Welcome everybody to another edition of the FXR one-on-one podcast with industry people each week, or at least every other week. Thanks for listening, appreciate it. FXRRRR.com. Malcolm Stewart, of course, quadlock guys and many more were in FXR racing. Of course, Gart Bartchpachs also looking good in FXR. Please use a code Pulpemex 30 when you're checking out at FXR racing.com to save. Of course, snowmobile gear, mountain bike stuff, motelgear, Pulpemex 30 code to save with the folks at FXR racing. They make really, really great stuff. Thank you to Firepower and Maxis Tires as well to come on board this podcast. I appreciate that. And again, thank you people for listening. All right, with me on the line, a gentleman who has some really good results as a pro. He knows all about the snow equipment from FXR being from Minnesota. And now he's been working for Dunlop for a few years now. Jesse Wentland, what's up? Jesse, how are you, man? Hey, Steve. Yeah, thanks for having me on. Yeah, it's been a while since we

chatted. Thanks for doing this. Appreciate it. Um, yeah, lots to get into when it comes to what

you've been up to and everything else. But what's your official title there at Dunlop?

I just got promoted to senior test engineer at Dunlop. So, yeah, moving on up.

Nice, yeah, sounds good.

Well, so where's Clark Stiles now?

Is he still there?

Did he get promoted upstairs too?

Or what's he doing?

Yeah, funny you say that he actually did move upstairs not too long ago.

And no, he manages all of motorcycle testing.

You know, he's the one that sets our schedule he you know originally trained me on um about five years ago now i've been working there for five

years so um yeah he's a good dude you know we have a lot of laughs every single day at the office

you know i work work with him yeah every, every week. So he's a good

dude. Yeah, it's an enjoyable job. We have a lot of fun. Senior test engineer sounds really

important for the guys at Dunlop. So congrats, Jesse. Appreciate that. I got a lot of questions

about tires and all this, but let's just go into this, because I'm curious, what took you to Dunlop? How did that happen for you? I know you quit racing for a little bit, and we'll get into that a little while, but how long after you hung up the boots, did Dunlop come calling? Who got you to Dunlop? Because based in Alabama, you're from Minnesota, like I mentioned. So how does your whole transition to Dunlop come calling, who got you to Dunlop? Why did you, because based in Alabama, you're from Minnesota, like I mentioned.

So how does your whole transition to Dunlop take place?

Yeah, so I kind of stepped away from racing in 2017 and then work construction for a couple

years, worked with my wife for a couple years, we cleaned houses, you know,

trying to find what I wanted to do for the rest, you know, for a career, basically, for the

rest of our lives. And it took probably four or five years to, for this job opening, you know,

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