Mike Lafftery is going for his record-breaking ninth AMA Enduro title this year. Things started out very well for him, a racer better known for getting slower starts in championship points races. But between the third and fourth races this year, while holding the points lead, he crashed and injured his foot, and had to [...]
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Mike Lafferty, who injured his foot prior to and missed the Lone Star Enduro in Texas (round 4) had his cast removed on May 13th but the pins are still in his foot. Those come out on the 25th of May and then the rehab begins. Lafferty says, “That gives me 19 days to the [...]
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Imagine walking into a bowling alley and bumping into Davi Millsaps. You bounce off of him and run into Ryan Villopoto. You run to tell your buddies but Josh Grant and Timmy Ferry are in your way, then you pass a dozen more top racers on your way to your lane, where you find your [...]
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If the action from round one is any indication, the 6 rounds of the 2008 AMA/WMA Women’s National Motocross Championship Presented by Kawasaki is going to be an exciting one. The series is run on six of the twelve national tracks with the pro women racers running moto one on Saturday and moto two on [...]
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Mike Lafferty returned from a badly injured foot to win the Loose Moose Enduro in Marquette, Michigan on June 15. It was surprising to see him back on bike by that round, let alone with the speed to win. Lafferty, going for his record ninth AMA Enduro title, was not able to compete in round [...]
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Yamaha’s 2009 YZ250 and YZ125 bike intro was not really to show off the bikes’ minimal changes, but to remind us how fun these bikes are. They gassed up their ’09 two-strokes and sent us out on a ‘Field of Dreams’-like private track to twist throttles and stretch smiles. This has to go down in [...]
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Chris Barrett PP: Any close encounters with the SX stars on the track?CB: I think I’ve been pretty good about staying out of their way.PP: How are you treated out there in general?CB: Everybody kinda does their own thing. They’re just putting in their fast lap and I’m trying to put in my fast lap. [...]
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By now you’ve probably read the Dirt Rider 2009 250F Motocross Shootout (in the March 2009 issue). We only had so much room in the magazine, and couldn’t fit all the opinions we collected. Here are a few additional opinions, as well as the opinions from the magazine, and a big bunch of great photos [...]
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Ryan Dungey PP: How has it been working with Roger?CR: It’s been fun. The advice that he has is different from the advice I’ve had before. He’s a rider that’s been there himself, he’s been around a lot of very talented people and I think he gets it. And that’s something I’ve never had in [...]
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The Indy motorcycle show went by in a blur and both Chris Denison and I survived. I’m not sure yet I can say the same about our publisher Sean Finley, who apparently licked something on the airplane and caught an evil bacteria that dwells at 35,000 feet. Sean spent most of the show locked in [...]
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With the 2009 Indy Dealer Expo finished there was nothing left to do but fire up the Airbus A319 and fly everybody home. I put on a few sweet moves just off the tarmac to avoid bird strike, took ‘er up to 36,000 feet, and reflected back on the last of the cool items from [...]
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If you think Taddy Blazusiak is good at extreme riding, you should see him in a staring contest. I was locked eye to eye with him for three hours, but he never blinked. I gave up because I knew I had to walk the show to dig up the coolest of the new products, and [...]
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I just flew into Indy and boy are my feet tired… Because I’ve been walking the convention center all day looking for cool new items to show you. Remember, I’m competing with Chris to see who can find the coolest product of the show. We’ll put together a top 10 early next week and let [...]
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Specialized, the makers of mountain bikes, recently invited me out to test their new, wheeled walking stick. It has two wheels, hand brakes, and looks like a small motorcycle without the engine. What you do to use the walking stick is meet up with Aldon Baker (trainer of James Stewart), Nicky and Tommy Haden, and [...]
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This is my final blog to come out of the Yamaha Media Day of Nov 14. I’ve already told you about the race team riders I spoke with, but I also managed to get a few questions in with motocross and Supermoto hero Doug Henry, who suffered a career-ending spinal cord injury in March of [...]
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