Author Archives : "chris denison"
Want the chance to spend a weekend hanging with Travis Pastrana and the infamous Nitro Circus crew? Of course you do! EVS Sports has your ticket to a few days of paintballin’, backflipping madness-all you have to do it be one of four lucky winners of the Nitro Circus contest and boom, you’re in! As [...]
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At this point, you may have heard a little something about EVS Sports’ upcoming Nitro Circus contest. You know, the one where three lucky winners will be sent straight onto the set of Travis Pastrana’s wild TV show? Well, the contest has just entered its final month, meaning that fans still have time to enter [...]
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I hate to start a story this way, but I have some bad news: You’re not as fast as you think you are. No matter how talented, accomplished, brave, determined or just plain lucky you may be, there’s almost no way that you can actually ride a motorcycle as quickly or as well as you [...]
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As the fans, racers and various enthusiasts left the Orleans Arena following the first night of the AMA/ Geico EnduroCross series presented by E3 Spark Plugs, one sentence could be heard pouring out of the mouth of everyone in attendance: “That was the best race I have ever seen.” In typical EnduroCross fashion, the first [...]
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With a shootout win and at least one Bike of the Year vote under its seat, the KX250F certainly has a lot going for it. As a long-term bike, the Kawasaki continues to impress us as the numbers on the hourmeter keep ticking up. Presently, this machine has seen a lot of hard track time [...]
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If you’re anything like me, you can’t stand people who make things look easy. By the end of the 2008 EnduroCross series, I knew firsthand just how challenging EX can be, but I still watched in absolute awe as the top racers flowed effortlessly around the track. Heroes like Damon Huffman and eventual EX champion [...]
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Most pit bikes fall into one of two distinct categories: silly slow and scary fast. It seems that when building a backyard ripper, you have to decide at the start if you’re going to have a slow, easy-to-ride play bike or a serious, all out racer. Finding a solid machine in the middle of the [...]
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A true test of man and machine, the fabled HYR 12-Hour Endurance Race at Glen Helen is a grueling, half-day GP-style race that takes place in one of the most challenging venues on the west coast. The 20-minute long Glen Helen loop had racers hitting the National Motocross track, the wide-open SRA Gran Prix course [...]
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It’s official: Off-road hero David Knight and the BMW race team have parted ways. According to press releases from BWM and on David’s websites, the two-time World Enduro and GNCC Champion and BMW have parted ways by “mutual consent” with “immediate effect”. This means that as of this weekend’s GP of Slovakia, Knighter will no [...]
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Adjustable stops allow increased customization of the new POD, while some high-tech internals give the braces a natural, human-like feel of movement. “As a strict believer in knee braces, I was stoked to give the POD braces a shot, and much to my delight I was instantly happy with them. The feel of these braces [...]
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2010 may not be here yet, but the bikes of next year are just around the corner. With the manufacturers revving up to release (or re-release, depending on the model) their new machines, the buzz surrounding the pack of new bikes is understandably high. Who went to FI? Which bikes are lighter? Did anything get [...]
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About the bike: This 2009 Monster Energy Kawasaki Racing Team 250F is based on last years Endurocross championship winning machine that Ricky Dietrich and Damon Huffman contested the series on, and it is the bike they will be running in the 2009 series.The bike is not your typical off-road race machine. It was purpose built [...]
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Getting stuck in the snow is no picnic (unless, of course, you’re on a Christini AWD bike, in which case you wouldn’t be stuck in the first place), but there are several things you can do to free your ride from the icy clutches of a cold, deep rut. The first is to shut off [...]
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