FLASHBACK FRIDAY | DONNY SCHMIT’S STORY OF GLORY & TRAGEDY
Less than a year after his triumphant return to American motocross, Donny was diagnosed with leukemia. He died on January 19, 1996, at the age of 29
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Less than a year after his triumphant return to American motocross, Donny was diagnosed with leukemia. He died on January 19, 1996, at the age of 29
“I had a few moments of brilliance — one of them was almost passing my childhood hero, Mike Brown, and having him flip me off after I revved my engine behind him.”
These are the best fork guards made. You don’t need Sherlock Holmes to tell you that ProTech wraparound fork guards will pay for themselves.
Frantisek Janecek bought the Wanderer brand from Winklhofer & Jaenicke and combined the first two letters from Jaenicke and Wanderer to name his motorcycle company Jawa
With the return to coil-spring forks, it’s time for some of the old fork-tuning tricks to resurface
How to fix the 2020-2021 Yamaha YZ450F with a few common sense moves and crack 60 horsepower with something out-of-the-box
When you give up a ton of horsepower and add a ton of weight, you aren’t going to make it all-better with a couple clicks
An innovative replacement for the old-school, ruler-type sag sticks. All you had to do was turn the power on, hook the 32-inch cable to your fender and zero out the scale
Husqvarna would always tell me, “It’s too complicated for you.” In Japan, they said, “You tell us.” It was a completely different way of looking at it
It has nothing to do with sailing, but instead, the land-to-sea ratio describes how much of the surface of the tire has knobs and how much of it is without knobs
Words to live by: Forks that are too soft feel stiff, when in reality they need to be stiffer to feel softer
The 2021 CRF250 doesn’t shine in any area of the power curve. It is lethargic off the bottom, needs a wake-up call in the midrange and doesn’t take off until the upper echelons of the powerband.
“I got on the gas hard coming into the Talladega first corner, and I could hear Josh yelling, “Slow down!” I ignored him and kept the throttle pegged.”
Make that the short history of the Husqvarna Automatic and the men who raced them, built them and loved them
Learn what manufactures have won the most over the years
Your next diet starts on Monday give or take a month
The Falta buyer got the classic aluminum coffin-style gas tank, center-port exhaust engine, magnesium hubs, lipless alloy rims and a single-downtube red frame
They look so lovely under studio lights, but getting them to that point is fraught with peril and imperiled by fraught
The wild and wacky story of how Yamaha got into the dirt bike business and the cast of characters that made it a success
Polar opposites on the track, these two relatively unchanged 2021 models, trade pluses and minus—and your intended use makes a difference
What makes the showroom stock Austrian bikes such a force for change and innovation in the motocross world?
Jamie Ellis, Dean Dickenson & Mitch Payton put our KTM, Husky & Yamaha 125s on remedial speed therapy — with video and something called “words”
Before Josh Mosiman came to work at MXA or Jamie Ellis wrote his “Twisted Logic” column for MXA, they collaborated on a very special “Smart” Husqvarna FC450
The true story of the man name Rocket Rex—not a nickname for the slow or faint of heart
If you’re looking for a gripper seat cover without abrasive pyramids or pleats, the Blackbird Double-Grip seat cover offers great traction, good durability and a clean fit
What Fabio, Adriano, Marcello, Bruno and Antonio achieved in Borgo Panigale at the Societa Italiana per Applicazioni Tecniche Auto-Aviatorie
Why Carson didn’t use an KX250F aluminum frame or a 144cc kit, but did use Showa air forks and an Lectron carb
Brett Metcalfe’s Yamaha of Troy YZ125 was the last of the breed — and he was the last of the Mohicans
The best advice for first-time 350SXF riders is don’t shift. Of course, we don’t mean never shift, just don’t shift until the rpm peaks out
Remember the 1982 AMA 250 National when Ricky Johnson exploded his front wheel costing him the championship that year?