Motocross is an image-driven sport. As it’s slowly adopted a more professional approach, riders and teams have stepped up their presentation. These days, public relations have a much bigger role in a race team. […]
Most people who are involved in dirt bike racing are active, busy people. We don’t like to sit still too long, otherwise we get bored, restless, and need to entertain ourselves. […]
The travelling schedule of the MX Nationals and Australian Supercross can be tough: many weekends on the road away from family, plenty of time staring out the window of a car or a plane and plenty of time sitting in a motel room watching reruns of Happy Days and asking yourself, “How does Fonzy pull the chicks with a name like that?” […]
Mark it down in your diaries, people: November 2, 2012 marked the end of an era in the Bishop family that was 23 years in the making. Tears were shed, chaos in the streets, three generations brought to a grinding halt. […]
Every year most major sports go through the rule book and make changes they hope will be better for the sport, make it more attractive to the main stream and hopefully keep the whole show moving ahead. […]
All right, you technology-addicted, Facebook-posting, Instagram-living, Twitter-typing pack of wasted youths, we need to get some rules in place. […]
Like most of us, I watched, enjoyed and sometimes disliked the 2012 London Olympic Games which was on TV 24 hours a day for two weeks straight. […]
Let’s be honest: we have no say or control over what riders go to this event. We go, we look good, we win a couple of qualifiers, we finish seventh every year and we come home. […]
BEHIND THE SCENES Words Scott Bishop Plenty of things go on at the races — and not just racing. Sure, that’s what everyone comes to see, but with the ever-growing pits at the MX Nationals, […]
The changing face of racing means the problems confronting riders and teams today are very different from those old timers like me used to have. […]