By Billy Rainford OK, I have to admit it, I completely wimped out this passed weekend. I went into it planning to head to Gopher Dunes Friday for Supercross practice, head back again on Saturday for the races, go home for a few hours, and then head to catch the final day of the Corduroy Enduro up in Gooderham, ON. Gooderham is up northeast of Toronto, north of Peterborough, east
By Billy Rainford Next time I say I’m going to drive 12 hours to a race and then turn around and come straight home afterward, punch me in the face, please. I hopped into the DMX Van again this past weekend and drove all the way to Z Max Dragway in Concord, North Carolina, just outside Charlotte for round 1 of the inaugural Supermotocross Playoffs. I told myself it wasn’t
By Billy Rainford I hope everyone is enjoying the final long weekend of the 2023 summer season. I’m going to start and finish this one off on a very sad note. Lynn Thompson, better known to everyone as “Momma T,” passed away over the weekend. When I moved back to Ontario in 2007, the Thompson family was the first one to sort of “take me in” as a friend and
By Billy Rainford That was a busy weekend! I had always planned on heading to the final AMA Pro Motocross Championship round at Ironman MX in Crawfordsville, IN, but when I heard that we’d have our 3 riders from Team Canada MXON racing, there was no question I was going to make the 7-hour drive from London. Unfortunately, we got word that our 250 rider and 2-time defending Canadian Triple
A little late this week with the Monday Morning Coffee. We finally pulled the trigger on getting a new dog this morning. After having to put our black lab “Sadie” down last year and then having our little morkie “Maggie” die a few months ago, we weren’t sure what we were going to do, but then this 4-month-old Aussie Doodle came up for adoption and we just couldn’t resist. “Olive”
By Billy Rainford Wow, what a week! As I sit here at my laptop in my office AT HOME, it’s hard for me to even know where to begin! I’m at that point I always talk about where I’m so glad to be sitting here after such a busy time with the knowledge that I know I’m going to be champing at the bit to head to another event in
By Billy Rainford I hope everyone is enjoying their long weekend. I guess a lot of people reading this now spent the majority of it behind the steering wheel as they made their way across the country to Walton Raceway. That’s right, we’re heading to our biggest week of motocross racing in a couple days. Hopefully, all the preparation and money spent will come together in a memorable and successful
By Billy Rainford I hope everyone had a great weekend. We’re currently buzzing along heading west on the 401 after a long few days at the ECAN and the MX National at Motocross Deschambault. Emily is putting in a nice shift in the driver’s seat as I drink my coffee and recap our time in Quebec. I have to start out with a gripe. We’ve got a GoPro Hero 9
By Billy Rainford Wow, it took me an entire day to recover from that humidity at Red Bud. Friday for the MX Combine was off-the-charts hot! I bet if you talked to any one of them who were on the line they’d tell you it was comparable to Loretta Lynn’s in Tennessee in August. Saturday started out overcast and bearable but then the clouds moved away and the day got
By Billy Rainford I just couldn’t do 2 weeks in a row away from the races, so when I found out my old buddy #55 Cary Hitchen was racing the TVR event on the back track (GDR Factory track) at Gopher Dunes, I dragged Emily over to Courtland to make sure I was there for it and to commit it to permanent archives with some photos and video. It was