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What would you see in the Supercross pits if you had an all-access pass?

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00:30Tell me about the stories.

00:34The stories. I actually used to do

00:38Karaoke Friday on Snapchat

00:42and everybody loved it. I was getting like

00:465,000 or 6,000 views every time on my Snapchat stories and

00:50I kind of died out after a little bit and then

00:54after I think somebody mentioned

00:58bringing it back and I just posted a short little clip of me singing

01:02and I put the voting thing

01:06and it was like 95%

01:10yes. So I'm

01:14bringing it back dude. Karaoke Friday. Every Friday.

01:18Do you take fan requests? I haven't been but I think

01:22I'm going to start because I've had a couple fan requests

01:26come in. Raphael.

01:30Danny. Dude, this week you surprised

01:34me with the new Showtime Moto 9 Myth

01:38and dude, you should have heard me scream like a little girl.

01:42I'm glad you liked it. Yeah, that one turned out really good.

01:46That one's coming out in March. I'm really excited for that one.

01:50So, I have to imagine the McGrath replicas are some of the

01:54best sellers. Definitely. It's really crazy

01:58what a following Jeremy still has and how many

02:02people love it. I think it's just because he's such a great ambassador and

02:06really awesome and involved in the sport. So, I think that makes a big deal.

02:10Okay, so the new Showtime helmet is a Moto 9 Myth, correct?

02:14So, it's what? $399? Yep.

02:18So, that's kind of like our mid-price point helmet for

02:22off-road. The Moto 9 Myths, yep. Okay, so

02:26all the riders here that you sponsor in the paddock are probably in Flex

02:30I imagine, right? Yeah, so all of our

02:34athletes here in Supercross and most of them out in the world

02:38of even like off-road or Dakar, even Toby Price

02:42just won, they all wear Flex. That's our

02:46premium proprietary technology energy management impact line area.

02:50Can you talk a little bit, give me the 50 cent summary of how

02:54Flex works. Flex, so

02:58Flex uses three different materials. EPS

03:02which is like the standard material that everybody's been using

03:06for a very long time and then we use two other materials

03:10EPP and EPO and those three layers work

03:14in a progressive nature, kind of like the suspension on your dirt bike

03:18where the first two layers

03:22can compress and rebound and then the

03:26final layer, EPS, is kind of that big, you can think of it as like the big energy

03:30management material. That and the shell make it

03:34perform for mid and high level whereas the first two layers are softer

03:38make the helmet perform well in low to that mid range.

03:42Alright, so the pro circuit team here, they're all

03:46in, are they in a replica or are they actually painted up? So this weekend

03:50they were wearing a production graphic, it's the Hound orange graphic

03:54but we've modified it to show

03:58for their sponsor requirements with Monster.

04:02Alright, who's the pickiest guy with helmets of all the top

04:06elite guys? Like is there one guy that's like got some crazy

04:10requests or? Well the one guy that was tough was Jake

04:14Weimer. So he's retired now but he was tough, he

04:18was pretty picky about the fit of his helmet. Funny enough

04:22once we got him, or once we came out with Flex, he was good

04:26he was just like an out of the box extra small but prior to that we had to do

04:30some little like fit modifications to make his tiny head fit

04:34in his helmet. So what's the average size of a razor? Medium?

04:38Small? I would say medium or small, yeah if they're outside of that

04:42I'd say the big end is like Tyler Bowers

04:46who like measures out to be almost like 59 centimeters

04:50So he's a large? So he's a large, yeah. Wait I thought Martine wore an extra large

04:54Martine, no medium, out of the box medium, yeah. Dude

04:58in the past I've heard he wore a giant helmet. That might have been

05:02because of the other manufacturer of helmet he was wearing, you know their

05:06fit is different but ours I couldn't believe it, I was gearing up for

05:10like when he first came onto the team I went to the

05:14shop and went to fit him, had a bunch of pads, like some of the

05:18other tricks that we use to like fit people

05:22and I brought him a medium, a small, a large

05:26an extra large, like I had the whole thing. He puts on the medium and he goes

05:30yeah that's good. I was like you want to mess with cheek pads

05:34anything? He was good. Martine's very easy

05:38Do most guys change cheek pads and customize a bit?

05:42You know you'd be surprised how many guys are out of the box, like Eli, out of the box

05:46medium. Cooper, out of the box medium

05:50A lot of guys usually go up a size in cheek pad for

05:54conditions like mud or in

05:58outdoors, you know and that just helps hold the helmet up a little bit

06:02but you know little stuff like Dylan Perandez

06:06we use a little shim in the top of his helmet because

06:10of the shape of his head just to give him a really secure fit that he likes

06:14and then yeah it's pretty common, you know people go up and down

06:18in cheek pad size to kind of fit how they want

06:22I always encourage them to wear something that's on the snugger side

06:26How many helmets will a guy like Adam Cincerello

06:30go through in a year?

06:34He goes through a lot of visors, ask him about visors

06:38I told him to take them off of his practice helmets

06:42because he goes through so many, yeah

06:46He's going to be mad at me for that one

06:50A consumer might imagine, oh these pro guys are in a brand new

06:54helmet every single week, is that true or no? Not necessarily

06:58we do special stuff like San Diego round or this round

07:02try and work with the gear manufacturers or gear sponsors rather

07:06for each of our riders or teams to kind of give them an overall look

07:10that's really good, I'd say more often than not that's why we're replacing helmets

07:14but the roost is gnarly on these guys

07:18I'd say like an average 250 rider will go through

07:22probably like 4 or 5 helmets for super cross

07:26and then you know easily like 6

07:306 helmets of like no crashes or anything like that

07:34in outdoors

07:38AC, I heard you go through an extraordinarily

07:42large number of visors on your practice helmets

07:50Yeah I mean I do

07:54less lately for sure, less lately but what are you going to say, I try hard

07:58I told Nick this the other day when I came off the track

08:02I'm out here by myself and in my head I have Ricky Carmichael, James Stewart

08:06and everybody else that's ever ridden a motorcycle right on my ass

08:10I'm never the type to go through the motions and go out there

08:14because I can go do a million laps in a row in the same second at 80%

08:18but I'm trying to push it and figure out what's the limit, how fast can I come into this corner

08:22yeah sometimes I tuck the front, if you don't like it, send me more visors in advance

08:26Benny sucks, Benny Tazi sucks

08:30Hey did you know his real name is Raphael?

08:34He does kind of look like a Raphael

08:38Looks like he shops at Banana Republic

08:42Is that true?

08:46That looks like a safari jacket, no it's Bell dude

08:50Burberry jacket

08:54I saw a picture of you and RJ chatting it up in Phoenix

08:58Is there beef? No we're fine

09:02I kind of owe him one but the AMA talked to both of us

09:06and they were like no retaliation, no retaliation, I kind of got the short end of that stick

09:10because it's my turn to retaliate and now they're watching us close

09:14not like I'm a dirty guy anyway so it's fine, I've known RJ forever

09:18so I'm not one to hold grudges or whatever

09:22I'll take the faceplant in front of 60,000, I'll take it

09:26If it went to the ring, gloves, mouthpieces, who'd win?

09:30I'm not a fighter dude, you'd kick my ass

09:34100% let's see if I can get a beanbag gun or something

09:38Are you not a fighter because of all the emo music?

09:42You know what, it's probably that, a lot of Dance Dance by Fall Out Boy this week

09:46Yeah that's probably it

09:50So yes, two rounds down, how's it going?

09:54It's okay, not great results, 10th and 9th

09:58Obviously the first one was a mud race so it's kind of a wash

10:02Last weekend I feel like I did everything right all day long

10:06except for getting a good start in the main, I felt like I was on it in practice

10:10Heat race was good, battled with Malcolm there for a little bit

10:14and actually almost caught up to Marvin and almost won the thing

10:18Terrible terrible start in the main, it's hard to race through those guys

10:22Everyone's kind of going the same speed

10:26I was in a battle from 8th to 15th, all of us were kind of grouped together

10:30Came away with 9th, not stoked on that

10:34I've been searching for that comfort level when I'm out there racing

10:38and I haven't found it, when it's off-season races

10:42and even at 1, I didn't feel like, okay I belong here

10:46I deserve to be racing against these guys

10:50It's taken me a lot longer than I thought to get to that

10:54kind of fighting my own battles with that, but last weekend I was finally

10:58I got off the track and I was so happy, one of the most happy I've been in a long time

11:02We're the 9th too, but not because of the result, but because of the motions I had to go through

11:06and the small wins that I had during that race

11:10were awesome for me, so it was a huge confidence booster

11:14Thank you

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