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Factory Bike Friday: Canard’s Factory Muscle Milk CRF450R

Take an inside look at Trey Canard’s Muscle Milk Factory Honda CRF450R

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Factory Bike Friday: Matt Lemoine’s HRT Kawasaki KX250F

04.06.2012 // 1 Comment

Factory Bike Friday: Matt Lemoine’s HRT Kawasaki KX250F Words & photos by Shan Moore The Texas-based Hansen Racing Team supports top Lites rider Matt Lemoine, and Matt’s father, Bruce, is a driving force behind the team.  John Mitchell has does the motor and suspension work on the team bikes, and HRT uses many of the [...]

Factory Bike Friday

03.30.2012 // 3 Comments

Factory Bike Friday: Andrew Short’s Factory Support Team Brooks/McGrath CRF450R TypeOs and Images: Scott Hoffman It’s a darn shame this fine specimen of a supercross bike (built from the ground up with human hands using an array of Factory Honda Works components, aftermarket performance parts, and the bare essentials needed to meet the AMA production [...]

Factory Bike Friday: Ryan Villopoto’s Monster Energy Kawasaki

03.16.2012 // 5 Comments

Factory Bike Friday: Monster Energy KX450F Story and photos by Shan Moore It takes more than an incredibly talented rider to win a Supercross title. It helps to have an equally capable bike, as well as a competent team behind you. At this point in the season, perhaps no other team has it all together [...]

Factory Bike Friday: Les Smith’s KTM

03.09.2012 // 0 Comments

World and AMA champ Grant Langston is back in the racing game, running his new Ohlins USA Supercross team, which features Les Smith and A.J. Catanzaro riding the East Lites Supercross series.

Factory Bike Friday: Lucas Oil TLD CRF250R

03.02.2012 // 3 Comments

Factory Bike Friday: Lucas Oil TLD CRF250R Photos: Scott Hoffman It says a lot that about a nonperformance company in the motorcycle industry who can put their heads down and in a matter of years create a 250/Lites supercross team that is capable of winning main events. Team TLD began life with a few box [...]

Factory Bike Friday: JGR YZ450F

02.17.2012 // 0 Comments

Factory Bike Friday: Stewart’s Non-Factory Works Bike Type-Os and Photos: Scott Hoffman Take a half cup of NASCAR team, one quarter cup Factory Yamaha, one cup aftermarket accessories, and a crew of amazing mechanics and engineers to create Team JGR (Joe Gibbs Racing). For 2012, JGR has upped the game with not only hooking up [...]

What Really Happened: Anaheim 2 SX

02.06.2012 // 5 Comments

This past Saturday was Round 5 of the 2012 AMA Supercross series and the second stop at Angels Stadium in Anaheim, CA. With tons of complaints about the track at Anaheim 1, the track crew stepped up and gave the riders a great track for A2. The main points of A2’s layout were the many places to pass, a nice long whoop section and numerous rhythm sections that gave the riders optional flight paths around the track.

Factory Bike Friday

02.03.2012 // 3 Comments

Factory Bike Friday: Rockstar Energy Yoshimura Suzuki Type-Os and photos: Scott Hoffman When it comes to Lites class machinery, nearly every team is a factory support or full privateer team. There are no real Factory Lites efforts except for KTM. The Rockstar Energy Yoshimura Suzuki team has a solid team effort with support from Suzuki. [...]

Factory Bike Friday

01.27.2012 // 3 Comments

FBF: Geico Honda CRF250R Type-Os and Photos: Scott Hoffman If looks have anything to do with winning a championship, the Geico Honda Factory Connection crew has their ducks in a row. Take Eli Tomac’s Lites/250 ride, it is a piece of motorcycle art. When it comes to the rules and what you can and can [...]

Factory Bike Friday

01.13.2012 // 1 Comment

Factory Bike Friday: Nico Izzi’s YZ250F Photos: Scott Hoffman Because Yamaha no longer runs a full Factory team, there are only Yamaha support teams or full privateers running blue. This year Star Racing and Vali Motorsports have joined forces and aligned themselves with Rockstar Energy Drink. Also, with support from Yamaha and their accessory division [...]

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