Posts are a little slow of late. MuddyWatersMX.net is undergoing transition to a new technology platform and I’m working on a few other things. Converting all the articles and posts is a bit of a job so until I get them all done I’ll be limiting the new material. But stay tuned. The new site [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Events'
FreecasterTV – great MX coverage
May 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Events, Racing, Technology
If you’re an MX fan, real MX — 2-minute laps, turns that not 180-degrees, off-cambers, uphills, downhills, simple things like that — you owe it to yourself to check out the freecaster.tv live coverage of the MX GPs. It’s really teriffic — great technical quality, nice user interface, and solid overall experience. SPEED TV, are [...]
Tags: freecastertv
RIP John “Light Brown” Lancione
April 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Events, Profiles in Riding
John “Light Brown” Lancione has passed away. Light Brown was the first official AMA Referee for motocross and was instrumental in the growth of motocross in the U.S. Godspeed.
SPEED TV launches new AMA Pro Racing show
March 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Events, Racing
SPEED has announced a new, weekly TV show featuring AMA Pro racing beginning March 21 at 10:00 or 11:00 pm ET. The show is primarily road racing. It will feature flag-to-flag coverage of AMA Pro Racing’s American Superbike and Daytona Sportbike, coverage of other road racing classes, and highlights of other AMA Pro disciplines. Supercross [...]
Tags: AMAProRacing·SpeedTV
Daytona SX definitely the best of the year
March 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Events, Racing, Reviews
I’ll go out on a limb here and predict that Daytona is and will be the best SX race of the year. Mostly for all the reasons that make it the least Supercross-like of all the races — longer track, no 180-degree bowl turns, multiple soil types, varied obstacles, really rough. What a wild get-off [...]
FIM launches new website
February 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Events, Industry, Racing
Federation Internationale de Motorcyclisme (FIM) has launched their new website. The old FIM site was rather poor. It was only useful for finding press releases, but it was not regularly updated. My expectations for the new site are low and I will probably still be disappointed. But it has video for highlights. That’s something…
Tags: FIM
RIP Jeremy Lusk: Mourning the adrenaline junkies
February 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Events, Profiles in Riding
By now everyone in the dirt bike world knows of the unfortunate death of FMX star Jeremy Lusk. I never met Jeremy but, by all accounts, he was a good guy. He was certainly talented, and the outpouring of public sentiment following his accident is a tribute to his character. It was so great the [...]
Tags: freestylemx·jeremylusk
Team AMA finishes 11th in 24-hours of Daytona
January 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Events, Racing
The AMA Pro Racing-sponsored team of Jeff Ward, Scott Russell, and Jason Pridmore completed the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona in 11th place. The team suffered a near race-ending pit fire around noon on Sunday, with four hours left to complete. “Mr. Daytona” Scott Russell had just climbed into the car when he smelled fuel. [...]
Tags: AMAProRacing
USVMX – US Vintage Motocross series announced
January 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Events, Racing, Vintage
Rick Doughty, of Vintage Iron fame has announced the new, national VMX series — the U.S. Vintage Motocross Series. This has been in the works for a while. It’s the first vintage national MX series (to my knowledge) not promoted by the American Historic Motorcycle Racing Association (AHRMA). The off-road portion of AHRMA in general, [...]
Former AMA champs to compete in Rolex 24-hours of Daytona
January 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Events, Racing
This is pretty cool. Former AMA Champions Scott Russell, Reg Pridmore, and Jeff Ward are planning to compete in the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona sports car event later this month. Russell, known as “Mr. Daytona” for his five wins in the Daytona 200 motorcycle race, and Pridmore are competing in their first sports car [...]
Tags: AMAProRacing·Daytona
