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Puerto Rican MXoN Team Announced
- press release -
Team Puerto Rico has joined forces with UK Yamaha team Utag Yamaha and it's owner Steve Dixon for the Motocross of Nations to be held in Donnington park, England this next september 27-28.
Utag Yamaha will provide bikes, parts, mechanics, gas and everything needed for the team to participate at the MXoN and have a good showing.
The riders selected to represent Puerto Rico are:
MX1 - Gino Aponte / american
MX2 - Tarah Gieger / american
MX3 - Zach Osborne / american
Coming off an X-games gold medal at the 2008 summer games, Tarah Gieger has been putting in the work and it is showing. She is the first person from Puerto Rico to obtain a gold medal in Espn's X-Games.
Gino Aponte is a local pro who has put on the work, at last years MXoN we were a little timid but now he's coming back with a vengeance.
Zach Osborne moved to the Uk to race for the Utag Yamaha team and his results are starting to show that the move was a good one, last sunday using number 338 at the British championship round 7. Zach got pole and fastest lap of the day. He also won the first race dispite crashing and the second race again a small crash cost him the overall but a fourth gave him 2nd overall.
The Dixon Yamaha Team was founded and is still run by former Yamaha GP mechanic Steve Dixon. Steve was also manager of the Yamaha UK MX team in years leading up to the formation of the team in 2002. In 2004 the team adopted the 'Bike It...' prefix as the the large distribution and manufacturing company joined the team as title sponsors.A fresh look and team name has been adopted for 2008, as Bike It have launched the new UTAG product, so the team becomes UTAG Yamaha.
- press release -
Team Puerto Rico has joined forces with UK Yamaha team Utag Yamaha and it's owner Steve Dixon for the Motocross of Nations to be held in Donnington park, England this next september 27-28.
Utag Yamaha will provide bikes, parts, mechanics, gas and everything needed for the team to participate at the MXoN and have a good showing.
The riders selected to represent Puerto Rico are:
MX1 - Gino Aponte / american
MX2 - Tarah Gieger / american
MX3 - Zach Osborne / american
Coming off an X-games gold medal at the 2008 summer games, Tarah Gieger has been putting in the work and it is showing. She is the first person from Puerto Rico to obtain a gold medal in Espn's X-Games.
Gino Aponte is a local pro who has put on the work, at last years MXoN we were a little timid but now he's coming back with a vengeance.
Zach Osborne moved to the Uk to race for the Utag Yamaha team and his results are starting to show that the move was a good one, last sunday using number 338 at the British championship round 7. Zach got pole and fastest lap of the day. He also won the first race dispite crashing and the second race again a small crash cost him the overall but a fourth gave him 2nd overall.
The Dixon Yamaha Team was founded and is still run by former Yamaha GP mechanic Steve Dixon. Steve was also manager of the Yamaha UK MX team in years leading up to the formation of the team in 2002. In 2004 the team adopted the 'Bike It...' prefix as the the large distribution and manufacturing company joined the team as title sponsors.A fresh look and team name has been adopted for 2008, as Bike It have launched the new UTAG product, so the team becomes UTAG Yamaha.
Because PR is a US Territory?
But Zach?/ Because he rides for the UTAG team he can now ride for their co effort on the P.R. team??
Wow thats crazy..
Maybe he is part P.R. and we just didn't know it.
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I wonder if he's ever even been there.
Not that I don't want to see UTAG's equipment there in action (remember, Factory Connection was re-badged as Team Mexico last year...but they actually had three Mexican riders there), or that I don't want to see Zach in the event, but how does this work exactly? What's the connection?
For example, I think it's way more interesting to have three Chinese riders on Team China, than say, they decide they want to become an overnight powerhouse and claim that Ricky Carmichael, Andrew Short, and Ryan Dungey all have Chinese heritage.
Or maybe they could just stick three of their tiny gymnasts on the bikes and accomplish the same thing.
Rememeber they asked Pastrana last year...
I was think more along these lines.
Next year Cuba will claim RC, Stewart and Ferry because they all have a Cuban population living in their home town.
Oh and for the last couple of posts.. Will this satisfy your needs??
Pit Row
What's new Mate? You hitting many GP's??
Oh and hell the MXoN will be in your back yard.. Luck you..
gonna be a packed September!
http://photos.timeggers.com/...allery/1713217_ZvBSJ
but i find it odd.
it is an event for each country fielding a team?
if PR was its own country,, that makes sense,
and their team riders should be citizens.
if it is a territory ,part of a country that is entered wit ha team already.
then pulling riders from that country , doesnt make sense.
several countries could field multiple teams with that stretch of the format???
if territories are recognized as independent ,anfd allowed to field a team, that seems a rasonable stretch of th eformat,, and the riders should at least be from that territory,, ??
next we will have Team florida ,or texas (as its really is its own territory.lol)
just as example:
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team district of columbia anyone?
you had an uncles brothers aunt, from DC right teggers?
you're in!
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