Photo Report | AX Tour | Bowling Green, KY Round 1 By Billy Rainford After driving through a bit of a snowstorm on the way through Ohio, I finally made it to the University town of Bowling Green, Kentucky, just in time to catch the first round of the Ride 365 AX Tour Presented by FXR. I really wasn’t sure who was going to be competing this year and had
#TBT | 2010 Ste Julie Canadian National | EXTENSIVE Photo Report By Billy Rainford Wow, I bumped into this 2010 photo report when I was looking for something else using the old Google machine. This is from an MX Forum photo report I did back then. It’s before we separated the race photo reports from ‘Faces at the Races,’ so it’s pretty long, to say the least. Here’s a long
Photo Report | Calgary Arenacross | Agrium Western Event Centre | Final Round By Billy Rainford Photos by John Meaney meandawg.smugmug.com The final two rounds of the 2016 Canadian National Arenacross Tour took place Friday and Saturday nights at the Agrium Western Event Centre in Stampede Park in downtown Calgary, Alberta. With #2 Colton Facciotti and #12 Steven Mages not making the trip west, who would (or could) step up to
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
Faces at the Races | Canada AX Tour | Barrie Round 2 By Billy Rainford Photos by Jeff McConkey and Billy Rainford We were 45 minutes north of Toronto at the Molson Centre for round 2 of the 2016 Canadian National Arenacross Championships this past Saturday. After some close racing the previous week in Sarnia, we were treated to more of the same in Barrie. However, ‘Faces at the Races’
2017 KTM Canada Off-Road Ride Day By Billy Rainford Jeff McConkey and I got the invite to test out some of the 2017 KTM Canada Off-Road 250cc line-up at Cochrane’s MX Park in Cramahe, Ontario, about and hour east of Toronto. Neither of us is the most experienced enduro rider, but when we got the chance to put in a day on two wheels we, of course, jumped at it.
Faces at the Races | Canadian National AX Tour | Sarnia Round 1 By Jeff McConkey Foreword by Billy Rainford Photos by Jeff McConkey and Billy Rainford With the 2016 Canadian National AX Tour getting underway this past Saturday night, it gave us the chance to wander the Hiawatha Horse Park pits and the stands with our cameras and catch people doing what they do best…being themselves. Catching people at
Photo Report | Canadian National AX Tour | Sarnia Round 1 Photos and Captions By Billy Rainford Round 1 of the Canadian National AX Tour went off this past Saturday night at the Hiawatha Horse Park in Sarnia, Ontario. This is the second year of the AX Tour north of the border and if the racing at the front is anything like it was last season between series winner Jacob
Faces at the Races | 2016 MXON Maggiora Italy | Shot Race Gear By Billy Rainford Photos by Emily Nicholson and Billy Rainford If you can’t find interesting things to snap photos of at a European MXON, you are definitely not trying! Taking off-track photos at these things is something I look forward to every year. When we don’t send a team, I’m usually most upset because I won’t get
Photo Report | 2016 MXON | Maggiora Italy By Billy Rainford Photos by James Lissimore Wow! That’s pretty much all you can say after being at a MXON in Europe. I woke up in a cold sweat last night having nightmares of bladeless chainsaws revving out at 12000rpms, and megaphones, and horns, and anything you could modify to make an already loud machine even louder. I forgot to put in