Five-year-old motocross racer Tallan Smith will be graduating pre-kindergarten this week and is looking forward to the summer season with races in California and Oregon.
Tallan races in the 50cc classes on a cobra CX50jr two-stroke and a Husqvarna electric.
Tallan is excelling very fast at a young age. He is typically racing against kids that are up to 9 years old. He started riding dirt bikes at age 3. Tallan just finished a six-race series in Redding and Medford where he placed second overall out of 27 kids in one 50cc class, and placed third overall in another class.
Tallan would like to thank his local sponsors for getting him to the races, sometimes six hours away.
His sponsors include Fogbank clothing company, Tallan’s Tires, Ming Tree Real Estate, Robin Depee, Klinefelter Contracting, Jason Bartholomew, Moonlight Logging, GetRight, Dave Bowdish, Ace of Fades Barber shop.
Tallan will be racing in Klamath falls for arena cross and Medford for the summer series. He will also be racing in southern California. Tallan’s goal is to compete at a regional level, then qualify for an AMA national championship race.