MX History

WHAT COMES TO MIND WHEN YOU THINK OF NO FEAR? Maybe it’s the motocross gear that took the world by storm when Jeremy McGrath wore it in 1999? Or maybe it’s the T-shirts whose slogans suggested you were pushing the…

For this edition of MX Captured, we are going to look back at the dusty 1993 Unadilla Motocross National.  Factory Honda’s Jeremy McGrath piloted his CR125R to second at Unadilla in 1993.  Credit: Paul Buckley In July of 1993, the…

In 1991, Mitch Payton launched one of the most influential independent teams in motocross history. Backed by Peak antifreeze and partnered with American Honda, Mitch Payton’s new squad burst onto the scene with a stable of young talent that quickly…

  Here is issue three of the iconic motocross magazine Inside Motocross. This one is one of my favorites, with some really cool classic ads and a few great interviews. As always, the photography is amazing. As before, I am…

My whole life I thought Doug Dubach rode Suzuki’s for a couple of years and then switched to Yamaha’s which he proceeded to ride for the next thirty years or so. Dubach, Yamaha’s and O’Neal gear- just like the sun…

Chad Reed is an all-timer in the sport of supercross and motocross. As the veteran racer winds down his career, it’s important to note that at one time, Reed’s future in the sport was heavily questioned. In 2010, after one…

What happens when the can’t-miss kid misses? “People used to say that he was going to be the next Bob Hannah because he was in Palmdale and he used to ride all those desert tracks that Hannah grew up on,”…

There aren’t too many more bad dudes on a dirt bike than Ron “The Dogger” Lechien. And there aren’t too many racers who looked cooler on a bike than Ronnie either. With that in mind, Tony Blazier dug up some…