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The only test rider to have ridden every motocross bike of the last 40 years, Jody Weisel is also the most educated motocross editor with Bachelors, Masters and Phd degrees (in gerontology). Jody runs the largest test crew in magazine history, with 7 test riders racing new models every weekend. MXA's hands-on approach to testing is invaluable in getting to the heart of each bike's performance.

NBC SPORTS NETWORK (NBCSN) TO FOLD AT THE END OF 2021 — WHAT NOW?

Jan 23, 2021

NBC Sports was the home of Supercross and motocross, but now Supercross and Motocross could be homeless
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FORGOTTEN MOTOCROSS TECH: AIR SHOCKS? IS IT READY FOR PRIME TIME AGAIN?

Jan 23, 2021

The best thing about air is that it is free. The worst thing about air is that it doesn't like to be caged inside a shock
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TAKE A PIXELATED LAP OF SATURDAY’S 2021 HOUSTON SUPERCROSS 3

Jan 23, 2021

The track layout isn't any longer, but perhaps they have slowed it down enough to get the lap times that the riders want
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MXA’S BIRTHDAY BOY: A YANK IN, OUT & IN KING GIUSEPPE’S COURT

Jan 23, 2021

Thomas Covington got his chance to finally race an AMA series, but bad luck, injuries and trouble adapting sent him back to Europe
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RUMORS, GOSSIP & UNFOUNDED TRUTHS: BARCIA! BARCIA! BARCIA! OH, JAN!

Jan 22, 2021

Barcia's bad day turns out okay, motorcycle museum disaster, more Joel Robert photos, a rare bike that didn't burn down & all the news that fits
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ASK THE MXPERTS: FUEL-INJECTED OR AIR-INJECTED TWO-STROKES

Jan 22, 2021

Two-stroke fuel injection only uses the throttle body to meter the amount of air, the fuel is injected into the engine at the transfer ports.
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THIS WEEK’S BIRTHDAY BOYS: ROCKET REX, OLLE, HUDSON & DYMOND

Jan 22, 2021

A chance to find out how old your heroes really are & who the heroes of the past were
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IF YOU MISSED THE 2021 HOUSTON SUPERCROSS 2: WATCH THE 450 MAIN IN UNDER 3 MINUTES

Jan 20, 2021

3 hours of action boiled down to bite-size for those in a hurry—even if you didn't miss it, this is a refresher course on what happened
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THIS WEEK AT GLEN HELEN: REM MOTOCROSS & GBC UTV/TROPHY KARTS ON SATURDAY — SRA GP ON SUNDAY

Jan 20, 2021

National track open for practice on Thursday and Saturday, SRA grand Prix takes up the whole Park on Sunday
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IT’S HERE! NBC SPORTS 2021 MONSTER ENERGY SUPERCROSS TELEVISION SCHEDULE

Jan 19, 2021

Stock the fridge, send the kids to grandmas and give the wife the credit card—now, sit back and relax, it's Supercross on TV time!
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SUMMER COMES TO REM GLEN HELEN: GIANT PHOTO SPECIAL OF A HOT JANUARY DAY

Jan 19, 2021

85 degrees and sunny, but even hotter on the track with Sean Collier, Billy Joe Mercier, Joe Root, Luther French & Bob Rutten pulling out the stops
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BEST OF JODY’S BOX: THE CONNECTION BETWEEN SUPERCROSS ON TV AND NARCOLEPSY

Jan 19, 2021

"If you’ve seen one Holiday Inn, you’ve seen them all. Ask me about the race track or the airport, that’s all I ever saw."
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BIKES YOU’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE: 1970 TORPADO 50 SQUIRREL CROSS

Jan 19, 2021

It used 50cc engines designed by Adalberto Garelli and rode the initial 50cc wave in Italy in the 1950s—it's cross wasn't much of a cross
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ASK THE MXPERTS: NO GRIP! NO GLORY! ODI LOCK-ON GRIP TECH

Jan 17, 2021

Lock-on or bolt-on? It is a conundrum that come down to convenience versus comfort and complexity versus simplicity
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MXA’S BIRTHDAY BOY: CALL HIM “MR. GREEVES”

Jan 17, 2021

Dave Bickers — A man who turned leading link forks and an aluminum chassis into a technical advantage
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MXA’S WEEKEND NEWS ROUND-UP: THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF SUPERCROSS STARTS ON SATURDAY

Jan 15, 2021

Let's see! If we loaded the bikes up at 5:45 a.m. on Saturday morning, raced two motos at REM Glen Helen in 85 degree weather, skipped lunch and came straight home to clean the bikes, it will be Houston 1 time
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GODSPEED! JOEL ROBERT (1943-2021)

Jan 14, 2021

There will never be another motocross racer like Joel Robert, not just for his immense talent but for his lust for life
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BIKES YOU’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE: 1973 PENTON MUDLARK 125 ENDURO

Jan 14, 2021

The bike that lived many lives from Wassell to Tyran to Penton Trials to the Mudlark to the Woodsman
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WANNA RACE WITH WHAT’S LEFT OF THE “SADDLEBACK SPECIALISTS?” BE AT REM TOMORROW…

Jan 14, 2021

Let's not waste a nice 85-degree Summer day by doing Joe Jobs or hanging out with the relatives. It's time to ride. After all, Summer doesn't come around every January
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BEST OF JODY’S BOX: THE MOTHER LION APPROACH TO RACING

Jan 11, 2021

It's no unusual for a family to sacrifice everything in hopes of Junior becoming a motocross star. Then what?
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HAVE YOU SEEN THE NEW MXA: THE FEBRUARY 2021 ISSUE IS JAM-PACKED WITH BIKES, RACES & TECH

Jan 11, 2021

What's in the newest issue of MXA? How about Shootout between the 2021 Honda CRF450 and the 2021 Husqvarna FC450
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MXA’S WEEKEND NEWS ROUND-UP: NEXT WEEK ALL WE’LL TALK ABOUT IS SUPERCROSS, SO LET IT…

Jan 11, 2021

Some good news, some cool videos, some product news, some fun news, some actual news, some TV times and, sadly, some bad news
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WE RIDE MIKE ALESSI’S WORLD TWO-STROKE CHAMPIONSHIP WINNING ESR YZ325

Jan 10, 2021

The big-bore Yamaha YZ250 that earned Mike Alessi $30,000 at the 2020 World Two-Stroke Championships
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BARE BONES: HOW TO DIAGNOSE YOUR BIKE’S PROBLEMS

Jan 9, 2021

"Before you know it, you are in the water-truck lane trying to gather it back up. What happened."
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ASK THE MXPERTS: EVERYTHING CAN BE FIXED WITH A CHECK

Jan 7, 2021

Have you ever heard of the ""AMA Four-Stroke Exemption Rule?" Well, you can forget it1
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THE ARAI STORY: THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE EGG & YOUR HEAD

Jan 7, 2021

MXA goes on 400-mile motorcycle trip around Japan to visit all four Arai helmet factories — during a typhoon
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ASK THE MXPERTS: FORD VERSUS SUZUKI VERSUS YOUR CLUTCH

Jan 7, 2021

There are two kinds of automatic transmission fluid—one was home brewed fix for a slipping clutch, the other made your clutch slip
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LEST WE FORGET THE MEN WHO RACED 500 TWO-STROKES LIKE THEY WERE TOYS

Jan 5, 2021

Every AMA 500 National Champion from Mark Blackwell in 1971 until the AMA killed the class in 1993
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BEST OF JODY’S BOX: THE PEOPLE YOU MEET WHEN YOU DON’T HAVE A CRESCENT WRENCH

Jan 4, 2021

Motocross engines are air pumps, they suck air in and blow it out, so do some people
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REM GLEN HELEN: YOU CAN’T WIN THE CROWN AT RACE ONE, BUT IT MIGHT BE THE ONLY ONE YOU WIN

Jan 4, 2021

REM takes one day off and goes racing on the second day of Twenty-Twenty-One
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