Personal History
Hi! I'm Derek I love to ride dirtbikes I live in Arlington Heights Illinois in the northwest suburbs of Chicago and I have been riding for 3 years and have done a handful of races. I am 18 years old and I'll be 19 in March. I love to wrench on bikes and just be at the track or around other riders and dirtbikes. I also in my free time work for my Dad's construction company Greenday construction as well as attend Harper Community College, I enjoy wakeboarding, snowboarding, and snowmobiling, and obviously dirtbiking!!!!!!!! When the weathers good me and some buddies have a private track about 15 minutes from our house that we ride at every night in the summer.
Riding Goals
This coming year I would like to have top 5 finishes in 450 C and hope to be bumped up to B class, I have been training both at the gym and my house everyday and staying in goodshape. I have done only a hand full of races, but I really want to place in C in as many of the races as I can this coming season. I lift everyday at least once as well as riding a bike whether it be sprints, or simple endurace training, as well as stimulating the muscles needed for racing.
Competitive Highlights
I havn't had many competitive highlights in mx yet except for finishing one of the most gruling and hardest things of my life in a horrible harescramble in Morris Illinois which we had an inch and a half of rain the night before. I have however won numerous trophies and such in sports I had participated in in highschool such as basketball, tennis, volleyball, and football. I got bored of sports sophmore year and began riding dirtbikes junior year with a gorup of friends everyday on a 15 mile loop through some woods and train tracks by our house.