Welcome everybody to the Steve Mathis Classics podcast on RacerX.

Thanks for listening.

Appreciate.

Just to picking a few gems out of all the ones we've done and remastering them and

remixing them and selling them for more money.

No, just kidding.

But that's what you see all the time on iTunes and stuff.

But no, these are free.

But yeah, this one is a little odd one

if you haven't paid attention much to trampis's Parker trampis Parker's career because uh maybe

you don't really know you know he won some world championships you know he's an american and that's about

the extent that you know he never really did much in the USA had a decent

amateur career but uh this podcast uh i've been told over and over by many of you listeners

out there that how much you love it how much you can't believe it parkers himself is is quite a

character he's got the uh southern drawl on and the stories he tells about really going over

there as a mechanic for Billy Liles and then starting to ride GPs and starting to, you know,

do really well. He sort of failed his first time, 500 GPs, even though he led a motor for a little

bit, I think he says in here. And then eventually

he got his break on a really fast KTM, won the World Championship, and he was off. He

won the 250 World Championship. He almost won a Moto at these nations, as he will tell you in here.

And a lot of really, really funny, cool stories from Trampus Parker in our podcast that we did

a while ago. I think it was 2012, August 7th, 2012, we did this. He was not an easy guy to get a

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