By Billy Rainford Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. I hope you’re all reading this during a little downtime from visiting with your family and/or other people who are important in your life. Emily and I did the family visits Saturday and Sunday that took us from Waterloo to Burlington and now back home in London in perfect Fall weather. The weather is perfect again today to get out and do some two-wheel
By Billy Rainford Wow, I gained an entire day! I went through all of yesterday thinking it was Monday. I guess because we raced Friday and Saturday this past weekend I went into autopilot and figured it was Saturday and Sunday. I felt guilty about not doing a Monday Morning Coffee column yesterday because I went straight to a race recap article (Read it HERE) and now here I am
By Billy Rainford Well, this Monday Morning Coffee finds me in a Starbucks in Battle Creek, Michigan. It feels appropriate, since this weekend at the 2022 MXON was definitely a battle! Every year, we head into these things with the same thought: “We have the strongest team every assembled this time!” And to be honest, the team usually is great and we’ve got the best riders possible to represent the
By Billy Rainford Wow, I can still barely walk down stairs and I haven’t been on a Sur-Ron electric motorcycle in 2 days! By almost all standards, I cycle a lot, but it’s apparently still not enough to have me ready for the standing and sitting of “racing” a dirt bike. Nothing beats seat time. By now, you’ve probably seen some photos and/or video from the fun we had on
By Billy Rainford I got to spend the weekend in Alberta to check out the 8th round of the 2022 FIM Hard Enduro World Championship at the Red Bull Outliers. The main race was on Sunday in the Badlands 45 minutes outside of Brooks, but they put on a nice display at Olympic Plaza in downtown Calgary on Saturday. Saturday acted as a qualifier for Sunday but its main purpose
By Billy Rainford Good Monday Morning, everyone. I’m going off on a non-moto tangent here and telling my story about a bicycle race I did on Sunday, so just know that going in. After a summer of travel and moto, I did something different this past weekend. My old triathlon buddy, Shawn Reeder, and I entered an 8-hour, 2-person gravel race relay just north of the town of Stratford in
By Billy Rainford Well, we find ourselves heading into the final week of the Canadian Triple Crown Series MX Nationals at Walton Raceway. My dad always said time starts going even quicker the older you get, and I’m finding out that he was absolutely right. Smart people, these older folks. It seems like just yesterday Greg Poisson and I were doing our little FXR Wrap-Up Show in my sister’s back
By Billy Rainford What a weekend of racing that was at Walton Raceway! Walton One is in the books. I’ll move to point form to hit as many things as I can from this past few days. They’ve really got the facility looking nice. The newer pavilion building with the addition up front is really nice. We stood in there and watched some AMA Pro Motocross action while eating some
By Billy Rainford Things are running late here on this Victoria Day long weekend. I’m not sure if you’re the type of person who doesn’t care what time it is when you drink coffee, but if this is too late, grab yourself a big glass of milk and let’s see how the racing went across Canada this weekend. BC: Round 3 Future West Moto Outdoor Series – 5/21/2022Quesnel BC Pro Am – Overall
By Billy Rainford OK, so, I’m having a tough time adjusting to this BC time zone. It’s easy to fall into a pattern and I’m not getting my routine sorted out being 3 hours behind my usual time in the Eastern Zone. Having said that, I’m sorry about my tardiness with this MMC column. I always seem to end up staying up late like I would back at home and