About Luke Gough
Like most racers, I have been racing since I was very young. I started racing motocross on a Yamaha PeeWee 50 when I was five years old. When I was 14, I saw a dirt track race and it was all over. The speed and sliding were great and I wanted to give it a try. Since then I have ridden hard, trained and moved up the ranks winning along the way. It all paid off in 2005 when I won my first 450cc Long Track title. I went on to win that title again in 2006 and for a third year in a row in 2007! Nobody else has won that title three years running.
Last year I rode the AMA Flat Track Series and earned my National Number by qualifying for the Montana Main Event. This year I will proudly wear National Number 62.
2008 saw me ride the singles class only. In 2009 I will be challenging both the Singles and Twins series.
In the Singles series I will be riding a CRF450 Honda with a motor built by Keith Johnson and Harold MacDonald. This motor package is a rip-snorter for sure! This same motor took me to top 450 honors at the Fall Willow Springs event put on by Eddie Mulder.
My twin entry, a SV650 Suzuki, has a motor that has been built by Keith and Harold again. Through exhaustive work, Keith and Harold have created another motor package that is very powerful. I finally got to ride it the other day and it is pretty amazing to me. (You can go to the News page and see some photos.) From the bottom to the top it had more power than I was used to. It was really fun and I can hardly wait to get it on the track!
I have done all the fabrication work on this bike myself. The hubs have been machined from billet stock by me and I built the wheels. In addition I completely fabricated the exhaust system as well as hand-hammered and fabricated the aluminum tank and then welded it up. It has been great literally building my own race bike.
In addition to racing the Flat Track Series last year, I had the pleasure being a guest instructor with Danny Walker and the staff of American Supercamp at numerous events. This gave me an opportunity to ride with some really great riders and students. One of them was Chris Carr! We had a great little battle on the small bikes. Click here if you would like to read that entire story.
Click here to read about the excellent ride I had at Eddie Mulder's West Coast Vintage Dirt Track Series fall event at Willow Springs. I was the top 450 rider in both days main events (remember that hot motor I mentioned!). Things really turned around at the end of the year and I am really excited for 2009!
To make this year as successful as possible, I continue to require additional sponsorship. Please click here to see how I can help you when you help me.
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