Guest: Darryl Atkins

The Steve Matthes Show on RacerX

Steve Matthes

Pulpmx, Professional, Steve Matthes, Supercross, Racerx, Motocross, 051142, Sports & Recreation

4.8 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

We talk to Atkins about his career in the sport, his racing days in NZ to doing the GP's, the accident that nearly cost him his life, Supermoto days, getting outside sponsorship in our sport, racing in the USA in the early 90's, his thoughts on NZ racers and more.

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1:01.8	The original Moto Podcast, featuring Legends of the Past, stars of today, season previews, race reviews, introspection, opinion, facts, and laughs.
1:15.6	Here's the voice bringing it all to you, Steve Mathis.
1:19.7	Thank you, your dedication, your frustration.
1:25.1	It's a brilliant summer planet and giving it up. Thanks for listening to the fly racing racer-ex podcast with Darrell Adkins.
1:34.7	Man, interesting guy and really, really cool story talking to Darrell about what he's doing now,
1:40.4	off the track, what he did on the track back on the day.
1:43.5	And, yeah, Darrell Atkins, maybe one of those exciting Kiwis that you used to read about in the magazine. So thanks to Darrell for doing this podcast and thank you people for listening. FlyRacing.com. Use the code PulpMX when you're checking out to save formula helmets, goggles, boots, gear, off-road gear, women's gear, kids gear, accessories, all of it, flyracing.com. Use the code PulpMX when you're checking out to save. Again, thank you to those guys for coming on board. Cooper Webb, RJ Hampshire, Chance, Hymas, Dean Wilson, Justin Brayton, so on and so forth. Ryder D. Cochran, FlyRacing.com. Great company, and their 2026 stuff looks
2:20.1	great. Some of it looks fantastic. So thank you to Fly Racing for coming on board. Renthal as well.
2:26.2	Factory Honda, factory Kausaki, factory KTM, Grant Harlan, privateer proven, of course, with the
2:32.0	rental products, and of course Honda Honda, Kausaki KTM using
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