Transworld Motocross July 2017

TAKE CARE OF ALL YOUR MEMORIES. FOR YOU CANNOT RELIVE THEM. —BOB DYLAN As I rounded the corner before the finish line jump to start my second lap, my forearms were already pumped, my heart was racing, and you couldn’t have fit a dime in between my butt cheeks. After 11 years, my first motos back aboard my trusty old 2006 Suzuki RM250 two-stroke were far from as amazing as I remember them being, and I wondered to myself how in the hell I expected to race the MTA Distributing Two-Stroke World Championship at Glen Helen in only four short days. Although I grew up riding and racing two-stroke dirt bikes, it had been well over a decade since I spent any serious amount of time riding a motorcycle that…

▪ Where Vsevolod Brylyakov grew up and first began motoring around on a motocross bike, there were no motocross magazines or live Fox Sports broadcasts of the Monster Energy Supercross Series, and sorting out and finding any of the global motocross websites was basically impossible. Something of an island in the stream of motocross reality, Seva (as he is commonly referred to) was born and raised in Izhevsk, Russia, an industrialized metropolis of 627,734 inhabitants located on the Izh River in the Western Urals. The place is, literally and figuratively, as far away from the more vibrant motocross regions of the world as one can get. “The only guy I knew of when I was a kid was Jeremy McGrath,” Brylyakov said the week between the MXGP of Trentino in…

Swade Snetsinger Age: 18 Hometown: Nuevo, CA Classes Raced: 250 and 450 Novice Sponsors: Mom and Dad ▪ The TWMX Race Series has been visiting some of Southern California’s best motocross tracks since the series came to be back in January of 2012, and since then we’ve seen our fair share of newcomers not only to the TWMX Race Series, but to motocross racing in general. Swade Snetsinger fits into this category, as his first gate-drop didn’t come until he was 15 years old, which is considered by some to be a relatively late start. “I asked my dad if I could race dirt bikes when I was younger, but he said, ‘No, nothing with a motor, yet,’” Snetsinger says. Although he learned how to ride a dirt bike at…

THE BIKE The Alta Redshift MX is arguably the most talked-about new bike of the year. We’ve followed the bike’s development closely, as our friends Kris Keefer and Josh Hill have both played key roles in its development. Powered completely by electricity, the Redshift MX is designed to be a competition-bred motocross bike with performance to match that of a 250cc four-stroke. We were lucky to get a ride on an early prototype last year, and this month we finally took delivery of a production test bike. You can find our first impression elsewhere in this issue, and we plan to ride the wheels off it and provide regular updates on TransWorldMX.com. This particular bike is Hill’s personal Redshift MX and has several upgrades on it that make it similar…

▪ Marc Marquez is known around the world as the three-time and reigning champion of MotoGP, an international series that is one of the most-watched forms of motorsports in the world. During the 18-round championship run that spans from late March to the middle of November, Marquez motors around famed circuits like Phillip Island, Mugello, and Assen aboard an incredible piece of machinery: the Repsol Honda RC213V. Skills and speed are necessary to excel on the 1,000cc four-cylinder beast, but Marquez and others in the class make it seem like simple tasks when the starting lights go out on a Sunday afternoon. Due to a strict rules package set in place by Dorna—the promoters of the series—riders and teams are limited to riding their race machines only on events weekends…

GT Pantera Elite Price: $1,300 Frame: Aluminum Wheelsize: 27.5” Fork: RockShox FS-Recon Silver RL-B1, 120mm Travel Drivetrain: SRAM SL-NX-1-A1 11-speed Brakes: SRAM DB-Level Tires: Schwalbe Rocket Ron Performance 27.5 x 2.8” gtbicycles.com ▪ The benefits of cross training for motocross on a mountain bike are unquestionable. In addition to getting an excellent cardiovascular workout, the skills required to navigate a trail on a mountain bike are very similar to those needed to go fast on a dirt bike. And best of all, training on a mountain bike is fun and easy to become addicted to. Since launching the MTB Madness section, we’ve tested lots of high-end mountain bikes that carry price tags that rival those of motorcycles. Truth be told, that’s what most manufacturers opt to provide for testing, as…