Quick snapshots from Anaheim 1, 2010

As usual I did more work that I hope for, but isn't that what we all hope on a Saturday :-) Yeah, I know, he said "rest on the 7th day".

 

Nothing special, just some pics with moto in it



 Stephan "Lebig" Legrand from LebigUSA.com and Uber photographer Jeff Kardas.

German wonder boy, Ken Roczen, on his way to blitzkrieg the West Coast SX Lites series. Ken is an awesome kid. That guy is a bowl of fresh air in SX.

 Still shooting catalogs and official pics.

Davi's wrench, Alex Ewing working on the #18

Lars and his new pony for 2011, Chad Reed's Honda

Travis was at the Smith Optics booth :-)

Davi before the first practice of the year.

Getting the GoPro set for qualies

Old pals, Goose and Berlutti

Brayton getting in the staging area.

of we go again

Packed all my necessary magazines, loaded the iphone with PulpMX and Racer X podcasts, got all my AGV and Dainese necessary info and off we go, I'm on for another transatlantic return trip. Going via France to Italy for the yearly sales meetings and presentation of the new 2010-2011 Dainese collection. Exciting. Are we going to "AIR" it out? ;-)
Crossing finger that the special one will be part of it this year.

So, for those who never check the internet and don't read magazines :-) the AGV Dainese guys have been doing well lately, even though, because I had to prepare this trip and take care of my clients before I left, I didn't attend 3 important race events on the US soil: the opening round of the AMA Motocross National series at Hangtown/Sacramento where AGV's Davi Millsaps score a 3rd overall with 3-2 moto finishes and a 2nd overall for Ashley Fiolek in the AMA Women MX race; the FIM Motocross US Grand Prix at Glen Helen/San Bernardino this past weekend, where both AGV/Yamaha Rinaldi riders had a challenging time with   David Philippaerts finishing 15th overall in MX1 and Gautier Paulin going 10th overall in MX2; and finally the World Superbike Championship U.S. round at Miller Motorpoark where Dainese's Max Biaggi scored two perfect race wins and took over the points lead in the 2010 WSBK series.

Instead, I enjoyed great time with the family and friends, riding my Triumph Tiger 1050 to work, spending time on the Fox River playing with wave-runners and riding our MTB's in the forests of Wisconsin. It has to be fun at times and not always "work, work, work."

Sitting in the Air France lounge at ORD right now, waiting for my flight to Nice, France, then it'll be a short one to the beautiful city of Venice and 3 days of hard, but fun, work at Dainese in Vicenza.

OK, I'll try to remain the moto-tourist that I am and will try to update as much as I can.

Cool pic of Gautier at Glen Helen, by Michael Rigdon.

The Return of the Nine-Three-Four!

With the release of the 2010 AMA allocated riders numbers, a big part of Franco-American MX history went away when Jake Weimer was allocated the #12 that represented David Vuillemin for so many years.
DV has moved on, retired from active racing and went back to his first AMA digits, those he was wearing on his herseys when he came to the US, those 3-digits number that were so cool for French riders, fans of US MX. Like the #111 used by JMB, the #934 marked the Cobra's definite move to the US at the time.

For me the nine-three-four represents DV more than the 12, because it's with his 3-digits signature that he entered and marked MX and SX racing on this side of the Atlantic.

DV934 is back!! Very cool actually. David posted these 2 pics on his Facebook account today, as he was workingo on a "MX riding tips" DVD shoot.

New YZ450 Rumors video with JS7 and VR46

St Louis Supercross Photos

Here's my album of the 2009 St Louis Supercross. I hope you enjoy these and particularly the black and whites.

St Louis Supercross 2009