Motocycle USA put up another Youtube bike review, you can view it here:
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The first real Amtra ride for the year for me was the Karoonda ride. it has a bit of a reputation as being a long day, with the ride finishing around 9pm last year, but there was an injury which made it late.
The ride briefing said I needed to be able to do 90km's, which given the 9.2L tank on the 2005 husky, would not be a problem, so I was sort of wondering why such a long day (I found out later, its because 90km is really about 120!)
As we waited in the carpark, I realised that this ride had about the widest range of bikes i'd seen on a ride in a long time. We had:
1 TM 450
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The electric powered dirtbikes appear to be getting better and better, which is great, as quieter bikes mean we may be able to keep some land to ride on.
However, it is quite weird watching them go around the track with the chain being the noisiest thing!
Checkout how many of their bikes there is in the race. Cool eh!
The 24 May 2009 was the date for the 4th round of the 2009 MX Nationals held up at the Gum Valley track located near Koumala, south of Mackay, Queensland.
I packed my gear bag and again headed north to race my Vision Motorsport’s KTM 250 SXF in the Pro Lite class, the second weekend in a row in Queensland.
The Gun Valley Club and Williams Event Management prepared an excellent track that looked fantastic and was great to ride.
The track is located in a sugar cane area and the sandy loamy
Want to hang with James for the day?
He's organising a ride day at Milestone MX park in Southern California on the 20th (of June?)
For the full details, follow James on twitter http://twitter.com/js7/
Wipeout of the week from Fleshwound films
16-17 The past weekend was a busy time for Vision Motorsport / www.taylorpotterracing.com as Taylor Potter was on his Vision Motorsport’s KTM 250 SXF at the third round of the 2009 MX Nationals at Echo Valley Toowoomba in Queensland and Luke Smith was at the first round of the 2009 Victorian Junior Motocross Titles at Ararat on his Vision Motorsport’s KTM 250 SXF, 125SX and 85SX.
MX Sports Pro Racing Introduces Women's Class of the
Lucas Oil Motocross Championship for 2009
MORGANTOWN, W.V. (May 19, 2009) - MX Sports Pro Racing took the next step at bringing women's motocross to the forefront of American motocross when it announced the Women's Class of the Lucas Oil Motocross Championship would be added to the 2009 season schedule. The entire program will be run on Saturdays, providing the opportunity for the nation's fastest women to be showcased in front of thousands of motocross fans as well as on national television via the Versus Network.
With up to $1000 cashback available, Yamaha is turning up the heat on their dirt bike offers this winter.
Yamaha’s domination of off road racing has led to an extension of customer cashback offers on WRFs and YZFs and new offers on TT-Rs as well as a super low Yamaha Motor Finance rate from just 4.99%.
The wins started rolling in when Todd Smith took out the Condo 750 overall and that was followed by an utterly dominant display in the Australian Four Day Enduro, where Yamaha won all the classes it entered and scored the outright victory.
Utag Yamaha.com’s Zach Osborne has made a startling recovery from the left radius bone he chipped in practice for the Grand Prix of Portugal two and a half weeks ago and is now return to return to MX2-GP World championship action for his team at Mallory Park for their home event this weekend.