Thursday
Dec212023

Carson Brown and Ken Roczen Rematch on the 2006 RM125!

You can’t spell rematch without the RM. After a close race on the 85, Ken Roczen and I battled it out for the fastest lap on a 2006 RM125. This is Episode 2 of ERA’s; super excited that we got to do another one with Kenny!

 

Tuesday
Dec192023

Husqvarna Factory Racing all set to race 2024 Dakar Rally

Tuesday
Dec192023

Honda Dakar Team

Here is the Monster Energy Honda Team that will contest the 2024 World Rally-Raid Championship season with its new HONDA CRF450Rally.

Tuesday
Dec192023

Ducati Motocross 2024

Sound all the way up! Take a moment to enjoy Antonio Cairoli and Alessandro Lupino on the new Ducati motocross and stay tuned for the 21st-23rd January 2024, where at the Campioni in Pista event we will present the team that will participate in the Italian Motocross Championship in 2024.

Tuesday
Dec192023

Are 2 Strokes Fast...Ask King Kenny!

Sunday
Dec172023

Last Minute Shopping...Head To Rocky Mtn Atv

 

 

Santa Says " Moto riders always need more tools"  

 

 

 

 

 

                                         

Tusk Compression Tester   Fork Seal Driver               Digitial Pump                        Mini Carb Kit

 

Visit www.rockymountainatv.com

 

Saturday
Dec162023

Tomac On 2024 and Deegan

2-Time Monster Energy Supercross Champion Eli Tomac opens up about the end of his 2023 season, what he saw watching SuperMotocross and Pro Motocross 450 Champion Jett Lawrence, and riding this offseason with Haiden Deegan. SMX insiders Jason Weigandt and Jason Thomas discuss the odd couple that is Tomac and Deegan

Saturday
Dec162023

Joey Savatgy on Triumph

 Joey Savatgy on his move to Triumph

Post: Alex Gobert

What's next leading into a brand new project for 2024 and beyond.

It’s been a relatively low-key, but successful year for Joey Savatgy, leading the three-round World Supercross Championship (WSX) into Melbourne and finishing second in the final standings. What’s next, however, is an incredibly exciting prospect, stepping back to the 250 class for the outdoors with Triumph in 2024 – and looking to ride their 450 the following year – and in a lot of ways, it’s a case of unfinished business. He spoke candidly to MotoOnline about all that and more in this Upfront feature.


Saturday
Dec162023

First Person: Colt Nichols

Post: Alex Gobert

The plan to put Beta's new factory team on the map in Supercross 2024.

After winning the final race of the World Supercross Championship (WSX) season in Melbourne as part of Rick Ware Racing, Colt Nichols has quickly turned his attention to leading Beta’s factory Monster Energy Supercross Championship program entering the 2024 season. With a timely uplift in confidence on his side, hear from him in this First Person interview

Saturday
Dec162023

GODSPEED! RICK “SUPER HUNKY” SIEMAN (1940-2023)

 

By Jody Weisel

Rick Sieman, better know as Super Hunky, and I had a bond, even though we didn’t actually ever work together. It is true that Motocross Action and Dirt Bike Magazine were both owned by Hi-Torque Publishing, but each magazine was independent, from corporate control in what we chose to do or how we chose to do it. MXA’s offices were right across the hall from Dirt Bike’s in a high-rise office building on Ventura Boulevard in Encino, California. But, we rarely socialized, with the Dirt Bike guys. However,  I had a warm spot in my heart for Rick Sieman that went back to the early 1970s. I was from Texas, that is where I started racing and that is where I made a name for myself—so when I became a SoCal magazine guy, I was a outsider. I remember flying to the New Orleans AMA National on a plane that had every magazine editor of any importance in the 1970s on the same flight. I wasn’t one of them. They didn’t speak to me or even glance my direction. I didn’t really care for their magazines, their personalities or the things they wrote about bikes, so I was fine with it.

 

This is the only existing photo of Rick and I racing together at Saddleback Park. Rick was, of course, on his beloved Maico.

The only person on the plane that I thought was worthwhile was Rick Sieman. I was, without a doubt, a big Super Hunky fan. However, I didn’t work for Hi-Torque at the time, so I didn’t try to talk to him. So, I was surprised when he walked back to where I had chosen to sit and sat down next to me. He was a ball of fire, with rapid fire jokes, unlimited insights, wild stories, perhaps a touch of fatherly advice, and scathing reviews of the other magazine guys sitting a few rows in front of us, who he called “pencil-necked geeks,”  We chatted for most of the flight. I liked him right away!

A year later, I was offered jobs at virtually every motorcycle magazine in print in the mid-1970s. I turned them all down until I got an offer from MXA. They didn’t offer me the most money, but I didn’t care about the salary, I wanted to race, test motorcycles and make Motocross Action into the best magazine possible—and it didn’t hurt that Rick “Super Hunky” Sieman, would be just 20 feet across the hall from the MXA enclave.

A fuzzy photo of Rick (left), Jody (center) and Vic “Mr. Know-It-All”Krause (right) dressed in Tuxedo’s at the Cincinnati Motorcycle Show. 

But “Super Hunky” was a lightning rod for controversy, and that was the thing that would make him a great fighter for off-road rights, but not the greatest employee. And eventually, Rick elected to leave “Dirt Bike Magazine” and I fell out of his orbit. He was an ex-power lifter, who lived in the Valley and was the ultimate story teller—I would alway say to him after he told me one of his fantastic adventure tales, “That was a great. Was any of it true?” He’d laugh out loud and act offended, but he was always ready with another outlandish tale.

When he wrote his “Monkey Butt” book, he told me not to worry about what he wrote in it because, “I left you out!” Thats’a the kind of guy he was. It’s not that I didn’t see Rick after he left Hi-Torque, we ran into each other all the time. We would see each other at press intros and the magic that was Rick was always on display, but eventually he moved to Mexico and then to Arizona to live out the off-road lifestyle. It’s a shame that the vast majority of modern motocross racers never had the opportunity to live through Super Hunky’s reign at the top of the motorcycle magazine world.  Rick passed away after a long illness at the age of 83. For me Rick will always be the Rick Sieman who sat down next to me on a flight to New Orleans and made me feel like I had a friend.