By Billy Rainford Welcome to what is usually my favourite non-moto week of the year – the week between Christmas and New Year’s. It’s always a week at home with my family that I spend visiting close friends and their families. I really enjoy driving around to different homes to visit and have some Christmas “cheer” with buddies and their parents who had to put up with me as a
By Billy Rainford Welcome to the last Monday Morning Coffee before Christmas! It’s green and warm enough to go for a comfortable ride here in London, Ontario, today. Jeff McConkey‘s Yamaha YZ250 is already winterized and sleeping in the garage, so I guess my riding will be of the non-powered type today. We seem to be in a bit of a holding pattern here in Canadian Motocross. With so many
By Billy Rainford Can you believe we’re heading into Week #51 of 2020?! In some ways the year seems to have flown by and in others it still feels like we’re owed a summer. We had one, right? The way the numbers are playing out this year, we’ll have time for an interview with #51 Logan Karnow, #52 Blake Osatchuk, and then a bonus Week #53 interview with Degan Palmer
By Billy Rainford Welcome to another strange week here in bizarro world. I saw a statistic that said 82% of Americans have Amazon Prime. We have it here at our place, too, and I started watching the movie “Midway” last night on it. It’s December 7th today which is the day the USA was officially pulled into WW2 when Pearl Harbor was attacked. I’ve been to Hawaii 3 times and
By Billy Rainford Now what?! The 49th Annual Mini O’s at Gatorback Cycle Park in Florida are done, local tracks in my area just had their final weekend of the season, and now it’s time to settle into winter here in Canada. Ugh. Hard butter season is upon us. Complaining about your crappy snow shovel is about to start…again. Why don’t you just go out and buy a new one?!
What a difference a day makes at this time of year in this country! After riding in 18C on Friday, we got about 10 centimetres of snow on Sunday here in my neck of the woods in London, Ontario. I joked about how we all had to scramble to find our shovels and car snow brushes but I’m going to level with you…I don’t shovel in November. There’s just no
By Billy Rainford Hello from my final day out in BC. I’ve been here since last weekend for rounds 5 and 6 of the 2020 Future West Moto Canadian Arenacross Championships in Chilliwack. I stayed out between the final two weekends and it allowed me to spend some time with my mom, who is now calling Kamloops home as she lives out her final time with my sister there. The
By Billy Rainford So, I leave home in Ontario and they’re in the middle of some 20-degree C weather! That figures. I hope everyone reading this from back there is enjoying this rare treat of warmness in November. I’m sure all the local tracks are licking their chops at the thought of being able to squeeze in a few more days of full track profit! I’m out in BC for
By Billy Rainford Welcome back to Standard Daylight Time where it gets dark before 5:30pm. This crazy angled axis and living this far from the equator make for an exciting ride as we make our trips around the sun. What do “flat earthers” say about this, anyway? It was also Halloween Weekend but it didn’t feel like it around here. We never get a single kid dressed up in a
By Billy Rainford It felt great to be a the races again this past weekend. Hell, it feels great to ANYwhere these day, doesn’t it?! The COVID-19 rules are more relaxed out here in BC than they are back at my place in Ontario. It feels great to have a little more normalcy in my life again, even if it’s only for a short time before I head back later