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The Steve Matthes Show on RacerX

Race Tech Suspension: Privateer Island Life Podcast #16 with Brandon Scharer

The Steve Matthes Show on RacerX

Steve Matthes

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

4.7878 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This week we talk to privateer hero Brandon Scharer about his breakout 450MX rides, his motorhome fire on way to High Point, switching to a Yamaha 450, living in LA and much more

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome everybody, the privateer island life. Thanks to the folks at Racetech for coming on.

0:05.6

Really appreciate it. This is show number 16. Love to give a little bit of listen behind the scenes to some of the working class heroes of the sport and find out what their deal is, what's going on with them, and what's happening and life on the island and everything else.

0:19.8

And again, we thank Racetech for

0:21.6

making this happen. Since 1984, when Racetech was founded by Paul Thede, the race tech guys have

0:27.2

been an innovator in motorcycle suspension technology. Breaking through the limits of the OEM designs,

0:31.8

race tech specializes in high performance suspension, parts, service, and setups. Use the code

0:36.5

PulpamX to get a special listener discount

0:38.5

on your high performance suspension needs uh race tech's got it going on they got a whole engine

0:42.8

department there as well that's killing it and uh we'll talk about that and more on this private

0:47.6

tier id in life podcast uh this week the guest driving all the way across the country, heading to Muddy Creek.

0:55.8

You saw him get some great results at Lakewood, and you've always seen this guy's name in the Supercross Series as well as the Nationals.

1:03.8

Brandon, Cher. What's up? Brandon, how are you, man?

1:07.0

Not much. What's up, guys? I'm doing all right. Just, yeah, making the truck cross-country, trying to do what I got to do to be able to make it to the races each weekend.

1:17.4

Yeah, we've seen you. This is, oh, geez, third or fourth year now of racing pro?

1:22.4

Yeah, this will be, realistically, it's actually the I actually went prone

1:28.3

in 2012 after Loretta Lynn

1:29.9

and I only I did Elsinore National and that's it

1:33.1

so and then just being kind of scattered

1:36.6

the first few years were kind of hit and miss I

1:38.5

13 was kind of a big miss year for me

1:42.6

I didn't do much of anything that year, just a lot of injuries.

1:45.8

And then 14 had Supercross only, and I got injured right before outdoors and missed the whole

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