Hello and Happy Monday to everyone! I hope you all had a great weekend and a very spooky Friday night. Thank you to everyone who posted photos on social media. It was awesome to see what all the kids (and adults) in this sport were wearing on Halloween. I’m not sure if it was just me but it seemed like so many more people were into Halloween this year. Whether it was Friday night or even Saturday night, the photos of everyone dressed up kept rolling in and each costume was very entertaining. In honour of his parents’ rich history in the best decade of all time, our son decided to dress up as a 1980s rock star on Friday. Seeing him with his hair gelled up, tight jeans and wearing a bandana almost brought a tear to my eye as I think I used to dress like that every day in grade 9. All he needed was a ghetto blaster pumping out Motley Crue and I would’ve broken down with pride.
Unfortunately, I was only able to see Ayrton’s costume in photos as I was in California on Friday for the press launch of Husqvarna’s all-new 2015 FE350S and FE501S. These two motorcycles represent Husqvarna’s entrance into the popular dual sport market. As they’ve done with all of their products so far, the big H is spot on. We spent all day Friday riding the 350S and the 501S on pavement, back roads, two track trails and even single track trails. When all was said, we rode 111 miles on every surface you could think of, and at one point I saw a sign that read “Elevation 7000 feet”. It was a great day of riding, even for a moto guy like me.
These days when we take trips, we all take two sets of photos; the good ones with our real cameras and of course the photos we take with our phones. Most of the time these phone photos are pretty decent, but they either just end up on our social media or they stay on our phones. So with the Arenacross Series taking a week off in BC, and a few other moto rumours that I’m not able to talk about until next week, I thought I’d use this week’s Gate drop to share with you some of the photos I took on my iPhone in California.
So that was my trip to California last week, as you can see I had fun riding something other than motocross. The Future West Canadian AX Series gets back at it this Friday night in Cloverdale, BC. All the riders have had two weeks to think about their round one performances, and all of them (other than points leader Ross Johnson) will be looking to improve. Hopefully all of the drama we saw at round’s one and two is gone and everyone can just go out and race each other hard but fair. If you missed Ryan Lockhart and Ryan Gauld promoting the series and just motocross in general on Global Television in BC, here is the link to their segment. It’s always great to see motocross being talked about in the mainstream media.
http://globalnews.ca/video/1649851/canada-arenacross-championship
I hope everyone has a great week and hopefully you’re able to squeeze in a few more rides. Be safe. Here is what I think are the winners of the Halloween costumes of the 2014. Congratulations to Brett Lee and his lovely wife Melody on just plain looking good!! Finally, I want to wish Team Canada good luck this week at the ISDE in Argentina. I’m sure all of our riders will do this country proud.
