CLASSIC MOTOCROSS IRON: JODY WEISEL’S 1974 HODAKA 125 SUPER COMBAT
Make no mistake about it, there are still a few Hodaka parts left on this Super Combat
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Make no mistake about it, there are still a few Hodaka parts left on this Super Combat
The facts behind the 2012 Nobby Clark Hall of Fame fiasco and how Kenny Roberts and Dick Mann laid it on the line
A life well lived on two wheels. I travel to Ohio to pay my respects to my best friend. Congrats Kurt Caselli
How many bikes can one magazine test in a single issue? How about a KTM 350SXF, TM 300FI-MX, Husqvarna FC350, Cooper Webb’s 300SX two-stroke, Justin Brayton’s 2010 JGR YZ450F, Yamaha YZ125, KTM 125SX and Honda CRF450?
How much thought have you put into your bikes polar moment of inertia and chain torque? It makes a big difference
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We can hardly wait to see this when it’s all displayed to the public for the first-time ever
“I just gotta get third. If I don’t get third, come visit me in the hospital, I dig carnations, man.”
It looks like Ron Lechien’s dogbone pants really paid off big for the former JT Racing owners
Industry icon honored as he battles cancer
Jody remembers his friend, mentor, father figure and motocross icon
Tom White reflects on the Mammoth founder
A master craftsman with a knack for what worked
Help Tom help head injury victims on May 31
There are lessons to be learned from our mistakes
Find out why he was the rabbit
The things you don’t know about a motorcycle icon
The Mantles, Ruths, Gehrigs and Cobbs of our sport
Honoring those who made a difference in our sport
Ed Jr., sitting on his father’s lap, was born into motorcycle racing. Ed Kretz in 2010 with the bike his dad won the 1937 Daytona 200 on. Fans of the glory days of American scrambles, dirt track and TT racing mourn the passing of Ed Kr etz . Jr. The Kretz family was American racing royalty in the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s . Ed Kretz, Jr. was an AMA Grand National Championship competitor of the 1950s and 1960s. Kretz was known primarily as a TT and road racing specialist, but he also was a leading offroad rid…
Ricky Carmichael. The AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame Class of 2013 will be motocross champion Ricky Carmichael, desert racing champion Danny Hamel, K&N co-founder Norm McDonald, road racer Randy Renfrow and Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation founders Mike and Dianne Traynor. The class of 2013 will be officially inducted on Friday, Oct. 18, during the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame Legends Weekend at Las Vegas’ Green Valley Resort. Danny Hamel, the Traynors and Randy Renfrow will be honored posth…
Aub in one of those classic ?Believe It Or Not? style cartoons. Motorcycle racing legend Aub LeBard, Jr. passed away on December 7, 2012, in La Habra, California. He was 91 years old. Aub LeBard was co-owner of the LeBard & Underwood motorcycle shop in Los Angeles (which was founded in 1946), as well as a top off-road racer in the 1940s and 1950s. The BSA rider won the Big Bear National Enduro three years (1949, 1950, 1951) and was a top desert racer of his era. Aub on the cover of ?Cycle? magazine …
THE BOYS ARE BACK…DENMARK-STYLE WITH STEFAN KJER OLSEN, THOMAS KJER OLSEN, KALLE OLSSON AND BRIAN JORGENSEN NO SURPRISE! TADDY WINS ENDUROCROSS FINAL IN VEGAS & 2012 ENDUROCROSS TITLE Taddy. KTM’S Taddy Blazusiak from Poland was crowned the 2012 AMA EnduroCross Championship after sweeping both mains events in the Las Vegas double-header finale held […]
BELGIAN WINS BRITISH NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP & 250 CLASS DECIDED IN FINAL MOTO Belgian Kevin Strijbos clinched the 450cc British National Championships at the final race of the series. To take the pressure off, Strijbos earned enough points in the first moto to secure the 450 title over Shaun Simpson. Meanwhile in the 250 class, points leader Mel Pocock had mechanical issues in moto one, which allowed Elliott Banks-Browne to take the moto win (and gain 25 points). On t…
A Young Nobby Clark. The AMA has announced that famed Grand Prix motorcycle tuner Derek “Nobby” Clark has been reelected, after being elected and unelected, by the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame. Clark, one of the world’s elite road race mechanics, was a part of 17 World road race Championships and he worked with some of the greatest motorcycle racers in history, including Mike Hailwood, Giacomo Agostini and Kenny Roberts. Clark was elected to the AMA Hall of Fame a few months ago, but was unceremoniously …
SURPRISING STEWIE NEWS…SURPRISING THAT IT TOOK SO LONG TO ANNOUNCE IT LORETTA LYNN STAR CHASE BELL SIGNS A LONG-TERM CONTRACT WITH KTM JDR Motorsports, KTM’s support and amateur arm, signed Chase Bell to a long-term contract that will allow him to race two more years as an amateur and his first year as a pro rider for the JDR/J-Star/KTM Team. For 2013, Bell will compete in the 250 B Stock and Modified classes aboard his KTM 250SXF. Bell will receive full support from the JDR Motorsports crew at the ma…
Putting in his time on MXA’s 2013 Kawasaki KX450F, Dennis Stapleton was the class of the field at REM Glen Helen. As the weekly REM motocross wars continues, in what is the longest points paying series in American motocross, it is now on the down side of seven months of continuous racing (and still has more races left to go than the complete AMA National Championship series). For the fourth race in a row the REM regulars were treated on a different track layout ? and as always rough and rugged ground. A…