Monday Morning Coffee By Billy Rainford Well, it was an extremely busy weekend and I was supposed to be in the middle of it, but sometimes things don’t work out the way we planned. Maybe being able to roll with the punches is what keeps me sane in this industry, I don’t know. If I were to get upset every time things didn’t go the way I wanted or planned
Monday Morning Coffee By Billy Rainford Good morning and welcome to your Monday Morning Coffee. I finally had one of those weekends where I hit two different motocross venues in the same weekend. It’s been a long winter here and it just felt great to have the option! We have a friend whose son woke up to a Honda CRF50 Christmas morning last year and has been chomping at the
Monday Morning Coffee By Billy Rainford Good ‘morning’ and welcome to what actually feels like the first weekend of spring here in the DMX headquarters neck of the woods. I’m typing this from the front porch in 20 degree C weather! This should be the last time I drone on about the weather. I know the readers out in the west or down south take sitting outside with a nice
Monday Morning Coffee By Billy Rainford Good morning and welcome to this week’s Monday Morning Coffee. The plan was to be working on photos from St. Louis today but Tyler Spikman had to cancel and we were unable to make the trek. Be sure to check back later this afternoon for Jeff McConkey‘s ‘McThoughts’ on the race that saw Red Bull KTM riders Marvin Musquin and Ryan Dungey go 1-1
Monday Morning Coffee By Billy Rainford OK, I’ll admit it, unless you live in Hawaii and we’re calling Hawaii Canada, this isn’t a Monday MORNING Coffee. Welcome to your afternoon coffee. Things have been going full steam here on this southeastern road trip. We were at the Daytona SX Saturday followed by the Ricky Carmichael Amateur SX (RCSX) Sunday and then again this morning. In hindsight, I really wish we’d
Monday Morning Coffee By Billy Rainford What we’ve got here, folks, is an old-fashioned ROAD TRIP! I’m not going to lie, sometimes the thought of these trips is much more romantic than the reality of sitting behind the wheel for 14 ½ hours, but if hitting the road as often as we do has taught me to adhere to only one old adage, it’s this one: be sure to stop
Monday Morning Coffee By Billy Rainford It seems we’re saying this a lot lately around these parts, but we are again in the middle of a cold snap. I’m not talking about a little bit below the freezing mark either. We’re talking breaking records daily! I think it hit -27C here overnight and we are currently sitting in the sunshine at a balmy -22! It’s the kind of day that
Monday Morning Coffee By Billy Rainford Welcome to the Family Day edition of Monday Morning Coffee. I hope everyone is getting the chance to spend some quality time with loved ones this weekend. Here at my end of things, my mother has left for a month-long visit with my aunt in Fremont, California. This departure has left my dad alone at there place up on Lake Simcoe. As the old
Monday Morning Coffee By Billy Rainford Welcome to another Monday here at Direct Motocross. So much has been going on behind the scenes that it’s been tough to get this column up on a regular basis. From planning our summer to figuring out when we’re leaving to head south to check out Canadians getting ready for summer and racing SX it has kept us hopping around here. Mitch Goheen is