Amateur Spotlight - Episode Eight - Preston Boespflug

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4.8 • 679 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 36 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 eight, our host Brent Bowser talks with KTM's Preston Boespflug about growing up in Washington, making the move to California at a young age, and how his Amateur career has been thus far.

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up guys? Welcome back to another episode of our Amateur
0:03.0	Spotlight series here on Whiskey Throttle Media. I'm your host, Brent,
0:06.4	Bouser. We're here today with Preston Base Flu. What's up, Preston? How are you doing?
0:10.2	What's going on, Brent? I'm really good, and I'm really excited to be on the show today.
0:14.4	So what's interesting is your last name? I want to know the correct pronunciation of that. Yeah, it's German and not a lot of people get it right.
0:24.4	So the correct pronunciation is base flug, like kind of like baseball, but base flug.
0:31.3	Yeah, yeah, I've heard it.
0:32.6	I've tried to announce quite a few different ways.
0:35.4	And so when I hear people announce it, I try to listen to
0:38.3	the guys that have been announcing it for a long time. But what's interesting is I was looking
0:42.2	you up in the Laredo's ball and they don't even have your name spelled right. So I had to go in there
0:46.6	and find it. They have like an L after the E. So I don't know if you knew that, but it it I did not yeah it's not it's not in there correctly but anyway hey for
0:57.4	those who aren't familiar with you or don't know who you are just give us a background on you
1:01.7	how old you are where you're from when you start riding things you like to do just a little bio
1:06.1	on yourself i'm preston base flug i'm 17 old. I'm from the Northwest from Battle Around Washington, only like 20 minutes away from Washington. So I grew up around that track a lot. I moved to Southern California when I was 12 with my mechanic tie and, or not with him, but he's here now with me but I moved here when
1:29.8	I was 12 and yeah I've been training here ever since my parents and all my family still live in
1:35.8	Washington but they they visit when they can and yeah living the dream man racing dirt bikes
1:43.2	and how different is California to Washington?
1:47.2	Do you like it better or do you wish you can still be up there in Washington?
1:52.4	I like Washington a lot.
1:54.0	But obviously with the rain and everything, you kind of do it up there like you can down here.
2:00.0	And just having everybody down here makes it quite a bit easier.
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