Davey Coombs

Davey Coombs didn’t parachute into motocross after it became cool. He grew up inside it, watched its future stars emerge through the amateur ranks and was standing trackside when Supercross entered the ’90s under a black cloud. Promoters were fighting, attendance was struggling and the sport had lost the larger-than-life personalities who once carried it.

Then Jeremy McGrath arrived.

Davey watched the unknown 125 rider become an instant champion, throw a Nac Nac and fill the void at the top of the sport. He also saw Jeff Emig emerge as McGrath’s natural opposite, and their rivalry become the engine Supercross desperately needed.

In MOTO NINETIES, Davey provides the connective tissue between racing’s history and the rebellion threatening to tear it apart. He remembers Seth Enslow becoming motocross’s human crash-test dummy, Deegan’s ghost ride becoming freestyle’s second shot across the bow and the X Games proving the outlaw movement wasn’t going away.

Davey supplies the context behind the chaos: how a struggling racing series, underground VHS culture and a generation of fearless personalities collided to create an entirely new sport.