Photo Report | 2016 Mini O’s | Saturday – Finals Day By Billy Rainford After a long week of racing and whittling down, we finally made it to Saturday of the 45th Annual Thor Winter Olympics, better known as “The Mini O’s.” With 2284 entries, the crew had their work cut out for them to keep everything running on schedule. You just never know what can happen when we’re racing
Photo Report | 2016 Mini O’s | Friday By Billy Rainford Presented by This was another full day of racing at the 45th Annual Thor Winter Olympics. We made it all the way through the heats and the consolation races. Tomorrow will be all finals. Canadians had some pretty impressive performances that had people talking. Let’s get right to it.
Photo Report | 2016 Mini O’s | Thursday – MX Begins By Billy Rainford Today was all about the motocross track at the 45th Annual Thor Winter Olympics. All of the Supercross champions were crowned Wednesday and we all shifted our attention 90 degrees to the famous Gatorback track. They got through a bunch of mx practice Wednesday, but there were still a bunch to run. With 2284 entries, there
Photo Report | 2016 Mini O’s | Wednesday SX Finals By Billy Rainford It was one final after another today on the last day of racing on the Supercross track at Gatorback Cycle Park. The weather has been warming up steadily as the week moves on and the morning was actually above freezing for the first gate drop of the day. I’m sleeping in a tent, so I really appreciated
Photo Report | 2016 Mini O’s | Tuesday By Billy Rainford We got some more racing wrapped up and finals decided today at the 45th Annual Thor Winter Olympics. It will be nothing but mains tomorrow before we head over to the motocross track for the remainder of the week. We had a bunch of Canadians racing again today and most of them will be on the track tomorrow in
2016 Mini O’s | Photo Report | Monday By Billy Rainford We were off to the races today at the 45th Annual Thor Winter Olympics – The Mini O’s. It’s a couple days of Supercross to get the week going. There are quite a few Canadians down here racing but not all of them had motos today. We’ll do our best to cover all of them with at least a
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