Motorcross
Motorcross is off road racing for motor bikes also known as 'MotoX' or MX.
The following video is freestyle motorcross.
A powerful off road bike plus some big jumps and one daredevil rider make up this high adrenaline sport. These riders are highly experienced, so don't just get on your bike and just go full throttle into the nearest jump!
There are a number of different types of Motocross. Motocross, Freestyle and Supermoto.
Motocross is the off road racing part of the sport. The racers all line up at the start line and shoot off at boxer short messing speeds around a sand or dirt track. The winner will gain points that go towards his overall postion in the leader board.
Freestyle is the crazy jumps and tricks part of the sport. Riders compete against each other buy trying to perform the hardest tricks to again points. There are many different tricks in Freestyle that are evolving into harder and harder tricks all the time. The body varial 360 is considered to be the most difficult trick at the moment. But pushing the limits all of the time is a rider called Travis Pastrana. In the 2006 X Games Travis performed the first double backflip and now is said to be working on the first Barrel Roll.
Supermoto is where a motocross bike has been converted to rider on a road racing track or man made dirt tracks.
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Cost and Equipment