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NOAH McCONAHY
Noah Mcconahy grew up loving two things, basketball, and motocross. Noah also grew up idiolizing two people, his father, and his brother. The Mcconahy family was all over the map with sports, his dad being a college basketball player and his brother Nick was already a professional motocross racer. Noah was very close to choosing a basketball career until his senior year in highschool and he knew that motocross was his passion and that he wanted to pursue it as a career. While in the 8th grade Noah had witnessed something very special, his brother Nick was
diagnosed with cancer, Nick gave it everything he had and beat the chemotherapy and radiation.
Noah took two years off of racing at first but knew he wanted to ride once he seen what his brother would go through to be back on the gate. “Just seeing the strength and determination he had to get healthy and go race outdoor nationals again made me want to ride again. I just wanted to be like him.” If it wasn’t for the pure Grit of Nick we may have never seen the talent of Noah. To travel the whole amateur circuit and be competitive takes a lot out of you and a lot out of the bank account as well. John Mitchell from JTM Industries was a huge impact in Noahs career, without Johns help and knowledge, from getting Noah bikes, to showing him the tools to succeed, Noah would have never made it. After finishing off 6th overall in 250 B Mod, and 450 B Mod in a extremely stacked field in 2012 and receiving relatively nothing out of it, the McConahy family decided it was time to get Noah his pro card and skip the A class. In his first year racing professional he tried to qualify for Hangtown, and Thunder Valley.
128 MPG • MAY 2016
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