Who the hell is Cody Cooper?

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Edited Date/Time 5/22/2017 10:39am
Tons of respect to Cody Cooper. Guy comes in off the Pacific trade winds all the way from NZ, then runs near the front and gets a top 15 in moto 1? What a savage.

Does he race GPs or Aus? Maybe I'm out of the loop, but he's never made my radar and I don't know anything about him.
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First over there in 07 ish... Rode for JGR and a few privateer rides.

Multi-Aus/NZ champ, came to prominence hounding the King Brothers as a young bloke.

Can ride, very quiet.
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kage173 5/22/2017 4:15am
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Ah cool. I would think I'd remember a JGR rider, but I guess not. Yeah the guy can ride for sure.
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68 5/22/2017 4:19am
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kage173 wrote:
Ah cool. I would think I'd remember a JGR rider, but I guess not. Yeah the guy can ride for sure.
in your defence, JGR has has bout 317 riders at one point or another
coop is good people

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"Almost" prevented the Bubba 24-0 streak Grinning
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Rides good in Nz, USA and everywhere except Australia!
Will go just as good at GH.
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"Stewart’s magical mystery winning tour continued, with the biggest challenge to “The Streak” coming from Suzuki City privateer Cody Cooper in the slop and mud of Unadilla. In the second moto, with the rain coming down, Cooper caught Stewart (helped out by a Stewart tip-over) and pressured him hard all the way to the end. But the streak did live on."

http://vault.racerxonline.com/2008/mx/intro
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Crush 5/22/2017 4:51am
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Coop is serious in the wet. He was actually really close at Dilla that day...
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TomC31 5/22/2017 5:08am
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He can seriously ride ! and is extremly good in wet rutted conditions, i remember him back in the early 2000's in Australia at the natural terrain "thumpernats" and was extremly impressive even then!
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Bearuno 5/22/2017 6:05am
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Crush wrote:
Coop is serious in the wet. He was actually really close at Dilla that day...
2nd overall that day I think, and he got a fair few overalls in the top 5 and top 10 over a couple of US seasons.

5th in the US 450 series in 2008, 9th in 2009.

Not sure how old he is, but Kiwis do tend to stay bloody competitive for quite a while. Ratbag Bastards, the lot of them! Whistling
Park and Huck 5/22/2017 6:57am
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kage173 wrote:
Ah cool. I would think I'd remember a JGR rider, but I guess not. Yeah the guy can ride for sure.
68 wrote:
in your defence, JGR has has bout 317 riders at one point or another
coop is good people
Almost spit out my coffee.... That's funny, and somewhat true!
kiwi_mudbug 5/22/2017 10:38am
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scott_nz 5/22/2017 10:47am
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Jrewing wrote:
Rides good in Nz, USA and everywhere except Australia!
Will go just as good at GH.
he won a aussie 125 title, and a fair few overalls on 450's but to be . fair, the last years on Honda's were not that good in Aussie, but know one else has been good on Yarrive's 450's outdoors either, (except BT when he turned up)

Coops is 33, had been our MX1 champ for 5 years now,

also Rhys Carter raced on a KX450F, went 16-18 to match Coop's point overalls, great ride by him,
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scott_nz 5/22/2017 10:50am
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wsc96 wrote:
"Stewart’s magical mystery winning tour continued, with the biggest challenge to “The Streak” coming from Suzuki City privateer Cody Cooper in the slop and mud of...
"Stewart’s magical mystery winning tour continued, with the biggest challenge to “The Streak” coming from Suzuki City privateer Cody Cooper in the slop and mud of Unadilla. In the second moto, with the rain coming down, Cooper caught Stewart (helped out by a Stewart tip-over) and pressured him hard all the way to the end. But the streak did live on."

http://vault.racerxonline.com/2008/mx/intro
the Best commentary that day was BT, who was being interviewed by the webcast team only to say he had to go to cheer Cody on, the two of them have raced each other since they were 8 years old and are still very good friends,
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jmx411 5/22/2017 11:00am
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Cody Cooper was awesome to watch in the 2008 series on that Suzuki City bike.

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