American motocross hero Danny “Magoo” Chandler, age 50, passed away last night at his home in Yuba City, CA. Danny reportedly died from complications associated with his paralysis. I do not have much to say here, as I never met Danny nor saw him ride in person. I just know his legend from the magazines [...]
Entries Tagged as 'motocross'
Godspeed Danny Magoo Chandler – 1959-2010
May 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Profiles in Riding
Tags: DannyChandler·motocross·spinalcord
Diamond Dons’ 2010 Riverport National Vintage Motocross
April 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Events, Racing, Vintage
Disclaimer: I only attended on Saturday. Anything here about events on Friday or Sunday was collected from various sources – from other attendees who posted on the Cousin Weedy Yahoo! group or people I spoke to at the event. Please post corrections and additions in the comments. Thanks – twf :end: Have a look at [...]
Tags: DiamondDons2010·motocross
Ryan Villopoto to be guest on Wind Tunnel with Dave Despain
April 9th, 2010 · No Comments · Events, Profiles in Riding, Racing
Ryan Villopoto sent out a tweet earlier today saying he will be on Sunday’s (11APR2010) Wind Tunnel with Dave Despain for a live interview. I’m a big fan of Despain. Even though Wind Tunnel is 80% NASCAR, Despain does his best to get the moto guys on the show. As Dave said a couple of [...]
Torsten Hallman and Joel Robert
April 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Profiles in Riding, Racing, Vintage
Someone posted this classic picture on FaceBook — Joel Robert and Torsten Hallman duking it out in the mid-’60s. I looked all over for it but can’t find the thread to save my life. My friend Rick from SoCal sent me the photo. I’m pretty sure it was either Vintage Factory or Classix50MX, both of [...]
Big Air: a historic photo
August 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Vintage
There was no such thing as a “whip” back in the day, but that doesn’t mean there weren’t any cool big air photos. Here’s a very cool CZ shot from sometime in the early ’70s. Photo found at CZ Motokros.
Racing the ski slopes
August 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Racing
Mountain bikers have known about the ski slopes for years. The MTB discipline of Downhill started on the green summertime slopes of ski resorts. For people like me, who only want their snow on postcards, riding the slopes in summer is the only way to go. Now we get this new video of a Jeremy [...]
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, [...]
Part 3 of History of World Motocross Championship sucks
January 11th, 2009 · No Comments · Racing, Vintage
This is pathetic. This History of World Motocross Championship series is a miserable excuse for a history of anything. I don’t know who runs MotoCrossMX1.com, but they should be ashamed to put anything like this up on the site. It’s an embarrassment.
Houston, TX is a motocross mecca
December 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Racing
Last night on Pit Pass Radio one of the guests was Larry Hughes, district manager for Parts Unlimited. Larry was on to talk about the upcoming Parts Unlimited AMA Allstars Amateur National and WMA Cup that will be held at the end of the month at Freestone MX in Wortham, TX. One of the interesting [...]
Tags: houston·motocross·racetracks
Racing a Sportsman-class CZ 125
December 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Racing, Two-Stroke, Vintage
Let’s hear it for Steve “Souper” Clark and the Sportsman-class 125 project code-named Lester! Owned by the infamous Giles Nelson and the subject of ongoing and endless modifications and improvements by “Dr. G” Larry Garcia and “CZ Guy” Lee Holth, this little beauty throws some dirt at the 2007 Chehalis Classic. Nice work, guys! Now [...]
