Upgrade to enjoy this feature!
Vital MX fantasy is free to play, but Premium users receive great benefits. Premium benefits include:
- View and download rider stats
- Pick trends
- Create a private league
- And more!
Only $10 for all 2026 SX, MX, and SMX series.
That would be cool but the AMA would have to update their archaic rules.
Oh I wasn’t even going there, it’s just the homologation rule that would need to change. Probably unintentional, but it serves as a gatekeeper that keeps the smaller manufacturers from being able to race.
You realise that all these riders come from the same pool right?
There isnt some magic group of guys that just race factory bikes.
IMO they should bin 250 East and West, make that a full series with an age limit, instead of racing half the guys in half the races, forever.
People getting giddy over Max Anstie still racing a 250 need to call it for what it is.
In a world where the market shrinks more every year, the number of bikes produced should be based on worldwide sales, AND make a differentiation for manufacturers that only make Motorcycles. Honda makes cars, and huge amounts of garden equipment and road bikes, Kawasaki are a huge engineering firm, Suzuki makes cars,road bikes, and Yamaha make road bikes and musical instruments( although i guess they are not in the same pot) .
But small companies like TM who only make racing motorcycles, (and kart engines) have no commercial safety net other than the things they make to race, despite being in business for 50 years... they dont even to MXGP due to the cost , but if someone wanted to run the bikes in AMA , they cant, which is dumb.
We need to encourage participation, not bar it for rules made when Suzuki sold more RM100's than the entire world buys dirtbikes now.
I think this is an excellent point. TM being in would be great and Supercross would definitely draw more eyes on the brand. KTM did solely bikes and now with Husq as a subsidiary who have a background in machinery and tools has probably helped them massively too. I just think it would be cool to see a few more in there. Dirt Bike Magazine did a 12 brand 450 shootout that included Kove and Gas Gas
The Shop
DeCal Works Huge Plastic Inventory of UFO and Polisport kits.
Free shipping: VITALMX
Luxon 4-Post Bar Mounts
$189.95 - $239.95
Understand that I went off course, it’s just such an easy target. If there’s a lot of interest in 300cc 2 strokes in the market, and there is, why not let them race against 450s?
Apologies for the hijack
The triumps seem to have knocked it out of the park with their bikes, but the only thing is I dont see them at the local tracks. I know theyre new so it may take a while. Are you guys seeing them out and about?
As we used to say back in Oklahoma I have not seen nary a one at the Houston area tracks I ride. But haven’t been to Rio or 3 Palms on the weekends. I ride Ultimate in Alvin, Tx during the week, haven’t seen one but see lots of Orange and green bikes at Ultimate MX. I do ride MX2.0 on the weekends and haven’t seen a Triumph that I recall. If I’m not mistaken Houston has two Triumph dealers.
I’d bet the gear box rumor/issues is not helping sales.
Pit Row
Post a reply to: Have we reached a Manufacturer cap?