No, please, no, please stop. It's the worst.
Oh, this is terrible. All right, guys, welcome
to Shop Talk. This is going to be the loosest,
probably dumbest podcast ever recorded. I highly
recommend no one listens to this thing ever.
It'll be a waste of your time. It'll be pure
brain rot. you just shouldn't do it brain right
is what everyone's after though hey if you're
after brain right you're probably in the right
spot but this is us these three idiots just gonna
have a crack at this podcast thing we kind of
have a good time hanging out and talking shit
so here we are I said I wasn't gonna swear and
already dropped one in the first like three minutes
so there goes that out the window But yeah, welcome
to Shop Talk. This is the crew from PSC. If you
don't know us, then what are you doing? Wake
up to yourself. Like, best motorbike shop in
the world. Sort it out. Dead silence. Dead silence.
What are you doing? Dead silence. Shannon's getting
the nerves to him now. He's got the jitters.
I'm used to it. I'm a superstar. He's all right.
All right. Well, look, if you don't know us,
my name is Russ. And there's no reason you should
know us because we're absolute nobodies. But
my name is Russ. Get to hang out here with these
two morons in a motorbike shop every day. It's
the best time of his life. This is Zach. Does
some stuff here. This is Shannon. He also does
some stuff here. Yeah. A couple of lads. A couple
of lads. Yeah, I mean, what do we need to introduce?
Nothing. I mean, if you don't know us, now you
do. If you know, you know. If you know, you know.
This is it. All right, cool. Well, let's just
get into this. We obviously work in a shop and
we love modis and talking crap. So, we're just
going to hang out and do that. Yeah. Yeah? Let's
do it. Let's do it. So on our little menu, backgrounds.
Backgrounds. Who are you? Who the F are you,
mate? Oh, man, I'm a nobody at this point. Hey,
you're a washed up old B grade. C grade. C grade.
Don't knock us. Did you get this? Were you C
grade? Did you even get graded? Shannon, 549.
Shanman, 549. I have a race number and I didn't.
Race. So did you get graded? You're a race number.
You've got a year model. Am I D grade? Yeah,
no, you're C grade. Okay, so if I just signed
up for motocross, where do I end up? Did you
just get for knuckles? Knuckles. Knuckles. This
is an audio parade. This is fucking a great start.
I can't see past this microphone. Yeah. What?
So what? Okay, let's just go with the side quests.
Side quests. What happens with grading? If I
just sign up for motocross tomorrow. So you're
put into... It's classes now, isn't it? You'll
be in the elderly class. It's classes. You've
got like... So for you, for instance, if you're
racing a 250 or 450, if you're in MX2, which
is 250 class, you'll be graded as C grade. And
then you've got to ride or you've got to race
in open events. And the higher up you... uh get
in an event say you get like third you get an
amount of points which will then put you into
a category of b grade they'll bump you like those
points they just bump you up as you gain points
in open events so yeah by the end of the season
yeah well they can do it mid Because I was in
C grade for like... Do I have to sign up for
C grade? Like if I think I'm a bit of a legend,
can I just rock up and be like... I actually
had a buddy who had a friend at Motorcycling
Victoria and he got put up to B grade and came
40th. You can in club... And just got beat. Yeah,
just got pumped everywhere. Club level, you can.
Like club level, you can just go do A, B. But
if it's in an open event because it's sanctioned
by MNSW or MA, they'll be like, no, you've got
to be in this grade. I was going to say, because
like imagine me signing up for A grade. Get hosed.
And just... No, don't worry about getting the
hosed. I'd like kill people. Or you'd get killed,
yeah. Because I'd just be like cross -jumping
and swapping and... Yeah, but you also... But
it goes on numbers too. So you can't go, hey,
I want to be in A grade and then get 14 as your
number. Right. You need to be given that. Right.
No. Yeah. No. I don't know. I just made that
up. No, your number. You can register your number.
As long as no one's got it. If you've got a registered
number and someone runs your number at the same
event, then the person with the non -registered
number will have to put like an X. An X or something.
I've seen that. No. I've seen it. That's like
a peak swapper. Right. Everyone knows. Everyone
knows. All right. Sick. That was good. Side quest
one. Side quest on side quests. Dude, this is
going to be loose. So, okay. Let's... Like, I
just kind of want to go through the background
of this real quick. Just so if someone's tuning
in like absolute and has no idea who we are.
Someone across the other side of the country
stumbles across this on a drunken night. What?
Right. And then just wants to know who we are.
Yeah. So, give us your background sort of moto
related. So, why don't you start us off, Shan?
Give us your moto. Okay. From like kid. From
kid. So first ever motor was an XR80. Wrong.
Peewee 50 is the correct answer. No. XR80, DT175.
Right. Nice. KX125, YZ250F. Were you racing at
this point or you were just riding? No. I was
just riding full farm stays. No, actually, I
started racing when I got on the KX125, 2002
model. You know the ones? The James Stewart ones.
The James Stewart ones. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And then
I actually started racing at the vintage motocross
because the only modern bikes that could ride
were in the juniors because I had like eight
people rock up. So I started racing now. I was
doing really good because there's like six other
dudes racing. And then, yeah, and then I just
moved up. and then started riding pretty, like
what I thought was pretty seriously. And then
what happened? I got landed on first lap of practice
at a Gippsland center and did two vertebrae in
my back and then never raced again. I still rode.
So how old? 18. Right. No, 17, 18. I don't know.
Something around that. And then I never raced
properly again, but I rode like here and there.
Was it one of those messed up breaks or was it
like one of those sweep? No, it was just like
one of those. I was broken. I was soaking. I
was soaking. I was milking it. Big surprise.
And then I started, then I got into music and
then I didn't ride for 10 years up until I started
here. Until you started here. And now I'm a gun
again. Dude, that's cool. That's interesting.
XR80, dude, I actually learned on an XR80. So
Macca, who you know now, I learned in his driveway
on an XR80. There you go. There you go. Zach.
Pee -wee's are for kids. It's my turn now. Motor
history. Motor history. So I'm like Shanman over
here. I started on a Pee -wee 50. I think I was
maybe... Correct answer. Maybe two or three years
old. What? Yeah. Why? What do you mean why, bro?
No, I grew up around... I actually grew up around
a road racing family. Not road racing, but road
riding. Oh, so you're like a reject. Pretty much.
Black sheep. Pretty well. New dragger. Grew up
around that scene and dad actually originally
wanted me to jump into the road scene. I got
the Pee Wee from that, got the KTM 50 Senior
and wanted to stick with dirt. Obviously, I grew
up in Sydney, so we started in Minicana and went
from that to a KX65. Was that like Blacktown
Minicana? Blacktown Minicana Club, yep. Shout
-outs to Blacktown Minicana Club. Those were
the days, man. Very much gang -related. Very
much gang -related, yeah. No, we grew up around
there and, yeah, a few. Pretty good prospects
came out of that club, actually, through my racing
season. But, yeah, I went to the KX65, started
doing a lot more motocross at Oakdale. Clarence
was pretty well my home club. Lithgow, Zigzag
Railway. And then I went to a KTM85. Then went
to the KTM125. And then on the 125, actually
started training with Dan McCoy. So me and another
kid that I was good mates with, Will, we started
training with Dan every weekend. He eventually
got me onto a Yamaha 250 back in, oh, I would
have been 16, so 2016, and been on Yamaha ever
since. So, yeah, onto a new project this year,
which I'll keep a little bit hush -hush for now.
But, yeah, I've sort of stepped away from the
MX scene in the last probably 12 or so months
and been doing a little bit more enduro, being
a headlight guy. Thank goodness. Mate, sometimes
you've got to make changes and sometimes they're
for the better. Bro. So, for the listeners, Zach
doesn't mind a dirt nap. Or, yeah. Doesn't mind
a dirt nap. He's quite partial. Actually, you
know what? The last time I was on a track, I
had a dirt nap and that was, what, eight months
ago? Broke my back. That's my point. So. Yeah,
that was fun. We've got to keep you in one piece,
bro. This is not cool. Well, look, it might be
changing this year. Maybe we'll do some more
MX events. Who knows? Motocross is not good for
you. You're a transmoto guy now. I need to get
those jitters out, though. Headlight. I've got
blue balls for MX right now. You need to stay
away from MX. MX is bad. Yeah, sick. Who knows?
We might try and change a bit this year, do a
couple of enduro events and some MX. Mad. Yeah.
Sick. Yeah. Well, mine was like, I didn't ride
it. Not really much at all as a kid. 12 months
ago? Yeah, it started 12 months ago. Nah, I didn't
have that family at all. That was it. My riding
background as a kid was a BMX. And my deal with
my folks was like, if I saved up, paid for half,
they'd pay for the other half of whatever. Sort
of whatever I wanted. Mongoose Expert Pro. Oh,
the mongoose. Yeah, with the gyro. You know those
ones? You can spin the heel bars. Oh, no, we
know. We know. A couple of cross -ups. A couple
of cross -ups, mate. That was sick. So that was
all I got as a kid. I didn't get to ride motis
or anything like that. I didn't have a dad that
was like into that sort of stuff. So there was
no chance that was happening. But got on the
pushies a fair bit, got into mountain biking,
raced downhill for a bit. Downhill got super
gnarly. I got... I ended up buying a... This
bike called a Santa Cruz V10. If anyone's old
school mountain bike, they know what the V10
is. It's like, it's called the V10 because it
had 10 inches of travel. Like, so the thing was
like a monster. And back in the day, it was the
bike to have. Like, it was just, it was sick.
It was sick. What? That was a joke. That was
a joke there. We're trying to keep this above
board. That's what I'm saying. He's a loose.
So, yeah, it was mountain bikes. That was...
That was kind of it. And then rode a bit. Good
mate of mine, Marco, he had motorbikes, XR80,
XR100. So his dad taught me to ride in the driveway,
which is pretty cool. Didn't do much. Got a Wiser
80. Back in the day, were they 80s or 85s? They
were 80s back in the day. Wiser 80s, yeah. My
old boy had one. Yeah, so bought an old Wiser
80, rode that for a little bit, built it up,
and then had a massive crash. Did my leg, same
thing. Then it was like years off because my
leg was messed up. Missed like a year of school.
blah blah blah didn't go back to bikes for ages
and then got back into bikes when I had kids
so me and my wife had our first kid and then
met some friends who were like babies the same
age and they were like hey I've got this cool
little electric bike for my kid so then we all
got electric bikes for our kids all started riding
then we bought bikes and then just got back into
it again which was sick so kind of got back into
it because of the kids which was kind of cool
yeah kind of fun and then ended up at this joint
Now you ride... Hanging with us. Eight days a
week. I try to ride eight days a week. As much
as he wants to. I really don't. Everyone thinks
I ride eight days a week. But I really don't.
You don't work according to social media. You
just ride. I'm going to... Social media is everything.
Believe it all. Side quest. Side quest again.
I'm just going to have a little rant. Does everyone
know that if you post something on social media...
That day. It doesn't mean it happened that day.
One, you could have recorded it. a long time
ago and then you posted it or even if you posted
it today you may not see it for days or weeks
on end so everyone's like oh soon you've been
out riding you're at eastern creek yesterday
i'm like bro it's six months ago like it's social
media i don't know if anyone gets that i'm not
mad about it i just want everyone to know that
like understand yeah he wants to know everyone
that he's in the shop working i work hard every
day believe it i beg to differ anyway whatever
we'll see that's uh yeah it's pretty cool i reckon
how everyone comes together in different places
and times and stuff over bikes it's pretty sweet
but that's cool um so how did you all end up
at psc like i know your story because i hired
you i just came with the business you were just
here You were just stuck in the corner. Oh, I
rocked up here. Zach was stuck in the corner.
Me and the coffee table from like 100 years ago
were here. Crazy. Yeah. So, anyway. So, I moved
up. Obviously, I was living in Sydney. Moved
up to this area in 2016. Started at a new school
up here. Did year 12, flunked my HSC purposely
because I hated school. And then obviously we
had a good relationship with Chris, who was obviously
the previous owner before you. Obviously we're
getting our bikes through the shop and racing
for PSC. And yeah, coming to the end of... It
might have actually been end of year 11, start
of year 12. He sort of wanted me in building
bikes and just sort of getting around the shops
and started doing that. And then after I finished
school, sort of gave me a casual full -time job
building bikes out the back. And then I ended
up going out to Lakes one weekend, 2017. I had
a massive crash and I broke my wrist. Oh, so
a dirt nap? Dirt nap, had a dirt nap, yep. And
I couldn't obviously build anything because my
arm was in a cast and he sort of chucked me out
in the deep end in the front, dealing with customers,
doing spare parts. And that was, what, eight
years ago now. So, been here ever since, sort
of doing the spare parts role and moving into
sales now. You come along and... Didn't give
you the boot? No, thank goodness for that. Sick.
That's cool. We've got a good little motley crew
here, I reckon. Shan's story is funny. I like
Shan's story. Mine's, I don't know, it's a bit
of a non -event. I moved up from Melbourne to
Newcastle on a whim with my now fiancé and I
was working at the crappest, crappest job driving
forklifts in this steel yard. Like completely
unsafe. It was like 20 ton steel beams. And they
were just like, yeah, just chuck that over there,
mate. And I was just like, what the hell? Anyway,
and then I came home crying one day. And then...
We can edit that part out. Thereabouts. Anyway,
I was like, what am I going to do? I need a job
that I like because I'm a musician. But I need
to have a day job that I enjoy. my missus was
like oh try and get back into bikes because i'm
a qualified motorbike mechanic mind you haven't
done it since i was like 18 right and um jumped
on seek this shop come up so i checked the instagram
i'm like who is this funny man you might hopefully
they check the socials after this and you understand
what i mean so then i rolled in with like the
crappiest resume and basically just said hey
dude i'm here for the mechanic role i've been
out of the game for 12 years And then ended up
getting the service advisor role. And then, yeah,
within that, I ended up getting back into bikes
properly and now I'm like frothing. It was cool
to see you get back into it. Like we did a bike
build for Shan last year. Didn't we? The Dark
Prince. Princess. It's called the Dark Prince.
Princess. It's pretty cool. So Shan's got a particular
style about him. If you're watching the video,
you might be able to tell. But you need to be
up close to be able to get the style of Shan.
Yeah. So we did a pretty sick bike build. No,
it's sick. I'm stoked to be back into bikes properly.
And through the job, I realized how much I love
it and how much I actually know about a fair
bit. Yeah. Yeah, it's cool. It's funny watching
Shan come into the shop. Didn't really get the
chance to say hello or anything. I'm like, who
the fuck is this? Coming into the shop. Now I
know you guys. It's so funny. I remember I walked
up to the front desk and then you and Bella were
there. And they're like, oh yeah, this is Shannon.
I was like, hi. And you guys gave me nothing.
And I was like, okay, cool. They're weird. And
now we're friends. The bestest of friends. The
bestest of friends. That's it. It's like a true
love story. It is a love story. That's cool,
man. We got a good little crew out on here. I
guess I sort of wanted to tell everyone what
this is going to be about, which I kind of hate
doing. It makes it feel real weird. But I guess
what we wanted to do with this podcast is like
the three of us enjoy hanging out and talking
crap. And some people who hang out with us say
it's pretty funny. So we thought we'd have a
crack on here. We all love talking. Modi's. Like,
Monday mornings in here, we get absolutely stuff
all done in the first couple of hours because
everyone's just talking Supercross and Motocross.
It's all about the weekend, baby. I'm talking
Dakar basically to myself because no one else
cares. Ross actually doesn't give a shit about
Supercross, which is sad. It just looks like
grown men going over bumps. It's like, whatever.
Do they get out of second gear? No, they normally
just use first. Just first. First gear. What
do you do? How hard could it be? First wedge.
It looks super straightforward. Yeah. And we
just, I don't know, we just thought we'd have
a crack, right? So we'll just see what's going
on, but we sort of want to have a bit of fun
with it and just follow along. So we're going
to follow the Supercross season. So at the end
of that, we'll follow that along, the motocross
season. We've got a little tipping comp for Soupy.
So we're going to do a bit of that. Speaking
of winning, put our tips in before the weekend
for San Diego. Do that. We've got some bike builds
coming up. We've got some cool bike builds. So
we're all going to do some custom bikes this
year. Bunch of cool projects. We love racing
this event called Transmoto. If you don't know
what it is, it's sort of like a social team enduro.
So it's kind of the every man's race. Like you
don't need to be a racer to be able to do it.
You know what? That was actually my introductory
to enduro, I think. so yeah so Stroud the first
year I did Stroud it was me Brandon and Cade
Purcell we're all three motocross guys pretty
solid team on two YZ450s and an FC oh no what
yeah two YZ450s and an FC250 come out and it
was the last bowl that year we ended up coming
out like 14th outright yeah and I sort of fell
in love with Enduro like yeah I was like Okay,
give me an enduro bike next time. All right,
so here we go. Did you take a dirt nap in enduro?
Oh, I've taken plenty in enduro at Transmoto
that year. Yeah, but they're crashes. They're
not. Oh, little layovers. Yeah, for sure. I mean,
last night I nearly died. Nearly smacked a tree.
Yeah, but did you? I didn't. I saved it. Correct.
So enduro is better. Motocross sucks. It doesn't
suck. It just sucks when I crash all the time.
Yeah, sick. I'm going to fix that issue. If anyone
can help, give me ideas. Just stay on your bike.
It's not that simple. Sort of seems like it is.
The reality is it's actually because he's gone
fast. That's why we don't crash that much. I
don't think you needed to bring that up. I'm
glad he did. You could have just left that out.
Oh, my gosh. Yeah, now we're going to follow
a few things along this year. I don't know if
I'm doing any hard enduros. I do love going down
to Cozzy and doing that one. So we'll see if
I've got a bike for that. Well, who knows? You
might have a big bike for that. I don't know
if I could do that on the Tenerife. No? Not with
that kind of attitude. This is true. Dude, okay.
So last year... Side quest. So last year at Cozzy
was my best year I've done there. I ended up...
I don't know what I got, but I did pretty well.
I beat all my mates I went down with, which is
all I actually care about. I think the boys did
the maths and if I'd entered over 40s, I would
have gotten like top 10. So I'd done all right.
This is in bronze class. So this is in the shittest
class possible. Does age like... Side quest on
that side quest. Age matters. You're 25. Wait
till you are 35. Yeah, but if you're over 40s,
it's like, bro, you're trophy hunting at this
point. Like, wouldn't you just go like, okay,
overall in bronze? No. So, well... So yeah, no,
but - Do you know how hard it is to get up? This
is a personal fetch, right? Because Russ is like,
nah, over 40s, that's a separate class. I got
top 10. Fuck you all. Well, this is the thing.
I don't like that. So that's why I've just always
entered open. Because I don't like going over
40s. Well, guess what? There's six dudes in it.
Great, you won. See, that's what I was up to.
Sandbagger. Yeah. It's sort of, yeah, I don't
know. I just - My whole thing with bronze is
like, I just would like to go and get like top
10 in bronze at some point. But this year, I
don't know if I'm going to have a bike to do
it on. So we'll see what happens with hard enduro.
I would like to do a couple of rounds. It's pretty
cool. But yeah. I'd actually like to try that,
to be honest. It's pretty fun, but it is bike
setup. Like it's so critical to get the right
bike and the right setup to do it well. But my
side quest that I was going to go on, talking
about me doing an itinerary, is that Rob Nowak
was there last year on his 890. and he started
he did bronze to this and holy cow like if you
don't know who Rob Nowak is go jump on his socials
it's insane like he's an ex -gold class rider
so obviously gold silver bronze gold is like
pros that don't let you enter gold like you can't
just enter gold at any hard enduro even like
a real basic one you can't enter gold you have
to be vetted or you've got to be a certified
pro like And you've got to have done a certain
number of silvers. They check you out because
it literally becomes life and death because there's
cliffs you're hanging off. You can't screw around.
Even in bronze, we're hanging off cliffs where
it's pretty sketchy. So gold gets real gnarly.
Anyway, Rob's an ex -gold class guy. He's won
gold overseas in Europe and all this kind of
stuff. We didn't know who he was or that he was
even there. Me and my buddy Steve were on the
start line and we look over and we're just looking
at this dude on an 890 adventure bike and we're
like, look at this absolute like Muppet on this
adventure bike. Stumbling on a hard enduro event
with an adventure bike. And then the dude just
frigging smokes. Just blew our doors off. All
day long. Like this is a type of race where it's
just laps, right? So it's a set course. You just
do laps. Like over the four hours or six hours,
whatever it was, I got four laps in, right? And
I did decent. So he lapped me every lap. Like
he passed me four times on an 890. And it's like...
Crazy hill climbs up, crazy steep down, gnarly
big logs, rocks, all this kind of stuff. And
like when we're doing a hill climb, like it's
pretty irregular to get sprayed with rocks, right?
So you're all ducking your head down behind your
bars and getting hammered with rocks and stuff.
This frigging bike is throwing house bricks.
It was insane, hey? Just watching him do that.
So anyway, yeah, look, I'd love to give one a
crack on a built tenor, eh? It'd be sick. It'd
be sick. But you've got to train. really hard
and get it really specific because like man the
weight of that thing would be like the biggest
you get it wrong and yeah yeah you could you
get it wrong and you just get the bike wedged
and you can't pick it up at 200 kilos so you
can just get stuck like instantly and not even
have a race because you just got stuck. Do you
imagine being halfway up a hill and just being
like... Yeah. Trying to carry this thing. Bro,
it's wild. So, yeah. Look, I think for me this
year, a couple of Transmotos, I really like doing
them. Batemans Bay, 12 hours back on. I've never
done it. Everyone that's done it raves about
it. So, I'm super keen to do that. Coffs last
year was sick. They're leaving one. They still
haven't announced. They still haven't announced
one. So, fingers crossed. coughs his back because
I actually really enjoyed that last year the
three of us went and did coughs and it was sick
like that was really good hopefully we're the
dealer for Narrabri again Narrabri was sick I
did get to do a lap on the Norden there so that
was pretty cool so I'd like to do some transmotos
I'd like to do a hard enduro I don't know other
than that my plans are just I don't know. I want
to do more shop rides. I want to do more adventure
rides. I want to build some cool bikes. I don't
really know what events I want to do. They've
asked me to MC state titles, New South Wales
state titles. So I think I'll go to all the state
titles as an MC. Yep. Hang out with my boy, Dave
Hogan. Shout outs to Always Moto podcast. So
might do that. Are we going to do postie GP?
100 % I'm going back to postie GP this year.
You got unfinished business. Can we just talk
about this for a second, right? We bought this
shitter, thanks to Dan who sold it to us, postie
bike for $1 ,500, which, I mean, was a little
over Russell's budget, but... Turns out my budget
was whack. Oh, man. I couldn't find one under
three grand. Which is insane. That was decent,
which is crazy. But the good thing about it was
that it was pretty well fully done. All we had
to realistically do was check it over. It hadn't
been written in, what, 12 months? Yeah. It was
race ready, if you can believe that. Mind you,
I haven't really written a postie. We bought
this thing a week prior to getting dyno tested.
Had to get the boys the day before dyno to check
this thing over. Had stale fuel in it, rust in
the tank. It was fucking woeful. We all knew
this was going to happen. The only person that
didn't know was you. Correct, yes. Okay, in his
defense, but he was freaking out for a good week
and a bit before. I'm like, bro, it's fine. Who
cares? It's fine. Just ride the bike. Everyone's
like, just ride it. Just ride it. I'm like, no,
you don't understand. No, it's not. This is a
race. I need to do well at this. Zach was there
to win. Anyways, we get there, dyno tested at
the pre -dyno on the Wednesday. Dino's like nearly
a horsepower under what everyone else was. It
was what? Five, three, five, two. So the important
part to understand it. Yeah. So the important
thing to know is like these things have like
six horsepower, right? So if you're at five horsepower,
you're significantly down on power. And I weigh
85 kilos. So that shit was being like way down.
Anyways, pre -Dino done that. Come to Dino day
on the Saturday before the event. Oh, was it
Saturday? Yeah, the Saturday. Correct. Yeah,
pre -dyno was Wednesday. Didn't really touch
it. We had to get a replacement carb because
we figured out that where the slide goes into
the top of the carb, the actual screw that screws
onto the top of the carb was broken. So had to
get a carb. Got that, fitted that three hours
before we had to go get it dynoed. Went and got
it dynoed. Dynoed at five. 6 so that's right
0 .3 of a horsepower and i did nothing making
gains i literally rode it in the car park and
if you know the shop and know our car park it
is small i rode it did like what like 10 laps
just trying to figure this thing out get to the
day heaps rode it did qualifying qualified okay
got to the heat uh and sort of spewing because
the heat We had to get, so it was two heats.
We had to get top 18, I think it was, or top
16 to make it to the GP. And if you were beyond
that, then you go to the Cessna Cup. We missed
out on one position. We had a lap to go and Lawson
was riding, nearly had it and didn't get in.
So we were still missing one position in our
first GP. But it meant that I had pole position
for the Cessna Cup. There's a common thread here.
Common thread. So I was still in the line at
the pole position. So I was pretty chuffed on
that. And yeah, started the Cessna Cup. I started
my first 10 laps. Within my first 10, I think
we got back to third. Just before I went to pit
to go get to Lawson, the guy who was in first
actually crashed in pit lane. And we snuck in,
got in the lead. From that point on for the next
hour, we led. Every freaking lap, we led. Lawson
goes to give it to me. On our $1 ,500 POS. Yeah.
Zero check over. Literally. And I was pretty
chuffed. Like, I didn't know, but I was coming
down the straight and Russ was like this. And
I'm like, oh, he's just saying, go, go, go. Next
time I come around, dad gives me the number one.
And I'm like, get up. So I'm emceeing. I'm up
in like this tower emceeing and my boy's winning.
So I'm losing my mind. I'm trying to be a good
emcee, but I'm just yelling, go Zach. Give him
the number one. My biggest fan. It was so good.
And then, yeah, we had five laps to go. Lawson
passed it to me for the last changeover. I got
on the bike in pit lane in first gear and it
just started dying. And I'm like, no, what's
going on? Like, I was like, is this thing running
out of fuel? Looking, checking it over, got out
of pit lane, went to shift a second, the thing
just bogged. And I'm like, no way this is happening
right now. We've got like four laps to go. So
I had to try and get the revs up back in first,
wringing the neck off this thing, trying to tap
everything, trying to figure out what's going
on, tapping the airbox, is the airbox loose?
And yeah, had to limp it home and we ended up,
what did we end up? I think it was like sixth.
Losers. I think we ended up sixth. I had to limp
this thing home. Kid you not, was in second gear
just wringing it, trying to swerve all over the
road, making sure not to pass. Riding a wide
bike. Wide bike, like full Deegan's back. And
yeah, it sucked, man, like to lead every lap.
Dude, you were gutted, man. I was so gutted.
When I got to you in the pit, so they do this
funny thing like... This race is known for cheating,
right? Like the whole cheating aspect is actually
like a huge part of it. That's why they do a
pre -dino. Then they do a dino day. And then
at the end of your race, the bike gets dinoed
again because everyone cheats that badly. They
have to like check every bike regularly. It's
insane. So like you pull off for the race and
they dino. Do they dino everyone? Just like top
10? They dino top 10. Top 10. Dude, so I run
over because everyone pulls up, run over. I've
got... The microphone, I'm like yelling and screaming
and carrying on. And the guy that won it's like
an ASBK, like pro rider. He's like one of the
best Australian super bike riders, right? No,
that was in GP. That was crew in GP. Sorry, that
was crew. We got that mixed up. So who won the
cup? The cup was... Oh, I don't know. Who did
that? Yeah, right. I can't remember who won ours.
Right, I'm getting confused. Sorry. Anyway, I
go over. Zach's just like head on the handlebars.
Just devastated. Never seen a dude cry over a
CT110. Fully. Like fully. Bro, I was really in
tears. I know. You sent me the longest voice
message that night. I was like, I've just got
to tell you over a voice message. I can't type.
I can't bear to type. Tears in my eyes. Sobbing.
Bro, that is pure racer. That's pure racer. It's
like the dumbest race. I'm gutted, dude. I'm
like, are you okay? The dumbest race that means
nothing on the shittest bike and he's gutted.
I love it. It's great. it's just that pure racer
you know racer spirit in me pure racer man and
i mean lucky we didn't make the gp because add
to add to what you were saying before when you
got confused so asbk rider crew holiday and tom
taparis teamed up on the dark war bikes and holy
shit the first so their race is an hour and a
half long the first half an hour they lapped
all the way up to second place yeah Wow. Yeah.
They lapped the whole field in the first half
an hour. Yeah, it was nuts to watch. It was actually
really interesting to watch to see how much faster
technique could just make you. Because the bikes
are essentially all the same, right? Like 6 .3
horsepower is the maximum. Basically, everyone's
at 6 horsepower. The bikes all suck. Like there's
not much you can do. Okay, you can put some little
shim in the forks and you can do like bugger
all, right? Well, the secret switches are supposedly
gone now because they're dynoing so much. But
I don't know. The bikes clearly look like they're
all the same. And it didn't seem... Because Tom
was significantly slower than Crew, right? So
that made us think, okay, the bike's legit. They're
not cheating. But man, watching dudes with technique,
it's just insane. Like the corner speed he could
carry. Even the photos of him, you can see everyone's
leaned over. Crew's just got his foot like...
Speedway style. Yeah. Landed this thing and it's
just like, how do you... Yeah, it was nuts. It
was nuts. It was crazy. But I was... Hey, I was
the first to crash on crash corner too. I also
crashed there. I was the first to crash on crash
corner in qualifying, mind you. Big surprise.
Shocker. I had to get it out of the way. At least
I got it out of the way before the main. Crash
Sajdrovic. Crash Sajdrovic. Crash Sajdrovic.
Crash Sajdrovic. You suck. I'm getting there,
right, guys? I love it. I'm maturing a little
bit. Love it. So, Shandog, what's on for you
for the year, mate? What are you doing over there?
Are we doing a Dark Princess 2 .0? Yeah, so I'm
just waiting for the 26th to arrive. Boy, you
want to know something. I had an email today.
We may have Princess 2 .0 coming sooner than
we thought. Really? Yeah. Big excitement out
of him, eh? It's crazy. Yeah, so I guess we'll
try and we'll get that built and up to my standard,
I guess. What is your standard? I don't know,
just plastics. Do you have standard plastics
and graphics? No, I guess my plan is to just
get more seat time. Yeah. Like, yeah, we rode
a couple of days ago. And I haven't ridden since
Transmoto, which by Transmoto, I was actually
going quite good. Dude, you got significantly
better quicker. Like I feel like the first time
we rode, you were a Gumby and I felt like I was
riding pretty decent. And then by like the third
or fourth session, I'm like, oh shit, Shannon's
now better than me. Great. That's awesome. I
don't know about that, but I'm okay. I go all
right. So I'd like to do a couple more Transmotos.
Yeah. Definitely Narrabri. No, bro, I was sick
last year. I also, shock horror, I actually want
to get out on a motocross track. Something basic.
A couple of tabletops. Man, I'll take you to
ranch. I'll take Russ to ranch. He went all right.
He did one lap. He was a one lap one dog. He
did three sessions, three laps. Bro, motocross
is hard. I could throw a couple of bum whips
up. Dude, old, yeah, big bum whip guy. I couldn't
imagine you airborne. He wasn't. Whoa. I think,
I got the back. A little back tail top. That's
like two foot long. Okay. I mean, you know what?
I actually thought you were going to huck the
triple. The first time you come around, you come
around that corner pretty quick. And I'm like,
is he going to do it? I actually, I actually
probably could pull the trigger on that. Really?
I just bitched out, but that, cause it's actually
pretty nice. Like that ball turned so huge. You
can get speed out of that, but you got to be
careful. Cause the thing's so lippy and not long.
So I did it first lap. I had like, I went to
double it just to roll it. Yeah. And I like cased
the triple. Right. Yeah, I was slamming in the
back of it once or twice. I'm like, I could probably
just... A little more pep and you're there. Yeah,
I could probably pull it. It just freaks me out,
man. I just don't like it. I'm actually just
really bad at ruts. Ruts make me nervous and
skittish and I don't know what to do. Corner
for Doge. So, Transmotos. Yeah, Transmotos. I'm
going to keep it pretty chill with my schedule.
My music schedule is pretty gnarly as well. So,
I'll do as much as I can, basically. But I'll
probably do more adventure bike stuff. Yeah,
big adventure bike. So, we introduced Shanda
Adventure Bikes last year when he came on board.
I was like, you, have you done adventure? And
he's like, actually, I've got a DRZ. And I'm
like, you're basically halfway there. Just over
half. So we chucked him on the big Tenere. The
big Worldie, the World Raid. He fell in love
immediately. They're the best. He was like a
schoolboy seeing boobs for the first time. Adventure
bikes are the best. That's bang for your buck,
I think. That's the best. That's the best for
me, for where I'm at anyway. If you can head
out for a fun few hours out. with Russell being
an overnighter in bloody Timbuktu or something.
But yeah, anything that I can combine my love
for chicken parmas and beers along the way. Yes.
A couple of fourth gear skids. Yeah. This is
the thing that people don't get about riding
dementia bikes. Dementia bikes. I've never heard
that. It's the parmies. It's the beers. Parmas,
yeah. Parmies. Melbourne boy. Oh, here we go.
Another side quest. No, we're not doing this.
We're right, you're wrong. Clip this up. We're
right, you're wrong. It's palmy, not palma, you're
a weirdo. I suppose it's potato cake too, right?
Potato, potato. Yeah. You're a fruitcake. You're
actually a fruitcake. Do you know what a scallop
is? That's a scallop. No. I know what you're
about to say. What? No. He's talking about the
little animal thing that you fry. The seafood
thing. The animal thing is a type of... Aquarius.
Aquarius. No, I'm an Aquarius. It's, yeah. You're
in New South Wales now. So, where's scallop come
from? Can you please explain? I'm not, like,
I'm not having this argument with the Mexican.
Just understand that. It's a potato cake and
it's a palmer. It's not a cake. Anyway, moving
forward, adventure bikes are good. You know what?
As much as I always thought adventure bikes was
like an old guy thing. Adventure bikes. Like,
dementia bikes. Like, full on. When I actually...
When we went for that ride for the first time,
I was like, this is actually pretty sick. What
was our first one? We did the... Did we go to
Broke? No. What past singer? Sheepskin. Do we
do... Oh. Jerry's? Jerry's. That's right. We
did Jerry's. That was our first one. No. No,
sorry. That was Shannon's first one. No, that
was my first big one. Right. The one before that,
I think, was... It was only a short one. We went
to Laguna. Yeah, it was an Arvo Laguna ride or
something. Annoyingly, you were fast as shit.
Arvo Laguna ride. A short one. Short one. It's
not a short one when you go to Russell. Sweet,
we're going to start at 4 .30. Why, dude? It's
Sunday. Two 11 -hour days. Yes. Later. No, they're
having a whinge because we did an overnighter
and we did like 500Ks each day. It was hectic.
So I thought it was reasonable. I wasn't on that
one. Russ is like, we're going to go back through
the water on the way home. How come? Yeah, remember?
That was when thingy broke his leg. Josh broke
his leg. Oh, yeah, that's right. Josh broke his
leg. Did his ACL. Yeah, did his ACL in his knee.
That was brutal, too. He's such a good rider.
Dude, for him to ride out with a knee just hanging
out. He ended up suicide shifting for the last
few Ks on a Norton. And we just propped him up
at the pub with like half a dozen beers. And
we're just like, see you, dude. Best of luck
out there. Yeah, that was wild. Man, I'm kind
of the same. I'm hoping to do some transmotos.
I'm hoping, yeah, maybe a hard enduro too. But
yeah, definitely more adventure bikes. I love
adventure bikes. I did Husky Trek this year and
it was frigging sick. It was sick. Five days
of going hard. I heard you've booked me for Flinders
next year. I have not booked you for Flinders.
I may book myself for Flinders. No, it was sick,
man. I'd love everyone to be able to come. It's
cool. Just to be able to do five days of riding
gnarly stuff on the big bikes. That Norton's
sick. I just had such a good time on it. I did
take a dirt nap. You did? Yeah, speaking of dirt
naps. I've got to send a photo of that. It's
a pretty good photo. You guys heard from Russ.
I blew my backpack apart. Really? Yeah. Like
the front whole piece of my backpack blew off.
Almost shit went everywhere. It was cool. It
was good. It was the third gear high side, basically.
Like over an erosion mount, kicked one way, the
other way. You've been hanging with me too much.
Clearly. No, it was so gnarly, man. It was sick.
It was five days of just riding Victorian high
country, going hard. It was sick. Good crew.
There with my mate Dino. He goes hard. And then
this young guy that we teed up. Oh, my goodness.
Jamie. Jamie? Wow. Have I forgotten his name?
That's so bad. Jamie, I think. Legend of a dude.
Could it be that cool? No, I'm just bad with
names. It's like, I hope it's Jamie. He was a
legend. He was a legend. He, yeah, borrowed his
father -in -law's 701. And he was a lot like
you. He was a younger guy and he was like a motocross
guy. So we turned up in motocross gear. He had
no idea what he was doing for adventure bikes,
but just ripped. Like he was just fast as shit.
So it was cool to hang with him. Because anything
that was a bit more downhill, he was just so
fast. And then, thank you. And then... Anything
like more open, I could catch him on the big
bike, but he was just wild. But it was sick.
It was a ton of fun. So I'd definitely like to
do that some more, which would be cool. And then
I just want to build a couple of cool bikes.
What are you building this year, Zach? What are
you riding? Are we letting the secrets out already
on first app? I reckon we bang it out, bro. All
right. Well, look. So yeah, like I said before,
I've got a bit of blue balls for MX. I rode the
40 last year, didn't get to ride it too much.
I sort of want to do something a little different
this year. So we're actually building a YZ252
smoker. We're bringing the mixing gas horn ass
back. So we're doing a 70th anniversary build.
Already got a couple of cool sponsors slash collaborators
on board. I don't think I'll leak those just
yet. Nah, hold the collabs. Let's hold on the
collabs for now. But it's going to be a really
sick build. It's going to be, yeah, film from
start to finish. And I think it'll be pretty,
yeah, pretty awesome. Get out, do some fun events,
maybe rock up at the state titles off the couch
and see if we can hold on to the thing. Dude,
Paxton? Ooh. That'd be sick. I need to go on
the tour for that. Okay. All right. A little
bit of technical duties because this is day one.
Round one. What are we talking about? We're talking
about builds. So I just made a comment about
Paxton. We'll talk about Paxton more because
I actually just had a phone call with the boys
this morning, actually. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah.
I rang him. I passed Derek in the car and rang
him and got on the phone with Simo as well. So
already started that conversation. But so last
year, what were the builds we did last year?
Like we did a pretty cool 65 for Chev. We did
the 65 for Chev. We did your T7. yeah and then
we did the i rode the wr 450 so yeah and we had
a superior bike on the paxton ride we did dark
prince dark oh no that was no but like just all
the builds we did last year we did dark prince
501 and 501 yeah we did that project the yoshimura
club so sick That was a cool collab too. Like
Yoshimura, Australia hooked us up big time and
that bike is sick. We still have it and it's
mad dog. Everyone that rides it loves it. I love
it. Yeah. I swapped with him on Wednesday. I
was like, give me that big couch. Yeah, yeah.
I haven't talked to you about that. How was that
thing? Because I saw you on your socials on it.
I was like, ooh, this will be interesting. It's,
well, for me, like the WR450 had 4Ks on it. And
we went out to like full acceleration bump rut,
but it was like a little bit slippery. Right.
And I suck again. Right. So I was all over the
shop. So I was just like, give me that. So was
the 450 too much? It's just too, it's just so
steep. It's a lot. Yeah. It's just got the most,
it's just so fast. Yeah. But it has like, it's
funny like now me riding the WR, having run the
WR for the last 12 months and then jumping on
the 501 and doing that. It's actually cool to
see. different aspects on how how each bike rides
in different conditions so like for me now that
we've written the 501 like it just it's broken
in right so the frame feels not as rigid i feel
yeah but the wr power like on long open stuff
is really cool the huskies are a little calmer
so in that slower stuff it rides a little better
so it's sort of like you chop and change with
what you actually yeah for sure like for what
riding you can't get everything you need no correct
and that's like hard enduro man like when i rode
your 300 it's like yeah you need for for certain
disciplines you need a bike hard enduro sick
because it like it and i've seen this with you
like you've had that realization of where you're
like you can look at it like a piece of terrain
like a hill or a log or whatever and be like
oh that's gnarly yeah and on the on the wrong
bike it's really difficult and on the right bike
it just becomes so easy yeah Which is crazy.
Hey, like to me, that's the one sport where I've
noticed from like, oh, it's super obvious. Like
at my speed, hopping on a WR or an FE at a Transmoto,
it's like not going to make that much difference,
right? Like it sort of is what it is. But hard
enduro is cool like that because you really see
it. Like if you're on a WR 450 and someone's
on a TE 300. Oh man, they're blowing your doors
off. It's not even close. Like the 300 for that
stuff is such a cheat code. Like when I tried
it, when I... smashed the bike on my knee that
day like watching you go up stuff on the 300
I'm like how in the hell did you get up that
with soft suspension mooses gummy tires I'm on
the WR struggling fuck yeah that was gnarly we
should take Shan Dog up there oh we need to take
Shan for a hard enduro that's the only thing
we haven't done with him oh that motocross it's
not appealing to me no I've got a plan we're
gonna do that piece of content where Zach and
Bella take me and you on a motocross track and
then we take essentially the three of us take
Bella on an adventure bike because she's never
done that and then I'm going to take you all
on some hard enduro and it's going to be madness
at four in the morning pick the weapon of your
choice wisely that's all I'm going to say and
then we're taking Shannon and Bella to the track
and then I'll take you guys to a festival I don't
think I'll survive the festival. You definitely
won't. I think you and Bella will quit early.
Yeah, I can't. Me and Bella will be in bed at
like 6 .30. We'll be asleep. We'd be good. We'll
be back to the hotel. We'd be in bed at 6 .30
the next morning. We would be, Bella would leave
to train. Yeah, for sure. She'd be like, this
festival is really fun. I'm just going to go
run 8 ,000 kilometers. Wouldn't have thought
she'd be running. Yeah, and put in three. No,
she can't run. She's got a bung foot. It's a
bit of a shitty run, isn't it? Sorry, she's going
to go cycle 8 ,000 kilometres and do 14 30 -minute
motos. Yeah. Weapon. Yeah. Sick. All right. So,
what are the bikes for 2026? So, 2026, we've
got... You're going to do a two -smoker? ...252
smoker build. Oh, what about the 65? Or the...
What do we call it? Godzilla. Godzilla. So, we're
going to do this Godzilla project. We've got
everything here for it. I'm really excited about
it. But I need to get like... I'd really like
to B -blast the motor and make it all actually
sick, not just build a Frankenstein. But essentially
what we're going to do is we're going to build
a super mini for Chevy. So we're going to build,
we're going to take a 65. 65 and an 85 bottom
end is the same. So we're going to take an 85
bottom end, put it in the 65 frame and then put
a 105 Athena kit, top end Athena kit on that
85 bottom end. All on the 65 frame, gear it down
so he can pull like... Hill climbs in like third
and fourth. Man, that thing's going to be gnarly.
That thing's going to be fast. Yeah, like an
11 -ounce flywheel weight on the thing just to
make it rideable. It's going to be crazy. Just
speaking of, the Super Mini needs to come back.
I'm sorry, but like not many people run Super
Mini anymore. Yeah. And I think it needs to come
back. So, what is a Super Mini? It's an 85. So,
it's an 85 with a 105 kit. So, for those smaller
kids, like it was actually big when I grew up
racing in that 85, 125 scene. It's like I had
a couple of mates who had them, right? They are
too small for a 125. Yeah, so physically. They
build this macked out 85 with a 105 kit in it.
Did you ever ride one? No. I used to watch these
guys hose people on a 125. Like hose them. Transmoto
on a super mini, anyone? Well, look, I know a
couple of people are opposed to that. Dude, you
would look so funny on an 85. No, I'm not riding
it. No way. No, no. I would suck. Yeah. We need
races. Yeah. We need racers. You, Scotty Keegan.
Oh, Gemma's in. Gemma's in. Gemma's all about
that. There's no way we could do it without Gemma.
No. Shout out Gemma. Gemma, if you're watching
this and hearing this. She's probably the perfect
size for a big wheel 85. We're doing it this
year. This is why Gemma's like, it's not negotiable.
I'm on the team because she's actually built
for an 85. Physically, she is the size. She literally
is. For an 85. She fits it perfectly. So Gemma
Wilson, mate, you're on. We're on. We're on here.
It's going to be good. We've got to pick the
right round though too. I think that's key. We
need to chat to Andy and get the right, like
we need the right round to do it at. I think
it's going to be, I don't know. Narrabri would
be sick. Narrabri would be sick for sure, but
we need to put mooses in that thing. Oh, 100%.
Because the rocks at Narrabri were gnarly. You'd
need wheels. Especially in the grass track. You'd
probably need wheels too. Maybe the standard
ones will be okay. Standard ones will be fine,
I think, because I think they're either D -Audio
XL anyway, so they're good quality. Mooses, for
sure. Oh, yeah. Yeah, sick. And then some built
suspension and I think we're good to go. Yeah,
be sick. So, Godzilla, your Wiser 250. We're
going to do Dark Prince 2 .0. Yeah, boy. We've
had an adventure, boy. Yeah, brother. I want
to build. Yeah, brother. Okay. I want to build
a spastic tenere. No, no. Full retard. We are
building a spastic tenere. This has to happen.
Yeah. So, yeah. There's a 48mm fork conversion.
I want to do that. Basically, put in YZ forks
in the front end of a tenere. Single disc. Lighten
that thing up. We want to go tune it. Like, I
want to make it crazy power. I want to crank
the horsepower in that thing. And then... I really
want to get it set up for doing hard stuff. So
I did Paxton last year on one, which was cool.
Paxton rides not hard. It's just a decent trail
ride. But on the Tenere, it was still hard. Like
I was pretty broken after those two days and
it wasn't that difficult. So I'd need to do a
heaps more riding on it, but just the setup to
try and get the setup right. The thing's so long
and so low to the ground. Yeah, that's probably
the hard thing. It just needs to be like set
up right. So I'd like to do a spastic Tenere
and then... You wanted to do a 350. I don't know
if that'll happen this year. Yeah. Look, 350
would be really cool. I actually haven't ridden
one yet. So, yeah. Can't believe you've ridden
a 350. That's so weird. And I think, like, right
on the 501, like, I'm pretty comfortable with
the 501 now and the Husky. So, I think if we
built a mad 350, it'd be pretty cool. But, yeah,
we'll see how we go. Maybe not this year. Maybe
27 builds. Who knows? I might keep that in the
back of my head. Is it a new gen Husky 27? I
think they're... Or that'll be the last of this
gen, maybe. Yeah, I think 27 might be new gen.
New gen. Maybe. That'll be interesting. So that,
yeah, that could be... Yeah, maybe there's some
forks of shock for that thing. That'd be cool.
And then we've got the world, the new worldy
coming out. Oh, yeah. New world raid, middle
of the year. So we'll do another launch. Yep.
Because our 10 raid launch last year was sick.
Our 9 launch was cool. worldy launch would be
sweet and then we've got to build Shannon got
to build Shandog a worldy but like a petite nice
world right nothing crazy I don't think you can
get a petite one no petite's probably not the
right word you know I want to build like an everyman's
an everyman's adventure bike do you know what
I mean like not a crazy build but something that
everyone will enjoy loud as fuck good tyres decent
suspension yeah Yeah. And, you know, everything
that you need, but not gnarly. Yeah. Not completely
crazy. We're doing the KTEC forks in your Tenere.
That'd be fun. Yes. Going to be testing on that.
So Stock Suspension will test that and then do
KTEC forks. Really keen for that action. These
are like A -kit forks too. So DLC coated, Kashima
coated, all internals done. I think they're set
up to about 80. Yeah. We'll talk to Dino about
it. So yeah, I'm going to chat to Dino about
that. That'd be sick. That'd be cool. Hopefully,
try and swing that on a motocross track. Yeah,
dude. I got a lot of cool ideas for that. That's
going to be sick. So, a lot of collabs. We love
working with all the different brands. So, we're
super keen to do more of that this year. It's
pretty sweet. I think Elps, we're going to do
a lot of cool stuff with Elps. Tech Air. Yep.
All that kind of jazz. But yeah, look, I think
as we go through this year, we're going to follow
this along. We're going to do some soupy. How
many minutes do we have left, Shannon? Do we
have some minutes? We haven't even done soupy.
We've got five minutes. Okay, we've got five
minutes. Okay, so just before Supi, yeah, we're
going to do cool bike builds this year. We're
going to do some cool tracks, some cool riding.
It's going to be a ton of fun. And we're also
going to have some guests moving forward too.
You know who I think would be cool? We need to
get Joey on here. Yeah, Joey. Lads on boards.
We need to get Joey back when he's back. We won't
even tell you who Joey is now. We'll save that.
He's a lunatic. We probably need to get Lawson
on and do a full... post a GP recap. Yeah. That'd
be cool. Yep. I'd like to get Derek and Simo
on here. Yep. Paxton. Yep. That'd be cool. That's
a big deal for us every year. So that'd be kind
of sweet. I think there's a, yeah, there's a
few special guests we can get on here. That'd
be cool. So it'd be cool. Yeah. It'd be sick.
So we'll throw some guests in. We've got four
set up so we can sort of do something with that,
which would be sweet. Cool. All right. So. Supi.
Supi breakdown. We had A1 on the weekend. A1
on the weekend. Supi's back. We've got a little
fantasy league going here with the shop and a
few of our close customers. But yeah, I think
Supi A1 was a little bit exciting. I'm super
bummed for Bam Bam and Mookie. See Mookie's racing
this weekend. Is he? Is he? Bro, you know what
I'm so surprised at? How Barsha walked, not walked
out of that, but Barsha walked out of the hospital
with a broken wing in his back and that was it.
His face is pretty beat up. His face is pretty
beat up. Yeah, he did take a... Like, he got
ragged old, man. See that photo of him and Niger?
Because they both had, like, absolute slams in
the same week. Yeah, I did see that. Yeah, Niger
got messed up. Dude, he's lucky to be okay. He's
lucky to be alive, dude. That head slim. That
head slim was crazy. You know what? I was actually
pretty surprised. Not surprised, because I know
K -Tech... K -Rock has had a pretty good... Pre
-season. I had Kenny for... You know what? But
Kenny, man, like him and Tomac, first and second,
Tomac first, K -Rock second. They gapped the
field. I think when I looked, it was like 17
seconds they had a lead on. That's insane. And
Kenny was staying. He only had like a two -second
gap. to Tomac. Yeah, but isn't this sort of Kenny,
like early season, Kenny's the man? Kenny is.
Kenny is always the man. Oh, Kenny is always
the man. I know, but as the season, he fades
hard, right? No, I think he's had the right preseason,
so I think this year, if he can stay consistent,
it'll be good. He's a pretty consistent guy.
He's just had some really, really big fucking
crashes. Yeah, correct. Yeah, oh, for sure. Last
year, the one through the whoops where he tried
to split those ladders and just got... Pumped.
And then the last one was when he shock let go.
Dude, that was gnarly. Yeah, that was crazy.
Dude. So, that'll be interesting. Prado rode
really, really well back on the KTM on the Eurobikes
this year. He shat on Cowie. That's got to suck,
man. In saying this, though, not that I want
to say it, but Cowie curse. I mean, Sexton crashing
in the heat and then... diving it in the main
running off track what's going on is it i had
dude it's the cowie curse man i it can't be no
it used to be just the pro circuit team curse
it was just the 250s but now but now it's spreading
yeah It can't be the bike though. The bike's
got to be good. Well, March Banks. Oh, it's March
Banks. Yeah, March Banks didn't even make the
main. He didn't even make the main. They all
ate shit. That's wild. It's gnarly, but I think
an underdog is going to be Cooper, Justin Cooper.
No, man. He was midway through the race, he was
third fastest. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. He's just got
a good start. Come on, man. Yeah, Justin Cooper's
okay. I reckon Kenny's got it. I'm going to call
it right now. Look, San Diego's this weekend
in two days, so we'd love to see who you guys
think is going to get on that top box. We've
actually got to do our picks, by the way. Yeah,
can everyone join this or not? Everyone can,
yeah. Are we like private? Look, for you guys,
if you jump on RM Fantasy, if you jump onto the
groups and add a group, it's under Power Sports
Central. We'll probably add the group name and
password. on this potty so get amongst it get
amongst it we've got a few in the lead at the
moment we've got a few I think we've got about
seven guys or seven people in there Russ is coming
seventh no doubt Bella's way down I think I'm
in fourth did I beat Bella? I I think you actually
did. Yes. I'm pretty sure you did. So, jump on
Iron Fantasy League. Is there an app? It's pretty
fun. I don't even know where I'm at. It's just
a browser. It's just on your browser. You can't
download the app here because it's obviously
American. But jump on. We'd love to see you.
So, who have you got? I've got this weekend.
I haven't actually done my picks. But look, I'm
probably going to put Kenny in a top three position
again. I don't think he'll get... but I think
he might go consecutive second. First, look,
as much as I hate to say it, I'm liking Tomac.
I don't like him on that orange bike, but Tomac,
I don't know, I'm going to put third. Tomac,
Kenny, Hunter, Prado, Koop. I'm going to go Hunter
fourth. The real Koop. I'm going to go Hunter
fourth. I think Koop Webb's got a shot at third.
Yeah, maybe. I'm going to go Tomac, Kenny, Webb.
One, two, three. Where did Hunter finish last
year? Last year or last round? No, no, last year.
Soupy. Yeah, I don't think you got top three.
I got to top check that actually. I should know
this. You should. You're the guy. He also won
the first SMX round and then got second at the
end of that little mini series. So he's on. But
he just didn't have any sprint speed at the start,
I feel like. I really want to see Kitchen and
Deegan Beef. I don't even know why San Diego.
I don't even know why Deegan did that. Did you
see the video of them at press day? Yeah. The
follow cam. It was so funny. I'd love to see
Hunter get up. Like we jet out. It'd be sick
to see Hunter. Yeah. It'd be cool to see Hunter
up there. If it was who I want to win this thing,
it would be Hunter. But see, that's what Hunter's
about, right? I think he's usually a... He's
pretty consistent. So I think if you can stay
consistent for the year, I know a few of these
other guys are going to probably have issues
throughout the year. So if you can stay consistent
and stay in that top five coming into SMX, I
think he's got a shot. But it's going to be difficult.
There's so many guys that I think are going to
excel this year and have had a good preseason.
Well, there's 10 people that can win any week.
But what Hunter has is he can get fourth all
year. Yeah. Whereas these other guys will cartwheel.
Which is kind of the key, yeah. Yeah, correct.
For sure. No, sick. Sweet. Well, that's going
to be fun. We'll link all the stuff below so
you guys can join our fantasy league. That'll
be a ton of fun. Do our picks. We'll chat about
it weekly and hang out and, yeah, just kind of
go through that stuff. In other racing, Chucky
is the frigging man in Dakar. Bro, he's gnarly.
He's so broken right now. Busted collarbone,
busted sternum and still riding. Dude, they had
a 535K liaison day before yesterday. 350K race
and then 535Ks of like road riding. Can you imagine
sitting on a 450 rally bike with a broken collarbone
and sternum just down the road for like hours
and hours and hours? It's his left shoulder,
hey? Left. Yeah, so he would have been somewhat
okay. Did you see the swelling and bruising that
he had when he finished? Yep. That was gnarly.
Dude, he's in so much pain. It's crazy what he's
doing. It sucks that we've lost it. It sucks
that he was going for the double up he won last
year, so he really wanted to back it up, and
he was doing it. He was totally doing it. Yeah.
So, that sucks. So, Ricky Brayback's going to
win it, basically, I think, which, whatever.
Ricky Bobby. Ricky Bobby. I love his mom. And
Toby's still good. Toby will probably end up
with his truck in the top 10. Where's he sitting
at the moment? He's like 16th or 15th or something
overall, first year with a factory truck. And
dude, he's done so well. So he had to give up
his spare tire to his teammate. He had to tow
the other teammate out because he ran out of
fuel. Like he's like fully being like the team
support guy and still up the front, which is
classic Toby, right? Like he's just so insane.
He got robbed at Baja last, like this past Baja.
So it'd be sick for him to finish real high at,
That'd be pretty cool. It'd basically get him
a contract for the next few years too, I think,
which is really cool. Yeah, that's cool. Because
I don't think he's got a contract. I think it's
just a trial go. Have I read his book? I read
his book. It's fucking awesome. I haven't read
it actually. It's Chevy's bedtime story. Is it
actually? Yeah, we read it. I need to borrow
that. We read it every night. It's sick. Is that
for a lullaby? And then he broke his neck in
17 places. Good night. This is crazy. Sick. All
right. Well, we're going to wrap this up because
we don't know how much time we've got left on
our thing. Zero. Zero time. But yeah, thanks
heaps for tuning in, guys. Thank you for checking
this out. This is kind of episode one or maybe
it's even the pilot episode before episode one.
We'll check it out. We're going to try and do
this thing weekly if you two jerkies can commit.
Yeah, that's what I thought. Good answer. Good
answer. So yeah, follow along. It'll be on Apple,
hopefully. I don't know how to do that. but jade's
here jade can do it we'll figure this out thanks
jade hopefully on spotify too if we can uh yeah
yeah yeah we'll try and get it all up in the
places and we'll send it out and we'll get all
the videos up on socials and stuff too so thanks
heaps for listening guys really appreciate it
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