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2010 Yamaha Phazer MTX
- From: PowersportsEditor
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2010 SnowShoot, Grand Lake CO. Stunt work by Rowdy Smith, Joseph OR. Take a bow. Or rather, please pull your finger out of the rail and give Yamaha back what's left of their coat....
- 8 months ago
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Ski-Doo MXZ X 800R
- From: PowersportsEditor
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2010 Model-Year SnowShoot, Grand Lake CO. Rider Rowdy Smith, Joseph OR
- 8 months ago
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Off Road in Boise Idaho
- From: pattie_waters
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Well we've done it - we moved from the little cowboy town of Joseph Oregon to Boise Idaho. Almost - the house in Joseph isn't sold yet (anyone need 8 acres, gorgeous view from the base of the Wallowa Mountains, barn, 2,900 sq ft house and three car garage?); but we loaded up two pickups with the bare essentials and headed slightly SE for Boise Idaho, in search of something, well, a little LESS rural. We are stoked about what we found.
At least reasonably reliable electricity, internet and phone service (although our first afternoon here, a squirrel caused a power outtage to roughly 8,000 customers. Lots of trees in Boise means unbelievably lots of squirrels! The squirrel reportedly didn't make it.)
Our rental neighborhood, until our house in Oregon sells, is "motorhead-friendly". Beautiful tree-ed street of families with strollers, dogs, kids - trucks, ATVs and dirtbikes! Up on the hill, past two resevoirs and three parks, is the road to Silver City ID. A ghost mining town, locals say it's a great place to ride, and a scenic drive to get there. And you can stop at the Kodiak Grill for awesome potato cheese soup.
Neighbors are dirtbikers and utility ATV riders; they'll be hooking us up with "where to go" as soon as the snow melts. Maybe before - but it's pretty frigid right now. Payette, just 30 minutes away, has a great motocross track - WORCS used to have races there and it was an ATV favorite stop, but last couple seasons it's been off the schedule, unfortunately.
You want skiing or snowmobiling, you got it. You like water sports in summer, you got it.
So next trip back over the hill, we'll be bringing more of the toys. We confirmed the Tahoe fits in the garage - barely, and there is still room for a quad or two. (Haven't brought a stick of furniture besides a bed yet, but that will have to wait - priorities, right?
So if you have any tips of what to do, let us know! Or if you want to buy a house in Joseph Oregon, drop me a note. We'll hook you up.
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- 10 months ago
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Dirt Cookies
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Description:Installed a DMC Dual Exhaust, then took the Polaris RZR out to play...
- 1 year ago
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DMC Dual Exhaust
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Got some cool new goodies installed on the Project RZR this month. Installation was fairly simple, and the custom-look is awesome.
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- 1 year ago
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Project ORT and Me
- From: Younggun95
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Description:Project Off-Road Toyota and its driver
- 1 year ago
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RZR with M6 Nuke
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Description:Project Polaris RZR with Motorsport Alloys M6 Nuke and 26" Maxxis Bighorns
- 1 year ago
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What do I do?
- From: Younggun95
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No, I'm not Ricky Bobby and I'm not asking what to do with my hands during an interview. I'm asking what the heck I do with my time.
When I started tavelling with the racers back east I was blown away how much they rode and trained. Even the B and C class amatuers. It really is all they do. Go ride their quad and go on a bicycle ride or run stairs. Its no wonder they are faster than the West Coast racers. I don't know any of the west coast racers who train this hard.
At first it was weird for me, but now that I'm hurt and can't train or ride I don't know what to do with myself. I just keep thinking I shouldn't be on the computer.... I should be out riding right now. I should be running stairs. I should be changing the oil in my quad so I can go ride again tomorrow. Now that I've gotten into such a rigorous training routine, I feel lazy when I'm not.
So what the heck do I do?
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- 1 year ago
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Fans at RedBud ATVA MX Nationa
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Description:Fans at the 2008 RedBud ATVA MX ATV National in Buchanon, MI
- 1 year ago
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Josh Creamer at RedBud
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Description:#9 Josh Creamer at 2008 RedBud ATVA National
- 1 year ago
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Working on a Jump
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Description:Track Building at our House
- 1 year ago
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Thomas Brown at RedBud
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Description:Thomas Brown and Cody Gibson had an epic battle in the Pro-Am class at RedBud
- 1 year ago
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Dislocated Hip
- From: Younggun95
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Description:This is what I ended up with after coming up short on a double at a practice track at some kids house in Illinois. I was also lucky enough to get a night in the hospital and stuck on crutches for 6 weeks. The crutches didn't hardly last a week though..
- 1 year ago
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The Life
- From: Younggun95
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When people think about the factory Pros that race in the ATV AMA MX series, sure we all know that they have it good not having to work on their quads at the track and they are getting a salary no matter how they finish. But most of us know too thatt they work really hard to earn that and maintain that.
Someone let me know what they thought, because maybe my view was scued, but I figured that in between races they were all business. Riding and training every single day. Never eating any unhealthy food. Always keeping all their practice equipment in tip top shape.
After staying with a few of the top pro and pro-am riders in the business, I can tell you that that's not all true. Yes, they do find time to ride almost every day, and yes they do normally do some kind of physical workout every day, but they dont mind at all to take a break for a few days and put it all behind them. Just a few days ago the group of pros and pro-ams I'm staying with took one of their trailers to a campground and spent two days at the largest waterpark in America. None of them afraid to buy a powdered sugar covered funnel cake or drink a few beers.
Its great staying with these groups because I can get faster riding with them, but its great to take a break every once and a while so I don't get wore out. So all of you amatuers out there, don't burn yourself out riding and training every day. Go get some fast food and head to a waterpark!
- Blog post
- 1 year ago
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Too Popular
- From: Younggun95
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After watching the GNCC this weekend in Somorset, PA, I began to wonder if it was possible for a racer to become too popular. Bill Ballance has won 8 consecutive GNCC racing Pro class titles so it's no surprise that he is popular on the GNCC circuit and all around the ATV racing community.
Bill Ballance has done so much for Yamaha over the years that he has his own Bill Ballance Edition YFZ450 equipped with #1 graphics and all. The bad part about this: That anyone can go out and buy a quad that looks almost exactly like Balllance's real one, especially when they are both half covered with mud. Its lucky that the GNCC uses transponder scoring because score keepers would be cursing Ballance for being too popular because his quad just came through the finish 5 times. One kid this weekend was actually even wearing a jersey that said Ballance and number 1 on his back to go along with the quad.
So, for scoring sake, is it possible to be too popular?
- Blog post
- 1 year ago
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I'm a bum
- From: Younggun95
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I officially feel like a bum right now. For the past few weeks I have been staying at the house of a fellow racer that is doing all of the nationals. They have been nice enough to let me stay in a bed, take showers, eat meals with them, and even do my laundry. They have a really nice practice track that I've been using to train on. I feel like a shopping cart with all my belongings should be parked out back instead of my race trailer and pickup.
I guess I just need to get used to having to accept the hospitality of others in order to make my racing possible. Like the nice people at Wal-mart. If you stop at the closest wal-mart to the race track on Wednesday evening, it is almost guaranteed that the lot will be full of race trailers and maybe even a few of the factory semis. I wonder what people think when they pull in to do a little shopping and there are a couple full on race semis sitting in the parking lot. They sure as heck find it interesting because they all feel the need to drive circles around it and look. Maybe all the money to put the big sponsor logos on it is actually worth it.
Hopefully I get used to being a bum soon.... Maybe I should start wearing more of my clothes at once?
- Blog post
- 1 year ago
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If you build it, they will com
- From: Younggun95
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This is true for just about anything. If you build it, the people will come. Even if whatever it is is really bad, people will have to come atleast once to check it out. But this saying is fitting for a couple things related to racing. Even with diesel prices in the area at $4.69 per gallon, racers and spectators are still showing up at the AMA ATVA MX Nationals.
The owners at the Muddy Creek mx track in TN this weekend are using up plenty of diesel to keep their track in pristine condition for the racers. I haven't been to many of these nationals but I would imagine this is one of the best maintained of the series. While one moto finishes and before the next moto reaches that section of track a worker work jump on a tractor and fix up one of the sections. Big thumbs up to them from me and the other racers for that. Especially when I'm the very last moto of the day! So, if you build it they will come is true for the race track this weekend, but its also true for this home made slip n slide that someone put together for the kid racers. Not long after they put together all the tarps from the surrounding trailers and pulled out their water barrels, all the kids from the track were standing in line in their bathing suits.
It wasn't quite as extreme as the one that Travis Pastrana put together at this house with doubles and all, but I think the kids here were glad for the relief from the heat and the stress put on them by their parents. - Blog post
- 1 year ago
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