By Billy Rainford Welcome to what is usually my favourite non-moto week of the year – the week between Christmas and New Year’s. It’s always a week at home with my family that I spend visiting close friends and their families. I really enjoy driving around to different homes to visit and have some Christmas “cheer” with buddies and their parents who had to put up with me as a
Frid’Eh Update #52 | Blake Osatchuk Interview | Presented by Yamaha Motor Canada By Billy Rainford Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone out there. It’s Week #52 for the DMX Frid’Eh Update Presented by Yamaha Motor Canada. As you can probably guess, we’re going to keep this one short. It’s Christmas Day and I wasn’t going to bother anyone today or this past week. Fortunately, #52 Blake Osatchuk was
Podcast | Kyle Snelgrove Talks about His Racing History, OGs Goggles, and PRMX SX Team Sponsorship By Billy Rainford Ex-pro motocross racer, Kyle Snelgrove, has started his own goggle company called “OGs.” They are now the goggle sponsor for the Canadian PRMX Wossner Deep South Kawasaki Supercross race team for the 2021 season. We grabbed him for a chat to talk about his history as a racer and how he
Out of the Blue | Mia Barrett | Presented by Schrader’s By Jensen Amyotte Name: Mia Barrett Date of Birth: February 17, 2003 Hometown: Brampton, Ontario School/Grade: St. Edmund Campion Secondary School, Grade 12 Race Number: 971 Bike: Yamaha YZ 125 Race Club: AMO, OCMC, Triple Crown Series Classes: Ladies A Who got you into the sport of motocross? My dad had his own history of racing, so when I was
Catching Up with Logan Karnow| Presented by Matrix Concepts Canada By Billy Rainford We’ve known Logan Karnow since he was a young ripper on his KTM Supermini and would come up from Ohio to race the TransCan at Walton Raceway. Since then, he’s ben a staple on the Canadian PRMX team for Supercross and at select races here in Canada. Well, he’s made some big changes for the 2021 season,
By Billy Rainford Welcome to the last Monday Morning Coffee before Christmas! It’s green and warm enough to go for a comfortable ride here in London, Ontario, today. Jeff McConkey‘s Yamaha YZ250 is already winterized and sleeping in the garage, so I guess my riding will be of the non-powered type today. We seem to be in a bit of a holding pattern here in Canadian Motocross. With so many
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
Podcast |Yanick Boucher Talks MX and the Upcoming 2021 SnowBike Season | Husqvarna Motorcycles Canada By Billy Rainford Winter X Games Silver Medalist Yanick Boucher from Hearst, Ontario, talks about his 2020 Motocross season, the upcoming 2021 CSRA SnowBike season, and what winning an X Games medal means to an action sports athlete. iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/yanick-boucher-talks-about-motocross-upcoming-2021/id1499153886?i=1000502748468 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/direct-motocross/episode/yanick-boucher-talks-about-motocross-and-the-upcoming-2021-snowbike-season-80234936 Be sure to SUBSCRIBE to our channels to be notified whenever something new
Out of the Blue | Harley Lawson | Presented by Schrader’s By Jensen Amyotte Name: Harley Lawson Date of Birth: December 20th, 2006 Hometown: Calgary, Alberta Grade: Grade 8 Race Number: 250 Bike: KTM 2020 85 Club: AMSA Who got you into the sport of motocross? My parents have been racing motocross for many years and made it into our family passion. Plus, many other people at our hometown track
By Billy Rainford Can you believe we’re heading into Week #51 of 2020?! In some ways the year seems to have flown by and in others it still feels like we’re owed a summer. We had one, right? The way the numbers are playing out this year, we’ll have time for an interview with #51 Logan Karnow, #52 Blake Osatchuk, and then a bonus Week #53 interview with Degan Palmer