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Team Canada MXON Stories – The 2004 Re-Boot

Here’s another installment in our ‘Team Canada MXON Stories’ series. Team Canada MXON Stories – The 2004 Re-Boot By Carl Bastedo Legends of Canadian Motocross, in conjunction with directmotocross.com, is in the process of documenting a History of Canada at the Motocross of Nations. We will release various stories, pictures, video etc. in a random fashion before combing all the information on the Legends website under it’s own section. You

Monday Morning Coffee

Monday Morning Coffee By Billy Rainford Welcome to another work week. Actually, if you’re in the moto news biz, Mondays are a bit of a relief! I remember when I used to work in retail… I used to manage a running shop out in the Point Grey area of Vancouver, BC. It was retail and so expectations of a ‘normal’ work week went out the window when I took the

Frid’Eh Update #37 Presented by KTM Canada

Frid’EH Update #37 Presented by KTM Canada By Jeff McConkey and Billy Rainford Welcome to week #37 of the DMX Frid’Eh Update this week presented by KTM Canada. In 2015, #37 was the friendly rider from Alberta, Danny Mathe. Danny’s season didn’t go a he would have liked this summer. In fact, we didn’t even get the chance to see him run the #37 at the Nationals this summer. We

TLD Thursday Wallpapers – 2015 Regina National

TLD Thursday Wallpapers – 2015 Regina National By Billy Rainford I was looking for a photo this afternoon and stumbled onto a whole bunch of photos I really enjoyed from this one particular corner when the sun was still low in the sky during first practice. So many photos just sit on hard drives everywhere looking for a place to be seen. Well, here are a few from that particular

Team Canada MXON – A Trip Down Memory Lane

Team Canada MXON – A Trip Down Memory Lane By Carl Bastedo Intro by Billy Rainford With the MXON coming up in less than two weeks, Carl Bastedo wanted to tell a story about the last time the team went over to Ernée, France. This is the first installment in what we’ll call “MXON Storytime.” The year was 2005 and we remember it like it was yesterday (insert blurred-out fade

Out of the Blue: Robin Hutchinson

Out of the Blue: Robin Hutchinson By Jeff McConkey Name: Robin Hutchinson Birthday: December 19, 1996 Hometown: Oakville School & Grade or Occupation: York University, BHsc Number: 927 Bike: Yamaha Race Club: CMRC, TVR Classes: Ladies How did you get started in racing? I started riding when I was very young, mainly because I have two older brothers who did it. We would go down south every winter and I

Catching Up with…KTM Canada’s Claudie Lapointe

Catching Up with…KTM Canada’s Claudie Lapointe By Jeff McConkey Intro by Billy Rainford If you wondered who the new person running around under the Royal Distributing Fox Racing KTM Canada tent was this past summer, it was Claudie Lapointe. Sometimes with a clipboard in hand, she was in charge of the KTM Canada side of things in the pits. She is also the one you’ll get when you call KTM