News from October 2003
Behind the scenes
V. 2 Secret supercross test tracks For most of us, supercross is fun stuff. For a select few, supercross is big business. And when you have to maintain a full-on supercross track year round, it’s big business. We can’t tell you much about these two tracks, except they are off-limits to the public, and are [...]
rights. riding. racing.
AMA Awards Banquet And a new identity for their 80th birthday (Photos below) The American Motorcyclist Association, founded in 1924, is designed to pursue, protect and promote the interests of motorcyclists, while serving the needs of its members. Saturday night at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas, their sister organization AMA Pro Racing held their [...]
Behind the scenes
V. 1 Can’t tell you what it is …. but you’ll find out January 9th. Click on the thumbnails to see the larger images function OpenWindow(url, width, height) { window.open(url, ‘img’, ‘resizable, width=’+width+’,height=’+height+”); }
It’s the annual Yamaha Kart Day & Race Team intro
2004 style at Dromo One Photo feature We’re here at the Dromo One Indoor Karting facility close by Anaheim stadium (Edison International Field) in California. It’s the annual Yamaha Kart Day and Race Team intro for 2004! Bob Starr from Yamaha explains: “It’s our annual ‘Kart Day’. It’s all about fun. And it’s also the [...]
1975 Carlsbad Grand Prix. Were you there?
The Classic USGP of Motocross Photos by Chris Levasseur, and Tapio Vuori We were there, along with 40,000 of our closest friends. Here’s a photo flashback from Father’s Day 1975 – The Classic USGP. It was the most important motocross in the USA every year. Gerrit Wolsink won the race. Roger DeCoster went on to [...]
Supermoto for a day
The brand new sport that’s sweeping across America. We had to go. Supermoto is mostly pavement, some dirt, big bikes, lots of stars. It’s fun! This was round 5 of the AMA/Red Bull Supermoto series, held at Irwindale Speedway in southern California. It was quite a scene: lots of people, lots of name riders, a [...]
Fly on the wall
Suzuki test track, lunch, Troy Lee Designs, the garage, 466 miles Only a moto enthusiast could appreciate it RJ wasn’t returning my calls or e-mails. Finally, I got ahold of him. He said “I don’t have much going on today, and my day is basically open. Meet me, we can hang out, and talk about [...]
US Open
October 11, 2003 MGM Grand Garden Arena Las Vegas Nevada Chad Reed wins the 6th running of the US Open. He finished runner-up on Friday night, and won the main on Saturday night. David Vuillemin finished second overall. He won Friday night, followed that up with third on Saturday. Ricky Carmichael finished third overall. (Third [...]
Motocross des Nations Photos
Everyone wanted a Belgium v USA showdown. Everts v Carmichael. World Champion v American Champion. 7 time world champion v 10 time AMA champion. The two best riders in the world. They didn’t disappoint. If you’d like to see the results, please visit this link Thanks to Matteo, Bruhnie, and Marcel function OpenWindow(url, width, height) [...]
World Bragging Rights
Belgium wins the 2003 Motocross des Nations! Joel Smets – Belgium October 5, 2003 Circuit Zolder Zolder, Belgium The 57th running of this classic event – a once per year gathering of all the top riders and teams as they compete country against country, with each nation fielding a team of three riders. One super [...]
