By Billy Rainford
You ever pass the blame onto someone else and ask them to, “Remind me _________ because I don’t want to forget!” Of course you have. I did this the other day with Emily. You know when you know you should have written something down but you think “this time will be different…I’ll remember.” Well, I didn’t write it down, Emily forgot, too, and now it’s driving me crazy what it was that I wanted to talk about. All I can remember is that I thought it was good at the time.
Neither of us can even remember where or when it was that we had the conversation. I remember it was a story that gave me two different parts to it, but I’m absolutely nowhere near remembering anything about the actual subject.
My hope was that in telling this story about forgetting a story something would click in my head and it would come back to me in a flash. It hasn’t happened yet…
The weather seems to have turned a corner here in Southwestern Ontario. When I look at the forecast, I’m not seeing those -15C days coming. In fact, I see a 3-day stretch of 9, 10, and 10 on the horizon! We’re going to need a few of those in these parts to melt some of this snow. We got a lot this winter in the London area.
That means we won’t be firing up our bikes to head to the local tracks around here for quite some time yet. Actually, I haven’t even been outside the city in so long, for all I know the grass is green out there! We’re in what they call the “Snow Belt” here in London. We get winter snow off Lake Huron and get substantially more than other cities and towns in the area. It was great as a kid growing up because we used to go skiing every weekend, but now that I don’t do that it just means more shovelling.
It was 7C yesterday, so a small group of us headed out for a road bike ride southwest of the city. If you’re anything like me, you’re mind tends to wander on rides. Sometimes I have to give my head a shake and ask myself, “How did I get here?!“
For instance, there always seems to be a song that gets stuck on replay in your head on a ride. I think this is true for everyone. Before I walked out the door there was an old Weezer song on the radio. I didn’t know it had weaselled into my brain, but it obviously did.
As we were pedalling away, I started saying “of course we were willing to payyyyy. The workers are going home….the workers are going home…” etc..
So, next thing I know, I’m in a band called “Willing Toupee.” You see what I did there? I have very little hair left, so it made sense.
OK, so I keep pedalling and now I’ve got the end of our fictitious band’s encore done. I look out into the crowd and yell, “Thanks for coming tonight! We appreciate you spending your hard-earned cash to come and see us! Of course, we were WILLING TOUPEE! Good night!”
The second-level catch would be that I’d play every concert with a different wig and then I’d doff my rug to the crowd revealing a freshly-shaved bald head and run off the stage.
I need help.
Sometimes I wonder why I tell these embarrassing stories and then I remember how sane it probably makes the reader feel. You’re welcome.
Tyler Medaglia 4th at US Sprint Enduro
As weird as things still are up here in Canada, racing has been happening south of the border, and we’ve got some Canadians taking advantage of it. Tyler Medaglia showed up and raced Round 1 of the US Sprint Enduro series at GTR Complex in South Carolina over the weekend.
Day 1 Overall Results:
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| Event Place | AMA# | Bike# | Rider Name | Brand | Class |  C 1 | C 2 | C 3 | E 1 | E 2 | E 3 | Tests | Total Time |
| 1 | 596841 | 514 | Steward Baylor | YAM | PRO | 6:59.0 | 6:42.7 | 6:41.0 | 7:14.9 | 7:03.2 | 6:56.9 | 6 | 0:41:37.956 |
| 2 | 248722 | 1A | Johnny Girroir | GG | PRO 2 | 6:54.1 | 6:44.3 | 6:43.8 | 7:16.3 | 7:05.0 | 7:05.1 | 6 | 0:41:48.892 |
| 3 | 609932 | 523 | LAYNE MICHAEL | YAM | PRO | 6:58.2 | 6:43.6 | 6:39.9 | 7:19.3 | 7:04.9 | 7:27.9 | 6 | 0:42:14.041 |
| 4 | 595764 | 264 | Ryan Sipes | GG | PRO | 6:56.1 | 6:40.7 | 6:40.8 | 7:24.1 | 7:18.2 | 7:21.1 | 6 | 0:42:21.421 |
| 5 | 198 | Liam Draper | KTM | PRO | 7:06.6 | 6:48.4 | 6:48.2 | 7:21.9 | 7:07.6 | 7:16.2 | 6 | 0:42:29.239 | |
| 6 | 463382 | 5 | Tyler Medaglia | KTM | PRO | 7:02.1 | 6:44.5 | 6:41.5 | 7:32.6 | 7:23.1 | 7:30.5 | 6 | 0:42:54.502 |
| 7 | 803208 | 8A | Jesse Ansley | KTM | PRO 2 | 7:11.2 | 6:56.4 | 6:55.0 | 7:31.9 | 7:19.0 | 7:13.7 | 6 | 0:43:07.671 |
| 8 | 322090 | 4A | Benjamin Nelko | HUS | PRO 2 | 7:05.0 | 6:53.6 | 6:51.9 | 7:33.0 | 7:25.4 | 7:29.0 | 6 | 0:43:18.325 |
| 9 | 0885387 | 33 | Bubz Tasha | HUS | PRO-AM | 7:13.9 | 6:58.8 | 6:59.2 | 7:31.6 | 7:24.2 | 7:16.3 | 6 | 0:43:24.233 |
| 10 | 887850 | 34 | joseph cunningham | KAW | PRO-AM | 7:17.4 | 7:03.2 | 6:54.0 | 7:39.3 | 7:37.9 | 7:25.5 | 6 | 0:43:57.629 |
Day 2 Overall Results:
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| Event Place | AMA# | Bike# | Rider Name | Brand | Class | C 1 | C 2 | C 3 | E 1 | E 2 | E 3 | Tests | Total Time |
| 1 | 596841 | 514 | Steward Baylor | YAM | PRO | 6:36.9 | 6:39.1 | 6:38.1 | 6:50.8 | 6:51.2 | 6:52.5 | 6 | 0:40:28.788 |
| 2 | 609932 | 523 | LAYNE MICHAEL | YAM | PRO | 6:41.8 | 6:37.8 | 6:34.4 | 7:01.0 | 6:57.0 | 6:51.5 | 6 | 0:40:43.816 |
| 3 | 428558 | 1 | Kailub Russell | KTM | PRO | 6:40.1 | 6:39.6 | 6:42.9 | 7:00.5 | 6:55.2 | 7:02.4 | 6 | 0:41:01.095 |
| 4 | 248722 | 1A | Johnny Girroir | GG | PRO 2 | 6:42.9 | 6:43.9 | 6:41.0 | 7:00.9 | 6:52.9 | 7:15.3 | 6 | 0:41:17.227 |
| 5 | 463382 | 5 | Tyler Medaglia | KTM | PRO | 6:40.0 | 6:38.7 | 6:38.4 | 7:10.1 | 7:01.3 | 7:10.4 | 6 | 0:41:19.119 |
| 6 | 198 | Liam Draper | KTM | PRO | 6:44.4 | 6:50.8 | 6:46.5 | 7:03.1 | 7:02.6 | 7:02.9 | 6 | 0:41:30.658 | |
| 7 | 803208 | 8A | Jesse Ansley | KTM | PRO 2 | 6:46.6 | 6:50.3 | 6:52.1 | 7:13.0 | 7:01.2 | 7:14.7 | 6 | 0:41:58.178 |
| 8 | 0885387 | 33 | Bubz Tasha | HUS | PRO-AM | 6:52.5 | 6:53.4 | 6:54.8 | 7:10.8 | 7:04.9 | 7:13.9 | 6 | 0:42:10.643 |
| 9 | 13 | RYDER LAFFERTY | HUS | PRO 2 | 7:02.6 | 6:53.4 | 6:56.4 | 7:13.6 | 7:05.4 | 7:08.7 | 6 | 0:42:20.290 | |
| 10 | 595764 | 264 | Ryan Sipes | GG | PRO | 7:07.0 | 6:44.0 | 6:45.8 | 7:22.3 | 7:13.6 | 7:21.5 | 6 | 0:42:34.531 |
Tyler sits 4th overall in the Pro class. He’s staying down at Jim Edgar‘s ( mxracer546 on Instagram) place again in Jacksonville, Florida. Jim used to be a contributor for Cycle News and FLMX and sent us over a few photos of Tyler in action:
You can read the series’ official Race Report HERE.
Tyler will be back in GNCC Racing action this coming weekend for Round 2 of that series at Hog Waller in Palatka, Florida. We should also see Shelby Turner back in action, too. Unless things change in a hurry, it looks like I’ll be missing this round for the first time in a few years…
Canadians at Loretta Lynn’s Qualifier
Andy Kerr let me know that there were a few Canadians down at Orlando MX Park racing a Southeast Area Qualifier for Loretta Lynn‘s over the the weekend.
He also sent over this short clip of #165 Wyatt Kerr blasting off the gate for a B Class moto:
Saturday Canadian results:
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We’ll have to find out the story behind a couple of those results.
Full results HERE.
We’re less than 6 days away from getting back to Supercross racing. The Daytona SX is next on the schedule and it really breaks my heart that I’m not going to be there. This marks the first time in a bunch of years that I won’t be standing on the grassy infield of The Speedway.
Sure, I got run over by a transport truck last year, but I don’t let those things stop me…
Flashback Podcast | Cole Thompson vs. Jeremy Medaglia | Montreal SX 2012
I was roaming around an old external hard drive and came across a couple old post-race podcast interviews after the 2012 Montreal Supercross. If you happened to have ben there, you’ll remember the heated battles between #160 Cole Thompson and #15 Jeremy Medaglia in the MX2 class.
These two went at each other every single time they were on the track that weekend.
I put the two interviews together in a single, short podcast that you can check out here:
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Have a great week, everyone. We’ve got a couple articles to get up on the site here today, so be sure to check back a little later.
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