VOL. 50 ISSUE 28 JULY 16, 2013
After impressing the
teams with his brief
Supercross showing in
2011, Zach Osborne had
his eye on just one.
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STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY
STEVE COX
I
t's really pretty much impossible to not like Zach Osborne.
He simply has no "quit" in him.
He's always pushing forward,
whether through injuries (and
he's had quite a few), being essentially sent to Europe because
he was out of shape for racing in
the AMA, and on and on. Most
American racers in his situation
would've quit rather than slug it
out in the GPs, away from home,
for over half a decade, but not
Osborne.
Instead, Osborne took it as a
challenge, just like everything
else in his life. When he's cornered, he fights, but even he admits he has to be cornered first.
"I'm the type of guy, everything
has to be, like my back's against
the wall," Osborne says. "Like,
even just to put my laundry in the
basket, my wife has to be down
my throat or else I'm not going
to do it. Maybe I'm a little bit of a
procrastinator..."
THE OLD ZACH
The Budds Creek AMA National
marked a milestone in 2013 for
Zach Osborne. Back in 2006,
when he was the hot, new thing
out of the amateur ranks for
KTM, Osborne led the first eight
laps of the first moto, and had a
pretty big lead, then faded – without falling – all the way to 18th at
the finish.
He was fast, but he was chubby and out of shape, and the only
