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ICYMI | Catching Up with Quinn Amyotte | Presented by Yamaha Motor Canada By Billy Rainford In case you missed it, we caught up with #14 Quinn Amyotte in our Frid’Eh Update: Quinn Amyotte is the rider who earned #14 for 2022. We’ve known Quinn for a long, long time as the brother of Bennet Amyotte, Mitch Amyotte, and ‘Out of the Blue‘ contributor Jensen Amyotte. We’ve got a close relationship to the Amyotte
Catching Up with Jake Piccolo | Presented by KTM Canada By Billy Rainford It was Week #4 for the DMX Frid’Eh Update last week and that means it was time to catch up with Jake Piccolo. Jake chose #4 as his career number after winning the 2021 Canadian Triple Crown Series 250 MX title. Things happened and we weren’t able to actually post up an Update the past couple Fridays,
ICYMI | Catching Up with Julien Benek By Billy Rainford In case you missed it, we caught up with Julien Benek while he’s down at SOBMX in South Carolina getting ready to race the 2022 Monster Energy AMA Supercross series on the Partzilla PRMX team. Julien Benek is the rider who earned #50 for the 2021 season. He’s also one of the Canadian racers spending time down south right now getting
ICYMI | Catching Up with Richard Taylor By Billy Rainford Richard Taylor is the big kid who first came up to dip his feet in the Canadian Motocross pool back in 2019 at Walton Raceway when he came up with his Suzuki 450 and raced the final race in our Canadian Triple Crown Series. Richard is currently getting ready for 2022 Monster Energy AMA Supercross at home and we got in touch with him to
Wyatt Kerr Talks about the New Deal for His Pro Debut 2022 By Billy Rainford Cambridge, Ontario’s Wyatt Kerr just announced his new team for 2022. The TransCan at Walton Raceway champ will head to the Pro ranks in the new year and plans to compete in the entire Canadian Triple Crown Series. We got in touch with him to find out how it all came about and learn what
ICYMI | Catching Up with Blair Nauta By Billy Rainford Blair Nauta is the friendly racer who grew up close to the Ontario/New York border in the small town of Wainfleet, which is near Niagara Falls. He spent his amateur racing days across that border in the USA. I remember Randy Wiebe talking about this fast kid who grew up racing over there but was about to head home to Canada for
ICYMI | Catching Up with Jyire Mitchell | KTM Canada By Billy Rainford In case you missed it, we caught up with #41 Jyire Mitchell. We met Jyire Mitchell from Bermuda a couple years ago when he showed up at Walton Raceway and turned some heads. He came back to race the Supercross portion of the Canadian Triple Crown Series at Gopher Dunes. He looked good but went down hard awkwardly, ending his series.
ICYMI | Catching Up with Daniel Elmore By Billy Rainford In case you missed it, we caught up with Daniel Elmore from Telkwa, BC. Daniel has been on our radar since we first met him training down at Club MX in South Carolina a couple years ago. He’s the kind of rider who lets his riding on the track do the talking for him…he’s pretty quiet off the the track. Anyway, he
ICYMI | Catching Up with Dario Zecca | Troy Lee Designs Canada By Billy Rainford Dario Zecca is one of the good guys at the races. He loves to ride and race, and it’s riders like him who keep the sport alive. I have a special place in my heart for him because the name “Zecca” is etched in my brain from when I was a little kid at the
ICYMI | Catching Up with Guillaume St Cyr By Billy Rainford In case you missed it, we caught up with #25 Guillaume St Cyr: Two riders always remind me of our old friend, Jeff McConkey – Cade Clason is one and #25 Guillaume St Cyr is the other. Jeff always made sure Cade had enough Starburst candies on race days. In fact, Cade was staying at my house on the morning we got the news of