Welcome everybody to another edition of the FXR one-on-one podcast. This gentleman certainly made news with his switch to Monster Energy Kawasaki. Thank you to the folks at FXR Racing. Pulpumex 30 is the code to save. Malcolm Stewart. The Club of Mex guys were rocking FXR. Of course, that guy, Phil, Canadian champion, FXR racing. Pulpumex 30 is the code to save. They got Moto Gear, which you've seen a lot over the years. It looks great. But they also got fishing line as well, working with Malcolm Stewart. They've got snow gear. They've got mountain bike stuff. So please check out FXR Racing.com for lots of cool things that those guys got, including partnership with the 60 guys and everything else. Pulpemex 30 Code saves you with them. Thank you to Firepower and Maxis. We'll tell you more about them later on. But for now, yeah, maybe one of the surprises of the silly season was Garrett Marchbanks, moving on up to Monster Angie Kawasaki 450 spot. And he joins us now. What's up? G. How are you, man? Hey, what's going on? So, big 450 guy. Take us through this, I guess, because, like, we have a mutual friend. He's from New York. He's grouchy. He kind of told me, he's like, ah, I don't know if G should g should do it you know he's got a great thing going on

in two 50s and you really did you broke through this year with Mitch and everybody else um

and he's like i don't know if he should do it blah blah blah blah he was sort of not thinking you were

going to do it uh and of course you are going to be there um so take us through that timeline on

deciding to do it i mean you're helping cowie out obviously. So take us through that timeline on deciding to do it. I mean,

you're helping Cali out, obviously. Yeah, take us through the thought process of jumping to

450s. Yeah, I mean, it was kind of a, oh, it was kind of a rumor all season, I'd say,

from the start of outdoors.

They brought it up multiple times.

I mean, at first started with me replacing, or not replacing, but just like taking over a filling spot for Jason through outdoors.

And I'd possibly still have my 250 deal, but obviously I was still fighting for a spot all outdoors and tell about Iron Man, and I finally got re-signed.

So, no, I mean, honestly, I didn't know what it was going to be once we hit Vegas, like, kind of the rumors stop after SMX.

And I was like, oh, it's done. Like like I'm just going to stick to 250 and I'd say three and a half weeks into the off season um yeah I got a

random phone call from cowie uh-huh and just asked like hey do you want to do the deal?

And yeah, it was definitely something that was interesting.

Obviously, if I wanted to do it, it had to be right for both sides, not just for them.

So we worked some things in there, and I talked to a lot of people people and they all thought it was kind of, obviously they were very excited and happy with how my lights years have been and how I was moving.

That was the hard part.

It was like, well, we just finally got me in a good spot on the lights bike after, you know, years.

But also like my size and everything, it was hard for starts.

Yep.

So we really thought about it.

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