RideX365 Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Host Gary Walton brings you behind the scenes in the world of snowmobile racing, adventure riding and off-road racing. Weekly race recaps and interviews with the top riders and key players in the sport.
The audio got a little wonky on this one, but GDubs and DV sit down with Casey Hultgren (Hult329) and Cole Cottew to (colecottew) to mull over the last couple rounds of ISOC Snocross and COR Powersports, as well as regional snocross racing while also speculating about potential rider/team changes for 2024.Thank you to FXR Racing and Hayes Powersports for supporting the pod all season and into the summer and fall.Be sure to share the link to this episode with your friends and follow all episodes on Spotify, iTunes or Google Podcasts
The first two rounds of ISOC Snocross for the month of March are in the books and the boys sit down to discuss the new venue in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, as well as the first-ever Pro Triple Crown which took place at ERX Motor Park.Vince VanSlyke is also in studio for this episode to talk a little Snow and Moto cross-country, as well as the wicked good trail conditions in Northern Minnesota this winter.Be sure to share the link to this episode with your friends and follow all episodes on Spotify, iTunes or Google Podcasts
This is one of our favorite annual episodes where we record in the pits on the night before the U.S. Air Force Nationals in Deadwood, South Dakota. Rider guests on this year's edition include Evan Christian and Evan Daudt from KC Motorsports, Emeric Legendre from Thene Motorsports, Pro Women racer Inanna Hauger from Frattalone Racing, recent back-to-back Pro winner Hunter Patenaude and former Pro racer turned team owner Lincoln Lemieux.We also recorded an industry insider segment with Clay Hendricks from Hayes Powersports and had the pleasure of sitting down with long-time media friend, ISOC Media Manager and now Supercross Race Day Live personality Haley Shanley.Be sure to share the link to this episode with your friends and follow all episodes on Spotify, iTunes or Google Podcasts
The first round of the national snocross tour is in the books the 2023 snowmobile racing season is about to kick off at full speed. On this episode GDubs and Dalton give their hot takes on a cold weekend in Fargo and look ahead at what the '23 season has in store with injuries already playing a big role some keep divisions. They also briefly touch on the XC season opener and the potential resurgence of ice oval racing. Be sure to share the link to this episode with your friends and follow all episodes on Spotify, iTunes or Google Podcasts
We recently made our first trip of the pre-season to the Klim Compound in Aurora, Minnesota and had a chance to catch up with a few of the riders as they were making their first laps of the season.On this episode we check in with Nick Lorenz, Kenny Mandryk, Marcus Ogemar and Cole Cottew. Let us know who you'd like to here from next week by dropping us a note at info@ridex365.com and be sure share the link to this episode with your friends and start following all episodes on Spotify, iTunes or Google Podcasts
This month we kick off the 10th anniversary of the podcast with one of our original co-hosts, Levi Ensrud. Levi is a veteran mechanic in the Pro ranks who recently took on the role of Team Manager with the upstart Skogquist Race Team who will be fielding a number of amateur racers, as well as long-time Pro Petter Narsa.
Levi had a lot of great insight into the sport and shares some of his thoughts on how snocross has progressed and where it is
It's been a minute but G Dubs and DV are back on an extended late summer podcast to catch up on all of the snocross silly season news as well as look ahead at the potential ISOC schedule. The boys also catch up on the Border Battle XC season which just completed an epic ski hill event in Michigan's U.P.
On this episode G Dubs and DV recap the 2022 ISOC snocross season and look ahead at some of the team and rider rumors already hitting the street. Shock guru Vince VanSlyke joins the guys to talk Cor Powersports cross-country and all three of the boys look ahead to this week's Jesse Thelen Memorial race at the opening round of Border Battle XC at ERX in Elk River, Minnesota.
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On this episode G Dubs and DV check in with Pro Lite front-runners Ryley Bester, Evan Christian and Nick Lorenz. All three guys share some great insight into their various stages in the class and what it takes to run up front every night with that goal of moving to the Pro class.
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On this episode G Dubs and DV review the ISOC All Finish Concrete Snocross national in Fargo, North Dakota as well as preview the always popular upcoming round in New York.
We also continue our team owner series with DV's employers Steve and Nick Hemmer of Hemmer Motorsports. Like many teams in the pro pits, the Hemmers started off supporting their your kids at the local and regional level and before you know it they had an 18-wheel factory rig and were chasing the national tour across the country.
The investment is starting to payoff big time as they are now one of the elite Polaris factory supported teams with new Pro Lite racer Nick Lorenz putting it on the box at almost every round this season.
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Full disclosure, this pod was recorded just hours before ISOC announced that the Deadwood round of national snocross would be postponed, so any references to that event do not account for the date change.
This episode has some great insight into mid-season testing with co-host Dalton Vetsch, who's Hemmer Motorsports team is in the middle of a title fight in the Pro Lite class. We also review the first quarter of the AMSOIL Championship Snocross season, the new Flo Racing subscription streaming platform and all of the questions that remain about who will be the first Pro racer to string together back-to-back weekends.
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The national snocross season is officially underway and we sat down with Hentges Racing Pro Lite rider Kenny Mandryk to review the opening weekend. Unfortunately, Kenny suffered a season-ending injury on Friday but he was able to hang around throughout the event and offered some great insight into the course and his fellow racers.
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This week we check in with a number of riders at the test track in Aurora, Minnesota where pre-season has been under way for over two weeks. Evan Christian and Evan Daudt played guest hosts in the KC Motorsports transporter with new Scheuring Speed Sports rider Adam Ashline stopping in. We were also joined by new Hemmer Motorsports Pro Lite racer Nick Lorenz and his crew chief and or regular co-host Dalton Vetsch.
We had a little generator interference that made the audio a little shaky on this one and GDubs probably swore a little too much, but you're gonna enjoy the behind the scenes look at what goes on during the weeks away from home at pre-season testing.
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On this episode we kick off a series of interviews with snocross team owners and get a look at how they found their way into the sport, along with what it takes to finance and maintain a mid six-figure annual budget. Guest number one is Steve Scheuring, who has been at this as long or longer than most and is one of the very few team owners who makes his living from racing.
Along the way, Scheuring Speed Sports has had relationships with major non-endemic sponsors such as The U.S. Air Force, Ford, Milwaukee Tool and Red Bull. They have also maintained many of these relationship well beyond industry average, including title sponsor AMSOIL who has been with the team 24 years.
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There have been a lot of snocross rider and team changes over the off-season, starting at the very top with three-time defending champ Elias Ishoel. Check in with GDubs and DV as they discuss how the shakeups from the Pro ranks down to the Sport class could play out in 2022.
We are giving away a full set of FLY SNX Pro riding gear on the next episode, but the only way to win is to tune in this week for contest details.
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Nick Swenson has had more than his share of success as an amateur off-road racer. This week he is on his way to Italy to compete in his first International Six Days Enduro, a bucket list race that his father and several of his mentors have done before him.
We sat down with Nick at his garage while he was prepping his bike to get shipped off and got his take on the prep, his approach and expectations.
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This episode was lost in the weeds for a few weeks but we wanted to introduce everyone to action sports video guy Casey Hultgren, who has been building a name for himself over the last few seasons in snocross and Champ Off-Road. GDubs and Dalton caught up with Casey and his boy Cole Cottew at the Cottew team HQ for a little bench racing and some stories from the road.
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On this month's episode G Dubs and Dalton take a little break from a moto session in the woods for an impromptu show reflecting on the 2021 ISOC snocross season and the fact that it actually got pulled off with a bunch of great racing and cool new venues, in spite of, or thanks to, COVID. While on the trail they also discussed the up coming dirt bike season, Woods Wednesdays at ERX Motor Park and some the potential rider and team announcement that could happen during the off-season.
Thank you to Fly Racing, C & A Pro Skis, Stud Boy Traction, Woodies Mfg., FOX and Hayes Powersport for their support! And please, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or Stitcher to stay up to date on all the happenings in snow, moto and off-road.
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The AMSOIL Championship Snocross tour is closing out the season with back-to-back weekends at the historic World Championship Derby Complex in Eagle River, Wisconsin. The oval track World Championships have played host to a watered-down version of snocross in the past, but last weekend marked the first time the national tour has made a stop at the joint and it was a good one.
We let the riders do most of the talking this week as we check in with podium finishers Oskar Norum, Hunter Patenaude, Ryley Bester, Travis Kern and Evan Christian.
Thank you to Fly Racing, C & A Pro Skis, Stud Boy Traction, Woodies Mfg., FOX and Hayes Powersport for their support! And please, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or Stitcher to stay up to date on all the happenings in snow, moto and off-road.
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