This is the RacerX Canada podcast show you're listening to, and I want to personally thank

everybody out there for making this the most listened to podcast that RacerX Canada has ever had.

I'm your host, Steve Mappas, and this show is sponsored by Shift Racing Canada.

Shift Gear is the gear of choice for guys like Brock Hepler, who just happened to win a golden

helmet at the Motocross MotoX championships this past weekend in San Diego in front of 57 fans.

Check them out on the web at shiftracing.ca and see all of the 2008 gear. Please, I beg you.

This week's guest is the icon, David Bailey. What can you say about this guy that hasn't already been said?

Supercross Champion, 250 Motorcross Champion, 250 Supercross Champion,

500 Motorcross Champion, Rangler Champion, which got him a real cool yellow number 1 on a blue plate.

I wish they brought those back.

David suffered a career-ending injury after the 86th season and what could have been in the later years if he hadn't got hurt. Think about that. Jeff Ward and RJ would have probably had a few less titles. After getting hurt, David went on and won the Hawaiian Iron Man title in the wheelchair. That's just an incredible feat. How amazing is this guy?

He goes into great detail in the show talking about his recent setback. It sounds like we almost lost him, but being the battler that he is, he's back on the scene and helping out his Sean in his motocross career.

I really think that when it's all over, DB's legacy won't be all the titles and race wins.

It might be the very powerful video that he did for VitalMX.com, urging the MX community to wear a then-unknown neck brace.

Just go out to your local track or watch the Supercross is on TV and see what kind of effect that speech had on everybody. He's just an incredible guy, and when I got to sit beside him in Anaheim One and watch the main events,

it was an honor for me to listen to him, go on and on, especially the Bob Hanna stories.

I want to thank him for doing this podcast show, and with that, shiftracing.ca.

And racedorx Canada present David.

All right, David.

Hey, thanks for doing the Race

for X Canada podcast show.

You ever been to Canada?

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