By: Seiji Ishii
Loretta’s is over, and for a lot of amateur riders, the emotional part of the season is finally starting to come down. That is when the season becomes useful—if you are willing to look at it honestly instead of just moving on or overreacting.
For a lot of families, Loretta’s feels like the end…
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While we all love burning laps at the local motocross track or shredding trails all day, there comes that time at the end of the day when we have to load up as the sunsets over the horizon. We go home with our heads hung low, dragging our feet, moping around the house all night…
Stop Proving. Start Preparing.
By Seiji Ishii
The final few weeks before a big amateur national can make normally smart riders do strange things.
A rider who has trained consistently for months suddenly wants to squeeze in a few more brutal motos. A parent starts asking if they should add another workout because another kid is…
By Seiji Ishii
For decades, my system for going to the track or trailhead was pretty simple. On Friday, I'd walk into my shop, grab the tools I thought I might need, throw them into a toolbox, and head out for the weekend.
It never really worked.
By Sunday afternoon, the toolbox was a disorganized pile of tools.…
By Seiji Ishii
One of the most common conversations I have with riders starts about ten minutes into their first ride back after some time off.
"I lost everything."
Usually, they haven't.
One of the most common mistakes I see is riders confusing a loss of sharpness with a loss of fitness. The two are…
I have been wanting to do this for quite sometime as chassis lengths are important to how your motorcycle reacts on the track. Sometimes we just go about our day, slap a different size sprocket on or cut our new chain a different length without hesitation. However, when you do that it can/does affect how…
Written By: Victor Guerrero
At Keefer Inc Testing we have talked many years about VP racing fuels, but this one is not something we have ever written about. Some of our testers have alternate hobbies to occupy their time away from work and motocross. That hobby involves radio controlled cars that have 3.5cc engines in…
By Seiji Ishii
Ken Roczen admitting he battles severe anxiety may have helped more riders than his winning the championship.
Fresh off winning his first AMA Supercross Championship, Ken Roczen stood on stage emotionally drained. Not hyped up. Not pretending to be untouchable. Not giving a polished speech about confidence and momentum. He looked exhausted, and honestly,…
