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“There’s not many people that can say they took a 220-pound metal motorcycle and launched it 70 feet over a supercross triple in front of 40,000 people. And we get to do it week in, week out.”

HEP Motorsports Suzuki’s Adam Enticknap/Jalopnik

“There’s not many people that can say they took a 220-pound metal motorcycle and launched it 70 feet over a supercross triple in front of 40,000 people. And we get to do it week in, week out.”

HEP Motorsports Suzuki’s Adam Enticknap/Jalopnik

OVERHEARD. OVERREAD. OVERSAID.

“We’re not sure where things went wrong for Alta, though it looks like [an] on/off investment relationship with Harley-Davidson certainly didn’t help . . . or maybe it just extended the lifespan a bit before the end. We reached out to a couple of our contacts there to let them know about the award, but never received a response.”

Steve “GuyB” Giberson on trying to award the 2018 Product of the Year to Alta, as voted on by the staff and readers of Vital MX. The company went belly-up last fall/Vital MX

“Waking up this morning, not gonna lie, I’m slightly disappointed. Just because I felt like I had the best opportunity to win that race leading 15 minutes but then ran into lappers, and lost my rhythm and goggles last 5… Just needed 5 minutes in me!! (That’s what she said)”

Dean Wilson, posting on Instagram after nearly winning Anaheim 1

“I will sell it to you for all the money your janky mechanic-ing cost me. Let’s call it 500K.

Nick Wey to Steve Matthes when Steve asked for his drill (from the early 2000s) back

“Pretty much all I can say is that it feels like there are about five people driving a knife in my wrist now.”

Red Bull KTM’s Toby Price after winning his second Dakar Rally. The Australian suffered a broken wrist during off-season training in December prior to the event/Dakar.com

“We’re not sure where things went wrong for Alta, though it looks like [an] on/off investment relationship with Harley-Davidson certainly didn’t help . . . or maybe it just extended the lifespan a bit before the end. We reached out to a couple of our contacts there to let them know about the award, but never received a response.”

Steve “GuyB” Giberson on trying to award the 2018 Product of the Year to Alta, as voted on by the staff and readers of Vital MX. The company went belly-up last fall/Vital MX

“Waking up this morning, not gonna lie, I’m slightly disappointed. Just because I felt like I had the best opportunity to win that race leading 15 minutes but then ran into lappers, and lost my rhythm and goggles last 5… Just needed 5 minutes in me!! (That’s what she said)”

Dean Wilson, posting on Instagram after nearly winning Anaheim 1

“I will sell it to you for all the money your janky mechanic-ing cost me. Let’s call it 500K.

Nick Wey to Steve Matthes when Steve asked for his drill (from the early 2000s) back

“Pretty much all I can say is that it feels like there are about five people driving a knife in my wrist now.”

Red Bull KTM’s Toby Price after winning his second Dakar Rally. The Australian suffered a broken wrist during off-season training in December prior to the event/Dakar.com

“If I tried to ride like Barcia and wring the thing’s neck, I would be 36 rows up [laughs]. You wouldn’t see me for the rest of the night!”

Aaron Plessinger admits he’s not able to ride his new YZ450F with the same wild style as his teammate/ Racer X Online

“It’s a lot better

With you sitting

out there.”

Chad Reed, from the stage, to new NBC Sports color commentator Ricky Carmichael, when RC asked how the sport has changed for him over the years/Anaheim 1 press conference

“I think we’ll be in contention for wins too. I’m 57, but I’m still pretty fast on a motorcycle and in great shape thanks to all the motocross riding and mountain bike racing I’ve been doing.”

Seven-time AMA National Champion Jeff Ward on returning to racing in 2019. Ward will contest all five American Flat Track Singles TTs this year/exhaust.racerxonline.com

“If I tried to ride like Barcia and wring the thing’s neck, I would be 36 rows up [laughs]. You wouldn’t see me for the rest of the night!”

Aaron Plessinger admits he’s not able to ride his new YZ450F with the same wild style as his teammate/ Racer X Online

“It’s a lot better

With you sitting

out there.”

Chad Reed, from the stage, to new NBC Sports color commentator Ricky Carmichael, when RC asked how the sport has changed for him over the years/Anaheim 1 press conference

“I think we’ll be in contention for wins too. I’m 57, but I’m still pretty fast on a motorcycle and in great shape thanks to all the motocross riding and mountain bike racing I’ve been doing.”

Seven-time AMA National Champion Jeff Ward on returning to racing in 2019. Ward will contest all five American Flat Track Singles TTs this year/exhaust.racerxonline.com

“The spring, I wanted it to be clean. You know the other one, I didn’t want to have my guy clean it [since] it was dirty from practice.”

Rocky Mountain ATV/MC-KTM-WPS first-time 450SX race winner Blake Baggett, when asked if he changed anything with the bike between Anaheim 1 and the Glendale main event, where he changed the rear shock, but the new one was using the exact same setting as the old one/ Racer X Podcast Network

“His attitude.”

Rocky Mountain ATV/MC-KTM-WPS’ Michael Byrne, when asked what Blake Baggett changed between Anaheim 1 and the Glendale main event/Racer X Podcast Network

“Assomotor has a certain ring to it, don’t you think?!”

“Dangerous” Joe Bonnello on the announcement of the 2019 MX2 Grand Prix team Assomotor Redmoto Honda, which includes EMX250 champion Mathys Boisrame

“The spring, I wanted it to be clean. You know the other one, I didn’t want to have my guy clean it [since] it was dirty from practice.”

Rocky Mountain ATV/MC-KTM-WPS first-time 450SX race winner Blake Baggett, when asked if he changed anything with the bike between Anaheim 1 and the Glendale main event, where he changed the rear shock, but the new one was using the exact same setting as the old one/ Racer X Podcast Network

“His attitude.”

Rocky Mountain ATV/MC-KTM-WPS’ Michael Byrne, when asked what Blake Baggett changed between Anaheim 1 and the Glendale main event/Racer X Podcast Network

“Assomotor has a certain ring to it, don’t you think?!”

“Dangerous” Joe Bonnello on the announcement of the 2019 MX2 Grand Prix team Assomotor Redmoto Honda, which includes EMX250 champion Mathys Boisrame

“His most unusual purchase? A unicycle.”

Alyssa Roegnik, profiling Ken Roczen’s prolific injuries and what he spent his downtime doing, which included some online shopping/ESPN the Magazine

“His most unusual purchase? A unicycle.”

Alyssa Roegnik, profiling Ken Roczen’s prolific injuries and what he spent his downtime doing, which included some online shopping/ESPN the Magazine

OVERHEARD. OVERREAD. OVERSAID.

“My gratitude and happiness stems from the experience of having one of my guys lying virtually motionless for some twenty minutes, 30 feet away from me (I was in the managers tower), having no idea the extent of the injury, thinking the worst and having no way to be by Malcolm’s side to support and comfort him… Followed up by Tony (Alessi) and I going to the hospital after the race, only to find Malcolm alert and upbeat (pain meds may have been working), preparing to eat an In-N-Out burger, insisting on how he will be back in no time, stronger and better than ever.”

Smartop/Bullfrog Spas/MotoConcepts Honda team owner Mike Genova on Malcolm Stewart’s frightening crash and femur injury in Glendale/team press release

“The careers of a lot of the best motocross racers ended with a scaphoid or wrist or elbow injury. Ten years ago, Ken would have been done.”

Team Honda HRC mechanic Oscar Wirdeman on his rider Ken Roczen’s huge crash two years ago, where he injured all three/ESPN Magazine

“If you’re leading and the red flag comes out, it’s never too much fun.”

Team Honda HRC’s Ken Roczen, after a late-race red flag came out for Malcolm Stewart as Roczen was out front. After the restart, he would tangle with Jason Anderson and end up third/post-race press conference

“Reed is up to second, but 34 year old Brayton is leading and has youth on his side”

“My gratitude and happiness stems from the experience of having one of my guys lying virtually motionless for some twenty minutes, 30 feet away from me (I was in the managers tower), having no idea the extent of the injury, thinking the worst and having no way to be by Malcolm’s side to support and comfort him… Followed up by Tony (Alessi) and I going to the hospital after the race, only to find Malcolm alert and upbeat (pain meds may have been working), preparing to eat an In-N-Out burger, insisting on how he will be back in no time, stronger and better than ever.”

Smartop/Bullfrog Spas/MotoConcepts Honda team owner Mike Genova on Malcolm Stewart’s frightening crash and femur injury in Glendale/team press release

“The careers of a lot of the best motocross racers ended with a scaphoid or wrist or elbow injury. Ten years ago, Ken would have been done.”

Team Honda HRC mechanic Oscar Wirdeman on his rider Ken Roczen’s huge crash two years ago, where he injured all three/ESPN Magazine

“If you’re leading and the red flag comes out, it’s never too much fun.”

Team Honda HRC’s Ken Roczen, after a late-race red flag came out for Malcolm Stewart as Roczen was out front. After the restart, he would tangle with Jason Anderson and end up third/post-race press conference

“Reed is up to second, but 34 year old Brayton is leading and has youth on his side”

“Last week there was a lot going on, just a lot of obligations. I had a ring ceremony during the night show, my heat race was bad. . . . I just wasn’t in the right head space to go racing.”

Jason Anderson on his struggles at Anaheim 1, where he finished 14th/Glendale post-race press conference

“I tried to be all stealth about it, but it came across the Racer X guy’s desk, so they found out about it that way.”

Justin Brayton on trying to secretly buy the Podcast Tee on racerxbrand.com without Jason Weigandt finding out/Motoxpod Podcast

“Last week there was a lot going on, just a lot of obligations. I had a ring ceremony during the night show, my heat race was bad. . . . I just wasn’t in the right head space to go racing.”

Jason Anderson on his struggles at Anaheim 1, where he finished 14th/Glendale post-race press conference

“I tried to be all stealth about it, but it came across the Racer X guy’s desk, so they found out about it that way.”

Justin Brayton on trying to secretly buy the Podcast Tee on racerxbrand.com without Jason Weigandt finding out/Motoxpod Podcast

DMXS BYTES

EXCERPTS FROM THE INTERNET’S TOP MOTOCROSS RADIO SHOW

“Looking back, this is bad, but driving across the country, we’d stop at a Wal-Mart and my dad would grab me two boxes of sushi, and one was for breakfast and one was for lunch.”

We guess jumping supercross triples and blitzing whoops is nothing for Red Bull KTM’s Cooper Webb, who took much larger risks during his amateur days

“My dad always broke chopsticks in half and wired them to my grips so if I ever went down I could scrape the mud off my gloves.”

Monster Energy Yamaha Factory Racing’s Aaron Plessinger is known for his mud-riding prowess after coming up through off-road racing, and we hope he brings this ingenious hack back one day soon

“I do all the cooking in the family.”

Just when you think you might have an advantage with your wife over JGRMX/Yoshimura Suzuki’s Chad Reed, he reminds you he has you covered there too

“My second aunt is a country singer that has sung at the Grand Ole Opry for the last 50 years. She’s written songs for all of the outlaw country greats. She’ll name drop all the time and tell about writing a song with Merle Haggard.”

We were shocked to find out that Nashville royalty Jeannie Seely is related to our own Cole Seely

DMXS BYTES

EXCERPTS FROM THE INTERNET’S TOP MOTOCROSS RADIO SHOW

“Looking back, this is bad, but driving across the country, we’d stop at a Wal-Mart and my dad would grab me two boxes of sushi, and one was for breakfast and one was for lunch.”

We guess jumping supercross triples and blitzing whoops is nothing for Red Bull KTM’s Cooper Webb, who took much larger risks during his amateur days

“My dad always broke chopsticks in half and wired them to my grips so if I ever went down I could scrape the mud off my gloves.”

Monster Energy Yamaha Factory Racing’s Aaron Plessinger is known for his mud-riding prowess after coming up through off-road racing, and we hope he brings this ingenious hack back one day soon

“I do all the cooking in the family.”

Just when you think you might have an advantage with your wife over JGRMX/Yoshimura Suzuki’s Chad Reed, he reminds you he has you covered there too

“My second aunt is a country singer that has sung at the Grand Ole Opry for the last 50 years. She’s written songs for all of the outlaw country greats. She’ll name drop all the time and tell about writing a song with Merle Haggard.”

We were shocked to find out that Nashville royalty Jeannie Seely is related to our own Cole Seely