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Off-Road Rhetoric - Episode 19 - Ava Silvestri

The Whiskey Throttle Show

The Whiskey Throttle Show, LLC

Sports

4.8679 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In this series, we shift our focus to get to know the riders under the helmets in the off-road moto scene. In episode 19, our host Brent Bowser catches up with GasGas rider Ava Silvestri about her upbringing, riding and racing off-road in the Women's Pro Class, her thoughts on the state of women's racing and more!

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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome back to another episode up here on Whiskey Throttle Media. I'm your host,

0:03.7

Brent Bowser. Before we jump in the podcast, I want to give a shout out to Factory Connection

0:07.8

for coming on board and sponsoring our podcast. They're big supporter of Whiskey Throat Media.

0:12.4

Lots of our test bikes have Factory Connection suspension on them, and they just do really good

0:16.7

work. They've been around a long time. They offer lots of different services for your suspension,

0:22.1

full rebuilds, a revalve, pretty much everything suspension related that you need. You can get done at

0:27.7

factory connection. So if you haven't had a chance, go on to factory connection.com and see what

0:32.2

products and services they have available. We're here today with Gas Gas Rider, Ava Celestri. Hey, Ava, how are you?

0:39.5

Good, how are you? I appreciate you taking the time to jump on and chat with us. It's been fun to

0:44.2

get to talk to all the different folks and the off-road side of things. But before we get too far,

0:49.8

just go ahead and give us a little bio about yourself, you know, who you are, where you're from, when you started writing, just things that people who don't know you wouldn't know about you.

0:57.0

My name is Avis Lvestri. I'm 20 years old. I'm from Redwood City, California, NorCal.

1:04.3

I probably, you know, I think we're on, like I said, I just turned 20. So I think I'm on my 10th year now racing dirt bikes.

1:13.6

This is my fourth year professionally racing.

1:17.1

It's been a great time so far.

1:19.3

I mean, I've enjoyed it.

1:20.6

Can't complain.

1:21.5

I've done a lot so far in, you know, a short period of time.

1:24.1

And I'm happy with that.

1:25.6

And, you know, I wouldn't change it for the world you

1:27.7

know dirt women in dirt bikes is you know definitely growing a lot recently so you know I'm happy

1:33.4

to be a part of that yeah that's cool I mean so you're based out of NorCal you are you still living

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