Monday Morning Coffee

Grab another cup for this edition of Monday Morning Coffee where we talk about some of what happened in Motocross and usually much more…

By Billy Rainford

Just when you think the 8 days at the beginning of November are the perfect time to take a vacation, we get lots of moto-related things happening! Emily and I decided to go on our first-ever cruise last week. We left from the port of Miami and were supposed to hit Jamaica first. Well, as you can imagine, that wasn’t going to happen after Hurricane Melissa, so our first port of call was the island of Cozumel in Mexico instead.

We signed up for a snorkelling tour and had a blast. We rented a 125 Honda scooter and zipped across the island to the other side just to see what was up. Nothing was up. We came back and got back on the ship and I probably went down and got another gourmet pizza. (It sort of became a nightly snack for me.)

Of course, as this was happening Daniel Elmore was going to race round 8 of the Costa Rican Motocross Nationals and Derek Schuster announced that they’d signed young phenom Dylan Rempel to the Honda Canada GDR Fox Racing team on the 250.

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Not only that, it was round 1 of the 2025 World Supercross Championship in Argentina and we had a couple Canadians on the line in the 250 class. Cole Thompson ended up going 4-4-4 for 4th and Noah Viney was 14-14-14 for 14th.

There’s always something going on in our sports and even the first week of November is a tough time to go away for a week!

Our next stop was in Grand Cayman. The place they try to take you is way too busy. We hopped in a local bus and asked the driver (we were the only one in it and it was just his personal van) where we should go and he took us to Cemetery Beach which was empty and perfect.

Finally, we went to Bimini in the Bahamas, just about 80 miles off the coast of Florida. We saw at least 10 nurse sharks just from the pier as we walked from the ship to the island. They were prodding the masses onto trams that went directly to the Virgin-owned resort area, but we decided to walk a little further and grab our own ride somewhere else in a golf cart taxi.

We were glad we did and found a much more “local” bar on a beach and went snorkelling there and saw a ton of interesting fish as soon as we dipped in.

We walked down the main road that splits the island and headed into a small marina beside Big John’s Bar and Grill. As soon as we did, what looks like a pretty big bull shark swam below us with a remora on it! Emily was not impressed at having just been in the water with this thing also in there. I wanted to stay there all day and watch this shark cruise around! It did come around once more which was cool. Check it out:

Anyway, that was our first time on a cruise and neither of us had very high hopes of loving it, but we managed to find things to do that were away from the masses. We don’t like having our entertainment spoon fed to us, but we ended up having a pretty good time. Virgin Cruises have no kids and no buffets, so that part is a plus if that suits you.

Will we ever go on another one? That’s a tough question.

We came home to this:

It will be gone in a couple days right before we head out to Vancouver for Round 2 of the FIM WSX Championship at BC Place downtown.

I missed this race last year and said I wouldn’t miss it again. Emily is still on holidays so she’s going to make the trip with me and we’ll drive her insane with stories and memories when my old hockey team meets up for dinner and drinks somewhere on Main Street Thursday night. I’m gonna love it! Sorry, Em. Go, Warthogs!

Oh, and Bill Van Vugt from right here in my hometown of London won the 80+ class at the 2025 Dubya World Vet Championships at Glen Helen! I’m sure you’ve already seen the photos of him. We’ll have a cool little story about it up on the site later this afternoon, so watch for that.

You can look at the results from the event HERE.

Check this out. I got a message that parts of my old #DMXVan have been seen driving around the Ottawa area.

2025 FIM WSX Round 1 Results | Argentina

World Supercross – Argentina | SX2 (250) Class – Overall Results

Pos	Country	#	Name	Team	Bike	Points
1	GBR	99	Max Anstie	Team GSM	Yamaha	45
2	USA	1	Shane McElrath	Quad Lock Honda Racing	Honda	37
3	USA	69	Coty Schock	Arby’s Rick Ware Racing	Yamaha	34
4	CAN	2	Cole Thompson	Venum Bud Racing	Kawasaki	32
5	BRA	16	Enzo Lopes	Arby’s Rick Ware Racing	Yamaha	26
6	USA	110	Kyle Peters	Venum Bud Racing	Kawasaki	24
7	USA	43	Cullin Park	MotoConcepts Racing	Honda	23
8	FRA	141	Maxime Desprey	Team GSM	Yamaha	18
9	USA	460	Michael Hicks	Stark Future	Stark	17
10	FRA	100	Anthony Bourdon	Quad Lock Honda Racing	Honda	15

Overall Results

World Supercross – Argentina | SX1 (450) Class – Overall Results

Pos	Country	#	Name	Team	Bike	Points
1	GER	94	Ken Roczen	Pipes Motorsport Group	Suzuki	45
2	USA	32	Justin Cooper	Monster Energy Yamaha Star Racing	Yamaha	37
3	USA	38	Haiden Deegan	Monster Energy Yamaha Star Racing	Yamaha	32
4	USA	28	Christian Craig	Quad Lock Honda Racing	Honda	31
5	USA	21	Jason Anderson	Pipes Motorsport Group	Suzuki	30
6	USA	17	Joey Savatgy	Quad Lock Honda Racing	Honda	28
7	USA	88	Devin Simonson	Arby’s Rick Ware Racing	Yamaha	19
8	USA	200	Ryan Breece	MotoConcepts Racing	Honda	14
9	AUS	102	Matt Moss	Venum Bud Racing	Kawasaki	14
10	FRA	20	Gregory Aranda	Team GSM	Yamaha	14

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AMA Endurocross Round 4 Highlights

EX PRO Overall Positions
1st#1		TRYSTAN HART 🇨🇦 INVERMERE, BC	Moto 1:1st Moto 2:1st Moto 3:2nd
2nd#22		JONNY WALKER GREAT BRITAIN, NA	Moto 1:2nd Moto 2:2nd Moto 3:1st
3rd#2		CODY WEBB INDIAN HILLS, CA	Moto 1:6th Moto 2:3rd Moto 3:3rd
4th#10		COLTON HAAKER COEUR D ALENE, ID	Moto 1:4th Moto 2:4th Moto 3:4th
5th#12		COOPER ABBOTT SURPRISE, AZ	Moto 1:3rd Moto 2:9th Moto 3:8th
6th#53		BRAXTON HINTZE NEPHI, UT	Moto 1:8th Moto 2:8th Moto 3:5th
7th#513		RYDER LEBLOND NEW FLORENCE, PA	Moto 1:5th Moto 2:10th Moto 3:6th
8th#15		MAX GERSTON NEW RIVER, AZ	Moto 1:7th Moto 2:5th Moto 3:9th
9th#96		TIM APOLLE FINNE, NA	Moto 1:10th Moto 2:7th Moto 3:7th
10th#99		BRANDEN PETRIE 🇨🇦 TOMAHAWK, AB	Moto 1:11th Moto 2:6th Moto 3:12th
11th#575		NICK THOMPSON GOSHEN, UT	Moto 1:9th Moto 2:11th Moto 3:10th
12th#55		JAMES FLYNN POST FALLS, AZ	Moto 1:14th Moto 2:12th Moto 3:11th
13th#56		MARC FERNANDEZ BARCELONA, NA	Moto 1:12th Moto 2:14th Moto 3:13th
14th#10x		NIKO PIAZZA DALTON GARDENS, ID	Moto 1:15th Moto 2:15th Moto 3:14th
15th#6		TY CULLINS PHOENIX, AZ	Moto 1:16th Moto 2:13th Moto 3:15th
16th#110		JADEN DAHNERS ENUMCLAW, WA	Moto 1:13th Moto 2:16th Moto 3:16th

Lots of Canadian results to look at HERE.

ADAC Supercross of Stuttgart

OK, I’ll try to get a couple podcast interviews up today with some of our riders who are doing cool things lately. Have a great week and we’ll see you in Vangroovy this weekend!

After Vancouver it’s time for another trip down to Gatoback Cycle Park in Newberry, Florida, for the Mini O’s!