Motorcycle ice-racing only sounds like an idea hatched at a frat-house kegger.
The story goes that Gary Densford and some of his buddies, having spent their summers racing on the speedway circuit around Oklahoma City, wanted to do something in the offseason. They went to the hardware store, picked up some sheet metal screws, studded the tires of their bikes and found a frozen lake.
When friends showed up to watch, Densford started to wonder.
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Welcome to the second-ever (but we’ll stop counting soon) Roost Report on Motocross.com/GrindTV.com. Over the coming months, as we work toward the re-launch of Motocross.com, this will be our weekly report on the happenings from the past weekend, and of the coming weekend
As Jeff Kardas and Scott Hoffman are going to expand on in a few paragraphs here, some of the biggest news from Phoenix wasn’t really news at all; it was all about some electronics on James Stewart’s Yamaha YZ450F. Some were asking if it was  … More
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As one of the most dominant racers in the supercross history, it might not seem like such a big deal that San Manuel Yamaha’s James Stewart pulled off the win last Saturday night in Phoenix, Arizona. But it was. No matter how dominant a racer is, every racer knows they can’t be the fastest in the world forever, so when someone is out for a while, as Stewart was, it’s sometimes easy for them to wonder if they still have it in them, because you can’t tell until the gate drops.
Well, Stewart still has it in him, leading every lap of the Phoenix main event on his way to his first win in a year and a tussle at the top of the points leaderboard with Ryan Villopoto. Then, after the race, he stood up on a jump near the podium and discussed the race and the track in detail with his dad, James Sr.
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Ducati managed to put 386 laps on its new GP11 bike as it made its track debut with a three-day test at Jerez, which concluded today.
Team manager Vito Guareschi returned to his previous role as test rider and was joined by Franco Battaini for the sessions.
Ducati’s technical chief Filippo Preziosi was … More
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