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TYLER BEREMAN

© GARTH MILAN

£ Tyler racing
SX in Anaheim
Stadium 2013

like the politics sometimes with
racing. There can be a lot of
bullsh*t corporate stuff.” Bereman
says. “I like the laid-back lifestyle
of freeriding, it suits my style more
and it’s where I feel at home. I still
love racing and want to get back
to it but I would also like to learn
the Flip and incorporate it into
my freeriding. I think that would
be huge and make me a lot more
versatile on the race track and in
the hills.”
With freeriding on the rise, since
the release of Jeremy Stenberg’s
movie Chasing the Storm and
Kris Foster’s #limelight edit and
recent part in Moto 6, there’s
no doubt that one day, you
will be able to make a living
just freeriding, being a badass
lifestyle rider and imitating the
business model of backcountry
snowboarding or street skating.
These industries market their

athletes towards that side of their
sports, unlike motocross where
industry sponsors only base their
marketing around contests and
racing.
“There’s no doubt in my mind
that one day we will be able to
make a living riding in the hills.”
Bereman says. “When Jeremy
Stenberg came out with his movie
420% All Natural and then his
second one Chasing the Storm,
he was putting freeriding back
on the map, like back in the day
with the Red Bull Ride to the Hills.
I think there’s a huge market for
us. There are so many skaters
and snowboarders that go out
to film all over the world and
stack footage. Someday I know
it’ll happen for moto freeriding
too. There’s so much untapped
terrain in our country and across
the world for that matter and I’m
just going to keep pushing it as

hard as I can and hopefully in my
lifetime of riding it’ll happen.”
Having just got the all-clear to
start doing some light trail riding,
Bereman is optimistic for the 2015
season. Not looking to make the
West Coast Supercross rounds,
he says he wants to be 100%
healed and prepared when he
does line up on the starting line.
This means that if he can find the
funding, he’ll sign up and race the
East Coast series rounds of the
AMA Lites class. Good luck to
Tyler on his racing comeback and
we look forward to seeing him
killing it in the hills. T

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