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California - Mar 17, 2006
The following release is from the Cal City MX Park...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
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CONTACT:
John Elmes / Owner
Inge Elmes / Administrator
COMPANY NAME:
Cal City MX Park
Tel: 661-373-1559
Fax: 760-373-7123
info@calcitymxpark.com
www.calcitymxpark.com
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CAL CITY MX PARK IS OPENING THE GATES!
Opening date is April 1, 2006 at 9:00 A.M.
A childhood vision in the making and Cal City MX Park is finally ready to unlock the gates! At the beginning of 2006, owners John and Inge Elmes, began diligently working on constructing an extraordinary motocross park for the public and fulfilling a life long dream. A combination of passion and a desire to keep the sport alive and thriving has been the force behind their vision. On April 1, 2006 the gates will officially open. Be there to experience a dream come true.
CAL CITY MX PARK is located at 25410 168th Street, California City, CA 93505 and is a motocross park for the public consisting of two practice tracks. The main track is 1.2 miles in length with a terrain of decomposed granite, sand, and clay. The course is challenging, yet is adaptable to all levels of riders. The peewee track is made of natural terrain and is safe and enjoyable for the young rider. Both tracks are highly maintained, groomed, and supervised to ensure safety for all involved. Future plans include a concession stand, live entertainment, and races.
Several professional test riders among the motocross industry such as; Jarred Browne, Drew Collins, and Mike Tomlinson (Factory Effex) have visited CAL CITY MX PARK and the response has been unanimous. CAL CITY MX PARK has the jumps, whoops, and burms that all motocross fans have been waiting for. Come experience a weekend in the dirt!
Operating days of CAL CITY MX PARK are as follows:
Mondays- Private rentals
Tuesdays and Wednesdays- Closed
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays - Open for practice 9:00 a.m. - Dusk
Entrance Fee: $20 per rider
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If you have any questions, please contact John Elmes at 661-373-1559 or by e-mail at info@calcitymxpark.com
California - Feb 2, 2006
The following release is from the Sun Valley Motocross Track...
The final Public Hearing for the Sun Valley Motocross track is coming up Friday, February 24th. This is the final step in the zoning process.
Afterward the zoning administrator will close the file and make his final decision.
It cannot be over emphasized how important this Public Hearing is. Please help us show broad public support of this project by showing up with your friends and family.
Where : Marvin Braude San Fernando Valley Constituent Service Center
First Floor conference room
6262 Van Nuys Blvd. Van Nuys 91401
When : Friday, February 24th, at 8:30 A.M.
Please email stangale@pacbell.net to confirm you're coming and state how many people you are bringing.
Any questions, please call John Foley (818) 353-4459
* The Sun Valley Motocross facility's location is 2 miles north of the Burbank Airport, one minute from the 5 Freeway. It will consist of Main, Intermediate and Pee Wee tracks, watered by a custom irrigation system.
Vicky Rock
Motoflag@aol.com
Hockley, Texas
PUTTING A STOP TO YOUNG UNTRAINED FLAGGERS
Motocross safety is not in the racetrack, as it should be. Races are held all around the world and most of them have the same problems, UNTRAINED KIDS FOR FLAGGERS. Most track owners do not want to pay for qualified flaggers, thus allowing the possibility of riders getting hurt and making more money. This problem needs to be looked in to this is the reason for me writing today.
In today’s motocross world more and more parents, kid and friends are getting together, making this a family weekend event. Everyone attending should feel their safety is a priority to the race track. This doesn’t seem to be happening. I see young kids flagging races, some so small that a rider could not see them until it’s too late. Track owners should realize these kids are out to make a few bucks and see the race up close, not flagging a race properly. This needs to be changed. My son and husband race and it really worries me to know these young kids have their safety in their hands while my family are out on the racetrack. In addition to my family, what about all the other families that could be affected by these untrained flaggers every time the track uses them? Do we want to wait until some young boy or girl is seriously injured before this issue is addressed?
October 31, 2004, my family and I were at a race in Texas where untrained flaggers were being used. It was raining, just enough to wet the track. One rider goes down at the face of the jump, and their stood the flagger at his post just looking at the rider, not doing a thing. This inexperienced flagger could have been a problem for all the other riders. I went to the line and alerted the flagger to start flagging and he finally did. My point, no one should have had to tell the flagger to do his/her job.
That day I made a decision to make motocross riding safer. I hear a lot of complaints about this issue, but nobody wants to say or do anything about it. I will be the first to take a step in correcting this problem. I have contacted AMA Sports Department (responsible for the youth and amateur races) and other associations about the flagging issues and problems. Our association will not stop addressing this issue until something is done to correct the problem.
I am a concerned wife, mother, friend and now founder of MOTOFLAG ASSOCIATION. Motoflag Association is an organization that will recruit new flaggers properly, trained on flagging and emphasize keeping focused on their area of the track. Yes, it does get boring standing on the track for 6-8 hours, but this is a responsibility that you have signed up to accept. All flaggers must be the age of 14 or older and all races and riders will be as safe as we can make them at all times. We ask you for your help and support in making this a rule at all motocross tracks. Motoflag Association is asking for a sponsor that will be there to back us up 100% and make sure that these flaggers get the correct training, equipment and certification. Motoflag wants all their flaggers to be trained before the races and have radios to communicate to track officials and medical personnel in case of rider injury. Motoflag Association is the organization that will make this happen.
If anyone is willing to sponsor and support us on this problem, please send information to:
Vicky Rock
Motoflag Association
24216 Glenwood Blvd
Hockley, Texas 77447
281-330-8210
Fax 281-259-6714
Motoflag@aol.com
Barbara Haskins
ourhealth@verizon.net
Mission Hills, CA
This is a letter I put in District 37 message board, on Sept. 13, 2004. Get your kids out there in Sun Valley, distributing flyers, petitions, talk to the neighbors. There is also the Shamrocks M/C club in Sun Valley. We need the GOOD word out by October 5th or so. I don't know when the "residents" get to vote on it. But the "riders" never got to speak at the public hearing. I have a 16 year old that competes desert # x187. Gone from Just beginner in January 2004 to, now novice in June. We need this track for them to practice to get to expert!
Sun Valley, near the 5 freeway and Roscoe, the old dump site, is proposed for a motocross track. Yes, a track in the middle of the San Fernando Valley! BUT the Sun Valley residents are up in arms about it. The major complaints they have are noise and dust. But as proposed the track is going to have an irrigation system, kept wet, and the noise will be contained with dirt berms surrounding the 10 acres. Bikes must be of legal level. You all have your silencers on, right? I went to the public hearing Monday Sept. 13th, and we have 3 weeks to generate letters on good issues FOR the track to be implemented. Suggestions are family sport, practice area, exercise the kids with real bikes instead of video games, revenue. Anything other ideas or issues are appreciated. Write letters to:
Nicolas Brown
200 N. Spring St Room #763
Los Angeles, CA 90012
213-978-1314
nbrown@planning-lacity.org
You can also get more info from John Foley, planner, at 818-353-4459
California - March 2, 2004
Finally! A Motocross magazine that concentrates on the future of Motocross...The Kids! MXRIDER magazine.
This magazine has a sister website that shreds as well, www.mxrider.com. The people behind the scenes have put alot of time and effort behind both the magazine and website. They feature the events, stats and most importantly, they feature the riders. Very well put together, informative and entertaining. Loaded with stuff to further the career of that future pro. We think it rocks and hope that you do as well. Let us know what you think.
It's a Family Thing
By Robyn Yorker
My family has been a part of our local motocross community since the earliest days of Central New York, District-3 racing. My dad, a motorcycle enthusiast participated in enduro race events in the early seventies. His love of motorcycles extended to hill climb races, where my younger brother began his love affair with bikes. When sanctioned AMA motocross racing came to our area in 1973, my family jumped right in and the love of this sport has lasted thirty years.
My dad's passion for all things "motocross" resulted in his promoting race events at MotoMasters Race Park in Maple View, New York for ten years. I had so many positive experiences growing up in this motocross community. The sense of family has been a constant memory for me. I became a real fan of motocross racing as I learned about some of the enormous behind-the-scenes work that takes place to put on an event. I helped with sign-up (What, you forgot your cards again?!) Score keeping (I can't see any numbers!!) and kitchen helper (You really don't want ten track burgers, believe me!).
Along with local racing, my family enjoyed traveling the country in the 70's and 80's as my brother progressed through the sport and became a youth champion and youngest rider in our area at that time to turn expert. His talent brought us many places including Loretta Lynn's and Unadilla. As a sibling I had the opportunity to see many states and beautiful locations.
My family stepped away from racing in the 90's as my brother "retired", my dad turned over the reigns to MotoMasters and I began my own family. Just one visit to MotoMasters in 2000 brought me back to my childhood and the sense of belonging I found at the races. I was hooked again and gratefully, so was my son. We started participating in District-3 racing in 2001 and have rekindled our love of motocross and the people who are a part of this wonderful sport.
Through the ups and downs over the years, the true believers in motocross like Donna Dougherty, the Grand Dame of District-3, have stayed loyal and created an atmosphere where young riders and their families look forward to the start of each race season and find sadness at the end of the year.
Motocross racing has been experiencing "growing pains" as its rising popularity has attracted huge numbers of new participants. While the majority of families entering the motocross world are good people, there are, as with any sport, the few that don't reflect the positive attitude and good sportsmanship of most of the race community. I continue to look to the many gifted young riders in our district who do reflect the values of hard work, fairness and grace in winning and losing. They are out there quietly doing their best on and off the track.
When parents outside the motocross community question my judgment in allowing my young son to race, I think of all the good things that racing has done for my family and me. I personally can't think of any other place I'd rather be on a Sunday. I know my son feels the same as I hear, "Where's the race this week? Can we go now?".
My husband and myself were at those races. It was real bad. This guy on the finish line
was a real jerk. You talk about power hungey. You would
have thought this guy owed the track and was giving these kids thousands of dollars for
riding!! What he did to the people in the stands was very
unprofesional. We also agree about the peewee rider who went over the side. It was the
flaggers fault he went over the side. Had he been
standing where the other flagger stood the night before it never would have happened. The
poor father that ran from the other side of the track
after watching this happen was calmer then I would have been. I think some of these guys
forget this is for the kids to have fun. If by some
chance the boy and his dad read this, we all felt bad.
I was at a GFI race this weekend Sept 20, 1998 at LACR. What a great
track. I was watching all the races and noticed the flagger on the finish line wasn't
watching what was going on around him. He was talking to friends, or talking to the
paramedics, just laughing and carrying on. At one point they just started a practice and
after the first lap he motioned the kids off the track. They had to be put back on the
track to finish there laps. At one point a kid on a 125 crashed into a pole and looked
like he was out cold. Everyone was yelling at this flagger to turn around and look. He got
mad and told everyone to shut up and never did turn around. A E.M.T. ran out after he
heard everyone screaming. Later the little kids were out there on this big track, they
said only one parent could go out. The kids would fall and not one of the flaggers would
try to help these kids get up. A little boy was coming up over the finish line the white
flag was out and he was headed for the flagger standing on the top to the side. Instead of
the flagger stepping back a step off the hill he stepped on to the track, so in order for
this kid to miss from hitting the flagger he turned to the edge and went over the side a
drop of about 12 feet. the flagger looked over his shoulder and watched this kid roll with
his motorcycle on top of him and did nothing. Never even tried to see if the kid was ok.
The boys father ran from the other side of the track and a E.M.T. got there about the same
time. The kid was about 7 feet in front of the E.M.T. Everyone was yelling at the flagger
to see if the kid was ok and he started yelling at the crowd he couldn't he had to flag
the other kids. I DON'T KNOW THAT MUCH ABOUT MX RACING BUT PLEASE
TELL ME WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANT , GIVING TWO MORE KIDS THAT ARE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE
TRACK A WHITE FLAG OR MAKING SURE THE ONE THAT FELL OFF THE 12 FOOT DROP IS OK?
Come on these are 4 to 8 years old. Then to top it off the dad was yelling at the
flagger for not helping his kid and the flagger told the dad to go #^*! himself and get
his s--t and his kid and get off the race grounds. I think the kid and the dad are owed an
apology. I wish I knew their name and address so I could let this father and son know the
rest of the crowd understood and saw what happened. If anyone out there knows who they are
I would really like to know. All I can tell you is he was riding a KTM 50cc and his number
was #93. I called GFI but they couldn't tell me. Thanks for listening use to be a fan but
not anymore E-mail kenrhodes@earthlink.net
By the way I got your web sight from LACR nice sight.
Cobra owners Bud and Sunny Mamone were looking good and I had the
opportunity to see what a protest of a Pee Wee looks like when I saw young Davie Milsap's
Cobra torn 100% apart looking for cheater parts. Davie proved after (actually before) the
tear down, that is was/is his skill that won those races and not any special or illegal
parts! Go Davie!
Hey so whats the deal, if I understand the protest rules correctly you
pay $25 per protest. When I saw Davie Milsaps Cobra it was torn almost 100% apart with
engine pieces all laying in a box. The bike proved legal so the Milsaps will receive the
$150 (6 protests) that the person protesting put up. The bad thing is that a person could
place a $25 protest on an internal part and have someones bike torn completely down to
check it. Then the owner would have to pay to have the bike put back together. There is no
way you could ever get this done for that $25 protest money. I think the AMA needs to
check into this, and have the person protesting pay for the re-assembly as well as paying
the protest money. Many will say that this will stop those on a budget from protesting the
factories, but think about some hot kid that wins and hasn't got the money or backing to
reassemble their bike? Sad, very sad for the sport...
contributed by Mikeee P.
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