommy Hofmaster and Dave Oettel. Both have been out with back injuries.  Hofmaster on YZ250F in 125 class. Oettel on Husky's.  Also, there is going to be an online auction starting sunday for Brian O'Rourke of Team Faith. he has a lot of mx stuff from sx and ax. He is the pit pastor on the ax and watercross tours and is trying to raise a little money.  Check www.teamfaith.com 

Another GP update from Marini:  Tony Amaradio will fill in this weekend on the De Carli Yamaha (#74) substituting for Claudio Federici (still recovering from his leg injury).

VRM Rider official site of the day:  Andrew Short's:  www.andrewshort.com.

Check out what David Bailey says about the Ronron/RC duel at Hangtown on his web site www.davidbaileymx.com.

Business:  Record attendance at 2002 EA Sports Supercross
Business:  IFMA Freestyle at the Milwaukee Mile

Special Life Feature:  Never Give Up!  by Trainer Alan Gerkey

Check out this Brasilian FMX site, www.mxair.hpg.com.br

05/22/02:

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Road trip:  RC checks out the renta car bumpers. 

Willy the attack tortoise, Clovis, Ca.

Overturned trucks on I-80 in Wyoming.  There are three on their side on this hill.

The wind is so bad in the west the canopy tore off Mach 1 Motosports (Voss and Decker) rig and the driver had to put it inside the rig.  At least it didn't do what 5 18-wheelers did.

Racer X reports Pingree is checking out a Plano Honda.

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XArena Motor Sports, LLC is developing a 230,000-square-foot indoor extreme sports arena in Trenton, New Jersey that is expected to open Spring 2003, with ground-breaking in September 2002. The plan will finally bring to reality the concept of indoor motocross in a strong and appealing way and will create a positive economic impact on the City of Trenton and the State of New Jersey.  For more info look here:   http://www.xarenasports.com/  

05/20/02:

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Racing:  125 Racing at Hangtown
Racing:  250 Racing at Hangtown (Including the complete Ronron/RC incident)

The long-awaited new Mototalk message board is here!  Check it out:  http://www.motonews.com/mototalk2/

Also from Mario Marini:  ANOTHER ITALIAN SIDELINED
Three time 125 world champion Alessio "Chicco" Chiodi discovered that he has got a broken vertebra. In the last GP run in France alsmost two weeks ago, the Italian was involved in a first corner crash that left him on ground with a sore back and breathing problems. He went to the hospital right away but the doctors didn't find any particular damage. Once back home he didn't ride for a week and when the last weekend he tried to make a few laps on his 250cc Chesterfield Yamaha it resulted hard to just  complete a couple of laps. Yesterday morning he went to the Villa Serena Clinic in Forlė and it was found out that the T4 vertebra is partially broken. Chicco will miss for sure the Italian GP, coming up this weekend, and will try to be back in Austria on June 9th. Along with Andrea Bartolini (who yesterday got hurt at the International MX race of Brou in France and could be out as long as a month) and Claudio Federici (still recovering from a bad injury occurried at the first Italian National Round in February) Italy will host a GP without its stars, these in fact were member of the team that in '99 won the MXdN in Brazil.

Racer X confirmed that Travis Pastrana did break his wrist at Hangtown, and will be out a while.  The people who were saying he needs more time off can relax now.

05/19/02:

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From Mario Marini:  BARTOLINI PROBABLY TO LOOSE THE ITALIAN MXGP
3rd in the 500 class point standings former world champion Andrea Bartolini today went under surgery to fix a dislocated (braking) finger of his right hand. While racing the first moto of the International MX race of Brou in France the Italian got injuried coming off  a big jump and in the landing process he lost control and dislocated the finger. It was immediately tempted a in-site relocation of the finger but it turned out to be really hard. The operation room remained the only option for the Honda Europe factory rider who now is probably expected to wait some 20 days before jumping back on his CRF450R. The race (run as open formula with bikes from every class racing together) was won by Mickeal Pichon who had reason of Joel Smets, Stefan Everts and Joshua Coppins.

05/18/02:

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Hangtown was an interesting mix of dry and mud, with the big rain hitting right between motos.  It didn't matter for RC and Bubba though, they both ruled with a 1-1.  Pastrana crashed out of the first moto and went to the hospital with a suspected broken navicular in his wrist.  Ferry and Vuillemin were second and third.  Hamblin did so well (6-9), he started the weekend in a box van and ended it with his #99 Sobe Suzuki parked in the factory pits, where he will be next weekend.  Roncada and RC got into it on the first moto first lap, which ended when RC ran him into some haybales and Ronron banged up his leg.

05/17/02:

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Photos:  Photos from Thursday at Hangtown are up.  Check out the new grass in the infield and the press event with skateboarder Steve Caballero and Lamson.

Spotted with a camera at Hangtown Thursday, Mototalk's FTE.

05/16/02:

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From Dr Bodnar:  Just talked to Dave Castillo....from Marian Medical Center in Santa Maria, CA....He was jumping at the Castillo Ranch Track and "slightly" overshot a 250 foot monster hill jump.  His front wheel collapsed on landing and he slid 150 feet to the bottom.  He
was airlifted to the hospital and luckily only had a broken clavicle and a gnarly case of road rash all over his body.  The hospital is discharging him today and will need to rest up for the next month at least.  The session was being filmed for an upcoming video and the
whole spectacle was caught on video, movie and stills as well as a shot from a helicopter.

Business:  Asterisk Underwrites Medical Care at Every Race

Here are a couple of recent photos of the MXdN site from Mario Marini:

05/15/02:

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Photos/Free Section:  Big pile pf photos from round 1 of the WML Pro Championship at Glen Helen, plus some WML amateurs.

Cha Ching!

Ker-Plunk!

At GH Travis was using this EVS MP3 player belt to hold his tunes.

When Eric Sorby was talking to PC about riding the the US, and when he made his deal to race in 2003, he had an agent.  His agent also hangs out on Mototalk and races for team Yamaha on #12.

Need a freestyle ramp?  Action Sports Division of All Access makes ramps and lots of stuff.  This is Tye Trussell, who was at the Road 2 Recovery's golf tournament at Vegas.  Check out their web site at www.allaccessinc.com. 

05/14/02:

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Business:  Engine Ice signs with Sponsorship Solutions
Photos:  100 Action Photos from Glen Helen Sunday

2002 MXdN Info:  Save this Link:  Here's Competition park's site for the 2002 MXdN

Eric Sorby will be on Pro Circuit again in 2003.

WML Racing has amateur and pro classes and full gates. 

Sellards out:  Brock's brother Marcus reports he has a virus:  "Brock received his blood work back from the doctor on Friday before Glen Helen and got some bad news. The doctor said he said the test was positive for the Epstein Barr virus which is a severe form of mono. We spoke with Jeff Stanton and he said from past experience that Brock would be out most of the summer. This has plagued Brock all season and it was getting frustrating that the doctors kept saying it was a sinus infection and prescription medicine was not helping."

New Poll!  It's has been a while since we did a Motonews poll.  Here is a new one suggested by our good buddy Ryan Pawley.
Poll:  Who has the ugliest gear?

Matt Walker on cover of new Practice Track.

05/13/02:

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Team Green's Jessica Patterson was back on track Saturday with a strong 1-1 finish at the first WML round.  Stefy Bau was second overall.

What do ya get when you cross a Suzuki DRZ400 with Kawasaki plastic?  Look here.

New parents:  Robbie and Jennifer Skaggs have a new baby, Alexandria.  She was born May 8 at 6:10 pm. She weighs 7 pounds and she's 20 inches long.

Glen Helen...

05/12/02:

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Nathan Ramsey is out due to a concussion from qualifying Saturday.

Check Mototalk for the quick updates on GH.

05/11/02:

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Today is amateur day at Glen Helen, pro practice, and at least moto 1 of the WML Nationals.

IFMA Freestyler Dustin Miller doing tricks in beautiful downtown Burbank, and the NBC studio parking lot for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.  Check out www.pacefmx.com next week for more photos.  

Works Connection has it's "EZ Holeshot" ready!  Here is a link to theit new products page.

05/10/02:

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Today the IFMA will do NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno!  For the two previous years the show did a supercross special with MC and Travis, then MC and RC.  This time Mad Mike, Kenny Bartram, Dustin Miller, and Jake Windham will bring FMX to a mainstream audience, with Travis Pastrana doing the announcing for the stunts.  Motonews will be there!

Photos:  71 Photos from Glen Helen Thursday (practice and press) are up.

The situation with Kevin Windham was just too weird.  Even on Thursday's practice day few people really knew what was up.  Here is the deal:  KW has 2 doctors, one says he can ride and the other thinks he needs about 5 weeks.  He will miss Glen Helen and Hangtown for sure, and probably High Point.  Suzuki does expect him to be back for Southwick, round 4.

Yesterday Nick Wey re-injured a knee that he hurt last year and will be out a few weeks.

LaRocco was riding practice on the CRF450R at Glen Helen Thursday but the decision was made he won't race because his wrist isn't strong enough yet.

OMS's Pat Schutte shows off the slick media packet that was prepared for the nationals.  OMS is doing the PR for the series.

This weekend the GP is at St Jean D' Angely, the track where Team USA's Ryan Hughes, RC, and Travis Pastrana won big in 2000.  The weather should be muddy.

Jamie Parkhurst won an RM250 in AMA Pro Racing's fantasy SX contest at www.fantasyracer.com.

Our own Mototalker "ozone" won Denny Stephenson's KX125 on www.motoxdream.com in Snoop's fantasy contest.

05/09/02:

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New:  Motonews Visits M2R Helmets...
New:  Meet Dee Tidwell of Elite Fitness Systems

05/08/02:

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Albee is working on a new site, www.how2ride.com!  Check it out.  You can learn from a world and US champion, and a real nice guy.

Suzuki and Kawasaki changes due the alliance:  Suzuki does a 4-stroke to compete with Yamaha's TTR 125, and Kawasaki does a green version of the same bike.  More Suzuki models will also be available as Kawasakis.  Suzuki's RM65 and RM100 will be built by Kawasaki

The lucky guy in the blue shirt is Scott Moore.  He does Zentropy Talent (www.zentropytalent.com) , who brought some fine ladies to hand out posters for Plano Honda at Vegas.  Check out their web site!  Also, check out the schedule for their 2002 Orange County Venus Swimwear International Model Search Competition!

Action Sports Management represents Ernesto Fonseca and Plano Honda, and a lot of athletes in other sports.  Check out their web site at http://www.actionsportsmanagement.com/.

2003 Silly Season news:  Ryan Morias to ECC.  Larry Brooks did his contract.  Morias has been close to McGrath Racing since before it was McGrath Racing but with a beer sponsor there are problems with having riders under 21.

EA Sports will not be the title sponsor of Supercross in 2003.  The new series title sponsor will be announced in a few weeks.

steveyd, who you remember for a year of incredible supercross articles on Mototalk a few seasons ago, is now editor of Motorcycle Product News, which is worth going to your local dealer and asking to see it!  The mag looks great and they have been mixing in plenty of race action photos with the jerseys and tire changers.  They have a dealer-only site at www.mpnmag.com.

Announcing...

This is the still unofficial and incomplete Who's In/Who's Out for Glen Helen: 

In: Pastrana, Reynard, Byrne (he rode Vegas too), Thain, Lamson, Guy Cooper (!), Ferry, Voss, Langston, Brandes, Casey Johnson, Pingree (one race deal, maybe more).

Maybe: LaRocco is going to ride Thursday and decide.Bonds, will ride and see first (75% chance he will race) ( KW? Who knows? Depending on who you talk to he will be there-or he fell off the Earth.

Out:  Laninovich, Bentley, Riddle, JT$.

Rebecca Wolsten, who is Miss AX Rebecca (regional AX), was at Vegas.

05/07/02:

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DC and Shannon of Racer X magazine report Vance David Coombs was born and is healthy, even though he took his time showing up.  Congrats!

Business:  The official event program for the Nationals is ready.
Business:  IFMA Fall Freestyle Schedule Announced

Ginger (left) is working for www.FreestyleMX.com.
Business:  FreestyleMX.com Tour

Sports Illustrated Magazine is sending a reporter and two photohounds to Glen Helen for round one of the AMA/Chevy Trucks U.S. Motocross Championships.

OMS (PR agency for the nationals) has set up a ride before Hangtown with Steve Caballero (who also did the SX Crossover the night before Anaheim 1) and Team Husky's Steve Lamson.  Local pro MX racers Shawn McDonald (Sacramento) and Cliff Cook (Placerville), along with the Husqvarna team will also be on hand to show off their skills to the press.

Real supercross people who like beer drink Bud Light.

John Dowd's new poster, from www.mxposters.com.  Photo by Paul Buckley.  Remember when you need a poster, mxposters.com has the system.  Just check the web site for what to do, photo guidelines, etc and do it!

05/06/02:

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Life:  Here's a copy of a sheet with photos and who got what award at the supercross banquet.

05/05/02:

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Photos:  Action photos from Las Vegas

Fox's crew RC and Bubba completely dominated the EA Sports Supercross finals at Las Vegas.  RC only had to pass fast-starting Kyle Lewis for his win, and Bubba had to pass Chris Gosselaar before he checked out.  Reed was second in the 125 shootout. 

Everyone's favorite TV announcer Art Eckman is leaving ESPN.  He hasn't announced it yet but people know.  Art has been the voice of SX/MX for so long it is hard to imagine a moto TV show without him on it.  This sux.  Hopefully Art will stick around moto and find something to do.  Hey, he did some photos at Bercy and they were pretty good...  

Vegas weekend silly season update:  Grant Langston signed with KTM to ride for 2 more years, and its on a 250.  This ended speculation he would go with Suzuki.  Now the main moves for silly season will depend on if Honda keeps Tortelli, if Suzuki keeps Windham, and what brand of bike McGrath Racing goes with and if they find a teammate for MC. 

The annual Supercross award banquet is the Sunday after the Vegas finals, and it's the party of the year for the moto teams.  The banquet is always first class, and a lot of fun.  After a night of partying (and recovery) people can focus on Glen Helen.   

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Racing:  Here are quotes and photos from Friday's Press day at Vegas

Getting married Sunday before the SX banquet: Brian Barnhart, or "Big B" (MC's truck driver) and Megan Janson.  Megan's father Roy is CCE VP of operations.

Las Vegas is a Vans Triple Crown of Supercross race.

05/03/02:

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Photos:  Here's the Road 2 Recovery Golf Tournament in Las Vegas!
Business:  WML Women's MX is on the rise

Check out Moto X Dream's scoring of the top 125 supercross riders in 2002, just in time for Vegas.

"The MMU!"  This is the NPG's mobile media center for the AMA/Chevy Trucks U.S. Motocross Championships, provided by the fine folks at Pete's RV.

05/02/02:

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Business:  Round 1 of Vans Triple Crown of FMX on TV May 4.
Business:  Vegas Supercross finals live on PPV.

Rock Band does good:  This isn't Strung Out, but the babes are hot.  This came from Strung Out:  "STRUNG OUT BREAKS INTO THE BILLBOARD TOP 200 NATIONAL SALES CHARTS.   "An American Paradox" entered the charts at #186 this week and it was all due to the incredibly loyal fan base we have as well as the hard work of Jason, Eric,Toby, Brian, Vanessa, Marc, and everyone else at our lovely label, Fat Wreck Chords. This is big exciting news for us being its the first time we have entered the Billboard charts. What does it mean?  It means that each and every single one of you hardcore dedicated Strung Out fans is so appreciated. It's just so rewarding to realize the ongoing non-stop support you people have given to us. We can't thank you enough. The new website has also received 20,000 plus hits since it's launch on April 23rd which has pretty much blown us away as well. Hats off to Brandon for his long time continuous efforts with www.strung-out.com.  We can't thank him enough. Well, we can't wait to get back on the road to start playing for all of you. We hope to make it everywhere that there are people that want to see us. We will do our best. Look forward to seeing you all at a show."

A rumor has been kicking around that Plano Honda's manager Kenny Watson was let go and replaced by Ryan Hughes.  This isn't confirmed yet and Motonews will be asking around today.

Former national champion Albee was reportedly talking to Suzuki about a comeback but its not happening, at least not today!

From Kawasaki:  James Stewart is featured in this week's Sports Illustrated (April 29th issue with Kenyon Martin on the cover). It is featured in the Adventure section that was included in a limited edition, available to about one-half of the normal circulation base. The article, entitled "Eye of a Tiger," gives a brief rundown on Stewart's quick rise to the professional ranks and highlights his family background and friendship with baseball star Ken Griffey. There is also a subtle mention of his similarities to another famous African-American sports star named Tiger.

Check MXGirls.com for an interview with Sarah Whitmore.

05/01/02:

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Life:  People photos from Pontiac are up!
Business:  AMA Launches New Motocross Site

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