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Ricky Carmichael's role at Triumph America is much more than you'd think. He's not just taking pictures and signing autographs, but he's helping test and develop the all-new 2024 Triumph TF250X, he helped develop the new 250F, he's currently helping them develop the 2025 Triumph TF450X and he's helped steer them in the right direction with their race team as well. We enjoyed hanging out with Ricky at the Triumph intro in Florida the other day, he was very open and easy to talk to about the exciting new venture for Triumph. This is a candid interview between Josh Mosiman and Ricky Carmichael, with an impromptu visit from Dennis Stapleton jumping in for the later portion of the video. 

MXA's Josh Mosiman and Dennis Stapleton sat down for a candid 1-hour recap of the official media launch for the 2024 Triumph TF250X. This is a new venture for MXA, so if you enjoy this relaxed style of content, please let us know you'd like to see more podcasts like this in the future. 

Justin Barcia broke his collarbone at the Nashville Supercross, and an infection after his surgery caused a collarbone injury to turn into a much bigger deal. Thankfully, Justin is back on the bike and looking forward to getting back to the races soon, maybe as soon as Unadilla. MXA’s Josh Mosiman is in Italy for the 2024 GasGas intro, and Justin is here riding stock bikes and hanging out. 

Red Bull KTM 250 rider Max Vohland compares Hangtown to the Thunder Valley National, and he talks about his sixth overall finish at Round three. Plus, Max talks about the bad luck he's had with food poisoning, bike problems and travel issues at this race throughout the last three years. 

Adam Cianciarulo was born and bred for motocross and he grew up with a spotlight following him through his amateur career and into the Pro ranks. Adam has been a lifelong Kawasaki ambassador, riding for the Team Green program since he was nine years old on a Kawasaki KX65. Unfortunately, his Pro career has seen its fair share of injuries and AC9 is working hard to get back to the same speed that we saw outdoors in 2020 and 2021 when he was battling with Zach Osborne and Dylan Ferrandis for wins during the Pro Motocross season. In this interview, MXA's Josh Mosiman caught up with Adam after the 2023 Fox Raceway National to get his take on the track and learn more about the stem cell therapy he's been doing on his wrist, elbow and shoulder.  

The 2023 Fox Raceway National is in the books and if you've watched our latest This Week in MXA episode, covering the race, then you've heard about the mid-air collision between close friends, Josh Mosiman and Freddie Noren. In this interview, Freddie explains the incident and Josh Mosiman jumps in to talk about it and ask about Freddie's first race with the new team.

Ken Roczen, Jett Lawrence, Hunter Lawrence, and Haiden Deegan share their thoughts on New York City and their mindsets coming into today's race in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The MetLife Stadium is ready to host Round 14 of the 2023 Monster Energy Supercross Championship and Hunter Lawrence has a chance to win the 250SX East title, but his week hasn't gone as smoothly as you'd think. His near wreck while leading the Main Event at Atlanta last Saturday had some lingering effects this week. MXA's Brian Converse also talked to Jett Lawrence, Ken Roczen, and Haiden Deegan on Friday before the race as well. 

Motocross Action Magazine's Josh Mosiman talked to Chase Sexton on Friday before the 2023 Seattle Supercross to hear about his Detroit Supercross win and about his season so far. Chase talked about seeing Aaron Plessinger on the ground and he talked about his comeback ride, passing Cooper Webb, Eli Tomac and more. 

Justin Hill and Josh Hill are teammates in 2023 on the Team Tedder racing program riding 2022 KTM 450SXF models with backing from Monster Energy. After the 2020 season, Justin Hill stepped away from Supercross when contract negotiations with the MotoConcepts Honda team went awry. Now, he's back racing and he's doing it with his brother as his teammate. Check out this candid interview with Justin from Friday before Anaheim 2 where Justin talks about the first two Rounds and the Team Tedder program. 

The 2023 Anaheim 2 Supercross is in the books and the Triple Crown format certainly shook things up in both the 250SX West and 450SX classes. Eli Tomac and Jett Lawrence were both knocked off their pedestals, however, Eli was knocked further off with a 6th place overall and a slimmed down 4-point lead over Chase Sexton in the 450 Championship standings. Jett actually extended his lead, but Levi Kitchen grabbed his first podium (which happens to be a win) in Supercross. Check out interviews from Chase Sexton, Adam Cianciarulo, Levi Kitchen, 250 Futures class winner Daxton Bennick, Star Yamaha 250 Team Manager Jensen Hendler, Derek Kelley, Phil Nicoletti and Colt Nichols. 

The 2023 Anaheim 1 Supercross press day riding was canceled, but we were still able to track down the most popular rider in the motocross and Supercross world right now, Ken Roczen. In this interview with Motocross Action's Josh Mosiman, Kenny explains his excitement for racing the Suzuki RM-Z450 and he talks about joining the HEP Suzuki team. He also shares about his offseason experiences testing different motorcycles and he talks on how that might benefit him coming into the new season. 

The 2023 Anaheim 1 Supercross is set to kick off the Monster Energy Supercross season, this Saturday in Angel Stadium. The A1 Supercross is one of the most exciting dirt bike races of the year and with Eli Tomac, Ken Roczen, Jason Anderson, Cooper Webb, Chase Sexton, Adam Cianciarulo and more set to go racing, we're anticipating an intense night of racing. 

In the audio version of our This Week in MXA video, episode 106, presented by O'Neal, Josh Mosiman previews the upcoming race, talking about the interesting Dirt Wurx track layout, the rainy weather in Southern California, the 250 riders confirmed to race on the West Coast and Ken Roczen's new opportunities with the HEP Suzuki team. 

Triumph Motorcycles announced their legendary lineup of managers and technicians for their debut factory AMA Supercross and motocross racing efforts on December 13th. Headlining the list is Bobby Hewitt, founder and former owner of the Rockstar team, who has been out of the industry since the KTM Group bought him out of his team in July of 2020. His co-pilot and former Rockstar Husqvarna team manager, Scuba Steve Westfall, joins Bobby at Triumph as well. Plus, longtime Honda chassis developer, Dave Arnold, and longtime KTM factory services engine builder, Dudley Cramond, have also joined the team.

In this episode of the Motocross Action podcast, Trevor Nelson interviews factory HRC Honda riders Chase Sexton, Colt Nichols, Jett Lawrence and Chance Hymas. Each rider talks about their unique situation as they prepare for the 2023 season. 

The Australian round of the brand new FIM World Supercross is in the books, Joey Savatgy  won the race and Ken Roczen won the 450 title, but it was Vince Friese and Justin Brayton who've gained the most attention afterwards. In This Week in MXA, Episode 94, presented by O'Neal, Josh Mosiman highlights the first round of the World Supercross series and he talks on the new 2023 Yamaha YZ450F, the 2023 Suzuki RMZ250 and the upcoming World Vet Championships at Glen Helen. 

The 2023 Yamaha YZ450F is an all-new machine and it has been the most highly anticipated bike of the new model season. Stemming from the backwards engine concept that Yamaha introduced in 2010, the YZ450F has been a unique motorcycle. The MXA test riders have either loved it, or hated it. 

Inside the pages of Motocross Action and on our YouTube videos, we've held no punches when reviewing the Yamaha YZ450F and in 2023, it seems like Yamaha finally addressed all of the complaints we've harped on since the backwards engine was introduced in 2010. 

This is the audio version of our MXA Tested video which is on YouTube and our website

Earlier this year Dean Wilson announced that this would be his last Outdoor National season as he transitions into full-time Supercross racing for 2023 and beyond. Dean’s career is highlighted by his 250 National Championship from 2011 and he is known for being one of the most popular riders in the pits. No matter how Dean finishes, he always has a crowd of fans cheering for him. We caught up with Dean Saturday evening after his last official AMA Pro Motocross race. Although Dean still has one more big race to go, the 2022 Motocross of Nations at Red Bud coming up in just three weeks where Dean will race for Team Great Britain. Enjoy this interview with Dean and the guest appearance by Jim “Bones” Bacon from Pro Circuit. 

In this episode of the MXA podcast, we took the audio from our 2023 KTM Freeride EXC Electric bike test video, and stripped the visual side of it for our listeners to hear the electric motor and hear MXA test rider talk about his experience riding this unique electric bike from KTM. To watch the  video, check out our website or YouTube channel. 

This is the audio version of episode number 88 from our This Week in MXA video series, presented by O'Neal. In this video, Josh Mosiman highlights the 2022 Ironman National and he talks to Michael Del Fante, Daryl Ecklund, Ezra Lewis and Josh Fout (in that order) as they share their experience from riding Jo Shimoda's factory Pro Circuit Kawasaki KX250.

Jeremy Albrecht is a well known character within the motocross industry and MXA's Trevor Nelson snagged a video interview with him this past week at Surfercross. Jeremy is the mastermind behind the event and he explains what Surfercross is all about and he also shares his opinion on the latest happenings in our industry with the FIM World Supercross series, the new partnership with FELD and MX Sports doing a SuperMotocross series and more.