Ride this coming Weekend @ Freddie's MX Ranch

Supposed to be good and "flowy", being that he owns a heavy equipment company he has the "tools" to make it happen. Anxious to twist the grip.

Got 'em, Smoke 'em

According to B. Snider, Ryan Hughes and Jessica Patterson will be racing YZ144's this weekend at Glen Helen's 2 Stroke Smoke Out. Braaaap!

Cannonball!

Or is that a jackknife?

Special Ed Reps the Mag 5 @ Keyesville Classic

The Mag 5 was well represented at the 23rd annual Keyesville Classic by none other then our own Special Ed Paulsen. As you know Ed always goes big, entering all 3 events; 8 mile XC, Short Track and Downhill events.

Nice shirt Ed, how much did that cost?

Saturday's XC race was a one 8 mile sprint around the Keyesville Classic track, with Ed smiling as he pulls the holeshot. Steady Eddie...it's a long race...and it was as Ed let a few fast guys by.

Sunday's Short Track was about 1 mile loop, 8 lap sprint. Ed again started fast and picked off a few riders at the end to a 3rd in class and 8th overall. Ed would later say he was totally gassed and just needed a cup of coffee and some more chew.

The final event was the downhill time trail. Pooher, Art & Ed did a pre-run on Saturday and there was a tricky drop-off into the trees, heavily padded for the impending crash to come. The guy pre-running ahead of us crashed and cracked his helmet, a sure sign of things to come. Bad weather forced Pooher and Art to leave before Ed's race but did not disappoint winning his class.

Great job Ed!

MX History

Hakan Carlqvist was so far out front at the Citadel (GP of Namur) that he pulled over and drank a beer with the fans. The Citadel track literally wrapped in and out of a historic castle in Belgium. The track was lined with cafes and bars. Hence the beer stop. Probably my favorite motocross story of all time (besides Ed winning the Catalina GP on a $200 bike). Sadly the race and the track are no more.








Check out this link for a track walk around the Citadel
http://www.pbase.com/jefro98/trackwalk

Ravioli Cairoli at the Citadel.

Gnar.

Here's the cafe where Hakan pulled over for his celebration beer.

Big air in a Belgian castle.

Castillo Addendum

Blue skies, green grass, black dirt.

As Ed said, track was in burrito supreme condition. It was obvious Gustavo did a lot of work. "Yimmy" was in Mexico with his new girlfriend. Cheers.

Lots of sand added to key sections.

Travis hitting the new freestyle jump. I told him "I'm out", then he said, "you gotta do it while you're still young," so I did. Didn't quite lay it as flat as T.Marks.

Other comments: Ed was flyin, Tyler coming to terms with the 450 clearing the big table-step-down, Potter pressured/passed me per usual, consensus on San Jose-Aaron is faster on his 450 than his Service Honda CR500, Tigert maybe the fastest guy on the track when not picking himself up off the ground, Rich "this Husky doesn't work in the sand" Schauwecker, I had moments of feeling like my old self interspersed with serious episodes of whiskey throttle ... Yee haw! Mag 5 well represented, but missed the spice of Dougo, Dax, Booher, et al.

Photo creds: Tigert, JunkoIkari

Tony Schroeder following Tyler

Castillo then Zaca

Is it never not the time of our lives when we double down? Castillo was probably the best its ever been. Mellowed out the "Sharks tooth" double double, the big step down had a smooth landing and the "triple" is really just a big tabletop now. Dano looked smooth as usual, Tigert is learning to get the frequent flyer miles, Potter was just messing with me all day before he uncorked a couple of hot laps to pelt me with plenty of the Castillo gravel, Matt shook off the deamons of his broken Tib/Fib and Waynium won.

Oh yeah, one more thing we all rolled around the SX track. It had been re-done for Chad Reed and showed. Only the absolute top supercross racers have any business on that track. TV does no justice to what those obstacles are really like. Once you roll up to the lip of the jump and both your bikes tires are off the ground its scary, when you roll thru the canyon gap to the landing and the same thing happens it becomes very clear that guys like me have noooo business even dreaming about riding a real supercross track.

After getting to bed by a sesible 930pm we were all rested and ready to ride by 9am even with the stupid spring forward time change. I don't think the whole team got the "early to bed for good moto" memo...

Dano still has the knack.

The drive from AZ was well worth it.

Matt clearing the gap clean. No broken bones this trip

Situation #2 was getting this crew out of the chairs and onto the track for some photos... It was harder than situation #1 below.
Situation #1. Cows blocking the road to Zaca. Wouldnt move for shit, I guess the white lightning perv van just wasnt menacing enough. I let Maggie out of the car and those cows took off like they had seen the Devil himself!
No idea who this is, but based on the proper form, I will assume he is a mag 5 associate.

Compulsion

Handmade Portraits: Liberty Vintage Motorcycles from Etsy on Vimeo.

Castillo Ranch This Coming Weekend!

R1 Dirt Bike - Get it On!