Pro-Freestyle Motocross Rider
Name: Jim McNeil
Nick name: real deal
Sport: fmx
Hometown: phoenix, AZ.
Birth date: 12/29/78....yep, old son of a bitch
Year’s riding: 23
Sponsors: SRH, rockstar, scorpion helmets, etnies, troy lee, dragon, race tech, works connection, alpinestars, ogio, tag, fmf, w.e.r.
Why SRH: why not....bad ass shi*t!
3 words to describe yourself: bad ass motherf*cker
Career highlights: about 15 ifma wins, 3rd in 2004 lg event, 6th in 2004 gravity games, 2006 x games 4th in freestyle and 5th in big air, 2007 x games 7th in big air.
Worst injury: shattered right heel witch led to fusing my right ankle, broke my right tib and fib 4 times, broke my hip twice, had 3 plates put in my face after breaking my orbital bone and cheek...and now recovering from a broken femur, hip, and torn ACL.
What motivates you: music....and learning new stuff, nothing better than that feeling.
Rituals before riding: none, gave up on that sh*t, didn’t seem to work.
What’s in your cd player: best of the 80's metal
Favorite movie: departed...American gangster is
pretty good too.
Worst movie: about 90% of the movies that have been coming out lately
Favorite reality show: intervention.....makes me feel so good about myself.
Favorite video game: guitar hero 3
Favorite food: Mexican
Best advice ever given: any time someone doubted me...lights a fire under my ass.
Rides: 2004 Chevy ss, 2004 Nissan titan, 2000 Tacoma off road truck, and a 600hp 1992 civic hatchback.
Toys: besides my off road truck, a 50.
Hobbies: snowboarding, jet sking
Bad habits: getting hurt
Influences: crusty videos in the early days
Recommendations for the kids: I don’t know....I still act like a kid.
Plans for the future: just recover from my last injury
so I can be ready for the crusty tour in the UK in January, just started
riding again after being out for 3 months.
Ending statement: seeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
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