Motocross Mania

Welcome to the Weekly Dirt, the place to go each week to get your off-road fix. With three Supercross rounds in the books, it’s starting to look like we’ve got a race on our hands. Three winners in three rounds is a great sign, not to mention three bike manufacturers on top of the podium as well: Kawasaki, KTM and now Honda. In the meantime, off-road racing kicked off this week, as well, with Hare Scrambles in the east and Hare and Hound in the west. Meanwhile, the opening round of the Rekluse/AMA National Enduro series is this coming Sunday in Sumter, South Carolina. So get ready for the Dirt, there’s a lot to cover.

Photo Gallery: The Weekly Dirt: January 25, 2012 – Dirt Rider Magazine

Photo Gallery: The Weekly Dirt: January 25, 2012 – Dirt Rider Magazine

So here we go again, the 2012 Extreme Enduro season kicked off with the Tough One in the UK. Where exactly in the UK? Let’s just say about 70 miles southwest of Manchester. The name of the place is sort of unpronouncable for anybody living more than 200 miles away: Nantmawr Quarry.

Photo Gallery: Tough One – Extreme Enduro – Dirt Rider Magazine

Photo Gallery: Tough One – Extreme Enduro – Dirt Rider Magazine

For this week’s addition of the ‘Dirt, Scott Hoffman takes you inside what turned out to be a historic night of racing in Arizona.

But first, we check in with Chris Green to see what he was doing over at the Husky HQs…

Photo Gallery: The Weekly Dirt: January 18, 2012 – Dirt Rider Magazine

Photo Gallery: The Weekly Dirt: January 18, 2012 – Dirt Rider Magazine

The Dirt Rider guys and gals walked the pits at Anaheim 1 in full force. Each of us snapping photos left and right with our high end expensive cameras as well as our cool mobile phones. There are apps these days that allow you to mess with saturation, clarity and different types of filters as well as give the photo an HDR or oldschool effect, all from that electronic device that sits in your pocket. Well, that just names a few of the features that we were playing with. Here is a gallery strictly shot from our iPhones at the first round of Supercross.

Photo Gallery: Mobile Magic: Anaheim 1 Supercross – Dirt Rider Magazine

Photo Gallery: Mobile Magic: Anaheim 1 Supercross – Dirt Rider Magazine

Kawasaki held a pep rally to introduce 2012 Supercross / Motocross and Off-Road race teams at their headquarters in Irvine, California. Each year, the company invites staff, friends & family of Kawasaki and the media to meet and greet the riders that will pilot the green machines. Monster Energy Kawasaki welcomed Ryan Villopoto and Jake Weimer back to the factory rig with Dan Fahie as team manager. Mitch Payton’s Monster Energy Pro Circuit Kawasaki will host Dean Wilson, Blake Baggett, Darryn Durham and Tyla Rattray under their tent as well as their first 450 rider on the team, Broc Tickle. In the off-road division, team manager Jason Smigel will guide Destry Abbott, Justin Soule, Taylor Robert and newcomer Bobby Garrison into the WORCS, AMA Hare & Hound and AMA EnduroCross series.

Photo Gallery: Kawasaki Introduces 2012 Race Teams for Supercross / Motocross and Off-Road – Dirt Rider Magazine

Photo Gallery: Kawasaki Introduces 2012 Race Teams for Supercross / Motocross and Off-Road – Dirt Rider Magazine