Travis is now more known for his FMX stuff that his SuperX and rally driving days. Ricky used to be a Honda rider, but his last season was with Suzuki. I guess either of them would make good guests on TG though. Ricky is now heading into car racing on track, so that may be the TG link.
Wikipedia is pretty crap on Ricky. I used to watch SuperX late night on 5; especially around his transistion year from 125s to 250s. A bit like Rossi, he took over from the previous great (Jeremy McGrath was the Mick Doohan of the SuperX world) and is regarded as the GOAT for that sport.
Ricky used to make everything look so easy. When not leading from the front, he would strorm past everyone else - even giving cheeky nods to other riders as they blasted down a whoop seciton - bikes all corssed up; but Ricky going a lot straighter and a lot faster somehow.
Too bad he is not well known out of these circles (even if he does have name registered playstation games).
Posted: 01/07/2009 11:58
