Grom Squad - Episode 22 - Landin Pepperd

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4.8 • 679 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2024

⏱️ 40 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 22, our host Brent Bowser catches up with Gas Gas rider Landin Pepperd about growing up in Alaska, making his way through the amateur ranks, racing supercross futures, and more!

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0:00.0	What's up, guys? Welcome back to another episode here on Whiskey Throttle Media. I'm your host,
0:04.0	Brent Bowser. Before we jump in the podcast, I want to give a shout out to Factory Connection
0:08.1	for coming on board and sponsoring our podcast. They're big supporter of Whiskey Throttle Media.
0:12.7	Lots of our test bikes have Factory Connection suspension on them, and they just do really good work.
0:17.7	They've been around a long time. They offer lots of different services for your
0:21.3	suspension, full rebuilds, a revalve, pretty much everything suspension related that you need,
0:26.8	you can get done at Factory Connection. So if you haven't had a chance, go on to Factory Connection.com
0:31.8	and see what products and services they have available. We're here today with Gas Gas Rider,
0:36.3	Landon Pepperd. What's going on? Landon,
0:37.8	how are you, man? I'm good. How are you? Man, can't complain. It's cool to get you on here and kind of
0:43.8	dive into who you are personally and obviously talk to you, you know, obviously on the motor side of things.
0:48.6	But before we get started, just go ahead and give us a little bit of background on yourself, you know, where you grew up, how old you are, just things that people who don't know who you are would like to know about
0:58.1	you. Yeah, I'm stoked to be on here. I think it's really cool what you guys are doing with this. And
1:02.3	I'm 17 years old from a small town in Alaska. Not super small. I don't live in igloos or anything,
1:10.1	but Alaska boy born and raised. And then
1:13.8	Ben LeMay is, his dad was neighbors with my grandparents. And he got me into the sport. He was basically
1:21.7	like a grandpa of me. And then Ben was living down here. So he was basically like, oh, you should go down to the
1:27.0	lower 48 and just
1:28.1	see, see what happens. So that first year, we came down here and we're just hitting whatever
1:34.0	race we possibly could. And somebody said, you should try for Loretta's. And we're like,
1:39.5	what's Loretta's? No kidding. Completely clueless. And that year was super fun. We ended up accidentally qualifying for Laredes.
1:49.0	We honestly didn't know what it was.
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