Risk Racing Palm Protectors win the Dealer Expo KickStart Award

Risk Racing was awarded the Dealer Expo Kickstart award for one of the 10 best new products in 2010! The Palm Protectors are getting a lot of attention, and living up to the hype. If you want to protect your hands from blisters and reduce vibration then try out a pair. They fit right under your gloves and are so thin you don't even notice you are wearing them. By the way, we actually won two awards, but we will share the next one with you later...

See Below for a coupon code!

Order a pair of Palm Protectors and receive a FREE pair of Grip Donuts!

Go to www.riskracing.com and simply add the grip donuts to your basket. Be sure to input the coupon code: "kickstart". A $4.99 value for FREE!

Risk Racing Holeshot training with Zach Osborne

Zach Osborne is going to be a real threat in the 2010 FIM World Motocross Championships. He will be on board the UTAG Yamaha again, but this year he is equipped with a Risk Racing Holeshot Starting Gate. Watch Zach for a lot of Holeshots and victories this year. He is training hard and looking great. Check out the video below to see his Holeshot training.

Austin Stroupe trains with the Risk Racing Holeshot Practice Motocross Starting Gate

Austin Stroupe trains exclusivly with the Risk Racing Holeshot Practice Motocross Starting Gate and his starts in the 2010 AMA Monster Energy Supercross Series proves it. Stroupe has been nailing his starts in the 450 class. He has had a holeshot in a heat race or main in almost every race so far this season. We are looking forward to the East Coast when he gets back on a 250 and races for a SX title.

Watch the video below. It was made by the guys at Transworld Motocross and they did a nice little feature of Austin Stroupe using the Holeshot at the VERY end of the video. Check it out!

Zach Osborne uses Risk Racing Palm Protectors

Risk Racing is proud to announce that UTAG Yamaha’s Zach Osborne wears Risk Racing Palm Protectors. The Palm protectors protect him from vibration and heat which causes blisters. Avoiding blisters allows him to ride longer, ride harder and ride safer. Some people claim they don't need the protection because of thick calluses, yet blisters can actually develop under calluses and when those break open, they are more prone to infection. The Palm Protectors are so thin they slip right under your gloves. You don't even know their on. The vibration reduction can also improve arm pump.

ULSTER MX2 Champion 2009 -Richard Bird 57

2009 MX2 Champion

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Richard Bird – Ulster MX2 Champion 2009
In true “Rocky “ fashion, Richard - against Doctors advice – raced and scored enough points to clinch the Ulster MX2 Championship this weekend.
It was pure determination and grit that enabled the young WATT KTM / GOMX / Risk Racing Supported Athlete to endure hours of pain as his physiotherapist worked on his hip and lower back – which, due to a crash last weekend suffered trauma, resulting in massive haemoglobin, considerably restricting movement.
Physical pain is nothing compared to the mental torture of working so hard towards a goal, only to watch by the sidelines the final race of the year to go by, along with any chance you had of winning the series.
The team decided that Richard would run two laps of Qualification Practice, in order to try to preserve his injured body for the actual races – he qualified 9th.
Championship leader , Stuart Edmonds gated just behind Richard and making a pass on lap two, our man stuck with him, until two laps later the Dublin based TM racer dropped his machine and struggled to restart – eventually recording 16th at the finish.
Edmonds did not have time to regroup as the race was Red Flagged, due to a serious accident, leaving an injured rider on the racing line – the race had run over the half distance (by one minute) so it was deemed “Race Result”.
With Richards 5th place finish, the tensions was at fever pitch, by now Richards’s leg and back were beginning to feel the effects of the jump filled Donamana sand circuit.
The following twenty minutes would decide the past seven months of racing, as the pack excited corner one, it was the Championship protagonists in the fray, with Edward Allingham, and Jason Garrett in close quarter.
Confidence in abundance and fresh from his success in the USA, Allingham and Jason Garrett battled for the race win, while the Championship tussle remained undecided.
As the final chequered come down to mark the end of the MX2 series, Garrett won from Allingham, with Edmonds third, Gary Gibson forth, with the 2009 Ulster MX2 Champion fifth.
A delighted, relieved Richard quoted – “On Thursday night, I had resigned myself that it was over, I could not even sit down with the pain in my back and hip. I was not that sore when racing, but when the adrenaline tap is turned off! That’s a different matter all together. Thanks to all my team and sponsors, who make it possible to go racing at this level – see you all at the Party”

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“Welcome Back Shaun”
Risk Racing supported Athlete, Shaun Simpson returns from injury.
After four months out of the saddle, KTM Factory rider Shaun Simpson was “bursting “ to get back into “The Game”. And where better to make your return but in your “Back Yard”.
The British Championship Circus rolled into Duns, in Scotland for the penultimate round of the series, unfortunately the Northern weather was less than kind, to a point that the immaculately prepared circuit virtually fell apart during racing.
Shaun enjoyed it all the same, taking another Holeshot on his way to winning the opening race of the day, shortly after the first MX1 Moto, it was decreed “unsafe” to continue with the days proceedings.
“It was awesome to be back – and YES, we did get the Holeshot” Quipped the Young Scott.
“Roll on 2010”

Risk Racing supported Athlete, 3rd In World Grand Prix Motocross Championship 2009

Risk Racing supported Athlete, 3rd In World Grand Prix Motocross Championship 2009

Congratulations to Natalie Kane on securing the No.3 “World Ranking”, this young “hard working” lass from “down the road” has earned her place on the World stage. WELL DONE!
The final Moto of the series was a full on “Thriller”, the possibility of third place was a consideration, although riding with an injury sustained during a training session earlier in the week, Natalie’s hard fought forth place in the series was also still hanging in the balance.
The fast starting MVR-D rider, blitzed to the front of the final race of the Grand Prix calendar, with her “Adrenalin Pump” running at “Flat out”, she was able to hang with the newly crowned Champion for several laps. It was in the final quarter of the race that she was to showcase, to the World, her pure grit and determination, a quality held in abundance by the Irish Girl.
I am sure, like me, everyone that watched the final few laps of that Moto were on the edge of their seats, wobble, as she did on several occasions, Natalie brought home the bacon for MVR-D Suzuki, Ireland and every Girl Motocrosser on the British Isles.
Natalie, who has been training with the Risk Racing, “Holeshot Start Gate” has seen her reaction time and start technique improve dramatically.
“Thank you to, Steve and Risk Racing for supporting me with Risk Products, the starts are just so important, I knew if I could get out of the gate with the top Girls that I could run with them, training with the Start Gate has improved my starting technique.
Not in my dreams could I have wished for a better end to this season, third in the World – it will take a while to sink in.” quoted the diminutive Irish Racer.

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“Extreme -Fun in the Sun “

Jonathan Re a, just gets the drop on Gordon “Crockstar” Crockard .

“Extreme -Fun in the Sun “

World Superbike “Race Winner” Jonathan Rea , and currently Number 4 in the 2009 WSB Rankings, is no stranger to Off –Road riding, in his short , but well documented Youth Motocross career , the 21year Old won both Irish and British tittles before turning his sights to the tarmac.
Based just outside Larne, in Northern Ireland, Jonathan finds that riding and racing in the odd “charity Grass track” event, helps him unwind away from the Spotlight of World Superbike Racing.
Tipped by many as a serious contender for the 2010 WSB title, “JR” as he is known by his friends, also runs a Professional, British Championship Motocross Team, purely so he can offer an unique opportunity to help further the career of young talent in the making.
JR is a close friend of Risk Racing Europe’s man on the ground, Steve Mills – the “Rare Pair” have been known to “Party on Occasion”.
At a recent Risk Racing “Play Day” at the spectacular Tandragee “Moto – Park” , JR along with three times British Motocross Champ, Gordon Crockard and World Championship contender , Natalie Kane , enjoyed a day in the Sun (that should read, THE day in the Sun) while they got together to discuss the merits of the Risk Racing Holeshot Race Gate and RR1 Stand.

Over the next few weeks, on the Risk Blogg - will bring you , Pictures, Comment (and if James, can work it – Video )of an extremely fun day , with some of the Worlds most EXTREAME RACERS!