Monday Morning Coffee

Monday Morning Coffee

By Billy Rainford Dominating the news this morning is the return to Honda Canada GDR Fox Racing for #5 Tyler Medaglia. Tyler rode for the team back in 2012 as the defending 250 champion on the #11 Honda 450 back then. Tyler won the 250 title in 2010 and 2011 for the Blackfoot team and then moved up to the 450 class. In 2024, he’ll drop back down to the

Monday Morning Coffee

By Billy Rainford I’m running on Pacific Time for these next couple weeks, so forgive me that it may not be “Morning” where you are. As I’ve already mentioned a few times, I’m in Kamloops, BC to look after my mom while my sister takes a well-deserved 2-week vacation. My mom has advancing dementia and I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t a handful to be here alone with

Monday Morning Coffee

By Billy Rainford That’s another Mini O’s at Gatorback Cycle Park in the books. If you’ve never been to this event, I’m not sure I can even describe it in words. 6000 entries over the course of 7 days in both Supercross and Motocross. It’s a living, breathing entity, this thing! They’ve added a couple days to it over the past few years and I have to say it’s been

Monday Morning Coffee

By Billy Rainford As I sit here this Monday Morning, I’m starting to think about making yet another drive south down the I-75 to Gainesville, Florida, for the 2023 Mini O’s at Gatorback Cycle Park. When I was a kid, reading the words “Mini Olympics”, “Ponca City“, or “World Mini’s” always gave me goosebumps. Looking back, it was actually Ponca City that I remember having the most affect on my

Monday Morning Coffee

By Billy Rainford The recent passing of Wally Levy got me thinking about some of what’s really important in life. Although Wally left way too early, he had a very positive impact on everyone who knew him or even just met him once. And it’s definitely not just because he’s gone that people are saying nice things about him; he was genuinely a good dude. What a nice legacy to

Monday Morning Coffee

By Billy Rainford I had two of the coolest days I’ve had in a long time this past weekend. The Vet and Vintage event at Gopher Dunes was one for the ages, as Frank Schuster, Lawrence Hacking, and Glen Nicholson all put their heads together and gathered some huge names from our sport’s past. If you’re too young to remember the names that were there, it’s no problem because I’ve

Monday Morning Coffee

By Billy Rainford Welcome to another Monday Morning Coffee. Hey, when does daylight savings time end anyway? I have to admit that I took a little bit of time away from moto this past week. It’s been a long season with a ton of great racing and things I was able to attend and report on. It’s rare that I take more than a day away, but I literally did

Monday Morning Coffee

By Billy Rainford OK, I have to admit it, I completely wimped out this passed weekend. I went into it planning to head to Gopher Dunes Friday for Supercross practice, head back again on Saturday for the races, go home for a few hours, and then head to catch the final day of the Corduroy Enduro up in Gooderham, ON. Gooderham is up northeast of Toronto, north of Peterborough, east

Monday Morning Coffee

By Billy Rainford Next time I say I’m going to drive 12 hours to a race and then turn around and come straight home afterward, punch me in the face, please. I hopped into the DMX Van again this past weekend and drove all the way to Z Max Dragway in Concord, North Carolina, just outside Charlotte for round 1 of the inaugural Supermotocross Playoffs. I told myself it wasn’t

Monday Morning Coffee | RIP Momma T

By Billy Rainford I hope everyone is enjoying the final long weekend of the 2023 summer season. I’m going to start and finish this one off on a very sad note. Lynn Thompson, better known to everyone as “Momma T,” passed away over the weekend. When I moved back to Ontario in 2007, the Thompson family was the first one to sort of “take me in” as a friend and