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The Steve Matthes Show on RacerX

Guest: Jim Castillo

The Steve Matthes Show on RacerX

Steve Matthes

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

4.7878 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2026

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Jim Castillo comes on to talk about Intake Breathing, creating, growing and selling Innovation Sports, building bikes for RJ and Vimond, his passion for the sport, why he has no money left from selling Innovation Sports, his fandom of the sport, private jets and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Before we get too far into this Fly Racing, RacerX podcast with Jim Castillo, I want to thank the folks at Racetech. Racetech.com. Check out their new gold valves for 65s and 85s for the Yamaha on KTMs. They got much more adjustability, more valves, more adjustability, and all of that. So thanks to the folks at RacTech for making it happen. Get your suspension work done. Get some motor work done. Yeah, they do that too there at RacTech.

0:23.3

Racetech.com it happen. Get your suspension work done. Get some motor work done. Yeah, they do that too there at Racetect. Racetec.com and the best part, tell me to listen to Pulp MX to save. All right, on to the show. A Pulp MX network production. Welcome to the Fly Racing Steve Mathis show presented by Maxis Tires, Renthal, and Motosport.com on racerxonline.com.

0:45.5

With your continuing gracious support of our sponsors, we're thriving at over 1,800

0:51.1

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0:54.7

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0:58.0

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1:00.4

And as always, enrich your Moto lifestyle by working with the sponsors who support us.

1:25.1

The original Moto Podcast, featuring Legends of the Past, stars of today, season previews, race reviews, introspection, opinion, facts, and laughs.

1:29.6

Here's the voice bringing it all to you, Steve Mattis.

1:33.3

Say the dedication to your frustration.

1:38.5

It's a brilliant summer plan isn't giving it on.

2:01.7

Yeah, welcome everybody to the Fly Racing RacerX podcast. Thank you for watching and listening. Appreciate it. As always, thanks to the folks of Fly Racing for making this happen. The code PulpamX will save you at FlyRacing.com. Anaheim One is right around the corner. Save on women's gear, kids gear, Cooper Webb's gear, RJ Hampshire, High Miss, all of those guys.

2:17.8

The code Pulpamex will save you. Thank you to folks at Fly Racing for making this happen. Appreciate that. Maxis, Rentall, Motorsport.com, Brunt Workware, we will tell you more about later on. But for now, let's get right to our guest here. The gentleman is certainly an icon in an industry. And when you talk about innovation and innovation sports, Jim Castillo is it. What's up, Jim? How are you, man?

2:23.5

Doing well. How are you doing, Steve? I'm good. Thank you for doing this. Appreciate it.

2:27.9

Just had Dave up here for the studio for the Pulp of Mech show and started telling some stories.

2:33.5

And then I was thinking, man, I got to get Jim Castillo on one of these things. I got a lot to talk to you about for sure. But I guess first off, intake breathing. It's been something you guys have been involved in for a while. How is intake breathing doing? What is it? Explain it a little bit. So intake breathing is interesting. It had its roots in

2:52.4

motocross and it was it was it's a really long story. I don't know how far we want to get into it,

2:58.9

but but what we were trying to do is to is initially to make a goggle that when you'd put it on,

3:05.7

it wouldn't close your nose, right? It wouldn't just, it takes very little to close your nose.

3:09.8

You barely touch it to close your nose.

3:11.6

So we're doing the most physically demanding sport in the world with our nose is pinched.

3:16.6

So it was an effort to solve that problem.

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