First off, HUGE congratulations are in order for mister Jeremy Lusk. By now everyone knows that Lusk won the Gold in X Games FMX. All the other events are cool and all, but everyone knows if you win FMX you are THE man. Winning X Games ain’t bad for his first big contest win! Congrats again, Lusk, you earned it!
So here the rundown of how shit went down:
First up in the head-to-head format for Mulisha was Jeremy Lusk vs. Bilko. Bilko crashed in practice about 10 minutes before the big show, so he was a little off in his run, which is understandable. Lusk was on his game and Bilko didn’t have a chance against Lusk’s huge bag of tricks and dialed run. Lusk advanced to the semi’s.
Next Twitch vs. Robbie Maddison. Maddo went first and threw down a bad ass run! All big tricks and even a solid seat grab flip over the 120 footer. Unfortunately for Maddo he was up against Twitch. The Mulisha vs. Mulisha bracket heats suck! Twitch also had a flawless run and had some bigger tricks off more difficult jumps, and did a 1 handed lander on the big dog! Twitch advanced.
That would put up Lusk against Twitch to see who would be in the finals versus Rebeaud. Yet another Mulisha on Mulisha matchup those bastards set up! Lust was up first and kept his run pretty close the his first run…still HUGE! This was going to be close for the judges to decide. But here is where all hell broke loose. Twitch was putting in a solid run. But after landing for a KOD flip over the 75 foot step down Twitch looked down at his bike in discust, threw it to the ground, and stormed off to the pits and breaking shit all the way. Why? What was wrong? The brake? The foot peg? Nope! It was the motor!
I called Twitch the next day after he had time to settle down to hear what really happened. After he landed he heard some grinding and whistling in the motor. Something was wrong. He knew something was wrong and did not want to risk it cutting out with 2 jumps to go as the last jumps were going to be the dirt hit and the 120 footer…huge consequences if you screw up. Twitch’s mechanic pulled it apart and the water pump main bearing was ready to explode! So there you have it.
Lusk advanced to the finals versus Mat Rebeaud!
Rebeaud went first and was putting in another big run. But on the dirt hit he dead sailored it. You’re not winning X Games if you can’t hold it together and get a trick off on every jump. It was all up to Lusk. Lusk mixed up his run from the previous 2 and busted some bigger tricks on a lot of the jumps. Lusk held it together under the pressure and came away with his first X Games Gold Medal!
Our friend Eric Johnson caught up with Moto X Gold winner Josh Hansen after the race for an interview on Racer X. Check it out and see what Hanny had to go through to make it to the top spot at X Games.
We all know Twitch has more style in his little finger than most will have in their entire life, but what you might not have known, that I’m sure you do now after watching X Games Speed & Style, is that homeboy is FAST, too! Twitch got through round 1 easily versus Mat Rebeaud after a little take out maneuver that put Rebeaud in the dirt…no one ever said it was Speed & Style…& be Polite!
Round 2 put Twitch against Kevin Johnson, a seasoned Supercross rider who is learning some tricks. Twitch lost some valuable time while putting up his flip levers in hopes of making it up with some big tricks for style points. Unfortunately the judges didn’t think it was enough to make up the time difference. Twitch then went against Mason to see who would get Bronze and Twitch won no problem. Just some more X Games bling for Twitch’s growing collection….
Coming into the X Games as an alternate and definitely the underdog, Josh Hansen surprised a lot of people with his riding this weekend and came through with one of the biggest wins of his career! Just to get an idea of how huge this is, we’ve heard some pretty staggering top-secret stats that X Games Moto got more TV viewers than all the outdoor motocross races will combined this year–big bikes and lites!
Hanny was training hard for this one and he earned it! Congrats, Hanny!
The General, Brian Deegan, competed in Step Up this year as well as doing the TV deal for pretty much every other moto event. He cleared a few of the heights easily, but barely tagged the bar at 30 feet, knocking him out of the competition. Check the 2 photos below…he had plenty of height, but just nicked the bar on the way down! Bummer.
Deegan said next year he wants to compete in more events rather than only doing Step Up and announcing…maybe Speed & Style and Rally Racing next? He would be the only riderfew riders who has won a Supercross, and we all know he has skills behind the wheel….
We want to give out a huge HELL YEAH to Ronnie Faisst! Did everyone see big Ron throw down a perfect flatty 360 in his FMX qualifying run? He nailed it! After a couple years of trying the trick at X Games and crashing hard numerous times, Faisst got it dialed and we’re pumped for him. Congrats, Faisst!
Todd Potter did what very few have ever done…beat Ricky Carmichael, the GOAT, at something having to do with riding dirt bikes! Not an easy task. Potter stole the show at the first ever X Games Best Whip contest, overshadowing the monster whips of Renner, Josh Grant, Mylo and RC.
The best part? You, the fans, got to decide who had the best whip! Thanks to everyone who texted their brains out for Potter…he deserved it!
Jeremy Lusk and Todd Potter were by far the most dialed riders in Best Trick last night at Staples center! Potter came out swinging with the same trick he won Bronze with last year–the look forward KOD flip–then followed it up with a huge cliffhanger flip in his second run. Not sure which trick scored better, but it doesn’t matter, both were good enough for another Bronze!
Lusk came in with one goal in mind–to stomp a double grab flip! He did just that. It may have been the first time Lusk pulled the trick to dirt, but it was so perfect it looked like just another right side up dub grab, except upside down…so smooth! Lusk took the silver behind Loza’s bike acrobatics.
So here the rundown of how shit went down:
Next Twitch vs. Robbie Maddison. Maddo went first and threw down a bad ass run! All big tricks and even a solid seat grab flip over the 120 footer. Unfortunately for Maddo he was up against Twitch. The Mulisha vs. Mulisha bracket heats suck! Twitch also had a flawless run and had some bigger tricks off more difficult jumps, and did a 1 handed lander on the big dog! Twitch advanced.
That would put up Lusk against Twitch to see who would be in the finals versus Rebeaud. Yet another Mulisha on Mulisha matchup those bastards set up! Lust was up first and kept his run pretty close the his first run…still HUGE! This was going to be close for the judges to decide. But here is where all hell broke loose. Twitch was putting in a solid run. But after landing for a KOD flip over the 75 foot step down Twitch looked down at his bike in discust, threw it to the ground, and stormed off to the pits and breaking shit all the way. Why? What was wrong? The brake? The foot peg? Nope! It was the motor!
I called Twitch the next day after he had time to settle down to hear what really happened. After he landed he heard some grinding and whistling in the motor. Something was wrong. He knew something was wrong and did not want to risk it cutting out with 2 jumps to go as the last jumps were going to be the dirt hit and the 120 footer…huge consequences if you screw up. Twitch’s mechanic pulled it apart and the water pump main bearing was ready to explode! So there you have it.
Lusk advanced to the finals versus Mat Rebeaud!
Our friend Eric Johnson caught up with Moto X Gold winner 
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