VOL. 50 ISSUE 50 DECEMBER 17, 2013
to do in regard to sports is
When the 2014
Supercross
take advice from their parseason begins,
ents. Eli is no different here.
Tomac will be
He'd listen to team manager
on a 450 and
Mike LaRocco or former
sporting a new
number - 3.
teammate Kevin Windham
before listening to his dad,
even if his dad is telling him the exact-same
thing.
"Yeah, that's just human nature, when you
don't want to listen to your parents sometimes,"
Tomac says. "It's just the way it is."
That could be at least part of the reason
Tomac ended up racing motorcycles instead of
bicycles in the first place.
"I don't even know the exact reason why I became a dirt-biker," Tomac says. "I got a PW50
for Christmas once, and I was actually racing
BMX at the time, too, so I was riding bicycles
P143
"I RUN MY BIKE QUITE A BIT
DIFFERENT THAN MOST OF
MY TEAMMATES, SO I THINK
IT ACTUALLY HURTS ME ON
STARTS."
