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Pete Peterson vs Kobi Iseri

 They say keep your friends close and your enemies closer, so you’ll find me near Kobi Iseri for the next twelve months. Kobi works at Suzuki, so when he’s not bragging about his chats with Roger DeCoster or polishing his factory replica RM-Z450, he’s helping out with Dirt Rider in our bike tests, shootouts and [...]
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Gearing Up for Outdoors – Dirt Rider Magazine

Jason Lawrence has had two supercross seasons and one outdoor season filled with controversy. Love him or hate him, when he showed up at Daytona on a 450 and led for the majority of the main event, he shut down a lot of talk. He’s on a 450 for the Outdoors, and we caught up [...]
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French import Christophe Pourcel, with minimal U.S. experience, took command early of the 2009 East Coast Lites supercross series and rode to his first US championship. His attack on the US racing scene continues for the outdoors. We caught up with him at Glen Helen the day before the first round of the 2009 motocross [...]
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Gearing Up for Outdoors – Dirt Rider Magazine

Ivan Tedesco had, for his standards, an overall disappointing supercross season. He had a few rides that were up to his usual level, but Ivan is one of the riders this year who could get a real chance at a turn around as the outdoors start. We caught up with Ivan at Glen Helen as [...]
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Gearing Up for Outdoors – Dirt Rider Magazine

After taking second in the 2008 MX2 World Championships, Tommy Searle is making his attack on the AMA Outdoor National series. Tommy moved from his home in England to Southern California this past January. He elected not to ride the supercross series, so U.S. fans may not be too familiar with him, but he’s looking [...]
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Gearing Up for Outdoors – Dirt Rider Magazine

Wil Hahn earned his first professional podium in 2009 with a second at the Jacksonville Supercross after leading the first nine laps. Now he’s getting ready for some more ‘firsts’ in the outdoors. He was looking fast at Milestone MX last week, so we tracked him down and had a quick conversation.Pete Peterson: You got [...]
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Gearing Up for Outdoors – Dirt Rider Magazine

Josh Grant came into the 450 class in Supercross this year in dramatic style by taking the opening round victory at Anaheim one with a tuff block cover smoking from his rear wheel. He continued the season with more strong finishes to finish fourth overall in his rookie year in the class. Josh was looking [...]
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Gearing Up for Outdoors – Dirt Rider Magazine

Michael Byrne had a strong outdoor series last year with four podium finishes and a fourth place overall in the final point standings. He had a problematic supercross season in 2009 that ended in Daytona with an injury. He’s back on a bike and took a moment from his training to talk to us.Pete Peterson: [...]
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Doug Henry Steps Up To The Mic To Congratulate James Stewart

 Something amazing happened at Yamaha’s recent event to congratulate James Stewart on winning the 2009 Supercross Championship and award him his YZ450F. After James had stepped over to take the microphone, a van pulled up behind the grass rise where the event was happening. When the van pulled away, there was Doug Henry. He had [...]
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Minimoto Track To Practice Pit Bike SX Obstacles

 Racers in So Cal have certain advantages – good weather, close factory support, plenty of competition… But this advantage is trickling down to the pit bike racers as Milestone MX park (www.milestonemx.com) got a hold of an early MiniMoto 2009 track layout, and spent last Monday rebuilding their track to match that layout. The design [...]
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Hinson BTL Series Slipper Clutch – Dirt Rider Magazine

HinsonBTL Series Slipper ClutchFour-strokes have compression braking-that’s the bike’s deceleration when it’s going faster than the engine’s rpm when you’re off the throttle. Some four-strokes have a lot, some have a little, and all have more at higher rpm. Many riders use this to their advantage, like an anti-lock rear brake, and in theory, that’s [...]
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