TLD Thursday Wallpapers By Billy Rainford There’s a corner at every national track that you get used to shooting at certain points in the day. With the sun climbing the sky and pointing down at this sharp corner after the finish line at Gopher Dunes, the best time to shoot it is during practice. It actually looked better for the MX2 practice but we’ll save those for another day. I
Gopher Dunes Emotion through the Lens of Allison Kennedy By Billy Rainford Photos by Allison Kennedy If you’ve been around Canadian Motocross for an extended period of time, you know two things: motocross is the toughest sport in the world and nobody captures that fact better than Allison Kennedy. The action on the track is one thing, but when the riders come off the track and bare their emotions, that’s
Sean Bowker Captures the Tyler Medaglia Gopher Dunes Launch Sequence! Sean Bowker photos We all heard the excitement in announcer Brian Koster‘s voice as Tyler Medaglia and Cole Thompson went wheel to wheel for 3rd place in the first MX1 moto at Gopher Dunes last week. We totally missed snagging a photo of the now-infamous launch but our old DMX friend, Sean Bowker, didn’t! Check out this great sequence that,
Gopher Dunes National Photo Report Photos and captions by Billy Rainford After a two-weekend break, the 2015 Rockstar Energy Drink MX Nationals resumed at the famed Gopher Dunes sand track in Courtland, Ontario. Courtland sits about an hour east of London and shares its terrain with the nearby Lake Erie coast – it’s soft, deep sand. Royal Distributing Fox Racing KTM Canada rider #1 Kaven Benoit held the MX2 points
McThoughts: Gopher Dunes National By Jeff McConkey We have a pretty stacked MX2 class this season, and most of the front-runners love the sand. Gopher Dunes has got to be one of the roughest tracks in the world. This year was no different; it was hot and nasty, but that didn’t slow the top dogs. We had a few new additions to our series starting at Round 5. South
PODCASTS: Gopher Dunes National #1 Kaven Benoit #761 Cade Clason #620 Brad Nauditt #762 Blake Savage #108 Shawn Rife #475 Kyle Regal
Gopher Dunes National Results Gopher Dunes Courtland, Ontario Sunday, July 12, 2015 MX2 MX1
McThoughts: Rockstar MX Nationals West Rounds By Jeff McConkey In case you missed Jeff’s ‘McThoughts’ that we included in the Frid’Eh Update, here they are on their own: McTHOUGHTS on the West MX2 1st Kaven Benoit 217 points: Some people doubted Kaven’s decision to ride the 2-stroke. Well, Mr. Benoit has looked great at all 4 rounds out West. He has no real weaknesses and will be the guy to
Faces at the Races – Regina National Photos and Captions by Billy Rainford Here’s a look at the action from Moto Valley an Regina, Saskatchewan, that happened OFF the track. Just a fun, tongue-in-cheek look at the people who help make these events so much fun to attend.
2015 ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MX NATIONALS ON FOX SPORTS RACING Here is your chance to watch the televised coverage of the most exciting season of Rockstar Energy Drink MX Nationals …. ever! Fox Sports Racing will begin airing the footage on Sunday, July 19, 2015 and will continue for ten consecutive weeks. It’s the best coverage of motocross – period, and the intense racing makes for a complete package of