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The best thing about talking with Mert is listening to him laugh when you ask him a question that brings up a good memory for him. He has a lot of good memories, memories you now get to read. Bench Racer: What got you started in motorcycles in the first place? As a youngster my brother Lee Roy had a motorcycle that he just rode on the street.

When I was eight years old, and just riding bicycles, my brother took me to a motorcycle race. There was just something about riding motorcycles, and riding them fast — something that just seemed natural to me. When I discovered I could go a little faster than my friends I really started focusing in on it.

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Even as a kid with a bicycle I would take a shovel and make a oval track with banked corners so I could race around on it. I was 15 when I first started racing scrambles on a Greeves two-stroke with a blewy pipe straight pipe. I raced at the local club grounds of the Owyhee Motorcycle Club, in Boise. I have always been very partial to that area, and I always said that one day I would go back because that was home for me.