Metal Mulisha's demo dude, Shane Trittler, talks with ESPN FMX
July 2, 2009, 3:58 PM
By: Cliff Talley
Pretty much everybody outside of Southern California wiggs out when they see an FMX demo for the first time — and who can blame them? Seeing a guy huck himself 70 or 80 feet is pretty cool. Now take that 80 foot jump and add a backflip nac or a nasty whip train... now you've got a Metal Mulisha demo.
For the Mulisha/Rockstar demo team (Jeff Kargola, Derek Garland, Jimmy Fitzpatrick, Ryan Hagy and Wes Agee), the days are long and the schedule is non-stop, but as always, they make the best out of it and party their brains off. We caught up to talk shop with Shane Trittler, who is a former Supercross racer, longtime friend of Brian Deegan and now the man behind the Metal Mulisha demos.
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