Growing up on the East Coast as an avid motocross rider and fan of the sport, Eric Gass admits that he loved tinkering with bikes just as much as riding and racing them.
“I was usually the guy who was missing practice because I was helping someone put in a clutch or change the brake pads on their bike,” Eric explains. “I’ve just always had a passion to work on bikes.” But it wasn’t until he was working a full-time gig in a hospital out of high school when his supervisor at the time urged him to make a New Year’s resolution to take on a new challenge that the wrenches truly started turning. Heeding his advice, Eric immediately enrolled in MMI and began the path that ultimately led him and his current rider, Cooper Webb, to back-to-back 250 Supercross championships along with this year’s Lucas Oil Motocross Pro Motocross 250 title.
Eric credits his success to the great connections and experience gained from his gigs early in his career at Team Solitaire, Star Racing, and Troy Lee Designs. His return back home to Star Racing would come to the table at the same time that Cooper Webb was in need of a new mechanic, and Eric’s name kept coming up. “He and I had hung out a few times through mutual friends, and it was those mutual friends who knew we’d work well together because of our similar hard-work ethic," Eric shares. The rest is history, and we wanted to showcase Cooper’s beautiful number-1W YZ250F that he captured his second consecutive 250SX West title on. We gave Eric a ring, and he offered up all of the details of this championship-winning machine.
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Kick Start
Yamalube/Star Racing/Yamaha’s Cooper Webb is one of the grittiest riders in the sport, and there’s never any doubt about the effort and aggression he puts forth on the racetrack. In his last year on a 250, Webb left nothing on the table and went out with a bang winning everything that there is to win in the class. We chatted with The Scrapper just before he headed to Italy to captain the United States Motocross of Nations team.
Wheelie Cool, Man!
Raising it up.
A Man Of The World
MXGP Mastermind Giuseppe Luongo
Yamalube Star Racing Yamaha's
Growing up on the East Coast as an avid motocross rider and fan of the sport, Eric Gass admits that he loved tinkering with bikes just as much as riding and racing them.
To Hell & Back: Ken Roczen's Own Nightmare, Relived
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2018 KTM 450 SX-F
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2018 Suzuki RM-Z450
Back in April we journeyed to the All Japan National MX Championship series opener at Kyushu Sportsland in Kumamoto, Japan, and saw what was ultimately a great preview of the 2018 Suzuki RM-Z450.
2018 Kawasaki KX450F
For 2018, the Kawasaki KX450F returns without change, and that’s really not such a bad thing.
Instant Classic
The 70th running of the famed motocross of nations will go down as one of the best in the event's history.
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