By Billy Rainford You know you’re getting old when… So, last night was Superbowl #55 from Tampa Bay. I’m pretty sure you already knew that. I’ll admit it right off the top that this was the only football game I watched all year. We don’t have cable at our place and I’m not a big enough fan to try and find games online during the regular season, but I did
Brainstorm | Indy SX #2 Round 5 By Billy Rainford Sometimes, I think everything has been said about the racing by the time we are able to get around to writing about it. However, we never used to let that stop our old friend Jeff McConkey from doing his ‘McThoughts‘ column the day following a Supercross. So, with our dearly departed friend in mind, here’s my version called ‘Brainstorm‘ where
By Billy Rainford Another Monday raises its ugly head. Can you even really tell what day it is…or month, for that matter?! As we continue to hunker down in or close to our homes, fortunately, Supercross has been racing. It’s been a shining light in a dark time, for sure. We were at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, IN for the first of 3 rounds on Saturday night. The racing
By Billy Rainford Nope, I’m not going there this morning. If you want to read my point of view on the H3 situation you can read it HERE in my “Brainstorm” column from Sunday. I’m already thinking about Indy! I do want to start out this week by wishing Mike ‘Too Tall’ Bell‘s family and friends my deepest condolences. Mike was one of the racers who I looked up to,
Houston SX #3 | Bigwave’s Brainstorm By Billy Rainford Where do we start with this one?! NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas, hosted the first 3-race residency of the 2021 Monster Energy AMA Supercross series and got more than its fair share of action and stories to tell. Round 3 gave us a lot to talk about, to say the least. Let’s go back to the beginning to take a look
Bigwave’s Brainstorm | Houston 2 Supercross By Billy Rainford The 2021 Monster Energy AMA Supercross series was back in action on Tuesday for Round 2. The track was basically run in the reverse direction after the first turn was cut sharper and riders flipped the track around. Here’s what I thought about Night 2 in Houston: 250 East First Qualifier Unfortunately, the incident #134 Jess Pettis had when he tweaked
By Billy Rainford Welcome to the Monday we’ve all been waiting for for quite some time – the one after Round 1 of Monster Energy AMA Supercross! How good did that feel to be watching Supercross again?! That was a rhetorical question – I know exactly how it felt…GREAT! Although it really sucks that I’m not going to be at the races, physically, at least we’re going racing and I’m
By Billy Rainford Hello and welcome to Monday Morning Coffee #1 of 2021. Happy New Year. I’d like to say, “Let’s all just forget about what happened in 2020,” but I don’t think we should put that much pressure on the New Year. It’s a big ask to have things immediately go back to normal. It’s just not going to happen. It was a very strange year for us, wasn’t
The Story Behind the Photo | 1985 Hully Gully Newsletter By Billy Rainford Besides good looks, charm, and a dashing personalty, motocrossers all share another more unfortunate thing in common – we’ve all pretty much missed one season’s racing due to injury. It’s a sad but very real part of the sport we’ve all chosen. I’m not even sure why my name pops up in this little Hully Gully Newsletter
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