How many pros are friends vs competitors?

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Like the title says. Does anyone know how many pros, especially the top ones are friends vs just competitors? Pretty sure I saw a picture of Tomac and Roczen hanging out riding jet skis during a break for world supercross.

 

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dsmith
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2/4/2025 6:02am

None of them are friends with Vince f....I bet ..

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2/4/2025 6:06am

Eli has no friends 

Coop has no friends 

Chase, Ken, Kitchen, and AC are prettty tight. 

The rest are just friendly with each other, but not particularly good friends. 
 

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uncledaddy69
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Deegan had that Swapmoto video interview with the title, “I literally have no friends!” But they made Swapmoto change the title 😭😭😭

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EAmato88
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2/4/2025 9:57am
UpTiTe wrote:

Eli has no friends 

Coop has no friends 

Chase, Ken, Kitchen, and AC are prettty tight. 

The rest are just friendly with each other, but not particularly good friends. 
 

Thats not true, Coop has been tight with Hartranft for a long time even when brandon was racing

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Hell, I'm not even a pro and I don't have any friends. 

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BoxcarWilly
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2/4/2025 10:39am
MOTO13 wrote:

Hell, I'm not even a pro and I don't have any friends. 

I'll be your friend. 

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MOTO13
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That's either the nicest or creepiest thing ever said to me on a forum. 

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clem
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2/4/2025 1:03pm

How about being a pro at not having friends? 😂

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Larocco & Kiedrowski

Ward & Matiasevich

Henry & Rhino


All great friends at one point. 

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sam hain
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2/4/2025 1:40pm

Didn't FRO and MC party together?

2/4/2025 2:56pm
sam hain wrote:

Didn't FRO and MC party together?

They were at the same parties, but they didn’t like each other. To this day they still don’t. 

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2/4/2025 2:58pm

Outside the top five or six they all know the routine. Especially with the age of they group. They’re all committed to an end and just want one more two year contract.  Look at bam working at bakers etc

2/4/2025 4:20pm

Coop and Phil. Yes, I am putting Phil here as he seems to still be racing lol.

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2/4/2025 5:27pm

AP and coop have been friends for quite a while?

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AP and coop have been friends for quite a while?

Yeah going back to the Star days. When they were practicing together for the MXdN, AP had an Instagram post about "back together again!" Something like that. I imagine everyone likes AP

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2/4/2025 5:43pm

AP and coop have been friends for quite a while?

Yeah going back to the Star days. When they were practicing together for the MXdN, AP had an Instagram post about "back together again!" Something like...

Yeah going back to the Star days. When they were practicing together for the MXdN, AP had an Instagram post about "back together again!" Something like that. I imagine everyone likes AP

I remember a funny interview with coop from those days with AP in the background putting on coop’s graphics. 

“I always wanted to be a mechanic”

Coop- “he’s just doing that because he wanted to get in the shot” 

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Privateer pros are usually a tighter group. They can keep cost down by traveling and staying together. Also, one can cause a distraction while the other "finds" free food. 
Back when "pullin chics" mattered, privateers where kings of that mountain. A handful of those trips and you're bros for life! 

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Pro Moto is a extremely small community and in constant contact with everyone so there are big F Friends and little f friends.

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MOTO13 wrote:

Hell, I'm not even a pro and I don't have any friends. 

I'll be your friend. 

He and his paw are good people. 

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MOTO13 wrote:

That's either the nicest or creepiest thing ever said to me on a forum. 

I think you’ll be OK unless he ask if you have boots he can clean? 😆

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2/4/2025 7:48pm

Larocco & Kiedrowski

Ward & Matiasevich

Henry & Rhino


All great friends at one point. 

Larocco & Kiedrowski? Are you kidding? They literally fist fought twice. 

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But they buried the hatchet. Almost in each others heads.

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Herr Lich
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Deegan had that Swapmoto video interview with the title, “I literally have no friends!” But they made Swapmoto change the title 😭😭😭

Deegan had that Swapmoto video interview with the title, “I literally have no friends!” But they made Swapmoto change the title 😭😭😭

Deegan and his dad The Princess both have lots of friends with benefits...

971_Fan and DonM for example.

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Larocco & Kiedrowski

Ward & Matiasevich

Henry & Rhino


All great friends at one point. 

UpTiTe wrote:

Larocco & Kiedrowski? Are you kidding? They literally fist fought twice. 

Henry and Ryno had a pretty fun little tussle on the side of the track, too.

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Pop Shmoke
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2/4/2025 9:45pm

Webb said on pulp today hes friends with jett and jt said coop asked him after the race what happened to jett and he was super bummed when he heard what happened. That was cool to hear. 

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2/5/2025 5:41am

Larocco & Kiedrowski

Ward & Matiasevich

Henry & Rhino


All great friends at one point. 

UpTiTe wrote:

Larocco & Kiedrowski? Are you kidding? They literally fist fought twice. 

Sully wrote:

Henry and Ryno had a pretty fun little tussle on the side of the track, too.

I remember that, on the ground and everything 

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2/5/2025 6:01am
Sully wrote:

Henry and Ryno had a pretty fun little tussle on the side of the track, too.

At Steel City, PA 1994, last race of the season. They actually went at it.

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MOTO13
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2/5/2025 6:11am Edited Date/Time 2/5/2025 6:11am

When I was racing D16, a lot of us were decent friends off the track. We rode together sometimes with no problem. Heck, I even did some of their taxes every year. Once we hit the races, it made no difference who you were and we battled pretty good while they passed and lapped me.

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Nairb#70
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2/5/2025 6:22am

Lets not forget about Matiasevich and Bradshaw, a few tassles between those two.

2/5/2025 7:00am

                 Pretty sure Kroc and Webb were good buddies !  They shared a few things. LOL

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