Ryan Piplic
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Three-time WORCS champion Ryan Piplic will ride CST tires as he competes for a fourth SxS Pro title this year.
Piplic approaches the coming season with well-earned confidence: he was the winner of the UTV World Championship in 2020, is a previous Guinness World Record holder for longest jump in a SxS, and has raced and finished the brutal Baja 1000.
A three-time winner of the ATV MX National Championship, Joel Hetrick is a CST veteran.
He took his third title, the first-ever ATV MX Championship won on the company’s products, in 2022, riding most races on Pulse MXR tires. With six wins and four second-place finishes, Hetrick was on the podium at every event of the season.
Just a month later, he followed that triumph by competing for Team USA in the Quadcross of European Nations, helping to bring home the gold by going 1-1 in his motos. He’s now ridden for the U.S. in this event three times, playing his part in the team’s victories each time.
These most recent wins came as no surprise to anyone who’s familiar with Hetrick’s career. He started by competing in local races and won seven youth championships before heading to major series. Hetrick and his wife, blogger and online boutique owner Carlie Hetrick, live in North Carolina and have two young children.
Brycen Neal was second overall in GNCC XC1 Pro in 2017, and this year, he’s ready to take the top overall spot.
Neal has a long list of titles to his credit (complete record below), and he’s chosen CST tires because he knows he can count on their performance. “I ride for Team CST because CST tires grip the ground like glue and are so smooth it’s like sliding across the water on a jet ski,” he said.
He’s a born competitor who psyches up for big races by watching Rocky 4, and he loves having fans who love the sport as much as he does at his events: “I love it when people watch me do what I love, when I’m in the zone stretching the throttle cable for all she’s got, and the adrenaline rush you get from it.” His real motivation, however, is closer to home. “My dad got me into racing when I was five. He rode his entire life and raced just like his dad before him. My biggest motivator is my dad. I’d love to be half the man he is someday,” Neal said.
When he’s not racing, Neal makes sure to hit the gym and also manages to fit in mountain biking, reading books about war, and of course, playing with his puppy, Bella. CST is proud to sponsor Brycen Neal and looks forward to seeing him top the podium throughout 2018.
Beau Baron is a natural-born rider. A 6 time WORCS champion, who has also conquered first place finishes in Side-by-Side. Everyone knows that if it’s got wheels and can be raced, Beau will take it all the way to the podium. Nowdays, he’s even riding Moto. But take away the championships and trophies and you’d still find Beau out riding every single day, just to get the rush you can only find off-road. Whether it’s the Pulse for ATV, Dingo for SxS, or Legion MX-VI for Moto – Beau Baron rides CST. Keep your eyes on #549 as he chases championships in the WORCS and Big 6 Series.
EICMA: “The Milan Show “
Show Organizer: ANCMA
Italian Association of Bicycle and
Motorycle Industry Manufacturers
Founded: 1920 (First edition of the show was 1914)
Number of member companies: 170
Associazione Nazionale Ciclo Moto Accessori (ANCMA) is the Trade association that brings together Italian manufacturers of two wheeled vehicles and companies producing parts and accessories for these vehicles. It was founded in 1920. It is a member of Confindustria and is therefore a primary component of the representative system for Italian industry.
ANCMA aims to promote the spread of bikes and motorbikes (including parts and accessories), to study solutions for economic, technical and regulatory problems facing the sector, to assist and represent member companies in protecting general interests or those of individual sectors, to collect and elaborate data and information for the use of members, to promote and encourage initiatives and agreements between members, to appoint its own representatives to governmental and non-governmental bodies, institutions and commissions, also at a European and international level, and in general to carry out all the activities and functions relating to National Trade associations.
The companies belonging to ANCMA (numbering over 170) are divided into the following Groups:
In order to attain their own institutional goals, ANCMA has supported the foundation of Ancma Services and Development and Eicma. ANCMAhas its own representatives at the following national and international bodies and plays an active role in their work: CONFINDUSTRIA; CUNA Commissione tecnica di Unificazione nell’Autoveicolo; UNI Ente Nazionale Italiano di Unificazione; CFI Comitato Fiere Industria;
IMMA International Motorcycle Manufactures Association; ACEM Association des constructeurs Europèens de Motocycles; COLIBI Comitè de Liaison des Constructeurs de Bicyclettes;COLIPED Comitè de Liaison des Constructeurs de Pièces Dètachèes: ACE Associazione dei Costruttori Europei di Caschi
