Personal History
Hey everyone!
my name is Aaron and feel blessed to be able to ride and feel free. I’m sure that most don’t understand why I say free? We all know the sport is in no way shape or form free lol. Im sure you wonder why I say “free”? Hold that thought and rewind my life a few years…I was 20 and getting ready to ship out to the army and my dad asked me if I would go on one last trip with him out to the sand dunes with some of his friends. I had never been so figured why not. After a couple hours of being there it started to rain real bad so my dad and a buddy of mine jumped into my truck to play some cards and wait out the rain, once it stopped everyone was fired up to get out and go and a friend of my dads asked if my friend tony and I wanted to ride in his sand rail and go on a run with him so of course we jumped in. Little did we know he had just spent the last couple hours getting waisted and this run would be the last time I got to see and talk with my close friend. We ended up going off a 50ft cliff doing over a hundred. When it hit the ground I was ejected but it wasn’t done with me yet. It ended up landing on top of me as it exploded. I had to watch my friend who was buckled in above me burn alive. I was pulled out by my angles and in the end I had a broken back my skull was crushed and my jaw was shattered along with a piece of the roll cage went threw my knee and was burnt 37% of my body leaving me blind in one eye and deaf in one ear and on top I had to have my right arm amputated above the elbow cause there was nothing left but my bones. I survived only because I wasn’t wearing my seatbelt. My friend Tony Rivera died cause he was wearing his. Driver walked away with minor cuts and bruises. After the hospital I quit caring about most things because I was angry and ended up getting into trouble and ended up going to jail for a bit and really had just given up on my life and being happy again. I didn’t really have many real friends or really anyone but my dad and someone who I grew up with but hadn’t seen in some time but we always stayed connected in some way so he knew about what was going on with me threw my dad. Once I was out of jail I was done with everything and was ready to check out when my friend Nicolay knocked on the door. Was in shock to see him but was still set on saying good bye. He said listen you deserve to be free again and am here to help you find yourself. I called bull Sh$? Cause only thing people did in my life was leave. He didn’t. He said I want you to come ride dirt bikes with me but had no money and thought he was crazy for even thinking it. But still pushed me to try and even bought me my first bike! Was only $200 but ment the world to me and actually really enjoyed it to the point where now that’s all I even think about. up until last year I had never owned or rode a dirt bike before ever. Started on a ssr-125 semi auto moved to a Yamaha TTR-125 then to a yz80 then to a yz-125 then found a Yamaha WR-250f and everyone said I was crazy to ride since was a full size street legal enduro I could ride everywhere…and I did lol. I loved that bike but wasn’t fast enough so finally got in touch with Ktm to find the right bike and was pushed towards a Ktm SXF 250 factory edition that was race and trail ready that I could legally ride on the road and trail. Has more bells and whistles than I can hit but love the bike and sport and after a little over a year most people I ride with can’t keep up on the trail, street or track. Single track is the most fun and oddly enjoy the challenge. In the end I feel blessed to have the few people in my life that helped me along find my way. Remember what I was saying at the beginning about “Free”? unless you find your passion again after so much pain you are never free. Brrrrrrrapppppp and I’m gone is it for me. That and proving people wrong when they say you can’t ride with only one arm…my reply is wanna bet lol
Riding Goals
To be able to hit doubles
to be able to stand more on the bike while going fast
Not to crash so much lol
To do better wheelies one handed (only option) lol
would like to corner like the pro’s
want to win some races Mx or single track
want to be proud of myself again