Motorcycles: the only thing as cool as bike!

Donnie Hansen Motocross Academy, Videos 1 and 2

I paid full retail for these two videos, and I am bummed.
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American Supercamp A Rama

Pour equal parts moto-heads and XR100s into an indoor track. Mix thoroughly. Cook at full throttle for two days and serve sweaty.

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American Supercamp, Part 1

I just spent two days railing XR100s inside a barn with a bunch of Type-A racerheads and some bad ass instructors. I’ll write a full story asap, but first these photos:
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The Colorado promise: Trail riding from home


We’ve had some awesome weather here lately: snow pounding the Rockies and sun warming the Front Range. It’s the Colorado promise.

Last Monday we rode our street-legal trail motos from home to Lefthand Canyon OHV Area, all over the mountains then back to Boulder. And that too is the Colorado promise.
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Friday afternoon epiphanies

Today we rode motorbikes at the Berthoud motocross complex — with its handful of tracks and scribble of trails — and let me say this: What a day!
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Knobbies on snow


Here in Colorado, cold is settling in and snow is settling down. It seems like time to hang the wheels and wax the skis, but — no! — not yet.
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Grand Junction and Moab, moto style


If you’re a bitter person, don’t read this. It’ll only make you angry. For the rest of you, behold three days and three adventures.
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Rampart Range moto session

Distance: 52 miles. Time: 2:40. Average speed: 20 mph. Top speed: 60 mph. Terrain: swoopy singletack. Not a bad afternoon.
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On the trail and loving it

I’ve long had this fantasy of riding singletrack — the kind we rip on bikes — on a motorcycle. Just swooping through the woods, left right up down brap braap braaaping along, so smooth, so flowy, so graceful.
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Run timer: DMC Moto-Trainer II

If you’re trying to go fast, the only true measure is time. What feels fast is frequently slow, and vice versa. For example, riding sketchily feels fast, but riding smoothly is fast. You cannot trust feel. If you want to know whether one run is faster than the last, you must use a timer.
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The challenge of crossing over

Try as he might, Brian Lopes has yet to dominate the Crossover Challenge — the annual motocross race for non-moto pro athletes.
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Big, red and mine

After years of obsessing, I finally threw down and bought a really nice moto: the mighty yet refined 2005 Honda CRF450X.
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