Mark Barnett gets big air

Hey, it was the early 1980's and ten feet off the ground was big air.  Here's a shot of 125cc National and Supercross champ Mark Barnett styling for a cover shot, down on his grandma's farm in Alabama.

I used to love hanging out down there.  Just Barnett and granny and a bunch of RM's.  Suzuki would come with a box truck and drop off about 10 bikes.  Barnett would put gas in 'em and ride until a bike either needed work or broke. He'd set that one up against the hog shed and take another. When they were all used up, Suzuki would come, load up the trashed bikes, and leave a new batch.

Those were the days.

Mark Barnett gets big air

Hey, it was the early 1980's and ten feet off the ground was big air.  Here's a shot of 125cc National and Supercross champ Mark Barnett styling for a cover shot, down on his grandma's farm in Alabama.

I used to love hanging out down there.  Just Barnett and granny and a bunch of RM's.  Suzuki would come with a box truck and drop off about 10 bikes.  Barnett would put gas in 'em and ride until a bike either needed work or broke. He'd set that one up against the hog shed and take another. When they were all used up, Suzuki would come, load up the trashed bikes, and leave a new batch.

Those were the days.

Jo Jo Keller in flight on a production CR

I could tell quite a few stories about this guy.  The one-and-only Jo Jo Keller flies the 480R for the Honda B team. I'm pretty sure this is Southwick; note the Jo Jo sign in background. Keller could make time on the deep sand course. Then after the moto, he just might flip a penny and catch it on his nose.

Talented guy. Great racer. Wonderful personality.

Mike "Too Tall" Bell

Here's a shot of factory Yamaha's Mike "Too Tall" Bell after winning the 1979 Philadelphia Supercross. Mike was a wonderful rider to watch - all arms and legs and in stark contrast to the many jockey-sized riders who carried the speed to win at the national level.

Mike played an important role in my life.  I was a kid from Wisconsin who stumbled onto the national MX scene.  When in college, I'd sit in the back row and peruse MX magazines, reading about the bikes and riders and  seeing California as something about as accessible as Mars.

Early in my Cycle News East career, I made a trip to the west coast office.  I had met Mike at the races and looked him up. Think we got together at his brother's house and also went to the Yamaha shop his dad worked at - this is all fuzzed up in my brain at this point.

But the memory I won't forget is how Mike Bell - a California factory rider - would treat a kid from Wisconsin like a real person.  I recall that visit as quite remarkable.  It was guys like Mike Bell who let me live a dream.

2010 KTM 530 EXC Champions Edition

For those that simply can't get enough, the new 530 EXC is heading to the start line this year with a completely overhauled chassis. An insatiable fighting machine that is unfazed by even the toughest Enduro challenges on the one hand, and a complete workhorse that undeviatingly pursues its course – sturdy and reliably, on the other. Fed by the powerful SOHC engine, it provides brute four-stroke power however also can impress its with soft power when required.

2010 KTM 530 EXC / Champions Edition - Specifications

Engine type Single cylinder, 4-stroke
Displacement 510.4 cc
Bore x stroke 95 x 72 mm (3.74 x 2.83")
Compression ratio 11.9:1
Starter/Battery Kickstarter/E-Starter/12V 4 Ah
Transmission 6 gears wide-ratio
Carburetor Keihin FCR MX 39
Control 4 V/OHC with rocker levers
Lubrication Pressure lubrication with 2 Eaton pumps
Engine lubrication Motorex, SAE 10W50
Transmission oil Motorex, SAE 10W50
Primary drive 33:76
Final drive 15:45 (13:50)
Cooling Liquid cooled
Clutch Wet multi-disc clutch, operated hydraulically
Ignition Kokusan


Frame Central double-cradle-type 25CrMo4 steel
Subframe Aluminium
Handlebar Neken Aluminium Ø 28/22 mm (1.10/0.87")
Front suspension WP USD Ø 48 mm (1.89")
Rear suspension WP PDS shock absorber
Suspension travel front/rear 300/335 mm (11.81 / 13.19")
Brakes, front/rear Disc brakes 260/220 mm (10.24/8.66")
Rims, front/rear 1.60 x 21"; 2.15 x 18" Excel
Tires, front/rear 90/90-21"; 140/80-18"
Chain X-ring chain 5/8 x 1/4"
Main silencer Aluminium
Steering head angle 63.5°
Trail Adjustable
Wheel base 1475 ± 10 mm (58.0 ± 0.39")
Ground clearance (unloaded) 380 mm (15")
Seat height 985 mm (38.78")
Tank capacity approx. 9.5 liters (2.51 gal)
Weight (no fuel) approx. 113.9 kg (251.1 lbs)

Kawasaki KLX 150 Adventure Series

Kawasaki KLX 150 Adventure Series dirt bike-style is much less convenient than the manufacturer remains the norm. This is in contrast with the Kawasaki KLX 150 alerts in 2010, which was at the garage Asep Hendro Sport (AHRS). KLX Green Berkeler typical Japanese motorcycle manufacturers are experiencing some changes in the way of adventures.

The shift starts from the front, replacing the handle and integrate Racer AHRS mixture. These changes are intended to achieve a more comfortable steering position and easy to control when you are invited to walk the streets off the road. Green is also installed Acerbis hand guard beremblem Berkeler.

Touch changes also seen in the front suspension - up to 5 cm high. In addition to the forward and back and a string of mixed Japanese kindergarten. In order to find comfort when riding rear swing arm extends up to 1.5 cm. While the two off-road tires Pirelli Scorpion XC beremblem berspesifikasi (80/100-21) and Scorpion MX (100/100-18) is used. For additional energy into the engine to the muffler exhaust standard Freeflow AHRS Vector

Motor Cross Honda CRF450R 2011

Gambar Wallpaper Motor Cross Honda Terbaru CRF450R 2011

Long admired as the bike of best in the big-bore motocross division, the 2011 CRF450R incorporates improvements that will advice this bike absorb its arch standing. The biggy powerband is now akin stronger acknowledgment to added low-end cull and midrange antithesis forth with added burke acknowledgment via a new burke body. Revised abeyance bond and settings crop bigger control, added ride plushness and added rear-wheel traction. A new Honda Progressive Steering Damper (HPSD) produces akin bigger tracking ancestry than before, and a new muffler meets the 94-decibel complete akin appropriate by some antagonism organizations in 2011. All this and added accomplish the 2011 CRF450R a affirmation to advance its ascendant role amid open-class MX bikes.

Motocross is a battle, and you’d bigger accompany your “A” bold whenever you appearance up—either that, or be able to eat a bucketful of roost. But back you’re on a 2011 Honda CRF450R it’s anybody abaft you who’ll be savoring that dirt-flavored banquet. Why? Because we’ve accustomed the CRF450R some austere upgrades.

First, the 450 gets a new burke body, new ammunition injector, and new ECU mapping so the agent makes added low end and midrange torque, and additionally offers akin bigger burke response. The ability is easier to control, but after any accident of top end—better than anytime for average and able riders alike. And our anatomy designers were aloof as busy, afterlight the CRF450R subframe and demography the befalling to fine-tune the subframe's stiffness. A new rear shock articulation and lower shock arise for bigger front/rear antithesis and bigger abeyance activity abnormally over square-edged bumps.

And finally, new 2011 AMA rules accompaniment that every MX bike will accept to accommodated the new 94 decibel rule. Both our CRF450R and CRF250R do that easily, acknowledgment to a new bankrupt arrangement that works in affiliation with the new FI settings. So while the added guys ability aloof change a muffler, that’s aloof area we started. And the aboriginal time the aboideau drops, it’s gonna show.