2017 KTM Off-Road Ride Day | Cochrane’s MX Park By Jeff McConkey and Billy Rainford We were invited out to Cochrane’s MX Park east of Toronto to ride the new line-up of 2017 KTM 250cc Off-Road bikes. The guys at KTM Canada got there the day before and marked out a great course that would take us ‘gently’ through most of the terrain riders would experience when they purchased one
Monday Morning Coffee By Billy Rainford Well, there goes another Halloween weekend. Yes, tonight is actually the big night for the door-to-door portion of the festivities, but it’s always the Saturday night before the 31st that is ‘grown up Halloween.’ If you’re from the Ontario region of Canada, you may be familiar with a motocross track that everyone seems to list at or near their top of favourites – Auburn.
Frid’Eh Update #44 Presented by KTM Canada By Jeff McConkey and Billy Rainford Welcome to the 44th week of 2017 and the DMX Frid’Eh Update, this week presented by KTM Canada. BC’s Jake Streichert was the rider who earned #44 for 2016 but we never got to see him line up with it last summer. The last time we did see the likeable rider on the rise was at Gopher
Catching Up with…Jess Pettis By Billy Rainford Prince George, BC native, Jess Pettis, has been steadily improving and has had the eyes of the motocross industry on his since he was quite young. His rise to prominence at the Pro level almost looked to have stalled a couple years ago and it left some of us wondering how far he would go. And then 2016 happened… Jess showed up, seemingly
Photo Report | FMX World Tour | Budweiser Gardens By Billy Rainford When I found out the FMX World Tour was returning to my hometown of London, Ontario, I figured I should head down the road and check out the action. I wasn’t sure how the format was going to work, but the guys did the old “Canada vs. USA vs. The World” routine and it went over well for
On the Radar | Seth Hughes By Jeff McConkey Name: Seth Hughes Age: 15 Hometown: Kitchener, ON School and Grade: Huron Heights Secondary School, Grade 10 Number: 32 Bike: 2016 Yamaha YZ125 Race Club: AMO Classes: MX2 Junior, Schoolboy 1 How did you get started in racing? I got started racing like most kids — my dad had a bike and he raced and as soon as I understood what
Out of the Blue | Julianne Daniels | Presented by Schrader’s By Jeff McConkey Name: Julianne Daniels Birthday: October 24th, 1994 Hometown: Kelowna, BC Occupation: Retail Sales Associate & Photographer Number: 89 Bike: Honda CRF Race Club: Kelowna Dirt Bike Club Classes: Ladies How did you get started in racing? Ever since I was a little girl, my dad would take my brothers and me out trail riding on the
WASP Cam Lap of Cahuilla Creek MX | WP Enduro Course By Billy Rainford WP test day at Cahuilla Creek MX. We show you one lap of the enduro course WP set out for the media. Apologies for the WASP Cam being pointed too far down. I forgot to take a lap with the camera early in the day and the guys were packing up to leave, so we didn’t
Industry Spotlight | Catching Up with Brandon Caplar | TPJ Racing By Jeff McConkey When Brandon Caplar graduated from Sir Wilfred Laurier University, I’m sure the last thing he expected to be doing for the summer of 2016 was following the AMA Pro National Outdoor series. Well, it turns out that the Ajax, Ontario, native hit the jackpot and landed a position with Teddy Parks and his TPJ Racing team.
Monday Morning Coffee By Billy Rainford Good morning and welcome to another week at whatever your usual ‘grind’ is. Not to brag, but my usual grind took a pretty cool turn this morning. It seems someone in the Canadian Motocross Industry was unable to make a short trip to California today, so I was forced to step up to the plate and will now be hopping on a flight to