Monday Morning Coffee By Billy Rainford Wow, just when you thought it was going to be a boring Monday…BAM! This next Press Release may be enough to take you right through that cup of coffee in your hand. Give it a read and then we’ll talk: Yep, we all knew this was a possibility and now it’s a reality: Rockstar Energy OTSFF Yamaha will have both 2-time and defending MX1
Monday Morning Coffee By Billy Rainford Happy Thanksgiving, Canada. In a country that is famously hockey mad, watching the Toronto Blue Jays stay alive last night pulled this massive country together in a way that hasn’t happened since the Jays won back to back World Series Championships in 1992-93. I’m not a baseball fan by any stretch of the imagination, but I found myself sitting around after a fantastic turkey
Monday Morning Coffee By Billy Rainford Good morning. I have to come clean – I’m actually drinking tea for this week’s Monday Morning Coffee. I don’t think it should have much affect on the content of the column, but we’ll see. I want to start with a short story (Ya, right, Rainford!) that took place Saturday night here in London, Ontario. There’s an old Canadian punk rock band called the
Monday Morning Coffee By Billy Rainford Welcome to a very busy Monday Morning Coffee here at Direct Motocross. Now I know what it’s like to be from a city that hosts one of our major moto events…it feels really good! Waking up in my own bed and driving across the city to get to the London Agriplex for rounds 1 and 2 of the Monster Energy Canadian Arenacross Tour Presented
Monday Morning Coffee By Billy Rainford It was a busy weekend for racing and riding. Let’s start off with a look at some results: From www.mxgp.com LEON (Mexico), 13 September 2015 – Overnight storms made the conditions extremely tough and technical here at the circuit of Leon for the penultimate round of the FIM Motocross World Championship. The saturated dirt, which is a mix of clay and soil, became very
Monday Morning Coffee By Billy Rainford There goes one of the last weekends of the summer. It’s been years since I’ve been in school, but I still equate September with going back to class. For that reason, I find August 31st pretty depressing. It’s getting dark earlier, there are yellow-jacket wasps everywhere, and the Pro outdoor motocross series are all but finished. I remember heading to class in one of
Monday Morning Coffee By Billy Rainford Welp, that looks like it may have been the final Pro weekend of the outdoor season right there. The Rockstar Energy MX Nationals ended last week at Walton Raceway and the Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championships just wrapped-up their 12-round series for the second year at the Ironman MX track in Crawfordsville, Indiana. First off, here’s a look at Saturday’s results: As I’m sure
Monday Morning Coffee By Billy Rainford Good Monday morning. I’m not going to open this by saying that I can’t believe it’s over. I’m not going to start by saying how much I’m going to miss everyone. I’m not going to talk about how fast the time went. I’m not going to tell you that it was the best summer of racing I’ve ever seen. I’m not going to describe
Monday Morning Coffee By Billy Rainford As I finally sit in front of my laptop to start this week’s column, I do so after leaving the Deschambault National just west of Quebec City at 8pm Sunday night and digging into the 10-hour drive home to London. After crawling into bed just after 6 this morning, I found it pretty hard to get up in time to have this posted before
Monday Morning Coffee By Billy Rainford It’s weekends like this past one that make me think about those idle ones in the middle of the winter when I wish I were at a race. Although I love almost nothing more than being at the races, driving through Toronto at 1:00am on a late Sunday night 5 hours into a trip home from Ottawa tends to make one feel a wee