Ryan Dungey and Chris Pourcel Wallpapers
Posted by ronronmx in wallpapers on October 1st, 2009
Here’s a few wallpapers I made as a test, of Ryan Dungey and Christophe Pourcel. I have been wanting to create lots of wallpapers with different looks for a while, and I finally got off my lazy butt and actually made a few…they are all available in 1920×1200, 1680×1050 and 1152×720 (wide-screen aspect 16:10, I will make 4:3 as well), just click on the resolution that best fits your screen to download the corresponding wallpaper.
If you like these, let me know If you guys like these, please let me know by leaving your comments at the bottom of the page and I’ll start making a lot more with different riders, as well as privateers. Also, if you have a particular rider in mind, tell me who and I’ll create a few wallpapers with him if I have good photos. Btw, all the wallpapers I create are with my own photos, just wanted to clear that up.
Tony Alessi kept his cool! (and didn’t beat up Josh Grant)
Posted by ronronmx in Racing News on September 30th, 2009
I have a little story about Tony Alessi that I’ve been wanting to share with everyone ever since I got back from the Colorado race in Lakewood. It’s actually a good story, and I was pleasantly surprised by Tony’s reaction, and I have to say that if I was in his shoes at that moment, I probably wouldn’t have kept my cool! This whole story revolves around Mike so I’ll be talking more about him then his dad, but this IS about Tony so read all the way down…
2XL Games Releases First Trailer of “ATV OffRoad” for iPhone
Posted by ronronmx in Miscellaneous on September 18th, 2009
***UPDATE*** The game should have been available on the app store last week but we had some minor set backs with apple. The issues have been fixed and we are now waiting for apple to review the game again, and hopefully put it up for sale this week. I also added a new video to this post, check them out!
2XL Games, the creators of the very successful “2XL Supercross” app for iPhone and iPod Touch, just released a brand new trailer of their new upcoming game, “2XL ATV OffRoad”, on the same platforms. If you liked 2XL Supercross then you will love 2XL ATV OffRoad! It’s bigger, faster, has impressive graphics and gameplay, and finally tons of TRICKS!!! You’ll be racing on Motocross National tracks, Supercross courses and big Free-ride areas, add Multiplayer to the mix and you’ve got an awesome off-road racing game in the palm of your hands. Watch the video...
The Design Process
Posted by ronronmx in Miscellaneous on September 16th, 2009
If you’ve been here before, when I first started this blog a few month back, you probably noticed all the changes I have been making to the site design lately, right? I haven’t been writing much in the past few weeks because I spent most of my free time learning the ins and outs of WordPress (the blogging platform used on this site), and changing the template design to better fit my needs.
I like where the look of my blog is going and I hope you do too. My goal is to make this site easy to read, easy to navigate and also pleasing on the eyes. If you have any suggestions for me, than please contact me to let me know what they are, and I’ll consider adding them to the site.
Now that the new look of my blog is almost done, I can start writing again 
. I would like to know what are you most interested in reading about! Let me know by leaving comments on this page or contacting me via e-mail. I have lots of interesting things to write about, so I’ll start there and wait for some of your feedback.
Here’s a few things I’ll be writing about here on my blog:
- Privateers
- Racing Stories
- Off Road Photography
- Riding Tips
- Biography
Feel free to add to that list please! And if you want to see my photography work, head on over to www.sr21photography.com for all my latest photos.
Peace,
SR
Some new dirt for your iPhone…
Posted by ronronmx in Miscellaneous on September 5th, 2009
So Carlie, Luka and I are on our way to California for the weekend and the beginning of next week (finally a week off from work!). There are a few storms scheduled for today so the trip should be interesting, we both hope to run into big storms with lots of lightning! We love that stuff…
The reason why I have a week off is because we just finished our second iPhone game, and 2XL is gonna submit it to apple this week. I’m really excited to see how well this new game will do compared to our first iPhone game “2xl supercross”, which did very well. I can’t yet say the name of the game or give away too many details so I’ll stick to the following for now:
- it’s an off road game…
– it’s got more tracks then 2xl supercross…
– it’s not just supercross tracks anymore…
– it’s got tricks, lots of tricks…
– it’s got big freeride/freestyle levels…
– it looks better then 2xl supercross…
That’s it for now! I’ll release screenshots and videos when I get the green light 
Oh and btw, there’s an update coming soon for 2xl supercross with some bug fixes and a few surprises…
Stay tuned!
Trip to France – Photos from Crest
Posted by ronronmx in Photography on August 29th, 2009
It had been 4 long years since the last time I was in France! Carlie, Luka and I were way past due for a trip there and we took it 2 weeks ago. We stayed at my parent’s house, in a small village lost in the mountains of Tournon (which is 1 hour south of Lyon) and it was so awesome to be there, breath some fresh air and let Luka run around outside like a mad man all day…my parents were so excited to see him!
We did lots of things while we were in France, for example on Wednesday we went to a town named “Crest” not too far from where my parents live. One of my favorite track I used to practice on a lot is in Crest, it’s got that gnarly downhill that’s almost vertical! We didn’t go to Crest to check out a motocross track though, but to go swim at the river and then go see an old tower which used to be a prison a long time ago. The river was fun and I got to swim with my dad, my little niece Kimberley and Luka decided to join us later on. After that we walked all the way up to the tower, through some really old buildings and tight little streets, and up 2000 steps (I’m exaggerating but it sure felt like it!)
After about 30 minutes of stair climbing in 100 degrees weather, we finally reach the tower…and we get ready to climb even more stairs! Carlie was getting ready to give up lol…she wasn’t feeling good though so she had a good excuse. So we climb all the way up to the very top of the tower, through some amazingly tight stairways and steep stairs – the photos below don’t do it justice! – and I forgot to mention that Luka walked all the way up to the tower and also inside the tower on his own! Kids have way too much energy…
Enjoy the photos, and come back soon if you wanna see more pics of all the other cool stuff we did during our 2 weeks vacations in France, as I will post more photos and stories throughout next week. ...Click here to view the photos from the trip...
New MX vs ATV Reflex Videos and Deformable Terrain!
Posted by ronronmx in Miscellaneous on August 21st, 2009
I have been dreaming about making a Motocross game with deformable terrain for many years, I even pitched the idea to the 2xl games team I work with when we started working on our PS3 and XBOX360 racer “BAJA: Edge of Control”. We weren’t able to implement a good enough deformable terrain solution for reason I won’t go into (gets me all worked up and mad…), and I was pretty bummed about it. Well it looks like the folks over at Rainbo Studios have been hard at work on their next Motocross racer, “MX vs ATV Reflex”, because they managed to put deformable terrain everywhere in the game and up the graphics quality as well. The dirt surface on the outdoor and indoor tracks looks great and makes you feel like you’re actually driving through dirt now, instead of the dull feeling of driving on a glass surface! Check out the videos below, and leave your comments at the bottom of the page. I wanna know what you think of this next installment in the MX vs ATV series and if you think the deformable terrain will be enough to make you buy the game.
Game looks great and the deformable terrain very promising, but I wonder, when will they get the sounds right??? The bikes still sound like lawnmowers close to their death…I’m also not sure the physics will be fun to play with, especially with the added difficulty of controlling both the bike and the rider! I could be wrong, and hope I am, as this new version looks very promising.
Lucas Oil Off-Road race at Lake Elsinore – Wear pants or go home!
Posted by ronronmx in Photography, Racing News on July 28th, 2009
So I got a funny story about last weekend’s trophy trucks race, which took place at the Lake Elsinore racetrack in California…I got kicked off the track for wearing shorts instead of pants!!! You see, they have certain “rules” in the Lucas Oil Off Road series, to be more specific, they pretty much tell you what you have to wear if you wanna be on the track, whether you are a photographer or a crew member! The rule is you can’t wear shorts, you HAVE to wear pants…110 degrees outside and they MAKE you wear pants. More story and photos from the event...
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