McThoughts: 250 West – San Diego Round 2 By Jeff McConkey Round 2 of the West Coast 250 series went off on Saturday night. The moisture started coming out of the track in the main events and it got pretty slippery. Even in the slippery conditions, I was amazed how Cooper Webb could just point his Yamaha in any direction and the bike stuck. It was another great ride by
Motoworld of El Cajon Friday Night Autographs By Billy Rainford On our way from Carlsbad to ‘Casa de Schmoke’ in Alpine, California, today, we stopped in at Motoworld of El Cajon for the autograph session. We thought it was only going to be the Yamaha riders but it was much more than that with several other team in attendance. We snagged a few shots of the guys as they met
Frid’Eh Update #2 Presented by DS Moto Customs By Jeff McConkey and Billy Rainford Welcome to Week #2 of the DMX Frid’Eh Update this week presented by DS Moto Customs in San Diego, California. Week #2 belongs to a rider who has graced the Update many times in his career, covering a wide range of different weeks of the year. After what came down to the last moto of the
Out of the Blue: Jacey Justine McQueen By Jeff McConkey Name: Jacey Justine McQueen Birthday: Nov 12, 1996 Hometown: Kelowna, BC School & Grade: I am a full time student in my second year at the University of British Columbia – Okanagan Number: 141 Bike: 2014 KX250F Race Club: CMRC, MCQMX, Canadian ArenaCross, Future West and 2015 Kawasaki BC Championship Series Classes. This year, I stuck to only the Ladies class to gain some knowledge, experience and confidence
A1 Tyler Spikman Photos By Billy Rainford Photos by Tyler Spikman (@spikman) By now, we all know who won the races last Saturday night in Anaheim for round 1 of the Monster Energy Supercross Series. Tyler Spikman was there shooting pics and, although he suffered a broken camera, he was able to grab a whole bunch of photos for us. We won’t bore you with captions that show results. Here
International Motorcycle Supershow and CMRC/AMO Awards Banquet Photos By Billy Rainford It’s bike show season across the continent. The first one on the list here in Southwestern Ontario is the International Motorcycle Supershow at the International Centre in Toronto. If you’re wondering if motorcycling is strong in the area, trying to find a parking spot for an hour should be enough to tell you it is. Seriously, getting forced to
Faces at the Races – Anaheim 1 By Billy Rainford Photos by Tyler Spikman (@spikman) It’s been too long since we’ve been able to get to one of these columns! The ‘Faces at the Races’ articles are always my most favourite to capture and pen. This week, we had Tyler Spikman in Anaheim, California, trackside getting all the shots at round 1 of the 2016 Monster Energy AMA Supercross Series.
Cole Thompson – A1 Conversation By Billy Rainford Brigden, Ontario, rider #127 Cole Thompson is the sole Canadian competing in the 2016 250 West SX series. With that in mind, we’ll try to catch up with him each week after Saturday’s event. We caught him earlier today after he finished riding the Supercross track at Pala.Here is what the Slaton Racing Royal Distributing Fox KTM Canada rider had to say
MX1 Champion Matt Goerke PODCAST By Billy Rainford We got in touch with MX1 Champion Rockstar Energy OTSFF Yamaha’s Matt Goerke last week and recorded a lengthy podcast with the Florida native who now calls Temecula, California, home. We included the podcast in Frid’Eh Update #1 last Friday but wanted to make sure everyone got a chance to listen to what he had to say about his latest injury that
McThoughts: The Weston Peick/Vince Friese ‘Incident’ By Jeff McConkey By now, everyone has seen the Weston Peick/Vince Friese incident over and over again. Before I get started, I would like to make it clear that I am not employed by MotoConcepts, and no I am not Vince Friese’s long lost cousin or anything like that. Vince has a history of questionable riding. Some call it dirty, and few just think