Crazy story on how Travis Pastrana raced amateur races...

Travis is a guy who really needs no introduction. We were lucky to be able to sit Travis down in studio for a couple hours to try get inside the mind of one of action sports most loved and accomplished characters. From motocross titles, more X-Games medals than any other athlete, National Rally Titles, a host of world records and now a traveling circus that visits stadiums all over the world; this podcast could have gone for 48 hours.
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[@koreymiller26]

The best time of my life was the motocross weekends with dad.

[@ianstephens8533]

I won’t have any better memories then spending the weekend with my dad driving hours and hours to go race. I cherish those times, being an adult now I realize what he sacrificed for me to do that.

[@djjazzyjeff1232]

It's interesting how almost all of these guys stories are virtually identical to the rest of ours growing up racing moto. Travis is an absolute legend, he got fucking 11th in the Daytona 500, what a madlad.

[@moto3463]

Travis is a legend

[@kendoi628]

His parents are legends in my mind... Life, car crashes and eventually also a serious health issues...all that said was to bring the point that no one makes it out of this experience alive, danger is reality.

[@asheden3779]

I've been lucky to meet Travis at a rally race once. He was incredibly cool as you'd expect. As odd as it is to say about someone you don't really know. I'm so incredibly proud of Travis and his family he made, his overall success himself, and his success with Nitro circus and how he's brought motorsports to the fore front of entertainment

[@niko7903]

Totally agree, bro! Loved this guy from the start, was there when he launched his bike into the SF Bay at XGames. He has been as good as an ambassador as you could ever want, for any sport. He has carried himself so well, and has been a great role model throughout it all. I loved watching him race too, with his oh' so cool stand-up style and ever-present hand guards, and even when he switched to free-style competition, he never stopped racing the course. The others had no shot against him, they couldn't match his energy, his amplitude of tricks, and he always ending up with more tricks performed because he was so fast to hit the next jump. He was unbeaten in freestyle for several years, and he wasn't even doing it full-time, he was still racing and winning 125cc supercross and motocross titles, and if he could've stayed healthy he was showing flashes of brilliance when he moved up to the premier class on a 250. Just such a fun guy to watch. Double back-flip, like WHAT!?! Going to four wheels and winning the championship several years in a row in the American Rally championship. Representing himself well and the U.S. proud against the very best car racers from rally to F1 at the Race of Champions. And all the other insane stunts, like base jumping, and jumping from a plane with no parachute! A legend never to be forgotten!

[@nancysmith9487]

Travis living life... Making it your own story. Changing lives... Really living the dream Congratulations

[@spooge33]

It's not MX, but my son has played or practiced baseball every day of his life since he was 5yrs old. He's now 25. AAU, to D1. 19 States. We flew, drove, rented cars. We flew cross country so he could pitch 3 innings for Under Armour. The time of my life. Covid fucked up draft day, but he pitches independent league, and is talking to MLB Scouts. He thanks me everyday. I'd do it again for him, in a heartbeat.

[@morganwalstrom7789]

Travis is so solid.

[@billyschildt1828]

2 legends having a conversation.

[@ricksmith7659]

When Travis is on the James Stewart podcast you can say that. Jase is cool but definitely not a legend

[@defconsupply3990]

Sounds like what my wife and I went through keeping our kids in racing. Took all our time and put us in debt. So worth it in how we developed mentally and physically tough children. Would not trade any of it for the value it brought to our lives

[@DChrls]

Travis has incredible parents. His parents are actually The Incredibles.

[@maxblack2113]

Great interview Travis has such great head on his shoulders great role model for the sport

[@scottyboy7462]

Living Legend TP199 🏁🏆💰❤️🇺🇸💪🏼

[@donbrashsux]

TP is such an insane Legend

[@BrandonLoudermilk-gl4lr]

Pastrana is a true action sports athlete legend ❤

[@nicholasshook7513]

TP is a legend.

[@peacefulwarrior4078]

I used to race motocross way back in the mid/ late 70's/80's and early 90's and in the early 80's I remember occasionally seeing a very young Pastrana racing in the MAMA or Mid-Atlantic motocross association at the BUDDS CREEK,Maryland motocross track which was like a half motocross half harescrambles track back then ! Nothing like the highway esc track now .but even way back then, travis as a young kid from the Annapolis area already had the speed and skills that only increased as time went on ! Well done TRAVIS👏 💪😎 Oh and those pre race sound checks that they had back then SUCKED 🤣

[@pjsneeringer5942]

@PEACEFUL WARRIOR:remember the old start! Straight up the hill! Track was BAD ASS in early 90's. We saw '94 USGP there! Maybe '93? I forget!Emig was there and Everts won 1! We traveled from PA,near Happy Ramblers!

[@peacefulwarrior4078]

@@pjsneeringer5942 oh hell yeah i definitely remember that long straight up the hill start with a tight hard right back down that hill lol , I was there at the USGP and got to go back in the pits where I met and talked with Roger DeCoster for about 25 minutes which was so damn cool 😎 and completely forgot to ask him to sign his autograph for me! DUH WTF was I thinking! I also remember watching the riders all lining up at the gate and a huge crowd was at the fence watching and here comes Greg albertine that obviously had to piss really bad whips out his dick right in front of the THOUSANDS of fans and takes a leak right in front of us all ! He just shrugged his shoulders and says SORRY BOUT THAT MATES and runs back to the gate n hops on the bike with literally seconds to spare right before the gate dropped 🤣 man I had many Good times there racing and watching the BIG BOYS RACE THERE as well .

[@bobbyjordan9107]

I love Travis and his family good people

[@aussieoffroader1974]

Nothing better than going racing as a kid with the old man. Best days of my life hands down.

[@travismcgarry]

It’s funny, I grew up racing moto-x and SX and by default just had bike fitness…then went 20yrs not riding and recently started again, I’m still fit, do Ironmans and ultras regularly but bike fitness is a while different story… at 42 I’m loving riding more than ever.

[@insanetaco98]

I spent 16 years off a quad and hopped back in to racing recently and my entire body was soooooo fuckin sore

[@mxslick50]

At age 60, working on getting back into motocross racing. Got a ways to go, but my physical and mental health needs the sport so badly. 2006 YZ125 is my new steed.

[@johnbl519]

I live in the UK and its mad to think that the furthest we had to travel was about 3 hrs and we thought we had it bad that day!!!

[@Crucialvideo]

A good friendship is worth all the money

[@loganmilesMX]

This is such a great interview. Grew up watching this dude, doing stunts on my 85 suzuki 125 quad thinking I was on the same level 🤣 I had no clue! Now I have a kid that is going to put me through it like he did to his parents 🤦

[@ricericebaby_1660]

Awesome stuff!

[@asmythurst]

I remember watching Travis raced at Millville and dominated. He was a full lap ahead and was busting freestyle tricks off of everything

[@chrisvillarreal2752]

Wish I had parents that committed to my dreams but better late than never I’m living the dream now! Dirtbikes everywhere riding and racing with the buddies so amazing!

[@jakeowens1770]

Learned most from dad working on the motocross bikes at the track, miss hellouttahim

[@ktmjay9920]

Good parents. We need more nowadays...

[@nonstop1212]

RESPECT

[@jaredkinneyjr]

such a damn good show & I haven't ridden a dirtbike in 30yrs

[@maxmotors9497]

I appreciate the seriousness. The gravity of the situations deserves it. It’s a game of microseconds and millimeters.

[@WalkerRacing]

we need another ep with tp

[@jeffrichmond5832]

i notice travis stop talking when guy starts, trav is so humble he'll stop talking t6o let the other person speak. thats why he'll always be the goat

[@FalseHope61]

Jase is spot on with the bond Moto people and families have. It’s so gnarly. Parents are watching and letting their kids risk real injuries and their lives while basically bankrupting themselves, for a .0000000000001 percent chance their kids lightbulb clicks on, was lucky enough to be born with the talent, to maybe one day go pro

[@djjazzyjeff1232]

Even if it doesn't happen though, that upbringing will put you on a really solid path through life. It certainly did for me. It's the polar opposite of helicopter parenting. I raced moto from when I was 6-19yrs old, and everything else in life was like a cakewalk compared to what racing moto at a high level is, even if not a professional level. It's the kids who have never done anything in their lives that are the people you have to watch out for.

[@EPstroker]

Travis had parents who saw the talent in him and invested in him and his talent. That is a huge reason people like him make it and become huge and successful and other kids don't. Listen up parents and take notes. The time and money invested in your kids can be payed back 10 fold. That's where I hit a roadblock early in life. My parents didn't support anything I had talent and passion for. That is a huge reason some find success and others don't and it applies to any sport or profession.

[@herbcanter2114]

Most super successful people did it on their own WITHOUT parental finance help.

[@erickpenaloza1]

@@herbcanter2114like who

[@jimmyboimazarti1234]

@@erickpenaloza1 if you want to succeed in something you will do anything possible to make that happen doing stuff no one else will do to reach your goal anything is possible brother.

[@crazywormy5869]

Sounds like you didn’t have any talent and you just think you did

[@stephencrisson3595]

199# forever all day everyday and is an always will be a legend...forever a beast 💪🤘!!!!

[@tylerheriford2345]

I love Travis! 🎉

[@iteleski2]

I used to go out hiking or mountainbiking high altitude mountains with my friends after nights of partying more than once passing people on the trail to the top and we'd call ourselves alcholetes🤣 Oh the good ol days😂

[@brianfreeman7510]

Hands down!!!!!

[@uppercut70]

Motocross is the most physically demanding sport

[@evanburke4269]

Mma begs to differ. Though both tough.

[@bkh5746]

Yeah it is.i race karts and my left arm cramps up on me.

[@peacefulwarrior4078]

MOTOCROSS is alot of things but it is never dull, boring Or predictable...

[@mustknowinfo2001]

No it's not

[@Jim_jong_un]

@@evanburke4269 how long is a mma fight? How many times a year do they fight on average?

[@mwhitelaw8569]

Being a former privateer from gncc I only have admiration for anyone willing to earn those sponsors, and it takes so much dedication that it's literally like having two full time jobs. You have to want it to get it. But those little glimpses of glory Make it so worthwhile knowing you've earned it. I'm so damn old now I'm a fossil But I'll give those wannabe sticker geeks hell every chance I get. Yeah, I got blue jeans on, so what my boots are 10 years old. But damn that old 2002cr250 is clean And still pretty damn fast in the woods

[@Fallen_0nes]

I remember having that talk with my parents at 8. I’ve never rode faster after that. Team 199

[@UndefinedStasis]

Lmao the cps thing is hilarious. I've riden atvs since I was 4 and started on a 50cc Honda when I was 6, 90cc at 8 and the amount of bruises, and a shattered tooth made my teachers question my parents.

[@sam_s_]

I heard that Travis has never performed his own trick or stunts. He actually hire Uncle Ron as a stund double. BIG if true!

[@muckfoot-4093]

motocross is very emotional.

[@LilleyAdam]

That's the first time I've ever heard someone say cairns was rural

[@jimgoose9146]

Ask trav about the 97 rm 125 conventional forks for outdoors ? Lol

[@MesaCalledJaJaBinks]

Pastrana is the goat 🐐

[@Dustin094life]

Those guys are juiced to the nines as well do forget that part

[@Realhighlife]

Must of been talking to Ronnie Mac about being wasted lol

[@therawlifefamily]

He's not joking that dirt bikes are literally a life and death situation.

[@ianmangham4570]

BILKO 4 LIFE 💯🤠🇺🇲🇬🇧🇺🇲🙏💯

[@kaleb6206]

She was against homeschooling cuz she didn't want to spend time with greatest motocross guy in history lol

[@mattjohnson268]

Bro always tries to say “yeah I did that too”

[@katelapointe6120]

I hope he at least bought his dad a new Harley lol

[@DC-oj6xg]

No need to compare your races to his… 🤦‍♂️ they are not alike

[@ianmangham4570]

Travis wouldn't stand a CHANCE racing me 🤠,when the gate drops it's a 454 casull to the cannister and I'm gone 🤯🤠🤟💯🙏🇺🇲

[@philfortner1805]

MTB is the most physically demanding sport, Motocross is the most damaging. Motors do all the work.

[@dylanmoore6146]

run that back

[@Dave180M]

Lol

[@johnnybgood774]

Man, he definitely didn't look poor lmao lies

[@TeknaTronik]

Homeschool your kids!

[@ianmangham4570]

Trump 4 sainthood

[@ericcaisse791]

Grew up in Cairns too got into downhill mountain bike was cheaper lol in Florida now Cairns to brissie damn that trip sux

[@TOPG4NTV]

@GYPSYTALES This is the Second time I've had to subscribe to your channel for some reason KZbin is deleting your subs

[@jakeofalltradesmasteroffun]

Anyone who thinks moto isn't physically demanding has never rode a bike.