
The cost of a bike, gear and transportation to a track for races can end up costing some pretty major bling. Besides being fun, motocross can also be exorbitant. The best way to learn, without hurting yourself, is by taking lessons from an experienced rider.

Motocross is a sport that can be amusement, physically demanding and very exhilarating. The masters of freestyle motocross include riders like Mike Metzger, Travis Pastrana and Nate Adams. Like Big Air, a panel of judges assigns each contestant a score based on a 100-point scale, looking for difficult tricks and variances over jumps.īesides performing mind-blowing stunts, freestyle motocross riders have also carried some of the nastiest wipeouts in the history of action sports – broken spleens, fractured collarbones and shattered ankles are just some of the gruesome injuries that have resulted from death-defying stunts that go wrong.

In the 1990s, the sport of freestyle motocross was born. One of the biggest names in motocross racing now is teenage star, James “Bubba” Stewart, who has been winning national races since he was 15. Bikes went from 50cc to 250cc engines in the 1950s and 60s, resulting in bikes that had greater agility and that were lighter and speedy than their predecessors, all elements which were essential for motocross racing.īy the 1980s, the top motocross riders were racing in large stadiums in front of huge audiences. Post World War II motorcycle manufacturing, vital to the war effort, became a fiery industry as civilian demand bursts both in Europe and further afield. Races were later held on bigger tracks and the courses were modified to include larger banks and bigger jumps. Motocross racing really began to advance as a sport after World War II, with races being run on dirt ovals or horse race tracks.

Motocross Is all about big jumps, big engines and big wipe-outs.
