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JUDGE RULES IN FAVOR OF OFF-ROADERS
  Judge Rules OHV Closures “Not Appropriate” and “Not in the Public Interest” A federal judge Saturday declined to restrict public access to some 5,000 miles of roads and trails in the West Mojave desert.A coalition of environmental groups had asked United States District Judge Susan Ills...(more)
FRIENDS OF JAWBONE
FOJ ENews --- Jannuary 26, 2011   Friends of Jawbone to Host Public Meeting Friends of Jawbone will host a public meeting for area State OHV grant applicants to share their projects and consult with the public.  The agenda will be dedicated to discussing the proposed projects and grant applicat...(more)
NEWS FLASH! ISDE CANCELS FINAL DAY OF RACE
  The 85th running of the International Six Day Enduro has been cancelled by FIM Sports Director Ignacio Verneda, due to alleged involvement by the La Eme, otherwise known as the Mexican Mafia, in the event. Sources close to the event report that a Mafia member was entered in with the Mexican Tea...(more)
TEAM PROJECT TWO 50 ON A ROLL
  Looks like development work on the baddest YZ250 the world has ever seen is about to see the light of day at Red Budd Michigan in a week or so, where Project Team Two 50 will pit their untra-trick YZ250 Two Stroke against the thundering hords of powerful but fragile 450cc four strokes in direct ...(more)
ATK PRESS RELEASE
  Issuing Date: May 27, 2010 33,000 Motorcycles Earmarked For American Market Taekwon Kim, CEO of S&T Motors, and Frank White, President of ATK, signed a multi-year $100 million dollar contract. According to terms of this contract, signed on May 25 "This contract signifies that the world's bes...(more)
BRINGING BACK WHAT WORKS
  Editor’s note: We had a chance to talk with the guys at Project Two 50 this morning, and in the course of the interview, we found out some very interesting facts and statistics that you the reader probably haven’t seen in the main stream dirt bike media. That one-sided view that extols th...(more)
DIRECT INJECTED TWO STROKE
  Here's what Bombardier has up its sleeve to keep the two stroke alive and kickin'. An injected two stroke with twice the power, and half the parts. This was sent to us by our mechanic-on-call Stephen Gautreau, who is up to his neck in exploded four strokes. Here's a link to read more on the st...(more)
GUEST EDITOR: THE FOUR STROKE DEBACLE
Stephen Gautreau owns and operates a motorcycle repair shop in the Phoenix, Arizona (SG CYCLES - 602-705-5876) section of this great land of ours, and has seen first hand the costs in both money and injuries that the new breed of four stroke MX bike has foisted on the sport. Below are his thoughts o...(more)
NO RACE GAS IN CALIFORNIA? READ ON ...
    RACE GAS RULES IN CALIFORNIA   MORE CRAP REGULATIONS FROM THE GOLDEN (HA!) STATE   BY RICK SIEMAN       Many riders use race gas, or mix a small amount of race gas in with their pump gas.  With the new hyper four strokes, it’s almost mandatory.  The pump gas in California ...(more)
WHAT CAUSED THE FOUR STROKE FIASCO: PART 6
  Remember Honda? That Motorcycle Company who brought us designs that changed the sport of dirt biking forever? Remember the 1973 Elsinore series? The 1979 Red Rocket? The water-cooled CR500? The XL/XR series? At one time, everything that Honda built in the realm of off-road motorcycles was a supe...(more)
FOLLOW THE MONEY
Well it looks like things can’t get any worse on the open class four stroke fiasco, did I say open class? Silly me, weren’t these 450’s supposed to race in the 250 class? Or was I just dreaming? One can understand why Honda made the change to a four stroke configuration, and forced the other...(more)