How TSXCS started

01

The racer

TSXCS started with a racer. Dakota Weddle gave more than twelve years to the off-road circuit — hare scrambles in the woods, pro-am motocross, and motocross state championships from Virginia to Florida.

Twelve seasons teaches you which race weekends are worth the tow and which ones aren't. You learn it in the entry line, on the start line, and on the long drive home.

Racing

12+ years

Raced

Hare scrambles to pro-am motocross

Titles

Motocross state championships, VA to FL

02

What was missing

The same three gaps turned up season after season: youth classes treated as an afterthought, tracks that weren't worth the tow, and technology a decade behind the rest of the sport.

None of it was complicated to fix. It just needed someone to decide that it mattered.

03

Building it

So in 2024, Dakota built his own series. TSXCS ran its first season in 2025.

Starting from nothing is no small job. Find landowners willing to turn a few hundred bikes loose on their property. Get the series AMA-sanctioned. Write a class structure from scratch. Put transponder timing and live scoring behind every rider. Then persuade sponsors to back something that hasn't yet turned a wheel.

The brief was one sentence: out-do anything else a racer in this region could sign up for.

04

Off the bike

The hardest part wasn't the paperwork. It was standing still.

For twelve years, race mornings ended the same way: gear on, bike running, waiting on the start. Now they end with a radio on his shoulder and somebody else taking the green.

The other side of the tape is a different job, and a harder one. On the bike, a bad day is yours alone. In charge, every rider's day is partly yours: the track they ride, the scoring that decides their season, whether a kid gets called up at the end of the year with their name spelled right.

It's a strange trade for a racer to make. It's also the only way to fix what bothered him from the seat.

05

The youth come first

Youth racing isn't a sideshow at TSXCS. It's the point.

Every rider on the pro line was once a seven-year-old who needed somewhere to race. Let the youth classes slide and there's no series in fifteen years — not for them, not for anyone.

So they race for championships, not participation trophies. Of the 45 classes, 20 are theirs, with championships and year-end awards of their own. The youngest are 2, on balance bikes. Run the season, finish top five in your class, and you're called up at the banquet — every class, down to the smallest bikes.

A kid who earns a number-one plate remembers it for life. That's worth doing properly.

06

What a season looks like

A TSXCS season runs 13 rounds across Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina, on two formats: hare scrambles and GP. It puts 45 classes on the line, 8 championships up for grabs, and hundreds of riders chasing points.

Camping is free from Friday afternoon, because a family should be able to afford to make a weekend of it. Every rider runs a transponder. Scoring runs in the cloud. Results land on a phone while the race is still going.

And the series is still being built.