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2 days ago | 
swapmotolive.com | Donn Maeda
Presented by 6D HelmetsThe X Games have always been about the progression of the sport: greater heights, longer distances, bigger tricks, higher speeds… Ironically, after Patrick Evans earned the Moto-X Best Whip Gold Medal at the 2024 Summer X Games aboard a Stark Future Varg, an electric motocross bike from Barcelona, Spain, that seems to have gone out the window.
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4 days ago | 
swapmotolive.com | Donn Maeda
The Annual Mammoth Mountain Motocross is the highlight of the year for many motocross racers, and last weekend, the veterans of the sport lined up behind the starting gate. Yamaha’s Ryan Villopoto was – to no one’s surprise – the cream of the crop all weekend, but he did have some challenged from Josh Grant and RJ Wageman.
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1 week ago | 
swapmotolive.com | Donn Maeda
VIDEOThe boys are back at it again! Ricky Johnson and Jeff Ward get together for an amazing episode of Podium to Present with none other than the Flyin’ Hawaiian, John DeSoto. The AMA Hall of Famer was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and came to the mainland to race dirt bikes! A hero in the late 1960s and early 1970s, DeSoto was a hero to both RJ and Wardy, and their conversation is one not to be missed!
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1 week ago | 
swapmotolive.com | Donn Maeda
Presented by Fly RacingRain in Lakewood,. Colorado, forced the cancelation of all on-track activities at Thunder Valley MX on Friday, so the third round of the Women’s Motocross Championship was moved to Saturday with only one moto at the end of the day. With the track in its worst condition of the day, SLR Honda’s Mikayla Nielsen knew how important it was to race the track and carry momentum.
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1 week ago | 
swapmotolive.com | Donn Maeda
We spent the morning at Cahuilla Creek MX today and we spotted a cool kid on a trick-looking Suzuki RM-Z250. Since we haven’t seen many yellow bikes lately, we had to get the story… And we’re glad we did, as Kale Campbell turned out to be the son of one of swap’s riding buddies from the 1990s!
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1 week ago | 
swapmotolive.com | Donn Maeda
Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA, is proud to announce an extensive update to its industry-leading flagship Motocross model, the new 2026 YZ450F. Faced with the complex challenge of improving on a bike already widely considered the benchmark of the ultra-competitive 450cc four-stroke class, Yamaha engineers put significant focus into refining power delivery and handling performance to achieve a level of precision, control and tuneability that sets a new class standard: the easiest bike to ride fast.
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1 week ago | 
swapmotolive.com | Donn Maeda
Presented by Moose Off-RoadWelcome to Inside the SML Garage. This week, we escape the confines of our workshop and head to the hills in Orange County, decked out in some Moose Off-Road MTB apparel. While you might think that any pair of shorts and a T-shirt is good enough for riding, we can tell you from experience that a plain cotton T-shirt is absolutely miserable to ride in, as the fabric has no wicking properties, and also becomes waterlogged with sweat.
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1 week ago | 
swapmotolive.com | Donn Maeda
The High Point Pro Motocross National was awesome! The weather that everyone feared all day finally rolled in and let loose just as the final 450-class moto got underway, and that made for some amazing racing that saw Eli Tomac score his second moto win of the season. At the same time, Jett Lawrence was forced to work through the pack after a poor start and a soft early race pace to earn his fourth overall of the series.
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1 week ago | 
swapmotolive.com | Donn Maeda
VIDEOPresented by Bell HelmetsThere’s no distinct theme in this installment of the Life on Two Wheels Vlog…we take our GoPro with us to a couple of Pro Motocross Nationals, ride a bunch of trails, and enjoy some motos while Scrub Daddy talks his usual boatload of smack. Join us also for a tour of ASV Inventions, and a product test of the Rotaluber…one of my favorite new MTB products!
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1 week ago | 
swapmotolive.com | Donn Maeda
Presented by FXR RacingPhotos by Kellen BrauerThe first month of the 2025 Pro Motocross Championship, sanctioned by AMA Pro Racing, wrapped up with the Father’s Day weekend tradition that is the UFO Plast High Point National from legendary High Point Raceway.
