Steve Wagner
started riding Freestyle Motocross almost 12 years ago in the spring
of 1998. Starting off with smaller tricks, through the course of the
next year he progressed to doing many of the tricks he saw riders
doing in videos such as heel clickers, nothings, and no footed can
cans. In the summer of 1999 he began riding in smaller monster truck
shows and local fairs. When the winter of 2002 came he made the jump
into riding professionally, despite just recovering from two badly
broken legs he suffered in a crash while competing in a local FMX
demo the previous summer. Since turning pro he has ridden in numerous freeriding
contests and exhibitions. In
2005 he ranked third overall in the IFMA Ramp to Ramp points, winning
10 events (double the win total of any other rider). In addition to
riding FMX and making FMX Videos, he
has also written freestyle and racing articles for Moto
Playground Magazine ,
Midwest
Motocross Illustrated,
and Dirt Rider Magazine.
Steve is usually kept busy by working on ramps, shooting &
editing freestyle motocross and streetbike videos,
and being a full time freestyle rider.
"Whenever I
go riding, I am riding for myself; riding to have fun. To me,
freestyle riding is fun. Going 30 feet in the air, hanging off a
200 pound
motorcycle and pulling yourself back on is arguably one of the
biggest rushes in the world. So when I ride, I freestyle."
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here for freestyle school demo video
Steve's
2005 demo video
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