Motosportz

Motosportz is a group of enthusiasts that have engineering and design backgrounds and use those conditions to build and offer the best in performance modifications for your motorcycle. We take extreme pride in our offerings and believe you will be very impressed with the quality and functionality of our products. Located in the Pacific Northwest this area offers up substantial on and off road opportunities. Being enthusiasts we ride a lot and through this are able to field test and hone our products so we know they work right. 

We are hard working honest people and our products and service reflect that. If you make a purchase at Motosportz you can rest assured we have your back. In the end our goal is to make sure you get exactly what your looking for and in a timely fashion with no attitude. Service is very important to us and we will treat you right. 

What's the deal with this new company?

So here is the full scoop. The founder of Motosportz (Kelly Anson) is a hard core off roader and has been continuously for 31 years.

"I got started in this sport in 6th grade when my dad bought a XL175 and I had a SL125 and we hit the trails in the Oregon coast range. I was hooked the first day we went, the scenery, the bonding with dad, the cool places we went. I'm sure this same story has been played over and over in many households and I am so glad I was fortunate enough to be blessed with a great family that wanted to do fun stuff like this."

Many years go by and Kelly never lost interest. Trail riding every weekend with friends turned to racing local events and then more serious events.

"I started out trail riding, then turned to poker runs and then to real off road racing. I like long hard technical races so I preferred the ISDE and GP type stuff as well as the 6, 12 and 24 hours type team formats. Never really took racing real serious as in tried to win a series but always enjoyed racing and still do. I try to make it to the grueling Idaho City ISDE qualifier every year as that is such a great event and LOTS of miles."

Kelly worked in the high tech field doing CAD (Computer Aided Design) for Intel, Nikes PGE and others. After branching out and running his own semi successful company in the same field the opportunity to work in the motorsports industry presented itself when long time ride partner Josh Paris and owner of Fastway Performance had an opening for a CAD / design guy. Kelly worked doing CAD design and for the Mountainspeed line of down hill mountain bike MRP chain guides and the developed many of the current Fastway Performance products. Kelly was instrumental in the development of the current F3/F4 Fastway footpegs incorporating the removable / adjustable collar feature. Kelly also designed the Fastway FIT handguard system with sliding damper mount which was honored with Dirtbike product of the year.

"I really enjoyed my employment at Fastway, learned a lot of things about the industry and had a chance to design cool stuff I was really into."

Fastway / Mountainspeed was changing directions, sold off Mountainspeed and had some personnel changes. This led Kelly to go his own direction and to him starting and running Rooster Performance.

"Rooster was a good challenge as a completely clean sheet start and all that it takes to get a company off the ground."

After building Rooster from scratch and running it in all aspects for two years Kelly passed it off to his right hand man Scott and moved on to something more high end and something he could really get his mind into.

"Running Rooster was my second ground up company and it was a lot of work. As is was a partnership controlled by other parties I felt limited in my ability to expand in the directions I wanted to. This lead me to once again strike out on my own."

This time Kelly did just that, invested his own money in something he felt very positive about.

"I have used almost every damper made. I believe in the idea and with all my experience using dampers and background in design I wanted to take all my accumulated information and apply it to what I feel is the best damper on the market for many reasons. I worked with a UK damper manufacturer for a bit and got a lot of insight as to different design philosophies, different approaches to the idea and different ways to slice the pie. Extensive use of all the major damper manufacturers products compiled a list of things I liked and did not like about the different offerings. This ended in concise idea of what I wanted as and end result and product."

and so it goes...

"After meeting Leigh (machinist extraordinaire) and seeing his capabilities and machining tolerances I knew we were going to do big things. Leigh and I have been working together for a long time now and the relationship is key to making this product all it can be. Not only can Leigh keep ridiculous tolerances (.0001) but he also has the ability to makes stuff nearly instantly. This has led to being able to be extremely nimble an allow ideas to flow effortlessly. This relationship has been key in the design of this latest damper offering. After building the first few test units incorporating all the design criteria we establish we knew we were onto something very good. After letting some local pros run it and getting very positive feedback I felt even more on target"

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