Jamie Little

Jamie Little didn’t have to reconstruct the madness of the 1990s. She watched it happen from the front row. She saw riders battle their guts out under stadium lights, then meet at Lake Havasu and party like the championship had never existed.

More importantly, Jamie recognized when the culture surrounding the racing was becoming as powerful as the racing itself. She gives MOTO NINETIES a crucial eyewitness perspective as the story crosses its biggest divide: from an outlaw scene traded on VHS tapes to a made-for-television phenomenon called Freestyle Moto X.

When dirt bikes entered the 1999 X Games, Jamie understood that the sport had reached the dawn of a new era. She also identifies the rivalry that made the takeover irresistible: Travis Pastrana, the clean-cut all-American phenomenon, against Brian Deegan, the former privateer who arrived dressed in black and covered in spikes.

One represented possibility. The other represented rebellion.

Jamie is close enough to feel the energy but clear-eyed enough to explain what changed. Through her, the movie shows how dangerous riders, carefully constructed rivalries and the reach of television turned an underground movement into mainstream action-sports history.