The impromptu safety lesson. What a nice man we found this week. After playing hopscotch in the driveway with the kids all day, he was kind enough to demonstrate the importance of ramp chains for the rest of us.

Hope he rides better than his old man. We think the goal of this one was simple – blue smoke bomb in the exhaust to let the crowd know it’s going to be a boy. The pavement doughnut and subsequent fail were all improvised.

Don’t have a pond? Not a problem. As off-roaders, it’s our duty to look at things in our daily surroundings and imagine what it would be like to shred em up. Examples include imagining carving a hot lap through a perfectly manicured golf course, crawling over those dirt piles on the construction site or turning […] More »

Almost had him. Cut-offs on the sides of trails make for a nice opportunity to make a safe pass or, if the rider going around the outside doesn’t commit, a nice brake check. It was the latter for these guys and fortunately, an opportunity for a laugh.

When your kids know what to expect. If you’re wondering how a quad load-up results in a guy getting road rash from sliding down his ramps, this week’s specimen demonstrates. His kid working the camera knew how this was going to turn out before he did.

Lessons in momentum learned the hard way. Momentum is a funny thing – one moment it’s carrying you along with your quad and then the next your quad has stopped but isn’t letting you off the hook. This guy had a great mud setup but the one modification that could have helped him here (a […] More »

Here’s something you don’t see every day. When it comes to mudding, the deeper the pit you want to traverse, the more clearance you need. But the taller you make your machine, the more unstable it becomes unless you can lengthen and widen the base. Of course, the wider and longer you make the wheeler, […] More »