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Welcome To Gobadirt
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Welcome to the website of Grant “Goba” O’Brien. I am a photo journalist from Australia based in Northern NSW who specialises in capturing the action and lifestyle of motorcycle related sports. I am also passionate about music, adventure, travel, extreme sports, nature, people's stories, and am available for photography/journalist work covering all of the above so if you need a moment captured in either medium then please contact me at gobadirt @ gmail.com (no spaces) or phone +61466598525 to talk further. I look forward to hearing from you … Enjoy the site!

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Wolverine Lives To Ride Another Day
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My latest affair with a motorcycle started a few months ago after I was dreaming up ways I could score myself one – enduro, motocross, adventure, trail – hell I wasn’t being fussy, I just needed some wheels to scratch the itch I was feeling from being too long out of the saddle. Maybe I should have been more specific with my dreaming though as 15-minutes after snapping back to the reality of my MacBook screen and photos found surfing moto sites I get this out-of-the-blue phone call, “Hey Goba, its Steve Crombie, remember at the ADB ride day you mentioned your looking for an old adventure bike to get you going until you can afford one you really want”, Ah yeah, I replied. “Well I’ve got a deal for you”, he said, in a way I felt this could be really good, or maybe not so good, but hey I was bike-less and was prepared to give anything a go.

 

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Pondering the many adventures to come

 

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Future Of Judging
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Last week Red Bull X Fighters pulled together a collection of professional FMX riders and creditable industry people to help re-evaluate the current judging system with the aim to come up with a fairer one that can help steer the future of freestyle motocross in a positive direction.

judging_clinic_4_gobadirt The Red Bull judging clinic, one step close to getting FMX judging on the right track

 

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FMX Comps In Oz, Where Are They At
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I pulled my head out of the sand the other day. It’s been stuck in there for about a month, well it has when it comes to knowing what’s happening with FMX Down Under. I’ve had plenty of other things pop up to distract me from the world of freestyle, but hey that’s life, ‘C’est la vie’ as they say in French.

It’s surprising how fast you can drop off the radar to what’s going on. This time last year Kain Saul and Levi Sherwood were fighting for the Australian FMX championships and looking at this year’s series there’s no freestyle in sight. This got me thinking … What’s going on with FMX this side of the globe? Where are all the comps? I pulled out my address book and dialled a few numbers to get back up to speed.

 

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The Cam Sinclair Interview
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When Travis Pastrana executed the first Double Flip I really wondered who would be brave enough to follow in his footsteps. Scott Murray gave it a shot and failed more than he succeeded. On a very good day he nailed it, but was very hit and miss with perfecting the double rotation.

 

Then came along Australian Cam “Sincs” Sinclair, who proved the Double Flip can be consistently executed after he successfully rode away from 20-plus during the 2009 Crusty Tour and several competitions world wide. Then Cam raised the bar and included the Double Flip in his 90-second run at the X-Fighters rounds he attended. All seemed to be going well until the pressure of linking a smooth run together at the Madrid stop in Spain saw him under rotate the Double ending in a near fatal accident that he was lucky to survive.

 

Two months later Cam made his first public appearance at Robbie Maddison’s Red Bull XRAY freeride event with his brother Mick and manager Adam Bailey, so I sat down with the Sincs brothers to talk about what happened at Madrid, the recovery process, and will we be seeing him back on a bike any time soon. 

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Mick left and Cam at Rebull XRAY, Cam's first outing since his accident at X-Fighters in Spain

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Red Bull XRAY
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Robbie “Maddo” Maddison deservedly took FMX honours at the weekends Red Bull XRAY, but for many who were there to witness the action it was a new breed of youngsters who stole the show.

Tye Simmonds, Cody Mackie and Jarryd McNeil, remember them, as you’ll be hearing a lot more about these freaks in the near future as they stepped up big-time against some of the world’s best dirt-bike riders and tore apart the Maddo inspired freeride course like they were possessed.

mackie_4_lowCody Mackie stylin a fat Whip over the 120-footer past the judges tower

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