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Motocross

Sidecar racing, known as Sidecarcross has been around since the 1950s but has declined in popularity ever since mid‑1980s.


A Day in the Dirt Motocross Grand Prix

Actor Mark-Paul Gosselaar, narrated the film, which is shot at the 2002 "A Day in the Dirt Motocross Grand Prix."

Alessio Chiodi

Alessio Chiodi (born March 17, 1973 in Salò) is an Italian former three-time Grand Prix motocross world champion.

ATV Offroad Fury 4

ATV Offroad Fury 4 sees the introduction of new vehicles such as MX motocycles, Trophy Trucks and Dune Buggies, alongside existing ATV quad racers; this allows the game to include up to 50 Championship Modes.

Bilko

Blake Williams, an Australian professional freestyle motocross rider

Castelnau-de-Lévis

The village at the base of the château is the site of a motocross championship, the Championnats du Monde MX3 et d’Europe 125 de Motocross. The track is also scheduled to host the French 2009 Sidecarcross world championship Grand Prix on 29 March 2009, however, this will still have to be confirmed by the FIM.

De Coster

Roger De Coster (born 1944), Belgian motocross racer and team manager

Dene Davies

Born in Hindmarsh, Adelaide, Davies competed in sidecar racing with his brother in Australia, and then in scrambling, in which became a close friend of John Boulger, who later encouraged him to travel to England to try to establish himself as a speedway rider.

Ernesto Fonseca

Fonseca kept a busy schedule competing in winter Olympics and Loretta Lynn's amateur motocross championships where he met his long-time friend Ricky Carmichael.

Foxhill

Foxhill motocross circuit: a motocross circuit near Foxhill in the English county of Wiltshire

Hawkstone Park Motocross Circuit

Grand Prix Motocross returned to Hawkstone for 1975, where Suzuki rider Gerrit Wolsink took victory.

HVA

Husqvarna Motorcycles, now a subsidiary of BMW, a motocross and enduro motorcycle manufacturer

Igelbäcken

This part of the catchment area contains a motocross track, a golf driving range, a closed dump, and receives stormwater from the E18 traffic route.

Intellivision Lives!

The DS Intellivision Lives! includes over 60 different games including, Astrosmash, B-17 Bomber, Shark! Shark!, Motocross, Space Cadet and Thin Ice.

Josh Coppins

Joshua "Josh" Coppins (born 11 March 1977 in Motueka, New Zealand) is a professional motocross racer who rides for the Aprilia factory racing team.

Juri Ueno

In 2008, Ueno reunited with Nodame co-stars, Eita and Asami Mizukawa, in Fuji TV's drama, Last Friends, as Ruka Kishimoto, a talented motocross racer with a hidden secret she cannot discuss with friends or family.

Just Give Me a Reason

The music video for "Just Give Me a Reason" featured Nate Ruess as well as Pink's husband, motocross racer Carey Hart, in a romantic setting which resembles an artificial marsh.

Kevin Windham

Teamed with Carmichael and 125cc Champion Ivan Tedesco, Windham helped his team win the 2005 Motocross des Nations in Ernee, France.

Livia Lancelot

Livia Lancelot (born 11 February 1988, Saint-Denis) is a French women's motocross champion .

Mike Kiedrowski

Mike Kiedrowski (born January 13, 1969 in Canyon Country, Santa Clarita, California) is a four-time AMA Motocross national champion.

Mikkola

Heikki Mikkola (born 1945), four time World Champion motocross racer

Monarto, South Australia

Monarto is home to the Murray Bridge Motocross Club with a track that runs both bikes and quad bikes, and the Monarto Shooting Club.

Moto Racer 3

The game does not have a career mode, but instead contains many race modes: speed, Supercross/Motocross, Freestyle, Trial, and Traffic.

Motocross Kids

Motocross Kids a.k.a. Moto X Kids is a 2004 film directed by Richard Gabai, distributed by Tag Entertainment.

Noora Naraghi

Then, she traveled to Tallahassee, Florida, US (in 2010) to learn motocross from Stefy Bau, former women's world motocross champion, the elite worldwide motocross academy for women.

In 2010, she traveled to Tallahassee, Florida, USA to learn motocross from Stefy Bau, former women's world motocross champion, the elite worldwide motocross academy for women – so, CNN picked up the story.

Nude per l'assassino

Writing for The A.V. Club, Noel Murray compared the film to Sergio Martino's 1972 film Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (Il tuo vizio è una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave), noting that "both take place among the idle European aristocracy, with vapid models, rugged motocross drivers, bigoted executives, and debauched artists wandering through a world of soft fabrics and bloody, gashed skin".

Pete Loncarevich

Prize won: A 1986 Suzuki Quad sport four wheel drive All Terrain Vehicle (ATV), also known as a Quad Bike or Quad Cycle, essentially a motocross motorcycle with four wheels instead of just two.

Philippaerts

David Philippaerts (born 1983), Italian Grand Prix motocross world champion

Racing Destruction Set

Koenig, Goldman and Warhol had all worked for the Intellivision game design team at Mattel during the early 1980s, where Koenig had programmed the Intellivision Motocross game.

Red Bull X-Fighters

A week after the motocross competition, it was demolished in order to allow the construction of a new site - the National Stadium, Warsaw, where a round of the Red Bull X-Fighters 2011 is set to be staged as the first event taking place at the newly built stadium.

Richie Stanaway

Born in Tauranga, Stanaway was originally from a motocross background, before making the switch to speedway at the age of twelve.

Roger De Coster

After his racing career, De Coster moved to the U.S. and remained involved in the sport, becoming the motocross team manager for Honda and Suzuki.

Shaun Simpson

Shaun Simpson (born March 13, 1988 in Gauldry, near Leuchars, Fife) is a Scottish motocross racer.

Strijbos

David Strijbos (born 1967), Dutch former motocross F.I.M. world champion

Tim Ferry

Tim Ferry II is a professional kawasaki rider Supercross and Motocross racer born in Cedar Falls, Iowa on March 18, 1975.

TransWorld Motocross

TransWorld Motocross is a Transworld Media brand, which also publishes the magazines TransWorld SURF, TransWorld SKATEboarding and Transworld SNOWBOARDING.

Wasp Motorcycles

A Wasp/BSA motocross sidecar outfit ridden by former world motocross champion Dave Bickers was used in the 1979 World War II film Escape to Athena, disguised to look like a German military BMW R75.

Wonder Warthog Racing

Wonder Warthog Racing (WWR) was a unique organization created in 2004 by computer engineer, Scott Kandel, and former professional motocross racer, Steve Bauer, to better the sport of motocross.

WWR was supported by many of the top racers in the sport of motocross, including Ricky Carmichael and James Stewart.


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