Mike Metzger on the Whiskey Throttle Show

That was a great show.. one thing that always comes out of these shows, is how much fun they all had doing Supermoto, which is kinda cool, was lucky enough to be part of it at the start. funny to hear GL saying how he just followed Mcgrath over a jump and hoped for the best... I did the same behind him in Vegas , except I just thought he was just a regular guy, and not him LOL.. I was stoked to make the main..

And the reason the sport died, is that they turned it into Supercross on tarmac, the lure of the sport is that regular Joe's can race with the pro's of MX, road race and flat track.. as soon as you start adding rhythm sections and jumps that only SX guys can do , you kill the entry , and the base level of the sport... even now 18 years later , there are rarely thing in tracks that are shit or bust .. or gift 2 secs a lap to anyone in one go. That's why it died. The guys that got the sport off the ground, got canned because guys that they could beat on the tarmac were gifted seconds a lap in the dirt that you could never get back.

Done right , it could be big again, but like Hillclimbing, everyone wants to turn it all into supercross.