EDM:  Do you have a least favorite obstacle?
VE: Muddy Slop.
EDM:  Muddy slop?
VE:  Haha the Sloppy Mud it’s just a fight.
EDM:  I think everyone hates that… do you find you’re often racing in that Kind of crummy conditions?
VE: Yeah.
EDM:  Its rough on bikes isn’t it?
VE:  Yeah it kills em but like this weekend you should have seen our bikes.
EDM:  Daytona?
VE: Yeah.
EDM:  Hmm sounds like a GNCC race.
VE:  Yeah that’s what it reminded me of.
EDM:  Yeah I bet that was a major mess… Do you have a favorite race?  One that sticks out in your mind?
VE:  The RM cup challenge in Oklahoma. It was a Guy Cooper’s place.
EDM:  Why was that your favorite?
VE:  It was the place... his place was just unreal… It was just super nice the way the track was laid out,  the guys there, I had done it like two years in a row and it was just who we went with and what we did it was just exciting and sticks out just a fun time.
EDM:  When you say your favorite race was the RM cup challenge at Guy Cooper’s I’m sure most people are thinking I have never heard of that… can you tell us a little about it.
VE: The RM Cup Challenge is every year and all the dealers bring in riders. They can have one select rider so they would bring me in because I was there woods rider and then it was from each district like the top 5 riders out of each district that won are the only ones that are there so it’s all the fast people that come and it’s a race for this big RM Cup and it goes to the dealer.
EDM:  Ah that’s kind of cool.
VE:  Yeah so it's called RM Cup Challenge and every year they would fight and all the dealership would bring their best riders and fight for this cup you know.
EDM:  So have they stopped doing that since then?
VE:  Yeah that have stopped doing it.
EDM:  When did that stop?
VE:  Gosh I think it stopped about two years ago I guess
EDM:  Only? I would have thought it would have been stopped for some time now because that kind of dealer doesn’t isn't prevalent enough to create that kind of network.
EDM: Do you have a least favorite race?
VE:  Well the last one was at Muddy Creek, they had em for years before I started so they have been doing it for a long time before I got in with it and in muddy creek.  Stupid Track

VE:  Yeah it was sand whoops big sand whoops and it was in the pines and when I dove off into one of the whoops a big log had rolled down inside the whoop so when I landed I landed on the log and it pitched me up outta the whoop and caught my leg on the tree and just pealed my leg back and broke it off at the joint.
EDM:  Awwww Fudge! Ok that hurt!
VE:  Haha yeah it hurt I never...
EDM:  I bet that took a while to recover from that?
VE:  Well it took about 4 to 5 months.  They had actually done emergency surgery and screwed it back to my hip bone and it’s been good since.
EDM:  Wow so it broke your hip bone?
VE: Yeah where your hip comes up to the ball and your joint and your hip bone there and it took it off right at the joint in other words you got this socket and it stayed in and just broke it off right at the ball and so they just had to screw it back up to the socket.
EDM:  That’s nasty... Do you have a favorite rider?
VE:  Not really... I have never really had one. I have always looked at all of them at a good level and no one ever stood out or shined more than the other.
EDM:  Anyone you would like to meet?
VE:  Yeah you know and that’s the thing you go to the dealer shows and you see and meet most of the people and riders… so none I really would like to meet
EDM:  Do you have a favorite band?
VE:  No not really
EDM:  I remember watching an interview and the person was saying "you get to a point in your life when music actually starts to make sense you always listen to music and its all around and then you get to that point and you’re like wait a minute that music actually means something to me."
VE:  And that’s the thing. I have listened to it all these years and now I have an iPod and it seems like they have changed the whole song and I’m thinking, god I didn’t know that’s what they were saying this whole time!
EDM:  Are you liking that or is it a let down?
VE:  No its good its good I’m trying to pay more attention to what they’re saying.
EDM:  So what do you like to do besides ride and work on bikes?
VE:  Um Paint cars.
EDM:  Really?
VE:  I know it ain’t the smell cuz it kills you… it’s the job I produce when I’m done how slick and how good it looks when I’m finished that’s my reputation.
EDM:  Oh is that the work your going into?

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