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Unlocking an absolute BANGER from the vault for Throwback Thursday. 🎥💥
This is 1999—arguably my second or third FMX competition ever. This was an early event put on by LXD/IFMA, right when freestyle motocross was morphing into a legitimate sport. For the 1999-2000 season, I actually ranked as high as 4th in the IFMA points standings and finished 9th overall out of 35 riders globally.
Everything changed around 2001-2002 when I transitioned to retire from the USA circuit and bring the sport home to Canada. Back in '99, FMX literally didn't exist up here. I was incredibly honored to team up with a Canadian promoter and help pave the way for the sport to absolutely explode across Canada.
But back to this exact run: I didn't even have my own bike there! I was riding a machine I borrowed that morning from the legendary OG rider T-Bone Fuller.
Look at the lineup that day. Literally every founding legend was on the deck: Brian Deegan, Carey Hart, Ronnie Faisst, Tommy Clowers... you name it. Mike Metzger was actually injured and watching from the sidelines.
My sponsor happened to be sitting right next to Metzger during my run. I threw a brand new trick I'd been practicing, and my sponsor overheard Metzger literally yell, "What the heck was that?!" 😂 hearing that from the Godfather himself was unreal.
You can hear the legendary @cameron_Steele16 on the mic hyping it up, too. Cam always loved us Canadian riders and we used to joke around a ton back in the day. Because of the poor audio recording on those old 90s handy camcorders combined with a massively loud stadium PA system, it completely drowned out my bike, but you can still make out Cam killing it on the mic!
Before the adventure vlogs and trail tips on the KTM 390, this was the foundation. 100% raw, two-stroke smoke, and building a sport from the ground up.
Shout out to the OG Canadian moto crew—who remembers the early days of the sport hitting Canada? Drop a comment below! 👇
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