We built this bike for one of our test riders, Landon “Smoothie” Bartol to race this year at a bunch of amateur events. Landon is moving up from 125s to the 250 class this year, and while they do get a lot of flak for being “behind” the Suzuki platform is a solid base to build on!
We decided to step into the shootout game with this video. Our 2025 Big Wheel Mini Bike Shootout! We took a group of rad groms out to Glen Helen to hear what they had to say about each manufacturer’s mini bikes on the roughest, toughest track!
Broc Tickle is the 2011 250 west region supercross champion, factory KTM, Suzuki and Kawasaki rider and current Monster Energy Kawasaki race team test rider. We sat down with Broc to go through his life and career.
Ping shows us what parts are on Cooper Webb’s Monster Energy Yamaha Star Racing Factory YZ450F, and what parts are different on Eli Tomac’s machine.
The guys at the HRC Honda Progressive rig welcomed us under their awning to take a look at Hunter’s Factory 450 machine! Ping walks us through some of the parts we see as we take a closer look!
Ping takes us under the factory Kawasaki 450 rig to walk us through some of the parts on Jorge Prado’s bike!
We have riders! With almost every team finally confirming their roster rolling into the new season, Ping and Jeff Emig sit down to pick apart which riders are racing the west coast 250 championship, and what we could expect rolling into the new year.
We linked up with Jorge Prado at the PC test track out at Glen Helen. He was kind enough to sit down and have a chat with Ping about what his off season is like, where he is heading into A1, and if he likes In N Out.
Ron Turner is the winningest racer in Southern California! Boasting over 900 wins! Ron was active from 1970-1990 racing any race he could that paid something in southern California. Making a living racing multiple times a week, as well as testing for Suzuki, Honda and more! Here is his story.
In this new podcast, Ping takes a step sideways, away from the monotonous talk of racing prep and we dive into getting to know the rider’s personality more! With a series of off the wall questions, we wanna see who these riders really are under their helmets.
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