Swapmoto Live Podcast

We sat down with Monster Energy Yamaha's Aaron Plessinger for a super fun conversation about everything from dirt bikes to dick injuries. Plessinger suffered a setback in the off-season that kept him off the bike for a few weeks and left him scrambling to catch up with bike setup before the season, but he’s been making progress at the races each and every week. One of the most down-to-earth...

  GEICO Honda's Christian Craig was originally slated to contest the Western Regional 250 Supercross Championship, but a testing crash left him with a badly broken bone in his right thumb and revised plans to race on the East. Cleared to ride only a week before the Minneapolis series kickoff, Craig showed up at US Bank Stadium hoping to salvage some points, even though he was in a lot of pain...

The Eastern Regional 250 Supercross Championship kicked off inside US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and GEICO Honda's Chase Sexton rebounded from an early race crash to finish fifth aboard his Jade Dungey-tuned Honda CRF250R. In the off-season, Sexton suffered a broken collarbone while training, but rebounded quickly and showed up hoping to win the opener. We shadowed Sexton throughout h...

Monster Energy Kawasaki’s Adam Cianciarulo captured his third Western Regional 250 main event of the year this past weekend at Petco Park in San Diego. Heavy rains in the area turned the race track into a quagmire, but AC rode a flawless race and led every single lap to take over the championship points lead just as the series heads east and takes a multi-week break. Cianciarulo invited us t...

Whether he has a factory ride or not, Dean Wilson is always one of the most popular racers in the pits thanks to his fun personality and super cool riding style. In 2019, Deano led most of the Anaheim One season opener and made a statement that his private racing effort is one to be taken seriously. Recently, with the news of Supercross Champion Jason Anderson's injury, Wilson has been asked to re...

Troy Lee Designs/Red Bull/KTM team captain Shane McElrath put it all together last Saturday night to win the first Monster Energy Triple Crown Supercross of the season at Anaheim Two, and the seven-year veteran of the team says he is set to make a serious bid for the Western Regional 250 Supercross Championship now that the team has better dialed in his bike for race conditions. We caught up with...

Malcolm Stewart was enjoying a great start to the 2019 Monster Energy Supercross Series until he was struck down with a crash in the Phoenix main event. Stewart suffered a broken femur, but he's already working out in hopes of returning to action as soon as possible. We paid Mookie a visit at his home in Corona and sat down for a podcast with him and his mechanic Jason "Rango" Montoya. 

Ryan Villopoto is one of my all-time favorites, and especially so since he's been retired from professional racing. These days in his role as a marketing partner with Yamaha Motors, RV is laid back and loving life as he raises his twin sons with his wife Kristen. Tomorrow, RV and I will take to the rainy streets of SoCal aboard the new 2019 Yamaha YZF R3, but we caught up in this fun podcast tonig...

Honda HRC's Cole Seely made his return to Monster Energy Supercross yesterday at Anaheim One after missing most of the 2018 season due to horrific injuries he suffered while running second in last year's championship. Always one of the fun riders to work with, we decided to try something different with this episode of the Swapmoto Live Podcast, presented by Ogio . Starting as soon as Cole arrived...

It's hard to believe that we are already on the eve of the 2019 Monster Energy Supercross Series opener, isn't it? Press day functions were held today at Angel's Stadium and all of the major teams were on hand to ride for the press and take part in a conference that was broadcasted live on TransWorldMX.com. I thought it would be interesting to take a recorder around and see what people in the pits...

Former Eastern Region 250 Supercross Champion Justin Bogle was set to field his own privateer effort in this year's Monster Energy Supercross Series this year, but a last-minute offer with the Rocky Mountain ATV/MC KTM team will see him compete aboard an Austrian-made KTM for the first time in his career. We saw Bogle in action at Lake Elsinore Motorsports Park aboard his new bike this morning and...

NOTE: The first upload glitched at the 53 min mark. This episode is complete! GEICO Honda's latest recruit comes to us from Australia, via the MXGP World Championship Series. Nineteen-year-old Hunter Lawrence will make his American Supercross debut in February at the Minneapolis kickoff of the Eastern Regional 250 Supercross Championship alongside teammates Christian Craig and Chase Sexton. Lawren...

GEICO Honda's latest recruit comes to us from Australia, via the MXGP World Championship Series. Nineteen-year-old Hunter Lawrence will make his American Supercross debut in February at the Minneapolis kickoff of the Eastern Regional 250 Supercross Championship alongside teammates Christian Craig and Chase Sexton. Lawrence and his family have an intriguing story, as they sold everything they owned...

Alex Ray got the break of a lifetime last year when he was recruited by the Monster Energy Yamaha Factory team to fill in for an injured Cooper Webb, and that helped lead him to a ride with the HEP Motorsports Suzuki support squad for the 2019 Monster Energy Supercross Championship Series. One of the funniest guys in the pits, ARay is always fun to hang with. We braved the high-crime area of his c...

First of all, I am at the tail end of a gnarly chest cold so my voice is completely blown out and for this, I apologize. Today, we rode all six of the 2019 250cc MX bikes for a back-to-back comparison in day one of the TransWorld Motocross 250 Shootout. Though we will spend several more days on the machines before coming to a conclusion for print in the magazine, I thought it would be interesting...

Weston Peick suffered horrific injuries at the Paris Supercross in November when he crashed at the start of a race and his head was landed on by another racer. Three surgeries and two weeks later, Peick is finally home in SoCal and we were lucky enough to chat with him and his fiancee Kelly Cleland, about the life-changing ordeal. Please listen to this heart-wrenching Podcast and then consider don...

The 2019 Suzuki RM-Z250 just arrived on American shores and we got to throw our legs over ours today at Cahuilla Creek MX Park during the Insideline Connect Media Camp. Though Suzuki flew selected journalists to take our first ride on the bike a couple months ago in Japan, the event was rained on and the track was a far cry from the circuits we have in the States. So technically, today was our sec...

We took delivery of the 2019 Honda CRF250R last week and gave the bike its first shakedown today at Cahuilla Creek MX Park in Anza, California. This is a two-part podcast. In part one, we discussed the changes made to the '19 bike with American Honda technician Jason Paredes. We also covered set-up tips for the new bike, plus Jason shared a few insights about getting the most performance and durab...

GEICO Honda's Christian Craig is healthy and anxious for the 2019 Western Regional 250 Supercross Championship to get underway in January, as he was sidelined for the summer with injuries sustained in a crash at the 450 National series opener. Healthy and fit, Craig is sure to be a contender each time he lines up. We caught up with the father of two yesterday at the Honda test track before he star...

At 34, Justin Brayton is at the peak of his career. Fresh off his third Australian Supercross Championship, the MCR Honda rider joins us in Paris, France, for our second show and first-ever international production! In town for the 2018 Paris Supercross, Brayton admits that he may not be up to par as he has struggled with pneumonia and bronchitis for the past couple of months, but as always he wil...

Anaheim 1 is less than eight weeks away and for the first time since moving up to the 450 class, Malcolm Stewart is preparing for the season with a solid ride. Well, sort of. The Motoconcepts Honda team has been supporting Mookie through the off-season with the promise of a full-time ride for the 2019 Monster Energy Supercross Championship if he A: can attract an outside sponsor to help offset the...