Cobra Motorcycles president Sean Hilier was on the Rush Limbaugh program yesterday, to discuss the notorious Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA) and its devastating effect on his company. I didn’t hear the show but you can read the transcript here. According to Hillier, Cobra employs fewer than 50 people, but there are [...]
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Cobra Motorcycles president Sean Hilier on Rush Limbaugh
February 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Industry, Politics of Riding
5-time Daytona SX by xxxx winner
January 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Industry
Time for a rant. I fully grasp the need to placate sponsors. I know they pay the bills. I know that teams and events can’t survive without them. I know we love them. But please, can we stop rewriting history every time a title sponsor changes? Ricky Carmichael is not a 5-time winner of the [...]
PitPass Radio discusses the state of the M/C industry
January 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Industry
Tonight’s show on Pit Pass was good. Good interviews, especially if you’re interested in industry stuff like I am. Important note: The crew mentioned that their email has been broken and they were not aware of the problem. So they asked that any listener who has emailed the show and not received a response to [...]
Tags: media·Pitpass Radio
Now you can add crappy content from MotocrossMX1.com to your Facebook page
January 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Racing
Youthstream announces that effective immediately all the users of MotoCrossMX1.com and SuperMotoS1.com can post the contents, including news and photos, to their Facebook friends. Woohoo. MotocrossMX1.com has some of the worst, most vapid motocross content on the planet. It’s a veritable black hole (and I don’t care what that moron John Wiley Price says, that’s [...]
Dave Despain loses it
January 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Industry
Dave Despain is one of my favorite sportscasters. He’s sort of a “professor” of motorsports and covers a little bit of everything — even though everything these days is about 90% NASCAR. This little video has been around since 2006, but I just found it. It’s hilarious, and was no doubt quite cathartic for Dave. [...]
Tags: DaveDespain·humor·media
History of the World Motocross Championship
December 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Racing, Vintage
Motocross MX1 is publishing a short series of articles on the History of World Motocross Championship. Part 1 of the series is up now. Parts 2-4 will be published in the next few weeks. If they are as poor as Part 1 there isn’t much point in reading them. Not much history here — there [...]
MediaZone closes Moto channel
October 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Events, Industry, Racing
Last week I got email notification that MediaZone is closing their Moto Channel. This is a big disappointment to me, as I just signed up for a 1-year subscription when I watched the MXdN on live video. MediaZone will refund my subscription fee on a pro-rated basis, but the money isn’t really the problem. I’m [...]
MX SPorts press conference Saturday
October 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Events, Racing
In today’s Racerhead column Davey Combs announced a press conference to be held tomorrow morning at the MGM Grand Hotel. Coombs will announce some of MX Sports’ plans for the 2009 Pro MX season. There have been a lot of discomfiting rumors flying about. Many sound far-fetched, to me. But you never know. Hopefully we’ll [...]
