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11/24/2015 9:45am
11/24/2015 9:45am
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11/30/2015 2:06pm
Racer X has this new story out where Steve Matthes talks to Nathan Alexander and Alex Martin about their time at Eleven 10 mods... It's an eye opener! I literally feel so bad for Nathan and I'm only half-way through it!
http://racerxonline.com/2015/11/24/eleven-10ths
Warning, it's long, but good.
http://racerxonline.com/2015/11/24/eleven-10ths
Warning, it's long, but good.
The Shop
"I think around High Point that year, Sanner was pissed about something. I think Durham rode press day and said he hated his bike. “This bike sucks. I like my practice bike better” kind of stuff. So he made Nate switch it over, but before Nate did that Chad came to the shop. He was pissed off at Darryn, and he just kicked the bikes. And they were set up like dominos, so he kicked one over and it knocked all four over! I remember he would just get mad at stuff while working and he would chuck a carburetor through a wall.
We ended up getting there and Sanner was all cool like nothing happened even though we weren’t supposed to be there! That was weird.
Alexander"
My buddy western unioned Chad the money he told my friend he didn't have paypal, well guess what never came the pipe, after couple weeks my friend kept trying to text and email him he said ups lost it and he was trying to figure it out, after about 4-6 weeks still nothing resolved he basically stopped answering my buddy.
Chad had told him he felt bad and ups wouldn't do anything last time he got ahold of him so he was going to give him some yz rims he had well that never happened either.
My friend couldn't get anywhere supposedly with western union and getting a refund, etc.
Then my buddy tried messaging him on facebook, commenting on his photos he then blocked my buddy and will not answer any of his calls, texts, emails, etc. etc.
SO my buddy is out $165.00 and he could really use the money or at least actually got the pipe.
This is a great article for the guys that come on every so often wanting to be a mechanic for a team or even anyone considering the privateer lifestyle. Those dudes did some real roughing and the article makes it seem like they just took it all in and did the best they could.
That's a good read.
I was hoping the money troubles were from 20K a night hookers for the riders or something.
All I got from it was if that McDonalds probably has a better future for most than motocross.
The story isn't about Chad, he did the best he could with what he had I suppose..it's about Filthy, Alex, Nate and Billy all doing anything and everything to do what they love. And they all made it to the highest levels of their profession. I tip my hat to them, others would have quit.
Your review podcast with him was awesome.
Just for the stories alone, and LOTS of laughs.
I offered to help the guys out at Freestone one year loaning them my motorhome to hang out in throughout the day. I had already bought tickets for the whole family but when I got to the track I wasn't allowed into the pits without purchasing pit access which included tickets. Sucked because I would have rather given that few hundred extra bucks to the Eleven 10 guys.
Alex was very organized in everything he did. Food, rest, checking over the bike. Very impressed with him.
Phil was like gimme a bike, I'm going to go holeshot those PC and Geico fuggers and show em' who's boss. Very impressed with him because that's exactly what he did!
Phil's mechanic Hoss(?) had me stressing. That dude was going over everything between motos with a fine tooth comb. Disassembling the throttle to clean and lube it when he needed to be worrying about how to get another gallon of fuel in a stock tank so he wouldn't run out mid moto again. That bike was a rocketship and burnt more fuel than any bike I've ever seen. I helped him heat the tank, pressurize it and cooled in in the ice chest while blown up fat. Had to remove the insulators on the frame and force it back in the frame rails... Filled up a top off jug with some frosty brew to take to the gate. I could hear riders headed out for the sighting lap before Phil's bike was fired up. Phil got off to another good start and was running pretty good until the bike broke.
Good times with a good group of young men out on the road living the dream. Yes, I was jealous. Just a shame to see them trying to make ends meet when they were pulling holeshots on teams with multi million dollar budgets.
Pit Row
"But the race motor that I did have early on in supercross, he gave it to some amateur kid that was going to go race Oak Hill or something like that. So he gave it to the amateur kid and didn’t tell me. And I think I literally had a bone-stock bike at Jacksonville."
"I remember just going to the post office and shipping out a package for him, and he would give me, like, five bucks, and it was thirty-five dollars to ship the package. I was like, all right, I’ll just cover it—no worries."
thanks for sharing the stories Mathis, that was an awesome read
LOL
Why were the engines going bang so often?
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