ROAD RACER, MXER, FLAT TRACKER, HOOLIGAN RACER ANDY DIBRINO
P64
Interview
Not good. I didn't land it. Definitely, a back-
flip on a big bike is in the future. We had Jimmy
Hill come out and he threw some tricks out for
us. Anything I can do, I try to do it. It's just fun.
For me coming up as a kid, motocross was
just for fun. My dad raced motocross forever, so he got
me into it. We'd go to the track, go ride, maybe go do
a moto trip here and there to California just to hit some
tracks and practice, or do Day in the Dirt, just stuff for
fun. It wasn't until I was older and I was into supermoto
and road racing that I started taking it more seriously
and thinking about, "maybe I could be a professional." I
started getting faster. I was good at supermoto.
Do you still ride supermoto?
It's been a couple years since I've raced. I raced some
AMA Supermoto West stuff back in 2016, but supermoto died
so I couldn't really go down that path. That was about the time
I was getting good at road racing and got on the 600.
As far as I knew, I was going to be a road racer. I was
doing that and doing well at it, and had one podium in Su-
perstock 600. I got a second. But then the following year,
I had already been dabbling in Super Hooligan stuff. That
series changed everything for me. I didn't want to stop
road racing, so this year I did a couple rounds. I got a third
in Stock 1000 at Road America, fourth at Sonoma, and
broke the track record at my local track (Portland Interna-
I wanted to do a flat track, and
my buddy just so happens to be this
40-year-old dude that bought an
air bag landing and built a freestyle
ramp because he wants to learn
how to whip. He needed a place
to put it, and suddenly, I've got a
flat track with a TT course and a
freestyle ramp and air bag landing!
Down the street, the same guy also
has a motocross track at a friend's
house, so we ride everything. We
just roll out of the garage, ride down
the street, go moto and come back,
flat track and hit ramps.
So… backflips next?
Yeah. Last year I tried landing the
first backflip on the Alta.
How'd that work out for you?
(Right) DiBrino
holds the regional
number one
plate at Portland
International
Raceway and
the track record.
(Left) The
inaugural Super
Hooligan National
Championship win
scored DiBrino a
nice trophy. And a
brand new Indian
FTR750.
