The Dirty Dozen

For the life of a professional off-road rider

even when their bodies and minds feel like quitting, their hearts won't let 'em.

They'll push through the pain, overcome their doubts and give it everything they have.

It's who they are, and what they want more than anything.

Ask anyone who's thrown a leg over a bike,

moto gets into your blood.

That absolute sense of freedom

is why we all fell in love with riding our dirt bikes.

To even consider doing some of the things

Billy Bolt does on the motorcycle,

you either have to be a world-class hard enduro rider,

or a little bit mad.

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In Billy's case, maybe it's a little bit of both.

You know, since I was a kid, I've wanted to sort of push what's possible.

And just so I look at things in a different way,

and if I feel like it's sort of something that I don't think,

you know, there's many other people or anyone else that's gonna think to try or,

or have a look at, it's sort of pretty satisfying.

That's the position I like to put myself in.

You just do it.

The trails background. The technical stuff is...

is what I've, sort of, spent my life doing and perfecting.

You know, it's really understanding,

uh, how to go fast and the correct techniques you need to do, and...

And, obviously, who doesn't love a wide open, third gear hill climb?

Just, you know, leaning forward and, and keeping it flat out.

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I love all enduro, I love the challenge.

The variety and the change in the race is, you know,

one race we have could be two hours,

riding over rocks in a pretty closed area,

or we could have, you know, four days of eight hours of riding.

Southern California, USA, the birthplace of the freeride lifestyle.

No limit, no rules.

You build it, you jump it.

When it comes to freeride,

multi X Games gold medalist Colby Raha

brings a new generation of innovation to the sport.

Yeah, when you build a new jump,

you're just looking at it while you're building it and you're thinking it'll work,

but when it comes time to hit something new, it's like,

no one's hit it, you don't even know if it's gonna line up right.

If you come in crooked or something, you get pitched down the hill,

like, you can wad pretty hard.

Free riding's just cool. You can do whatever you want.

You can go up any mountain. Do whatever...

It's just like be creative as you want.

It's not like a track. You just do the same thing over and over.

It's like, you like that hill, build a jump.

Or do, like, you want to jump down that or do whatever. I think it's sweet.

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If you're tired of hitting jumps all day,

you can just go take off on a trail.

Go ride up a big mountain, whatever, hang out.

Go ride up the biggest mountain you can find, whatever it is.

It's kinda like the modern day horseback riding almost.

Like, for people who don't know about dirt bikes, like...

there's nothing better than just getting on your bike and taking off,

and going off some trail.

It's the best.

Motocross of Nations, the most prestigious motorcycle race in the world.

Riders from across the globe representing their countries

to compete for the coveted Chamberlain Trophy.

For team USA, they came with passion in their hearts,

and a fire in their belly seeking redemption.

This last season was forcibly picked for the Mix of Nations team for USA.

You know, I'm trying to embrace it as much as possible

over here in the sand, riding and,

every time I've been hit in the sand track is to try and be, uh, better and better.

Each time I go out, I help my setup too.

Obviously, coming over three weeks early

was a huge commitment for myself and my team.

And, uh, it just what we felt we needed to do

to be competitive in this sand here in Holland.

And, obviously, it's a race of, uh, attrition a little bit and a team race at the same time,

but, um, I hope that we can really turn some heads.