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Cycle News 2021 Issue 02 January 12

Cycle News is a weekly magazine that covers all aspects of motorcycling including Supercross, Motocross and MotoGP as well as new motorcycles

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You got some good images and it's going to be a fun, lighthearted way to kick off the season. Yeah. The plan is, I think every social analytics person would tell you never launch something Saturday night at 10:00 PM, but this is when Ana- heim 1 would have wrapped up. So, we couldn't launch it on a Thursday at 2:00 PM when it would be a sweet spot. It has to be Saturday night at 10:00 PM Pacific Time, just because that's when Anaheim 1 would have been. A happy coincidence, I think, is that the new TV schedule came out, and with the switch to Peacock I think people are more con- fused than ever of where to watch this, so that's going to play into our benefit because people are genuinely going to think the second Saturday of [January], there has to be rac- ing somewhere. I don't know where to watch it, so… I missed the first one. I got to find the second one. Exactly. So, we think that there's so much confusion naturally out there that I think we're going to get a lot of people who go to bed on the East Coast and guys that go to bed in Europe are going to wake up Sunday morning hopefully with a bombardment of Anaheim images of Justin with pyro going off and holding a trophy that they're going to think they missed the race. So that's kind of the whole goal is just to embrace it. We're a fun brand. I think you might see a red plate on this bike in Hous- ton, because he's the points leader. He won Anaheim. Prove me wrong. I have the images to show you. It's a fun time. On a more serious note, Barcia could kick off the 2021 Supercross season with a real IN THE WIND P32 Barcia will make his GasGas debut in Houston this weekend instead of Anaheim 1, which he has won the last two years.

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