Houston SX #3 | Bigwave’s Brainstorm By Billy Rainford Where do we start with this one?! NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas, hosted the first 3-race residency of the 2021 Monster Energy AMA Supercross series and got more than its fair share of action and stories to tell. Round 3 gave us a lot to talk about, to say the least. Let’s go back to the beginning to take a look
Bigwave’s Brainstorm | Houston 2 Supercross By Billy Rainford The 2021 Monster Energy AMA Supercross series was back in action on Tuesday for Round 2. The track was basically run in the reverse direction after the first turn was cut sharper and riders flipped the track around. Here’s what I thought about Night 2 in Houston: 250 East First Qualifier Unfortunately, the incident #134 Jess Pettis had when he tweaked
Jess Pettis Heads into Houston for 250 East SX this Saturday By Billy Rainford As we are now just a few days from Round 1 of the highly anticipated 2021 Monster Energy AMA Supercross series, we’ll have a couple Canadians to keep an eye on racing the 250 East class. After dominating the 2020 Canadian 250 MX championships #134 Jess Pettis from Prince George, BC will be racing as well
The DMXies – Individual Awards and Words Here’s another look at the 2020 Direct Motocross Awards – The DMXies. By Billy Rainford Most Dominant Pro Rider Billy: I can’t believe I’m picking a rookie in the 450 class, but Dylan Wright is my choice for Most Dominant. Especially in the MX portion of the series, it never seemed to matter where he started, he was making his way to the
2020 Direct Motocross Awards – The DMXies By Billy Rainford Greg Poisson and Billy Rainford hand out the 2020 Direct Motocross Awards – The DMXies. Categories include Amateur Rider of the Year, WMX Rider of the Year, Rookie of the Year, Pro Rider of the Year, and the new People’s Choice Rider of the Year, among others.
DMX Stories | Tales from the Vault | Mark Perrin Races in Edmonton By Billy Rainford By Billy Rainford Back in 2009, I agreed to the very lofty goal of driving across the country in a 1989 Buick Electra Estate Wagon that Darren “Pillow” Pilling had purchased for either this project in particular or for some other reason as yet unknown to me. The goal of this project was to
Catching Up with Kade Walker in Europe The globetrotting Canadian would love to race the 2021 season back at home By Billy Rainford Kade Walker is the Canadian rider who hails from Quebec but has spent the last number of years crisscrossing Europe racing and living in some different and exciting places. He made a brief visit back to Canada to line up for a couple races and is now
The Story Behind the Photo | 1985 Hully Gully Newsletter By Billy Rainford Besides good looks, charm, and a dashing personalty, motocrossers all share another more unfortunate thing in common – we’ve all pretty much missed one season’s racing due to injury. It’s a sad but very real part of the sport we’ve all chosen. I’m not even sure why my name pops up in this little Hully Gully Newsletter
Off the Cuff with Jacqueline Ross | December By Jacqueline Ross Greetings, Humans! Happy Festivus! I’ve waited all year to use that line! I hope you’ve enjoyed the month of December. I’ve heard a lot of people broadcasting throughout the year that they ”just can’t wait for 2020 to be over!” Congratulations, you made it! 28 hours left (depending upon when this gets posted)! Since this column holds my thoughts and points
Best Christmas Movie of All Time? | We Ask Riders and Industry Folk By Billy Rainford Photos by Bigwave (except where noted) I’m starting to worry because if I ask myself this question I may answer Bad Santa or Krampus. I’ll just say Elf so people don’t send the authorities over to check on me. With that in mind, we fired the question out to a bunch of riders and