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World MX: Championship Showdown in the Dutch Sandbox
10 December 2008
Lierop in the south-east of the Netherlands is a sleepy little village due east of Eindhoven just off the E34 to Germany. It is this town that has played host to the World Motocross Championship for nearly fifteen years, the MAC Lierop club at the helm. It is therefore no surprise to see Lierop as one of the rounds on the calendar in 2008. Famous for its tough sand circuit that snakes through the woods of the Herselse Heide, the track is once again the battleground for the FIM Women's Motocross Championship finale and sees the MX1 and MX2 riders firm up their positions ahead of the final round a week later.
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World MX: World Championship Wishes Come True In Italy
10 December 2008
Just off the A14 Autostrada between Bologna and the Adriatic sea-side town of Rimini, just down the road from the world-famous F1 facility at Imola, lies a very unassuming town. This town, encircled by various factories, is synonymous across the world with something we use without thinking in our daily lives – ceramics. Faenza also has, hidden in the back valleys beyond the Via Emilia Ponente, a motocross track with a very long and venerable history. In 2007 it returned to the world motocross circuit, having put up its hand to help after the South African promoter had to cancel their round at relatively short notice.
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Simon Gandolfi’s Old Man on a Bike
08 December 2008
What defines a journey, an adventure? What characteristics would separate a journey from a mere trip? Perhaps a journey takes you somewhere different, somewhere out of the norm. Maybe it is the distance or time statistics that differentiate a journey from a trip. A journey may be judged to be as such not only by the physicality’s of it, but also by the capabilities (assumed or real) of the person undertaking it. A fit and healthy 30yr old may (indeed should) have a different perspective on riding across the UK than perhaps a pensioner on a 125cc would.
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World MX: Iron Horses For Courses
30 October 2008
In recent years, whenever it was time for the world championship to visit Ireland, it would be a time for sighs and groans. From the first round in years at Ballykelly to the two years at Desertmartin and the final, disastrous visit at Moneyglass, it would rain every single time. This year the Grand Prix headed south, into the Republic of Ireland, with the hope that things might change. The country down south is arguably more famous for its horse racing than motocross, and the promoters chose one of Ireland's most famous courses to hold this event – Fairyhouse.
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California Superbike School - Level 1, The Day I Learnt How to Ride Properly!
24 October 2008
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Aprilia's New RSV-4 Superbike
21 September 2008
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British MX: Close Calls In The Maxxis At Brampton
10 September 2008
The city of Carlisle is considered to be the last frontier between England and Scotland. A mere five miles north, the border between these two countries cuts across the landscape, an invisible line that stretches eastwards towards Berwick-upon-Tweed, Carlisle's other half on the east side of the country. A few miles east of Carlisle lies the quaint village of Brampton, not to be confused with the Brampton in the fens of Cambridgeshire, and just outside of Brampton, next to an extensive sand quarry, lies the sandy track to which the Maxxis British Motocross Championship decamped for its penultimate round of the season.
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The New 2009 Yamaha YZF-R1 Superbike
08 September 2008
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Honda's 2009 CBR1000RR Fireblade ABS
06 September 2008
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Honda's 2009 CBR600RR ABS Supersport
06 September 2008
Honda gives us the breakdown on their newly-revised 2009 CBR600RR supersport, which for 2009 now comes with ABS brakes and a number of other improvements.
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World MX: The World Storms The Belgian Sandbox
06 September 2008
Looming over the flat landscape of Wezel, nearly a dozen wind turbines stand guard, a view that is all too familiar in the Low Countries of the Netherlands and Belgium. Half a mile up the N71, the industrial area of Balendijk starts, in which hides one of Belgium's most feared, loved, hated, and now most important motocross tracks – Lommel.
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British MX: Foxhill Returns To Championship Glory
16 August 2008
Mention Foxhill to anyone in British motocross and you will immediately have them reminisce about the fantastic Grands Prix that used to be held there in the eighties and nineties, and then the oh-so-wet Motocross des Nations in which a young Stefan Everts showed the world how to ride in mud. Together with Farleigh Castle and Hawkstone Park, Foxhill, tucked away in the heart of Wiltshire, a few hundred yards away from the M4 outside Swindon, is one of the cornerstones of the essence that is proper British motocross.
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World MX: Grand Prix Of The Bushveld - Motocross Goes Native!
12 August 2008
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A Tribute to Craig Jones : 1985 - 2008
08 August 2008
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British Superbikes: Knockhill Preview
08 August 2008
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Troy Corser - Super Corser!
05 August 2008
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World Superbike : Brands Hatch Preview
01 August 2008
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World MX: Swedish Summer Mashup
31 July 2008
Sweden. The country that brought us ABBA and IKEA and Swedish meatballs, the Saab and the Volvo and Absolut, plays host to the first round of the second half of the season at the spectacular Uddevalla track. The Glimminge Motorstadion is a multi-functional venue tucked into the mountainside between Uddevalla and the two towns of Vänersborg and Trollhättan and it features enduro, karting and of course, motocross.
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Johnny Rea : A Rea of Light
25 July 2008
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The Unity Ride: Then and Now
24 July 2008
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