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Extreme Motocross

The 2009 MX Championship has already started getting riders, motorcycles and their crews in trouble. These are by far the coolest pictures we’ve come across yet and by the small unstained blue on the front fender, we can confidently say that we’re dealing with a Yamaha dirt bike.

Apparently, as the bikes become better performing, organizers make sure that tracks are even harder to race on and that’s what the audience loves about motocross racing.

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Freestyle Motocross – pain is so close to…success

This video is a tribute to the fastest growing action/extreme sport, Freestyle Motocross. Riders shown performing and, some of them, even braking some bones are Mike Metzger, Nate Adams, Travis Pastrana, Brian Deegan, Ronnie Faisst, Jeremy Stenburg, Ronnie Renner, Dan Pastor, Doug Parsons, Drake McElroy and Chuck Carothers, just to mention a few.

If you’ve long been searching for an explication to why these guys put theirselves through this, it is very likely to find it in the content of this attachment.

Livia Lancelot goes to Mantova with plans of winning the feminine World MX Championship

Among the many promising themes planned for this weekend on the track of Mantua, there is also the appointment with the French MX pilot, Livia Lancelot. At only 20 years, the skilled Kawasaki pilot arrives for the first time in Mantua with the clear purpose of defending that much craved first place in the Women World Championship. Italy opens its gates for this weekend’s Grand Prix and although the track is a first for Livia, she has great expectations for a weekend to remember (...)
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Positive race debut for the 2009 Model Year Aprilia MXV 4.5

With less than two weeks remaining before the start of the World Motocross Championship, Team Aprilia Off Road showed its hand on Monday, March 24th at the fifth round of the Italian championship: the 2009 Model Year Aprilia MXV 4.5. It is a profoundly redesigned bike that operates around a powerful 77° V twin engine. The main difference in respect to the previous version is a more rigid yet lighter frame, including upright anterior latticework with a different diameter and material. The (...)
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Aprilia misses the podium at the 4th round of the Italian motocross championship

The first half of the Italian motocross championship has been completed and the final phase began on March 16th in Cingoli (Macerata province) at the third-to-last round on the schedule. On Saturday, the qualifying sessions took place on the difficult and tricky track in Le Marche. An optimal Cedric Melotte (Aprilia Mxv 4.5) marked the fourth-best time of the Mx1 class. It was instead a tormented round for Fabien Izoird (Aprilia Mxv 4.5), who wasn’t able to find the right balance for the (...)
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KTM wins 7 titles at Lake Whitney Motocross National

KTM riders put in extraordinary rides all week long at the AMA Parts Unlimited Lake Whitney Spring Classic earning seven championships at the close of the weekend. Two of the championships were won by KTM Factory Junior Team riders Tommy Weeck and Max Anstie. Weeck proved strong all week winning heats in both the Motocross B Modified and Motocross Lites B Modified classes. He eventually wrapped up the Motocross B Modified class when he again finished 1st in the final moto to take home (...)
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Tyla Rattray wins MX2 class and Tommy Searle snatches victory in the super final

Second pre-season victory for Rattray after Valence Rattray, clearing in top form going into the 2008 season said he enjoyed the ride on the steep and unforgiving Shropshire circuit with its most famous obstacles, the deep ‘bomb hole’, the heart stopping whoop section and the ominous 1 in 3 “Hawkstone Hill”. “This is a very good circuit and I enjoyed the ride today. We had good sunny weather and it was great to get another pre-season victory,” the South African said. Simpson (...)
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KTM recruits bright spark FMX talent Petr Pilat as factory rider

KTM, In keeping with its policy to encourage bright young talent, has signed bright spark Czech FMX rider Petr Pilat to join the stable of international class factory riders now competing for the Austrian manufacturer. Professional, thoughtful and hard working Pit Beirer, KTM’s Offroad Director said he expected big things from the latest recruit to the KTM factory team. "Petr is still very young and we have signed him for the 2008/2009 seasons. He’s not just a very (...)
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The Italian Motocross Championship has begun

The season has begun for team Aprilia Off Road. It happened in Tuscany at Montevarchi (Arezzo, Italy) on Sunday, February 17, at the first round of the Italian Motocross Championship. It was a much-awaited event, particularly Cedric Melotte’s official reentry into competition (atop an Aprilia MXV 4.5) after a long period of rest due to the knee injury that held him back last season. The strong Belgian rider demonstrated his recovery by coming out like a lion in both fractions (which had (...)
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KTM’s MX riders launch their 2008 season at Mantova

Fresh from their winter break, KTM factory riders and riders from the new KTM supported teams are gathering in Mantova, Italy for the first pre-season event in the MX 1 & MX2 racing season. Max Nagl of Germany is the KTM MX1 Red Bull factory rider for the 2008 season and is joined by Tyla Rattray, Tommy Searle and new recruit Rui Goncalves in the MX2 class. Also onboard KTM machines in MX 1 racing for the new KTM-supported teams will be Jonathan Barragan for the Italian-based Team (...)
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