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Moto-X Team Report 11-24-04

etnies Arenacross riders Darcy Lange and Jeff Northrop are on a roll! This past weekends Hampton, Virginia Arenacross round turned into another Pirelli / Darcy Lange lovefest, as defending champion Lange and his Pirelli-mounted Richmond Kawasaki won all four of the weekendҒs main events. (Lange and Pirelli even won the Dash For Cash both nights.) Jeff Northrup, Langes Richmond Kawasaki teammate, kept his grip on 2nd place in the championship point standings, carding two 4th place finishes in FridayҒs 250cc main and Saturdays 125cc main, capping his weekend with a 2nd place behind Lange in SaturdayҒs 250cc final. Lange leads the series with 306 points, Northrup follows with 226.

Timmy Ferry came out for a couple days to test a bit and do a photo shoot for Yamaha at the test track. He has been training and is excited to get back into racing after a injury put him out for almost all of the 2004 season.

Chad Reed is home in Australia with his new wife. He'll be coming back here to the U.S. soon to get back to work. Chad is fresh off a win at the U.S. Open in Vegas for the second year in a row and is the defending 250cc AMA Champion. Chad, Tim Ferry, Travis Preston and Mike LaRocco are the etnies riders who will be chasing the AMA Supercross championship title for etnies in 2005.

Mike LaRocco, who has been a favorite rider of mine ever since I got back into riding around 1990, is a new addition to the etnies team for 2005! After 16 years of professional racing, Amsoil Chaparral Honda's Mike LaRocco, or The Rock, as he's been called, has a career any rider could envy. He can boast of two AMA National titles, a World Supercross championship, and a U.S. Open Supercross title. He ranks 15th on the AMA's list of combined wins, with a total of 27 race victories.

Brian Deegan's new etnies/Mulisha shoe is officially released this week! Deegan is stoked on the shoe and is getting ready to head up to Aspen once again for the Winter X Games in January. Last year, Brian had a bad crash in which he broke both of his wrists and his left femur.

Twitch just finished 2nd at the natural terrain contest out in Glamis and Ocotillo during Halloween week. He is the first rider to do a natural terrain backflip. Look for a sequence in Racer X and TransWorld Motocross soon. Go buy them both!

Trigger Gumm and Seth Enslow are going to Australia sometime at the beginning of 2005 to do two world record jumps.

Moto-X Team Report 11-10-04

Last weekend was the MXI Natural Terrain contest in Glamis. On Tuesday through Friday, the riders and crew went to Ocotillo Wells and rode. After the first stop, Todd Potter was leading the event, even though he had never ridden in the sand before. Potter is a bad dude!

Ocotillo started out with Twitch throwing a backflip over a natural terrain double, which is only the second time this has happened. Twitch was also the first rider ever to flip natural terrain about a week before this, which you will see in a etnies ad in Racer X and TransWorld Motocross. This sequence will also be here on the etnies Web site very soon.

Metz won the overall contest at the end of the week, with Twitch coming a very close 2nd. Potter finished 3rd and Derek G. finished in 7th. I think he may have had some bike trouble after the first night of Ocotillo. Rusty went for a good size double for the filmers and blasted his face open. I got some good shots of that, also. All this was done on Seths 2000 250cc that he asked to borrow the morning after rolling SethҒs Ranger that he has been working so hard to get finished.

Ackerman/Chapmans dog, Thunder, got into five fights and went five for five. He has been crowned the Ocotillo Heavyweight Champion. Dan Pastor rolled out in his Ranger and took me on a nice ride that ended up taking us over a 40-foot tabletop. That was a crazy, fun time!

Brandon from Metal Mulisha, Taters, Joe from Balls Deep, Mark and Brit from Arsenal MX.com and Damien Sanders and Sean all came out for the fun and the fiasco. Only one kid fell in the fire and was not burned that bad. All in all, the trip was good. Many photos and video coming soon.

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Defending Arenacross Champion Darcy Lange posted three more wins and padded his points lead following last weekend's Arenacross in Albany, New York, November 5-6. The week before at the opening round in Des Moines, Iowa, Lange won three of the four main events and did it again.

Friday

125 Main
1. Evan Laughridge (Kaw)
2. Darcy Lange (Kaw)
3. Branden Jessemen (Hon)
4. Shane Bess (Hon)
5. Kevin Johnson (Yam).

Dash for Cash
1. Darcy Lange (Kaw)
2. Evan Laughridge (Kaw)
3. Jim Neese (Suz)
4. Chad Johnson (Yam)

250 Main
1. Darcy Lange (Kaw)
2. Marco Dube (Hon)
3. Evan Laughridge (Kaw)
4. John Dowd (Suz)
5. Kevin Johnson (Yam)

Saturday

125 Main
1. Darcy Lange (Kaw)
2. Josh Demuth (Yam)
3. Chad Johnson (Yam)
4. Shane Bess (Hon)
5. Evan Laughridge (Kaw)

Dash for Cash
1. Josh Demuth (Yam)
2. Darcy Lange (Kaw)
3. Shane Bess (Hon)
4. Chad Johnson (Yam)

250 Main
1. Darcy Lange (Kaw)
2. Josh Demuth (Yam)
3. Branden Jessemen (Hon)
4. Jeff Northrop (Kaw)
5. Shane Bess (Hon)

Moto-X Team Report 11-03-04

The first Arenacross of the year was held this weekend in Des Moines, Iowa. Defending champion and etnies rider Darcy Lange, along with his teammates, won three of the four main events of the weekend. Darcy also won both of the Dash for Cash races Friday and Saturday night. The next race will be on November 5-6 in Albany, New York.

On November 1-5, Twitch, Garland and Potter are in Glamis for two days and heading to Ocotillo Wells on Thursday for a TV show.