“Fireball” Gene Gentsh Stuff

Last week on Racer X I did an Observations of the December 1983 issue of Motocross Magazine. In there I wrote about the Lakewood Colorado national an unknown guy named Gene Gentsch finishing eighth. Well…

Mailbag Time!

Hey, you asked so I answered. Thanks to all those that wrote in and sorry for the ones I didn’t get to, this thing’s already 5,000 words!

Reader Stories Part 2

A while back I asked for reader submissions, anything that you guys wanted to write about was fair game. I got a few, ran one a little while ago and here’s another one. Thanks Frank!

Fifteen Minutes, Forty-Six Seconds with Big Nasty

Last summer on a trip to go race in Canada with Nick Wey, I got to meet and hang out with his practice bike guy Big Nasty. I have no clue what his real name is and I don’t think Nick…

Tell Us a Story, Jason Thomas

JT$ (#51 here) busts out a holeshot and a great story for us.

Rider X

 Inspired by ESPN Magazine’s column with an anonymous NFL player on how life in the NFL really is, I thought that I’d try to do the same thing. I called a couple of riders and promised anonymity if they would…

Letters, Letters-I Get Letters

The latest installment of the mailbag. I didn’t get very many good ones for printing so step it up people. Email me at steve@directmotocross.com and I’ll get you your stupid answer.

Reader Stories

A while back I asked for some reader stories and I’ll run a few of these in the next little while. Here’s one from Kevin Sleeth.

The Best Supercross Riders of the 2000’s!

 Well, we’ve done the 80’s, the 90’s and now, with the close of the decade, we can figure out the best supercross racer of the Y2K decade. All the incredibly sharp and in focus photos by Carl Stone.

Check out Dreamtraxx

I don’t normally post PR’s on this site but Jason Baker is a friend of mine and builds some sweet-ass tracks (or maybe it’s traxxs?) so I thought I’d throw this up here.

Eight Minutes with Ezra Lusk

This year US Open definitely had a different vice about it. With all the uncertainty in the air about who’s riding where, who’s working for whom and the lack of star power at the race, it was a muted version…

Mailbag! You asked, I answered

 These things are fun, I like just giving honest answers and helping people learn. Email me at steve@directmotocross.com if you have something that’s on your mind.

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