Travis Pastrana, a god or a mad man?

Do you know who Travis is?

Travis was born on October 9th 1983 in Annapolis Maryland and is the son of Robert and Debbie Pastrana. He started racing dirt bikes at a very young age when his father bought him his first bike at the age of three, for a Christmas gift. They spent that whole rainy Christmas day riding up and down the drive way.

Travis started out racing in the nationals and supercross series and won his first world championship at the age of 14!  Since then he has won two racing championships, the 125cc A.M.A national championship in 2000 and the 125cc East Coast supercross championship in 2001. Although Travis was one of the best and most recognized riders in the sport but his love for freestyling was just too much.

Before 1997 freestyle dirt biking also called FMX was unknown. Travis single handily wrote the book on the sport itself. He has invented more tricks then any other rider in the world; he held the Freestyle world champion from 1997-2008 and landed the first double back flip ever done on a motorcycle. That’s just amazing!

Unfortunately with this extreme sport comes injury’s. Travis has just about broken every bone in his body. He has had seven knee surgeries, broken his wrists six different times, broken his arms several times and crushed his spine into his pelvis witch almost killed him. On top of this Travis suffers from a weird sleeping condition. Doctors have said that Travis suffers from a disorder called repressed fear. During the day Travis has no fear but during the night he is tormented by his dreams. He constantly wakes up screaming and running around the house.

All these injury’s ended his racing career but he yet still participates in FMX and rally racing winning a gold medal in FMX and best trick competition landing yet another double back flip at this year X-games. His luck was brought short in rally racing when car troubles cost him the gold.

Now a days Travis lives at his 1.5 million dollar home in Davidsonville Maryland. He spends his time learning and perfecting new tricks and finding new ways to cheat death. His newest thrills consist of jumping his bikes into the Grand Canyon and driving his rally car at unbelievable speeds in back roads only a few feet wide dodging trees as he goes on. 

Now you know who Travis is.