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Tuesday Toolbox: Mike WitkowskiApril 30, 2019Mike Witkowski has been a consistent front runner in the XC2 class this season, placing second last round and finishing third at two others. He originally comes from North Liberty, Indiana, which is a short 45-minute drive from the upcoming X-Factor Whitetails GNCC in Peru, Indiana.
Tuesday Toolbox: Ryder LeBlondApril 9, 2019Ryder LeBlond won his first amateur overall last race at Steele Creek just over a week ago – by four minutes. He is from New Florence, Pennsylvania and is 17 years old. He attends his local high school, balancing schoolwork with the demands of top-level GNCC racing He competes in the 250 A class and hopes to win the title this year, in addition to tackling some new formats of racing in the hopes of expanding his horizons and increasing his skills on the bike.
Tuesday Toolbox: Nat RossApril 2, 2019Nat Ross is a former pro mountain bike racer who was inducted into the hall of fame for a combination of his racing ability and leading a wave of technological innovation in the mountain biking world. He grew up in Colorado, trained with Chris Carmichael, and eventually won several national, international, and world titles. In 2008 he retired from the pro circuit but he is still an avid cyclist. He now lives in Bentonville, Arkansas, and recently joined us at The General and Steele Creek GNCC’s as a participant in the Specialized Turbo eMTB Series. Despite a busy life as the brand manager for Pirelli tires and a promoter of all thing’s mountain bike, he plans to attend several more GNCC events throughout the rest of the year, and we are honored to have him riding with us!
Tuesday Toolbox: Hannah HunterMarch 26, 2019Hannah Hunter is from Saylorsburg, PA, finished third in WXC at The General and is just sixteen years old. Making this feature even more impressive is the fact that The General GNCC was her first ever race in the WXC class! I suspect that this is just the first step in what will be a long and successful racing career for Hunter.
Tuesday Toolbox: Brody JohnsonMarch 19, 2019Brody Johnson earned his first-ever amateur overall as well as his first win in the 250 A class at The General GNCC. The sixteen-year-old from Landrum, South Carolina, grew up racing the series and earned three titles during his time on minibikes. His goal for this year is to win the 250 A title, and hopes to eventually follow in the footsteps of his older brother (Jonathan Johnson), who competes in the XC2 class.
Tuesday Toolbox: Steward BaylorMarch 12, 2019Steward Baylor Jr. was the winner of this year’s opening round, the Wild Boar GNCC. He’s been around this series for most of his life, and signed his first pro deal at the tender age of 14. He told us about his off-season, racing strategies, and plans for this season. Although he has struggled with injuries the last few years, it looks like his career is back on the upswing. We look for him to have a very successful GNCC season this year!
Tuesday Toolbox: Josh TothMarch 5, 2019Former XC2 champion Josh Toth will be making his XC1 debut this coming weekend at the Wild Boar GNCC. He is one of the few XC2 riders who has made it to the overall podium from the second row, and he aims to be a regular on the XC1 podium in the upcoming season.
Tuesday Toolbox: Maddox MoretzFebruary 26, 2019Eight-year old Maddox Moretz was the Micro Bike 50cc Sr. GNCC Champion in 2018. Recently, he added another accomplishment to an impressive resume for such a young kid – he won the San Diego KTM Supercross Challenge! The muddy conditions must have felt like home for Maddox. Both he and his five-year old brother, Mason, come from a long line of racers. While last year was the first year chasing GNCCs for the pair from Morganton, NC, we expect to see them doing great things for years to come.
Tuesday Toolbox: Brewer CawleyFebruary 19, 2019This year’s winner of the Bike Amateur Rider of the Year award is Brewer Cawley. This 18 year-old from Lexington, SC raced the 250 A class last year and will be making his pro debut in the XC2 class this weekend at Big Buck. Brewer graduated from his local high school last season, and was accepted to USC Upstate for college, before his championship and before he realized he would be starting a pro racing career this season. So, he is currently balancing racing and school. We look forward to seeing what he accomplishes both on and off the bike over the next several years!
Tuesday Toolbox: Max FernandezFebruary 12, 2019Max Fernandez not only won the Bike Youth Rider of the Year award for 2018, he also did it in his first full year of GNCC racing. The 15-year old from Ottsville, PA, has been dabbling in GNCCs since about 2013, but this was the first year he committed to the full-series. In addition to being a promising young racer, he also still attends regular high school, where he is an A+ student.
Tuesday Toolbox: Jeff PickensFebruary 5, 2019The ATV Amateur Rider of the Year for 2018 is Jeff Pickens. He is 35 years old and from Uniontown, PA. He and his wife, Traci, both raced pro for a number of years before taking a break from GNCC racing to start a family and a business. Both of them returned to racing a couple of years ago. Jeff now races in the Vet A class. He won his first GNCC title in 2017 after 16 years of racing. He won the Vet A title for the second year in a row last season and also took his first-ever Top Amateur Award!
Tuesday Toolbox: Alicia & Layne McCormickJanuary 29, 2019The mother-son duo of Alicia and Layne McCormick from Pennsylvania are frequent sights on the GNCC podiums. Alicia is 33 years old and races in the ATV WXC (women’s pro) class, while her 13-year-old son Layne raced in the youth ATV YXC1 Super Mini Sr this year. The two of them both won special awards from GNCC this year. Layne won the ATV Youth Rider of the Year for securing the youth overall championship; Alicia was given the badass award after suffering severe injuries at the Steele Creek GNCC, yet still managing to make her comeback after the summer break and even earning a couple podiums to finish out the season.

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