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Electric Motorcycles

Dirt bikes can be frustrating. By: Steven Haughelstine Don’t get me wrong, I love the low end power and pure tractor grunt of a thumper, but that is about it. So expensive to maintain, and so expensive to fix. For everyone who cries about mixing a little oil into your gas on a 2 stroke, [...]


STEVEN HAUGHELSTINE MAKES THE COVER OF FREERIDERMX MAG

STEVEN HAUGHELSTINE MAKES THE COVER OF FREERIDERMX MAG

As a rider I make it my goal to have as much fun as possible on my bike. Sometimes this pays off. Sometimes it doesn’t. In this case it did. I have been in Racer X mag, Transworld motocross, Cycle news, and now my first cover on a properly named mag like FreeriderMX! Those of [...]


NATHAN WOODS MEMORIAL FUND

NATHAN WOODS MEMORIAL FUND

MotoXcinema.com is doing a memorial fund raiser for Nathan Woods family, please donate to the cause. Nathan was a great man, and a legendary rider. Please DONATE TO THE FUND HERE On January 28, we lost a dear friend and a champion, Nathan Woods. More importantly, two sons and a wife lost their Father and Husband. [...]


RED BULL RENNER FREERIDE TOUR THIS WEEKEND: STOP #1 OCOTILLO

RED BULL RENNER FREERIDE TOUR THIS WEEKEND: STOP #1 OCOTILLO

Come out and hang this weekend at Ocotillo Wells for the first stop of the tour. FreeRideMX and SCS will be there doing some riding and filming with the Red Bull crew. It will be a good time so come on out!!  -Steven Haughelstine As a follow-up to last year’s successful tour, motocross superstar and X [...]


GO PRO HD SAMPLE VIDEO WITH STEVEN HAUGHELSTINE

GO PRO HD SAMPLE VIDEO WITH STEVEN HAUGHELSTINE

Here is a little video snippet of me in a Go Pro sample video from the Assignment’s last year movie release “Moto the Movie“. The angle set up on the HD Go Pro video cameras turned out pretty awesome I think. Location: Pipestone Montana, Bike: 2008 KTM 450sx, Rider: Steven Haughelstine


STEVEN HAUGHELSTINE MX RIDING UPDATE

STEVEN HAUGHELSTINE MX RIDING UPDATE

What’s up everyone, I have been pretty busy lately with being hired to film and even edit for other productions other than my own. So this has not given me the time that I would like for working on my own videos. I am currently in the process of planning my next real adventure and [...]


DANG WHIPPER SNAPPERS

DANG WHIPPER SNAPPERS

Here is a photo gallery that we dug up from our last trip up to the open country of Montana. Riders Keith Sayers, Rich Kearns, Greg Hartman, and Steven “HOG” Haughelstine do an afternoon of riding out at Racetrack Montana. As the day got later, the guys had a bit of a mini whip contest [...]


MONTANA FALL PART 2

MONTANA FALL PART 2

Here is a little video I did for ESPN recently of my buddies Keith Sayers, Rich Kearns, and Greg Hartman. The boys had been together for a couple weeks doing Freestyle shows in the state of Montana. Watch as Greg and Keith mess with each other as they practice. Just good ol buddy Messin around [...]


BLUE SEA LAKE TRAIL RIDING

BLUE SEA LAKE TRAIL RIDING

I am posting this video up because I believe that what these kids are doing is exactly what dirt biking is all about! This is how competitions and events even got their start in the first place. Having fun with some good buddies, trying to one up each other on some hill climb, jump, or [...]


DIRT BIKES ON SAND DUNES

DIRT BIKES ON SAND DUNES

Riding the sand dunes is one of the best things that can be done on a motorcycle. With huge banked bowls like giant nascar corners, it is possible to go as fast as your bike can go, pulling incredible g-forces like a fighter jet, the feeling is better than anything else. If you are into [...]


Solo Mission Canada

Solo Mission Canada

-Steven Haughelstine Over the past 4 years I have been trying to come up with new ways to challenge myself not only as a dirt bike rider but as a cinematographer. I have tried racing motocross, I have learned basic Freestyle Motocross tricks, and I have become pretty good at technical trail riding. I know, [...]


CREATIVE FMX ANGLES

CREATIVE FMX ANGLES

Creative Angles by: Steven Haughelstine In the sport of Free Style Motocross (FMX) there are limited obsticles. There are ramps, dirt jumps, wall rides, and now quarter pipes. Most of the time though, it is just ramps. One jump, with a ramp take off, and either a dirt or mobile landing. Being a videographer or [...]


Disturbing the Peace

Disturbing the Peace

The good ol days of moto videos, SMP Disturbing the Peace…. by: Steve Haughelstine I grew up watching videos like these. Guys like Jeff Emig, Jeremy McGrath, Tommy Clowers, Seth Enslow, and so on were heros, freeriding and having a good ol time racing and having fun on their dirt bikes. Seems like these days [...]


MORE ELEMENTS OF ELEMENTS

MORE ELEMENTS OF ELEMENTS

On this part of the filming of ELEMENTS I headed out to a remote riding location in eastern Montana and had no I idea what to expect. I was all alone, and I slept in a tent. Normally sleeping in a tent is no big deal, but It got down to 15 degrees one night [...]


BITS AND PIECES OF ELEMENTS

BITS AND PIECES OF ELEMENTS

The trailer to a movie doesn’t always do the movie justice. So I am going to start posting up little tidbits of FreeRideMX.com’s new Movie ELEMENTS so you all can get the feel of the movie before Heading over to MotoXcinema.com to get one. So if you are not able to go ride as much, [...]


RED BULL RONNIE RENNER FREERIDE TOUR

RED BULL RONNIE RENNER FREERIDE TOUR

Say that five times fast. Well, round one of the R.B.R.R.F.R.T. is under our belts. Ocotillo wells was the first location, and although it was windy quite a bit for our freeride trip, I still had a blast riding with some of the legends of the sport and finding new stuff that has never been [...]


ROADSIDE FUN AT CAMERON AZ

ROADSIDE FUN AT CAMERON AZ

A couple of weeks ago I hopped in the van with my buddies Keith Sayers and Heath Frisby for a road trip to Phoenix Arizona. The road trip was for a stop of the Gravity Slashers FMX tour. The show went really good, and everyone rode well. On our little road trip home we drove [...]


Steve Haughelstine’s ELEMENTS motocross video

Steve Haughelstine's ELEMENTS motocross video

I am just a rider like you, I love every aspect of riding my dirt bike, from the freedom, to the rush of twisting the throttle. Follow me on my adventures over the past year, as I travel to the greatest riding locations known, and unknown, ride with the best riders in the world, and [...]


JEREMY LUSK: A MAN TO REMEMBER

JEREMY LUSK: A MAN TO REMEMBER

Jeremy Lusk was a guy that didn’t care what your status was, who you knew, or any crap like that. He was a REAL guy, someone who worked for what he had, and worked hard. He took his work ethic and applied it to his passion of riding his Dirt Bike, putting all fears of [...]


MY FIRST TIME IN A MOTO VIDEO

MY FIRST TIME IN A MOTO VIDEO

It was the late spring of 05, I was working construction and trying to make a name for myself….by: Steve Haughelstine Photo: Garth Milan I had already been a top competitor in the amature Motocross rankings, and done my fair share of racing local pro races, I was doing good, but just didn’t have the [...]


TESTING FMX LANDINGS FROM EVERY ANGLE

TESTING FMX LANDINGS FROM EVERY ANGLE

Spend the day at Elsinore MX Park with the Jagermeister KTM team: Mike Metzger, Kenny Bartram, Thomas Alves and Rob Distler as they prepare themselves for the entire supercross season. Rob Distler ended up testing the landing ramp setup with his face… Just the other day I went up to Lake Elsinore Mx Park to [...]


LEFTOVERS FROM ELEMENTS THE MOVIE

LEFTOVERS FROM ELEMENTS THE MOVIE

Just a good ol mix of free ride motocross shots…. -Steve Haughelstine Making Dirt Bike Movies takes a lot of time and patience, especially when editing. “ELEMENTS” is FreeRidemx.com’s new movie due to release March 2010 that is 45 min. long and took over a year to make. With that much editing going on, there [...]


1st Annual MOB syndicate "The Hits Out" Event

Last weekend was a great time out at Ocotillo wells. -Steve haughelstine This past weekend was the first annual “The Hits Out” freeride motocross event put on by Mike Metzger and the MOB syndicate. From trail rides, to jumps. It was up to the riders to find new jumps, creative lines, and one up each [...]


BACK TO THE 2 STROKE

BACK TO THE 2 STROKE

Well I sold the KTM 450sx, and decided to go back to the YZ 250, a light, reliable, and cheap way to ride. -Steve Haughelstine I haven’t been updating the site very much lately, mainly because I didn’t have a bike to go get around and film, or film myself even. Don’t get me wrong, [...]