Friday, November 29, 2013 at 2:03PM 
Our sport has come a long way since 1956. Here is a link to a video that will give you a look at what the origins of MX looked like. The video is about 20 minutes long but gives you a good look into the past. Take note of the spectators, their dress, demeanor and closeness to the track. It helps if you speak German but the film alone shows the great changes in MX.
Video courtesy of MX Large
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 at 10:04AM 
We hope everyone has a safe and fun holiday with family and friends. If the weather is good where you live you might also get in a days riding.
Sunday, November 24, 2013 at 12:30PM The following is from RacerTV.com…
MORGANTOWN, W. Va. (November 20, 2013) - RacerTV.com is pleased to announce its broadcast schedule to include 20 hours of live racing coverage from the 42nd Annual Thor Winter Olympics, presented by Pro Circuit. Taking place at Gatorback Cycle Park in Gainesville Fla. during the week of Thanksgiving, live race coverage will be broadcast on RacerTV.com from Tuesday, November 26 - Saturday, November 30.
RacerTV.com host Rodney Tomblin, longtime Loretta Lynn's Amateur Motocross, Pro Motocross and Grand National Cross Country Series announcer, will provide play-by-play commentary of the amateur supercross and motocross racing action all week long. Tomblin will be joined in the booth by special guest commentator Sean Hackley, who will provide unique insight as a professional motocross/supercross racer. RacerTV.com pit reporter Jen Kenyon will also be on hand to capture the action taking place in the pits and off the racetrack.
Companies supporting this year's RacerTV.com broadcast at the Thor Winter Olympics include MotoSport.com as the Official Holeshot sponsor of the show, Farren Racing's Top Ten Leaderboard, the WMR/Nihilo Concepts Podium Interviews, OnTrack School's Moto Hero Award and Twitter contests and giveaways presented by Lazydays RV and Racer X Illustrated.
"To have live racing coverage from the Thor Winter Olympics on RacerTV.com is a big deal for our amateur racers, their families and the sponsors," said Wyn Kern, President of Unlimited Sports MX. "We're looking forward to bringing this unprecedented coverage for many years to come."
As one of the most historic races on the amateur motocross circuit, the Thor Winter Olympics is now a part of the American Motocross Championship Majors, an alliance made up of an elite group of race organizers that host premier amateur and professional motocross events in America. This prestigious weeklong event hosts supercross-style racing for the first three days on the newly re-designed SX track, before switching gears to motocross-style competition on Gatorback Cycle Park's naturally elevated motocross track for the final three days.
The broadcast schedule is as follows:
Tuesday 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. SX Mains
Wednesday 8 a.m. - 11 a.m. SX Mains
Thursday 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. MX Moto 1
Friday 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. MX Moto 1
Saturday 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. MX Moto 2
*Subject to change based on the actual race schedule
The 2013 Winter Olympics begins Monday, November 25 with supercross practice and racing. For more information on the Winter Olympics, please visit www.unlimitedsports.com.
For more information on RacerTV, please visit www.racertv.com.
Sunday, November 17, 2013 at 9:54AM
SCORE International confirms tragic racing accident claims
life of American desert racing star Kurt Caselli
ENSENADA, Mexico—SCORE International, a desert racing sanctioning body based in Reno, Nev., has confirmed that American motorcycle star Kurt Caselli tragically lost his life Friday as a result of injuries sustained during a late-race accident at the SCORE Baja 1000 being held in Mexico’s Baja California.
One of the best-liked and respected personalities in American desert racing, Caselli, 30, of Palmdale, Calif., died of serious trauma incurred when he apparently lost control of his KTM motorcycle in a sandy, high-speed section at approximate race-mile 792 while his team was leading in the late stages of the 883.1-mile international desert race.
The accident occurred at 4:30 p.m. PT Friday.
“Our desert racing family has lost a very special person in Kurt,” commented SCORE President Roger Norman. “Kurt was a superb racer and this is a tragedy that affects us all. We extend our deepest condolences, thoughts and prayers to the Caselli family. Their loss is immeasurable and we grieve with them.”
A multi-time AMA National Hare & Hound Champion, WORCS Champion and many-time ISDE gold medalist, Caselli was a developing international rally racer as well. In June of this year he won the Desafio Ruta 40 Rally in Argentina – in what was only his second international rally since making his debut in the Dakar Rally at the end of 2012. Caselli won two stages of the Dakar Rally this past January.
Caselli and his factory-backed KTM racing team won last year’s SCORE San Felipe 250 and finished second and third in the other two SCORE Baja races this season.
Saturday, November 16, 2013 at 2:44PM Nothing like a little write up in the home town paper to make you feel good even for a geezer! This story was published in The Coloradoan.
If not for Fort Collins’ lack of an ice rink 44 years ago, Bart Kellogg might never have become a champion motocross rider.
In 1969, Kellogg and his wife, Deborah — a couple of native New Yorkers — moved to Fort Collins to start a farm and a family. A hockey player, Kellogg wanted to skate, but there was no ice rink. He joined a committee to help promote a rink, but EPIC wouldn’t be built until some 20 years later. By that time, Kellogg had already helped found the Valley Dirt Riders club and was well on his way to becoming one of the best motocross riders in the state.
And today, Kellogg, 70, is still riding.
“It’s kind of a funny way I got into the sport. I just met some people enjoying dirt biking when we moved here, and the sport just clicked with me,” said Kellogg, who won the MTA World Vet Motocross Championships Nov. 3 at Glen Helen Raceway in San Bernardino, Calif.
Kellogg has raced at the World Vet Motocross Championships since his 50s, but this was the first year he’s won a title, capping off a banner season in which he also won the International Old Timers Motocross Association race series championship.
Kellogg won five of the eight races he participated in to win the series, and with some veteran racing skills, beat American Motorcyclist Association Motorcycle Hall of Famer Lars Larsson to win the 70 Master’s Class championship.
“It’s been a good year, it’s been fun. In order to win something like that, you have to have good results without getting hurt, and I’ve been fortunate,” Kellogg said. “Everything has to come together. At the World Championships, you don’t know until you get there who you’re racing against. So, there’s a lot of apprehension. .”
Kellogg won the first moto at Glen Helen Raceway and Larsson finished second, setting up a duel for the championship in the second moto.The Swedish-born Larsson showed his world-class skills by passing Kellogg up the steep, 150-yard hill, but Kellogg had some tricks, too, passing Larsson in the air on a big jump to end the first lap. He’d keep the lead for four more laps.
“I knew he was going to give me trouble, so I rode as hard I could. Lars, he was on the world Grand Prix circuit and after emigrating to the U.S., raced in California his whole life, so I was really pleased to beat him,” Kellogg said. “It was great to see his Grand Prix talent.”
In preparation for this season, Kellogg enlisted the help of longtime Fort Collins Club trainer Mike Rickett. With Rickett’s personalized training plan, Kellogg focused on strengthening his back, legs and forearms — all vital for a motocross rider.
The mix of physical strength and endurance and the speed and power of the motorcycle is what attracted Kellogg to the sport 44 years ago. At 70, Kellogg has been relatively unscathed over the years, suffering only an anterior cruciate ligament injury, ankle injury and a separated shoulder in his years of riding.
Kellogg doesn’t take any maintenance or prescription medicines, he said, and is proud of the shape he is in. He, Deborah and their four kids — Melissa, Josh, Vicki and Meagan — will run the RBC Fort Collins Thanksgiving Day Run together, a tradition they do every other year.
“You have to take good care of your body. You don’t want to have any bad habits that you do to excess because that’s going to detract from your health and your focus,” Kellogg said. “It’s obvious I’ve been pretty focused on doing this in practice and training. I do believe that from time to time, God shows me how to deal with things that are bothering me. Or, lead me to someone who can help me.”
A grandfather of eight, Kellogg said it’s now time to park the motorcycle in the garage for a while and take a break. He said he’s committed to taking 2014 off from racing so he can take the grandchildren fishing.
Perhaps now is the time to start what he set out to do when first moving to Fort Collins.
“I am thinking about starting to skate again. It’s been a really long time,” Kellogg said. “I’m in good condition, so I’m pretty sure I can pick it up.”
Stephen Meyers
Coloradoan - 11/15/2013
Wednesday, November 13, 2013 at 4:16PM Supercross has made huge strides in recent years with top riders, major mainstream sponsors, television coverage and rising attendance.
The latest step could be the biggest in the history of the sport: live television.
Feld Motor Sports, which operates Supercross, has signed a five-year deal with Fox to show all of its races live on Fox Sports 1 and 2, giving the sport a huge boost in exposure.
"The evolution of any sport is kind of legitimized when it's all live," said Ken Hudgens, chief operating officer at Feld. "It's something that we certainly have been working toward on a yearly basis and this sort of solidifies that, so for us it's just a further next step for legitimizing the sport."
The deal calls for 115 hours of original programming and 51 hours of live coverage, including all 17 Supercross races, starting with the season opener in Anaheim, Calif., on Jan. 4.
The deal also includes coverage of Feld's other motor sports properties, including the FIM World Championship, $1 million Monster Energy Cup Arenacross and Monster Jam monster truck shows.
Outdoor motocross will continue to be carried on NBC Sports and NBC Sports Network.
Fox Sports 1 and 2 launched in August, broadcasting events in college sports, European soccer, UFC mixed martial arts and a variety of motor sports. Viewership for many programs has been limited so far, but the schedule will expand next year to include NASCAR, USGA events, major horse races and, now, Supercross.
The events "deliver not only strong ratings, but strong ratings in a very desirable demographic," said Fox Sports executive vice president David Nathanson. "We have a long-running relationship with the team at Feld, and we believe that together we can build on what is a very fresh and exciting product with an extremely passionate fan base."
Moving to Fox should be a huge boost for Supercross.
The Supercross season averages nearly 850,000 spectators per year, but reaching large TV audiences has always been an issue.
For years, Supercross could be found only on tape delay at random times. The sport had its first live TV event in 2005, and last season 11 races were shown live on the Speed network.
Going to a multisport network should help as well.
When Supercross was shown on Speed, it was to a very specific audience; the channel carried only motor sports, so there wasn't a whole lot of variety in fans.
With Fox Sports 1 and 2 carrying such a mix of sports, Supercross has the chance to reach an audience that had mostly been out of reach before.
"For the Anaheim opener, you have five live events going on throughout the day on Fox Sports 1 and we'll be pretty heavily promoted in everything they're doing that day that leads up to it," Hudgens said. "The promotion and the exposure the sport and the individual athletes to new, bigger and broader audiences is probably for us the most important part of the deal."
Better lead-ins should also help.
On Speed, Supercross would follow some live events, but many times the show before was some type of reality series or a racing-related movie.
With Fox, Supercross will often have the benefit of coming after a live event from a major sport, sometimes several in a row.
"We're going from lead-ins of old Cannonball Run movies to live sports," Hudgens said. "I think every one of our lead-ins (in 2014) will be college basketball, Major League Baseball or UFC. That's so dramatically different and so dramatically better for Supercross."
Tuesday, November 12, 2013 at 12:24PM In honor of Veteran's Day, MX Sports Pro Racing and the National Promoter's Group (NPG) are proud to announce the continuation of an initiative with the Veteran Tickets Foundation, where active and retired military veterans will once again have the opportunity to attend any round of the 2014 Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship, sanctioned by AMA Pro Racing, at no cost.
For 2014, Lucas Oil Pro Motocross has donated 50 General Admission tickets for each of the 12 rounds of the Nationals to the Vet Tix foundation. Tickets will be available to all military veterans three weeks prior to each event through VetTix.org.
"The donation of free tickets has dramatically widened the range of ways that veterans can relax, enjoy themselves, share smiles with their families and loved ones, and for some, be re-integrated into civilian life," said CEO and Founder of Vet Tix Michael Focareto.
Major sports franchises from Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, National Football League, and National Hockey League have also partnered with Vet Tix, as have World Wrestling Entertainment and Professional Bull Riders. Lucas Oil Pro Motocross is one of the first prominent motorsports properties in the country to offer this one-of-a-kind service to all veterans of the armed services.
Vet Tix is a national nonprofit organization based in Phoenix that provides free tickets to veterans and active-duty members of the military and their families. The concept of Vet Tix was developed in 2008 by U.S. Navy veteran Michael Focareto. Since then, the organization has given away more than 725,000 tickets to veterans nationwide.
All active and retired military veterans can create an account on VetTix.org to receive emails and reminders about when Lucas Oil Pro Motocross tickets become available. More information about Vet Tix can be found at VetTix.org.
The 2014 Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship kicks off Saturday, May 24, with the Glen Helen National in San Bernardino, Calif. The world's best riders will compete over the course of 12 rounds of action on the most renowned motocross tracks in the country.
Tuesday, November 12, 2013 at 12:03PM
Straight Rhythm Battle: Dungey vs. Musquin
By Carter Jung on 12 November 2013 in Moto, SX
Watch Ryan Dungey and Marvin Musquin attack the Red Bull Straight Rhythm course from the air.
Here's the Red Bull Straight Rhythm video you were waiting for. A clean, unadulterated clip of two riders attacking the half-mile-long track in its entirety, via helicopter. Yes, helicopter. Cue Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries."
To sweeten the pot, we have Ryan Dungey on a KTM 450 SX-F and Marvin Musquin on a KTM 350 SX-F battling on the unwound supercross course. Mind you, this wasn't supposed to be a race. This was supposed to be a friendly exhibition run by two professional racers on a prototype track. Turns out, the key word in the last sentence is "racers."
Saturday, November 9, 2013 at 8:58AM Relaxed and fun, that's the best way to describe the Sierra MC Private Ride Day. You show up early ride as many laps as you want on the well groomed track. When you get tired you sit back with old friends and tell tall tales about how fast you were riding. Everyone is smiling and having a good time. Maybe you just want to watch other riders take a section you're having trouble with...well there is usually a former national pro or two out showing they still go fast. After a few motos and some time in the shade lunch is ready. Grilled burgers, dogs, chilli and cold drinks for everyone. A few more laps after lunch and then the crowd begins to form for the raffle. Anticipation is high because there is some great swag. Several riders went home with Works Connection Hour Meters and one lucky guy got a Fly chest protector but most had their hopes up for the Works Connection Factory Stand. A huge groan went up when the winning number was called because there could be only one winner and he was grinning from ear to ear. Think about it, no screaming mini's, no 75 guys all trying to get in the same practice, a groomed and watered track, hot lunch and a chance to go home with more than you came with. That's a pretty good day of riding.
What helps make this possible is the companies that support our sport. We all have a choice on where we spend our dollars. The next time you need something for riding remember these vendors. They give back to our sport.
Works Connection Sierra Motor Sports Fly Roseville Yamaha/Kawasaki AutoNation Honda
And a very special thanks to Jared from MMX for working to make these ride days a success.
Monday, November 4, 2013 at 8:19PM Congratulations to my old friend and long time competitor Bart Kellogg. Bart drove all the way from Colorado to sweep both motos in the 70 Class at this years MTA World Vet Championship at Glen Helen.
Great ride Bart!
That's Bart below on the right showing off his muscles!
