Spring is here; it's time for some 2010 spy shots, no? (KX144 uncovered!)
4/17/2009
A regularly updated blog by Rupert X Pellett...
April 17
Keep thinking about Team Makita Suzuki's Nico IZZI. Poor kid busted up his heel real bad at JAX. He is, according to reports, still down at a hospital in the Jacksonville area.
Seattle, of course, will be a West Coast round of your Monster Energy AMA Supercross Lites program, featuring Mr. Dungey, Mr. Weimer, Mr. Morais and all the rest. It won' t be Las Vegas 'til we get to see the East Coast Lites partcipants again.
AMA Supercross Class Season Standings
- Chad Reed, Tampa, Fla., Suzuki, 315
- James Stewart, Haines City, Fla., Yamaha, 310
- Andrew Short, Smithville, Texas, Honda, 225
- Josh Grant, Riverside, Calif., Yamaha, 193
- Ivan Tedesco, Tallahassee, Fla., Honda, 193
- Kevin Windham, Centerville, Miss., Honda, 193
- Mike Alessi, Apple Valley, Calif., Suzuki, 185
- Davi Millsaps, Tallahassee, Fla., Honda, 168
- Ryan Villopoto, Poulsbo, Wash., Kawasaki, 165
- Josh Hill, Murrieta, Calif., Yamaha, 146
And, here are your RACER-X gas-card winners (winner, winner chicken dinner...)
Racer X Gas Card
- Jacob Marsack (Anaheim 1)
- Sean Hamblin (Phoenix)
- Josh Summey (Anaheim 2)
- Ben Lamay (Houston)
- Nicholas A. Wey (San Francisco)
- Ben Lamay (Anaheim 3)
- Josh Hansen (San Diego)
- Heath D. Voss (Atlanta)
- Thomas K. Hahn (Indianapolis)
- Shaun Skinner (New Orleans)
- Jason Marsack (St. Louis)
- Heath D. Voss (Toronto)
We'll soon find out...
Josh Hill with Grandpa Ted.
April 16
Qwest Field in Seattle? That's tight, this Saturday night -- THE BATTLE
IN SEATTLE. And it's not going to be "WET" Field, either. The skies are
looking brilliant for Saturday, although it looks like rain Friday,
just enough to moisten the cake batter, I suppose. Everybody is
awaiting this next round of your Monster Energy AMA Supercross to see
if anymore fireworks are going to ignite between Mr. Stewart and Mr. Reed, yet
perhaps those smoldering flames of anger have chillaxed, and the two
warriors, engaged in this splendid battle for points, the truth and
the American way, will have a pleasant and clean race in "Coffee-Town."
Last night, on Georgia's spy satelilite powered DMXS Radio, James Stewart spoke of what went down between him and Chad Reed and,
how he felt about the entire dealio. So, if you were listening on your
"AM Internets" or your MAC with the mouse, that's cool; however, if
not, if you were caught up in American Idol drama -- as some were -- you
can catch the archives here: www.dmxsradio.com.
Hey, you ever
noticed when you're at a crucial juncture in some sort of
motorcycle-repair project that as SOON as you need a flat-head
screwdriver that EVERY screwdriver in your tool-box turns all
Phillipey? Yeah, me , too.
Tuf's Dave Antolak talks bi'ness to Miss Arenacross Lindsey.
Miss Arenacross gets a little frisky.
April 15
So, I'm randomly strutting my way through the zoo they call Wal-Mart, past the "on-sale" cruddy cereal, the five-gallon bucket of leg-lotion display and the odd-shaped boxes of zap-it-yourself fettuccine, when I accidentally get dislocated, detached and detoured into the toy section, somehow avoiding the airships, dirigible and zeppelin aisles altogether. I find myself ultimately staring at the kids bicycles, all hung up so pretty, like aged wildebeest meat at an East Kenyan butcher shop (minus the funky odor). I glance, gawk and glare in disbelief. How in the wild of world of Waldo can they still be selling little kids bicycles if we can't sell 'em motorcycles. Outraged? Oui, monsieur.
It was a grand Easter weekend, with daffodils dancing in the cool spring air and pink eggs rolling about the side streets of suburbia so merrily, as if the Faberge and Cadbury factories went to war tossing their products skyward, with a leeward wind propelling them to every yard, garden and dwelling. Aaah. Spring has sprung. Boooiiiing! Compression, depression, rebound, rebirth, dampening and damping. Three clicks out.
Oh yeah, we went riding. Well, not actually me. I was the mechanic. We went to a trendy little upscale motocross circuit not too far from New Philadelphia, Ohio. Hey, remember that one year, at Daytona, when they had three (3) riders qualify into the main from New Philly? Brock Sellards, Thomas Kelly and David Hill.
Even if it was a smaller city in California and you had three riders all make the main it was big news, but this was Ohio. Amazing. Anyway, Beans Bike Park was a blast. And, the freshly rebuilt bikes -- even the "2010 Prot0ype KX144 with the clear coolant lines" somehow held up, despite my skills. Or lack there about...
The important thing is that AMERICA's Zach Osborne won the Turkish MX Grand Prix this weekend. He qualified third fastest, took third in the the first moto, and then WON the second, claiming the overall. AMAZING. Incredible. WONDERFUL.
Abingdon, Va.'s own " Zosborne," on a British UTAG YAMAHA. Yowzers.
MX2 Overall top 10: 1. Zach Osborne (USA, Yamaha), 45 points; 2. Gautier Paulin (FRA, Kawasaki), 39 p.; 3. Marvin Musquin (FRA, Honda), 38 p.; 4. Khounsith Vongsana (FRA, Honda), 31 p.; 5. Manuel Monni (ITA, Yamaha)
Shhhhhh. It's the project bike.
Back away, kids. This thing has lead in the tire valve stems.
Carbureted helmets are, like, so 1999.