Amateur Spotlight - Episode 11 - Brad West

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4.8 • 679 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this series we set out to showcase up and coming amateur riders that are making their way through the ranks in hopes to make it at the professional level. In episode 11 our host Brent Bowser catches up with Brad West about growing up in Australia, making the move to the United States to chase his dream, dealing with recent health issues, and more!

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0:00.0	Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of our Amateur Spotlight series here on Whiskey Threatle Media.
0:06.0	I'm your host Brent Bowser.
0:07.0	We're here today with Brad West.
0:09.0	What's going on Brad?
0:10.0	How are you, man?
0:11.0	Going good.
0:12.0	Just recently getting back on the bike, probably had a month on the bike, feeling fresh, feeling good, and ready to send it.
0:17.0	I've done a couple races so far in the States.
0:19.0	Since I've been back from my injury, I injured my foot.
0:22.9	My latest injury was my foot, but I just go back from that and we've done Cal Classic, basically, my first race back.
0:29.1	And I would say I did pretty good and showed them that I'm still out there, ready to race.
0:34.4	So how long you've been in America? When did you make the trek over from Australia?
0:38.9	Just give us a little bit of background on you where you're from and how it all started.
0:43.5	It all started. My dad kind of got into motocross, just trying to find. And then originally
0:49.2	my sister rode before me and then myself and then my younger brother. I would say I wasn't terrible as I was growing up on like a 50, 65, but surely wasn't
0:59.3	the greatest.
1:00.3	And then as I progressed on, it was definitely a lot better towards the later years of like
1:04.9	6585s.
1:07.2	But as this day, my sister was still better than me.
1:09.3	So every time I call her up, she says, if I was still racing, I'd beat you.
1:15.6	But yeah, it's been good.
1:17.3	We got over here in the States.
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