Author Archives : "jesse ziegler"
If you haven’t checked out BBR’s new blog, you’re missing some serious fun. After seeing the story on dirtrider.com’s homepage yesterday announcing BBR’s blog, I had to check it out. What I found was a virtual vault of everything mini. Starting with the Honda XR75 and moving into the company’s custom built factory race minis, the site covers everything mini and [...]
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Check out this story on Prince Wiliam and Prince Harry riding an African off-road enduro rally for charity. I just read a story on the BBC News website about Prince William and Prince Harry riding a rally in Africa. Here are my favorite quotes from the story: “Speaking before they set off, the 26-year-old prince [...]
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Team USA has finished on the podium at this year’s ISDE held in Serres, Greece. The Trophy Team of Destry Abbot, Nathan Woods, Nathan Kanney, Ricky Dietrich and Kurt Caselli finished in third place behind overall winners France and runners-up Italy. When Finland’s Juha Salminen crashed out of the final motocross test (after a required [...]
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Here’s what’s happening with Team USA’s Trophy Team. Technically, day four is the day I took off. Since I was totally over putting my life in the hands of race team managers behind the wheel of their rental cars, I stuck around the pits today and got some work done. I did jump up the [...]
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After a brief hiatus I’m back with maximum bloggage about Team USA I’m splitting this blog into two parts. First, we’ll talk about yesterday. Then we’ll talk about today. And maybe I’ll talk about tomorrow but who knows… The ISDE in Greece works like this: Riders leave the pits at specific start times and go [...]
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Kurt Caselli has withdrawn from ISDE competition after suffering an apparent concussion in the Enduro Test of the first lap of day 3. Kurt Caselli went down hard a few hours ago during the final Enduro Test of lap one on day three and was unable to return to competition after completing the first lap. Fellow [...]
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It’s over. Day two is in the tank and the dust is settling. Competition just completed on day two of the 2008 ISDE in Greece and so much drama happened that I can’t fit it into one blog. If I were to tell you everything I saw today, it’d be an entire dirtrider.com [...]
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The rider’s have finished day one of the ISDE in Greece. Here are day one notes, results and photos. American ISDE Day One Race Results and notes. The United States ISDE teams all competed well today with many standouts and few disappointing results. Headlining the results is California’s Kurt Caselli. Caselli was on the gas [...]
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The 2008 International Six Days Enduro has officially started and Team USA is through the first test! Check out live results! Hey ISDE fans, log on HERE to see Team USA’s results from the ISDE in Greece. They just took off from the starting line and everyone looks to be in great spirits. I’ll be posting [...]
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Here’s a great video covering the Rich Caselli Memorial Ride Day held recently at I-5 MX track in Gorman, California The crew over at isde.tv sent us this excellent video from Rich Caselli’s memorial ride day. Rich Caselli Memorial Video As you can see, the event was a huge success in honoring Rich and all he’s [...]
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KTM’s new 450 has arrived. We just completed our first full day of testing on the big orange ride and here is your dirtrider.com web impression.First out of the gate you need to notice how cool KTM graphics are this year. They’re black and bad-ace with little details like freestyle ramps, a guy holding a [...]
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You guys know Pete Peterson, right? He works here at Dirt Rider and is one of our favorites. We’re always helping him out with his dirt bike riding technique, his fashion choices and, until recently, his freestyle skills. Pete took a big step yesterday and did his first freestyle grab trick. Check it out! This was [...]
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James Stewart is back. Fox Racing recently caught up with the former AMA Supercross and Motocross champion to see just how his recovery from knee surgery is going. Check out the video here James Stewart Video It’s great to see James back on the bike. Try not to freak out when you see his whips.
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Whilst reading through the grand assortment of BMW press material associated with the 2008 BMW R 1200 GS Adventure I ran across the creation of a new motorcycling genre: Extreme TouringCool. I wanna try it.Lucky for me I was invited out to Scottsdale Arizona last week to do just that. I arrived at Eagle [...]
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A very crazy person just emailed this to me and told me to post it. Enjoy.-Jesse ZieglerSPY GUY ONLINE BLOGEVS Neck Support System Uncovered. What’s up peeps? Spy Guy in the hizzie fo’ shizzie. I was kickin’ it old school with my homies and my lady homies the other day (today) when I had this urge [...]
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