AMA XTRM Supermoto Championship at Miller Utah

450/Premier

The KTM boys took both heat races just a little bit ago here at Miller. Heat race #1 was Chris Fillmore who pulled out a gap on Jeff Ward and Cassidy Anderson in the 4lap Heat. Anderson was able to work his way past Ward on the second lap and closed in on the top time getter in practice earlier in the day, Fillmore, but it was the HMC/KTM rider that got the win and the pole for the main.

Heat race #2 featured the other member of the KTM squad, Troy Herfoss who pulled a good size gap on Aprilia's Ben Carlson right off the start who in turn was in front of a hot battle featuring first, Dalton Dimick of the XXX Racing Fuels team, then Yamaha's Mark Burkhart sandwiched in between the teammate of Dimick, Robbie Horton. Burkhart was able to work his way past Dimick on the second lap and put his head down to close the gap to Herfoss but the man in Orange was not to be headed. Final was Herfoss, Burkhart, Carlson, Dimick, Horton. Should be some great action come Main event time!

250/Lites

In Heat #1 it was Matt Abbott was taking the holeshot followed by Casey Yarrow and then Lites points leader, Brandon Currie. On the second lap Currie made a pass on Abbott in the second dirt section and started to pull away. Behind Abbott was the battle featuring Johnny Lewis, Casey Yarrow, Andrew Hyder and Danny Casey. The four of these combatants battled through the 4lap event and the final order was Currie, Abbott, Lewis, Yarrow, Casey.

Heat Race #2 was a barn burner with Matt Burton leading Robert Loire, David Pingree and rookie Supermoto rider/Gray Davenport. The race would be a battle royale as Pingree and Davenport caught up to Burton and they all were in a conga line as they came across start finish for the last time.......Matt Burton, Davenport then Pingree all separated by less than a second.

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Race #1 was a Darryl Atkins runaway with the fastest man in practice showing the way from start to finish over the rest of the field. Race #2 saw Steve Drew get the win over Josh Chisum and Micky Dymond rounding out the top three.

Source: SupermotoOnline

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Free supermoto movie for download

Belgian Supermoto racer Skully25 made a very nice supermoto movie a year ago which he sold on dvd. But now he is offering the complete movie as a free download!

The movie is an hour long and contains everything from racing to street riding. Here's what the creator had to say about it:

About a year ago I started my own video project which was supposed to be a compilation of all the best footage I shot during the 3 years I've been riding my bike. by large request I ended up making that video into a DVD. it contains footage of our ride-outs, trackdays and races (including the well known superbiker race at mettet)

I'm now putting up the complete video up for download. it's a low resolution version of the original to keep filesize down but it still contains all the footage.

info about the vid:
file format: .MP4 (viewable in quicktime, VLC or WMP with the right plug-ins)
filesize: aprox 740 mb
runtime: 58 minutes

download link:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0BI5MJXC
(if site says "file not available" refresh page)

keep in mind this is a hobby project, it's not like ryan moore's X-dream film or trachy's instructional dvd when you look at quality or editing, I wish I was that good or had the resources to make something like that I made the whole video in Imovie on my mac and burned all the copies of the dvd on my own computer with the sole intention of providing my friends and fellow riders with some amusement. now I wanted to go a little further and make it available to others as well.

enjoy!

2009 Honda CRF450

As you know of might not know. The first info and pics of the 2009 Honda CRF450 have been released. The bike is almost totally new and looks like a very fast package. Ideal for Supermoto ofcourse. The CRF450's have been kicking ass in the AMA supermoto championship the previous years but in Europe you can hardly find them at the front. Kinda weird actually.

Well I felt inspired and made a special Supermoto Central version of the 2009 CRF450.

2009 GasGas Supermoto models

GASGAS SM 515
GASGAS SM 450

GASGAS SM Halley 450

GASGAS SM Halley 125

The Spanish brand GASGAS have released the pics and info of their 2009 Supermoto models. I must say they did a great job. Esspecially the SM450 and 515 are beautiful. The Halley versions look a bit more street friendly with the rear passegner pegs and indicators. The Halley 450 also has 41mm forks instead of the 48mm forks on the SM450. I must admit the forks look a bit thin without the protectors on them. The bikes have a fuel injected four stroke engined which produces about 50hp. I hope we will see the SM450 or 515 in the S1 and S2 Supermoto classes next year.

There also is a 125cc two stroke Supermoto in the GASGAS lineup. A very nice bike aimed at the license restricted 17 year olds in the south european countries and the UK. Competition for Aprilia's SX125 and Husqvarna's SM125.

More info

thanks to Hellforleather

XTRM / AMA Supermoto round 1

Full report of XTRM / AMA Supermoto round 1. 30 minutes full of races,interviews and a cool feature on the HMC KTM. This video is definately worth watching.

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New! KTM 990 Supermoto R

KTM expands their Supermoto line with the KTM SM990 „R “. Based on the 2008 KTM 990 Supermoto the Supermoto R has a new color scheme with white plastics and an orange powdercoated frame. Other changes are a black swingarm and a smaller tank.

Any changes on the engine and suspension are unknown. The bike will be presented to the public at the 2008 EICMA bike show in Milan coming november.

VISIT THE NEW SUPERMOTO CENTRAL WEBSITE AT WWW.SUPERMOTO-CENTRAL.COM

Benelli BX Supermoto

Spotted at the paddock of World Supermoto Championship in Olbia was the new Benelli BX Supermoto. We are still waiting for the cross (on the market in October) and enduro (December), versions but Benelli already has plans for a Supermoto version. The bike on the pics is a BX in street version, but rumours go around that Benelli want to enter the World Supermoto Championship S1 in 2009 with a 450 version. The engine, which uses titanium valves to rev to 11,000rpm — impossibly high for a single — and in 449cc form makes 52bhp. It uses a single-piece cast crankcase to make it incredibly compact. It also has a right-side chain and left-side kickstart.

But it's the chassis that really differs from the norm. A single cradle made from forged, cast and extruded elements, the top portion on both sides features a carbon strut that completes the top of the cradle. This strut is removable and replaceable with ones of different thicknesses, allowing riders to tune the chassis for stiffness to suit individual riding styles or tracks.

The release of a Supermoto version is not certain but if all goes well the BX Supermoto should be on the market at the end of 2009.

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