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Wonderboy wins another FMX Gold medal at X
Posted on Friday, July 30th, 2010
It is hard to believe that Travis has not learned a single trick since 2006 but he has somehow won a MotoX FMX Gold Medal over the likes of Robbie Madison and Levi Sherwood. Travis’ last X Games FMX run was in 2006 which he also won. Winning this Gold medal will probably redeem himself to the fans for pulling out of MotoX Best Trick where he was expected to attempt, for the second time, the TP Roll/TP7. Travis has come into X Games 16 with a broken collarbone though so he probably won’t want to mess up his back even more or re-break his pinned and plated collarbone with the Rally events still to go after Best Trick.
Travis Pastrana has also completed his fourth double backflip. That’s right, during his Freestyle run. That makes him the second rider to perform the trick during an FMX run, after Cam Sinclair of course. His gear is very reminiscent of his 2004 gear and bike and oddly enough, Travis said he was going to to perform a double backflip during his FMX run but was knocked out by a failed 360; 6 years later and he does it!
Travis at X Games 16 :: Chris Tedesco/ESPN Action Sports(c)
You can catch Travis on the bike once more at X Games 16 during Speed and Style and let’s face it, this is Travis’ event – he has the tricks to win and the speed, all the best to wonderboy for this one. Check your local guides for when the events are, or if you are without ESPN, you can watch this online stream here and do some timezone conversions with this guide.
Here is the gold medal winning run:
Pastrana lands FRMX cover!
Posted on Friday, July 9th, 2010
After dazzling spectators during the Nitro Circus LIVE tour, Travis Pastrana has been met with another reward of his efforts. Freerider MX, an Australian motocross magazine, has given Travis the cover of their latest issue. It is TP performing a Backflip NacNac during a Freestyle Motocross sequence during the show!
Travis Pastrana lands the latest cover of Freerider MX
Pastrana plans to win 5 at X
Posted on Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
Travis Pastrana is no stranger to the X Games and most of all, winning at the X Games. His last major grab of medals was back in 2006 when he landed the historic double backflip, winning Best Trick, Freestyle MotoX and Rally Car. At X Games 12 (2006) he also ended up 9th after crashing out in the first corner and a few more during the race. A admirable effort considering he had retired from Supercross that year after a bombardment of injuries from years prior and only had a handful of Supermoto races under his belt.
At X Games 16 he plans to enter 5 events, 1 more than X Games 12 – except this time he has a broken collarbone, but that hasn’t stopped Travis before and it seems it won’t now as he plans to throw down the TP Roll or Backflip 360. He attempted it last year but over rotated the backflip part of the trick causing him to fall 40 or so feet to solid ground causing more back problems for the already injury stricken athlete.
The events which Travis is entering as of this moment are:
- Rally Racing
- Rally SuperRally
- MotoX Best Trick
- MotoX Freestyle
- MotoX Speed and Style
Travis’ previous history suggests he’ll score high in all these events but he hasn’t entered an FMX contest since 4 years ago and faces some steady competition from his fellow Rally racers – we can however expect a show like no other; that is Travis Pastrana.
For an up-to-date X Games 16 Invite List, check out the ESPN page here.
Pastrana compound closed to public! Bike thieves caught!
Posted on Saturday, January 9th, 2010
Waiver or not, when Travis ain't there, the Pastrana compound is closed.
Some good and bad news for us Pastrana fans. The criminals that stole those bikes that were stolen from TP, including one of his trophy bikes (you can read about it here) have been caught and one faces 10 years in prison! Only one of the bikes out of the four that were stolen were found which was a 2008 Suzuki RM450. The other three bikes still haven’t been found but apparently they’re somewhere in the Baltimore area, so keep an eye out if you live nearby.
That’s the good news, the bad news for the rest of is, don’t expect to flip into Travis’ foam pit or check out his shop out while he isn’t there. According to Robert Pastrana, TP’s dad, Travis has beefed up his security and isn’t allowing anyone accessing his property while he is away, which is a good portion of the year unfortunately.
On a final note, Robert also said that one of the stolen bikes was a trophy bike (like his 125cc Motocross Championship bike or the Double Backflip bike) which he planned to display inside (like both bikes mentioned) however that one is still missing. So keep an eye out for a 2008 Suzuki RM250, a 2004 Suzuki RM250 and a 1995 Honda CR500, all decked out in typical Pastrana/199 decals and equipment. The trophy bike was probably the ’04 250 since Travis didn’t really race in 2008.
You can read more about the details in this article by the Home Town Annapolis, here!
Pastrana lands new World Record!
Posted on Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Well Travis isn’t a stranger to going big – Double Backflip, TP Roll, 10 years of dominance in the FMX scene not to mention a few Motocross chapionships in the mix too! Well Travis has finally done something huge with a Rally car. He flew his Subaru WRX 269ft to safely land a new world record!
Travis hit the take off ramp at roughly ninety miles per hour and flew for a good 5 seconds, probably the slowest 5 seconds of Travis life, but landed relatively safely, if you call slamming into concrete barrier a safe stop. Travis went a little too far on the jump, and didn’t have enough distance or grip to stop saying the landing barge was “Slick as ice” to ESPN announcer Tes Sewell.
Travis, going huge like always. The official jump distance was 269ft! Garth Milan/Red Bull Photofiles
Travis sounded like he was scared for just a moment when he hit the brakes and started sliding at over 50 mph, “putting it sideways” – probably to not totally destroy the car. He did however, in usual Pastrana fashion, start celebrating straight after, jumping out and climbing to the top of the barge to address the thousands of fans surrounding the jump from the water’s edge.
One thing was missing though – a backflip, which is when Travis decided to backflip himself off the barge, 4 stories up into the nice and cold water. Not to worry though, the emergency rescue crew consisting of jet skis, boats, divers and lift bags will take it as a success. This also makes it the 3rd successful year of Red Bull’s No Limits events – Robbie Maddison’s Long Jump on a Dirtbike, then in 2008 Robbie’s jump on and off a replica of the Arch de Triumph in Las Vegas with Rhys Milan (almost) backflipping a truck.
Now we will have to wait and see if fellow Subaru team mate and DC Shoes co-founder, Ken Block will step up and reclaim his record which Travis beat by 98 ft!
I think his mother, Debbie Pastrana, is just happy Travis made it out alive. Chris Tedesco/Red Bull Photofiles
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