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The Steve Matthes Show on RacerX

Race Tech Privateer Island Life Pod #23- John Short

The Steve Matthes Show on RacerX

Steve Matthes

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

4.7878 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Privateer John Short talks about his summer doing well in 450MX, why he rode a Suzuki in SX, what he needs to take the next step up and more on this Island Life Pod

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome everybody to the race tech privateer island life podcast number 23.

0:05.5

Thanks for listening, everybody.

0:06.4

Appreciate it.

0:07.5

I'd like to give a little bit of a talk to these guys of the heroes of the sport, the guys that are driving to the races or, you know,

0:13.1

way back into privateer pits each and every week and kind of give you some idea of life on the island and how it's going and what they want to do to get off the island and

0:22.0

if weston pike is truly an inspiration or not and uh we'll talk about that and much more race tech

0:27.7

suspension though everybody they got their seminars coming up if you want to get into the industry

0:31.6

in the suspension end of things and there's a ton of guys right now that are working for top teams

0:36.7

that have taken these seminars octoberst, the 27th, 2017. So coming up, right in Corona, California, where

0:43.8

race tech is, and they do a race tech technical edge suspension seminar. Really cool things. Like I said,

0:49.3

a lot of guys learn about suspension from race tech and they go on and they work with teams or even if you

0:55.8

got a shop and you want to work at a shop or whatever if you're looking to learn to tune your

0:59.4

suspension to add a new service to your motorcycle business better tune your own bike or just

1:03.0

launch of the career like I talked about no one has educated more top level suspension tuners

1:07.0

and Paul feed please check check them out racetech.com found in 1884 and Discover why more top privateers trust

1:13.6

Racedec mentioned Pulpemex 17 to get a discount on your high performance suspension needs.

1:18.8

They've got a whole engine department there as well.

1:20.6

And we thank the guys at Racedec for coming on board and sponsoring this and helping out,

1:24.7

helping us shine some light on some privateers.

1:27.4

All right, with me on the phone, like I said, a privateer out in life podcast.

1:31.3

This guy, 20th overall in 450 Motorcross, some really good rides, maybe lost a little bit

1:37.9

in the Henry Miller hype, but we'll get to the bottom of that.

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