Blog archives for March, 2009

March 28, 2009

Travis Pastrana Talks About His Return To Supercross

pastrana-stlouis-cox-2009-045Last Saturday in St. Louis, sometimes it was easy to forget there was a race about to happen with championship implications, as the entire stadium seemed to care about only one thing – the guy on the 199 Suzuki. Travis Pastrana brought his Nitro Circus crew to the Edward Jones Dome, and his pit area was a mob scene before and after the races. And in case you’re wondering, Travis Pastrana is still fast. We talked to him Saturday night as security tried to usher his throngs of followers out of the pits at the end of the night.

more http://www.racerxonline.com/article/5-minutes-with-travis-pastrana-stlouis-sx.aspx

March 26, 2009

Congress votes to close more than 2 million acres

PICKERINGTON, Ohio — By a 285-to-140 vote, U.S. House members on March 25 approved a bill that closes more than 2 million acres of public land nationwide to off-highway motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles and all other motorized vehicles.

Read more http://www.amadirectlink.com/news/story.asp?id=760

March 6, 2009

Daniel Martynse Qualifies For Provincial Round Of The Special Olympics

danDaniel Martynse has qualified to compete at the 2009 Summer Provincial Games being held in Windsor from Jul 23-26, 2009
ERMC membership has committed to helping Daniel with some of the costs associated with attending the event.
Best Of Luck To Daniel
Also ,volunteers are needed for the event.

Drug Testing Comes To Supercross

syringe2-112x1501We’re used to seeing the top three finishing bikes in the post-race inspection area at the AMA semi, ready to give up fuel samples at the end of a night. But at the conclusion of the racing in San Francisco, we saw the introduction of something new to Supercross…random drug testing. We’d first heard of the possibility of drug testing during the ’09 season at the Motocross of Nations last Fall, but following the main event, James Stewart, Ryan Villopoto (and possibly a third rider, per FIM guidelines?) were met by chaperones from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA). The USADA is recognized as the official anti-doping agency in the U.S., and they handle anti-doping watchdog duties for U.S. athletes competing in the Olympic, Pan-Am, and Paralympic sports.

Story Here http://www.vitalmx.com/news/news/Drug-Testing-Comes-to-Supercross,2981

KTM reveals race-ready electric motorcycle

ktm-logo-full-150x591If you had any doubts that electricity is the future of off-road performance, this bike should eliminate them. KTM has created a fully functional electric, zero emissions enduro prototype and intends to put it into production. In keeping with its “Ready to Race” slogan, the Zero Emissions Motorcycle is a full-on competition bike, in which capacity it will be evaluated and developed before going on-sale as little as 24 months from now.
Continued  http://hellforleathermagazine.com/2008/10/ktm-presents-electric-enduro.html 
Update        http://hellforleathermagazine.com/2009/02/ktm-commits-to-2010-mass-produ.html

ERMC Members To Ride 2010 Mexico ISDE

mexicoisdeTim Macintosh, Jeff Pillon and Frank Canton will be headed to Mexico in 2010 to ride the renowned ISDE Six Day Enduro
Jeff says ” we have made a couple of changes to the plan, we are unfortunately putting this years Portugal ISDE off and will do the Mexico ISDE in 2010 . This year we decided as a team that we could do Mexico for much less money than traveling to Portugal and it gives us more time to save for this expensive challenge.
But we do have a new challenge planned for October 17th & 18th of 2009 we are going to do the 24 hours of Glen Helen in California at the famous Glen Helen MX track, http://www.glenhelen.com/. For this race we will be able to include more riders as you are allowed 6 riders on a team that will complete for 24 hours, so in addition to myself Macker and Frank Cantin a few other club members will be joining us, at the monument it looks like Brad Dixon as well as RJ Clapp will be racing on our team and I will let you know when we have the team finalized”.
Some facts about the ISDE  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Six_Days_Enduro

It’s now illegal to sell children’s motorcycles in America

2006-honda-crf50f-smallAs of February 10th, the sale of any motorcycle intended for children 12 and under is illegal. This includes both new and used machines, any replacement parts that may contain lead and even any service or warranty work that may replace lead-containing parts. Attempting to sell bikes like Honda’s popular CRF50F as anything other than a children’s product is also illegal and, as soon as August, could result in fines of up to $15 million.
Watch video  http://www.kusi.com/home/40184087.html?video=YHI&t=a
Read More   http://hellforleathermagazine.com/2009/02/its-now-illegal-to-sell-childr.html
And Here http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/dirt-bikes-2/

Interview With Jeff Pillon 2008 GNCC 35+ Champion

Canadian Jeffery Pillon is the 2008 GNCC 35+ C bike Champion. Sounds like he had a good year, right? Well, not193_image206 quite. While training for his 2008 run last January, Jeff woke up one morning in an Arizona retirement village to find his bike stolen. Luckily, his compassionate wife sent him money to buy a brand new bike and he was able to finish his trip in style and come back to have a successful year in 2008. So what brings this funny guy from Canada down to the U.S. to pursuer a GNCC Title? Let’s find out.
Full Interview Here http://www.gnccracing.com/articles/883_tuesday-toolbox-jeff-pillon

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