The Tilt-A-Rack auction for the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation

MMA Meltdown presents 

The Tilt-A-Rack auction for the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation

Tilt-A-Rack has once again teamed up with MMA Meltdown to work towards a common goal, helping the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation. The foundation is dedicated to curing spinal cord injury by funding innovative research, and improving the quality of life for individuals living with paralysis through grants, information and advocacy.

Starting on May 12^th, 2012 MMA Meltdown in conjunction with Tilt-A-Rack will announce The Tilt-A-Rack auction for the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, the winner of the auction will receive two seats at the Tilt-A-Rack VIP table at the June 2^nd, 2012 Ring Of Fire: Bad Blood event. In addition to the VIP tickets, MMA Meltdown and Tilt-A-Rack will add weekly prizes to the auction and these additional items will be announced on the MMA Meltdown Radio Show.

The auction will be hosted at www.stores.ebay.com/Tilt-A-Rack with all bids being made directly on the Tilt-A-Rack eBay page.

Prizes so far:

1. (2) VIP seats cage side to Ring of Fire 43: Bad Blood
2. Signed gloves from Duane BANG Ludwig, Justin Salas, Marcus “Bad Intentions” Edwards who all “Fight for the Cure”

We look forward to raising both awareness and money for this awesome foundation.

Todays Care. Tomorrows Cure.

Rider spotlight on Jay Sallstrom from the AMA Pro Hillclimb Series

We are almost a month out for the opening races in the 2012 AMA Pro Hillclimb series. http://www.amaproracing.com/hc/ The Social Media Point’s race is in full swing and we wanted to take a moment and ask Jay Sallstrom a few questions and get to know more about him and his sport.

Tilt-A-Rack - What got you into dirt bike racing and the pro Hillclimb series?

Sallstrom - My dad is a member at the Kato Cycle Club (KCC) in Mankato, MN and they have a couple District 23 HillClimb a year. When I was 9 years old we tried it for the first time on a Yamaha 80. The first season we ended up 7th in the district and then the next 3 years straight we won the 80cc class in District 23. Winning is addicting and I think that's why we continued on this path to becoming a AMA Pro Hill climber. When we started we would have never guessed it was going to lead to this, but were having fun and enjoy traveling the east coast and looking forward to defending my title in the unlimited class in 2012.

Tilt-A-Rack - How long have you been riding dirt bikes?

Sallstrom - I started riding dirt bikes when I was 4 years old. The rule was if I could ride a bicycle with no training wheels I could ride a dirt bike. So I proved myself ASAP and I got to hop on my Suzuki JR 50. I've loved this sport ever since. Growing up in the summer we would camp out at the Kato Cycle Club and ride every weekend. They have 80+ acres of land with a HillClimb hill, motocross track and trails to practice on. I'm pretty fortunate that we lived minutes from the KCC and got to grow up out there. I thank my family and KCC for making me the rider I am today.

Tilt-A-Rack - What are your future plans with the AMA Pro Hillclimb series?

Sallstrom - My future plans for the AMA Pro Hillclimb Series is to continue racing the series and hopefully adding more championships to my collection in both the Xtreme & Unlimited classes. The series is continuing to grow and I'm happy to be a part of it. I personally can't wait to see our races on national TV. I think the AMA Pro Hillclimb Series is going in the right direction and seeing us on TV could be just around the corner for all our fans to watch.

Tilt-A-Rack - Who is your favorite racer, any series?

Sallstrom - My favorite racer has to be Ryan Dungey. He's our hometown boy from MN so I got to root for him for sure. If I'm not hillclimbing I'm definitely riding my Yamaha YZ450F on the motocross track. I love riding so every chance I get I'm riding somewhere.

Also I would like to take a second and thank all the people that make this all possible for me to live this life.

Monster Energy, Ti Lube, Naymbrand, LPmotocross, 507 Wraps, Leatt, One Industries, Dr. Bob Racing, Donnie Lingle, Works Connection, Dunlop, Dragon, Go Pro, Asterisks, TAG, Starr Cycle, Braking, Vortex, Factory Effex, Matrix Concepts, Preferred Welder Sales, Flying Penguin, Champlin Auto Wash, Gaerne, and my family for all their support.

Thank you Tilt-a-Rack for having me and for stepping up and being the NEW sponsor for the 2012 AMA Pro Hillclimb Series. Check'em out! Good people, great products.

Jay Sallstrom

We are no on Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation Shop for the Cure page.

Shop with Our Partners - Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation

We donate 15% from every purchase!

Tilt-A-Rack is very proud to announce that we have entered into an agreement with Grudge Training Center to a full time sponsor. We are also a full time sponsor for Justin Salas who fight on June 8th in the UFC on FX. We are very excited about to announce that Justin Salas will be wearing the logo of Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation as well as Tilt-A-Rack, Justin fights for the CURE. Show all of them your support!

Jarred Mercado of MMA Meltdown/ESPN Radio, Will Be Attending UFC 145 in Atlanta for Jones Vs. Evans

On April 20th, I will be heading down to Atlanta as a credentialed media member for UFC 145. The featured fight on the card is the Light Heavyweight Championship between current title holder Jon Jones and former champion Rashad Evans. Arriving on Friday, I will be able to behind the scenes with some of the biggest stars in the sport of MMA providing footage of the weigh ins, pre-fight interviews and hopefully some unique footage that fans typically don't get to see. Fight night will be an electric atmosphere no doubt, again I will be backstage getting up close and personal with the nights victors, and also capturing footage of fighters and their teams as they prepare to go out to the cage and return back from their battle. Capping the night I will be at the post fight press conference talking with UFC President Dana White and the nights participants about their thoughts and feelings on the evening. As part of the MMA Meltdown/ESPN Radio Team I will attempt to give fans an inside look at their favorite fighters and what goes on backstage on fight night. None of this would be possible though without the continued support of one of my main sponsors Tilt a Rack. With their help I am able to travel the country and take part in such important events as UFC 145. They will be a featured sponsor on the videos I will be posting the night of the fight on MMA Meltdown as well as the MMA Meltdown Facebook page and my own Facebook page and YouTube channel. Be sure to check on the sites on April 20th and April 21st to view all the action. Also be sure to check out Tilt-A-Rack as they continue to be one of the elite sponsors in MMA.

2012 Best Mom on Wheels Contest - Spinal Cord Injury - Paralysis Research Center

2012 Best Mom on Wheels Contest - Spinal Cord Injury - Paralysis Research Center

June 2nd Ring Of Fire 43

AMA Pro Hillclimb Rider spotlight by Tilt-A-Rack

 

Tilt-A-Rack.com AMA Pro Hillclimb Rider spotlight

Tilt-A-Rack recently signed a contract to be a sponsor for the AMA Pro Hillclimb Series in 2012 http://www.amaproracing.com/hc/ We will have some of our products at every race this season and we are also doing a full season contest for $500 store credit from our store. www.tilt-a-rack.com/2012-rack-it-n-strap-it-contest/ We have also started our first ever social media point system which will bring more exposure to the AMA Pro Hillclimb Series. We are rewarding the TOP three riders that participate in our program at the end of the season, our hope is this program will strengthen the relationship with  sponsors and athletes alike. We are about 2 months out from the first race June 3rd, as we get closer to the start of the season we will introduce the riders to you. This week our spotlight is focused on Scott Campbell. Scott is part of the AMA Pro Hillclimb as a rider and part of the management group as well!  

Tilt-A-Rack: 

What got you into dirt bike racing and the pro Hillclimb series?

Scott Campbell:  

My family got me into racing or basically I followed them in. My dad, Bob, was a 350cc class amateur Hillclimb points champion in 1973 and won quite a bit of district and local in his early years. He was service manager for the Yamaha dealer in our area for about 20 years and also ran a part time shop at home so we were always around motorcycling. My brother, Jeff, is mostly to blame for my curse of hill-climbing because he taught me a lot of what I know and the tricks of the trade. He has won 3 amateur national titles on a bike and 2 on an ATV. My wife, Amanda, runs the Pro-Sport class in the AMA Pro Hillclimb series along with me and has had multiple podiums since 2009 and was 2010 AMA amateur national Women’s Class Champion, so it is definitely a “Family Thing”

Tilt-A-Rack:

  How long have you been riding dirt bikes?

Scott Campbell:

I have been hill-climbing since 1981 and won several district titles. After competing in 8 amateur nationals I never accomplished the goal of national champion, but always found myself in the top 5. In July of 2008 I did accomplish what most dream of by winning my first AMA Pro Hillclimb at Jefferson, PA. Almost everyone was convinced you couldn’t win on a gas bike against the nitro-methane bikes but I proved them wrong. Since then I have had several podium finishes and for 2012 I am looking to be there again. The real kicker of it is I have had open heart surgery twice, once in 1986 and again in 2000 and have proven the “Never Give Up” theory. Most of my success since 2001 in racing is owed to Amanda for making me the person I am today, pushing me to make my racing dreams possible. For the off-season, I am currently running the GNCC off-road series and enjoying it tremendously, it has allowed me to enhance my reaction times and balance.

Tilt-A-Rack:

What are your future plans with the AMA Pro Hillclimb series?

Scott Campbell:

My vision for AMA Pro Hillclimb is to gain title sponsors and TV coverage. I would like to see at least one race per year on national TV, and it is something we are working on. I would love to see the purses for each event grow; the cost of pro-hillclimbing is not cheap by any means and the riders have a certain love for the sport to put on a show for the fans. Things have been changing slowly for the series and I feel they are very positive changes. We are very grateful to Tilt-A-Rack.com for being the first of these positive changes by taking the chance to partner with us for the 2012 Season. Hillclimb was left to “run itself” is the easiest way to put it, so therefore nobody pushed to make it grow. After seeing how much time and effort it takes to bring the Series to the level we would like to see it, we now know why there hasn’t been such a push before. We have started restructuring the way things are done at the events and for 2012 it will make a great visual impact for the spectators and sponsors that are involved, as well as the riders.

Tilt-A-Rack:

Who is your favorite racer, any series?

Scott Campbell: 

My favorite rider was always Jeremy McGrath, but I am not sure what year I watched my first supercross. He was my favorite because he did the nac-nac and put on that extra show for the fans. As for today, I watch Chad Reed as my favorite because he has a desire to win like no one else. The “never give up” thing impresses me.

Tilt-A-Rack the Official Rack of the AMA Pro Hillclimb Series would like to offer a Special thanks to Scott for taking time to talk to us about their series and his passion for racing. The AMA Pro Hillclimb is a series filled with passion and amazing Athletes. Please follow along this season and get in on the DIRT.

AMA Pro Hillclimb Series Facebook Page:  www.facebook.com/AMAProHillclimb?ref=ts 

Social Media Points Race Page:  www.tilt-a-rack.com/ama-pro-hillclimb-rider-points/

Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation summer contest

Tilt-A-Rack is very proud to announce that we are donating two $500.00 store credits for Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation "Best Mom & Dad on wheels" contest. The contest's run on the following dates:

Best Moms on Wheels:  4/13/12 - 5/11/12

 

Best Dads on Wheels: 5/21/12 - 6/17/12

 Please check back on these dates to submit someone you know that fits the name above Best Mom and Dad on wheels. WE at Tilt-A-Rack have nothing but respect for what the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation stands for! Together we all can make a difference to people in need and one day find a cure! Thank you again from all of us and we ask you to be the difference share this information to everyone!