So all the folks down here in LA with a motocross background remember you from your youth mx days but for the others who may not can you give a recap of the events you qualified for and who you were racing with?

Alright, lets see I started when I was about twelve and raced until about 16...I was pretty darn slow at first but after my dad and I taking a couple winters off and practicing - we'd go out to camp Claiborne, he'd make me a little trail or motocross track, we just practice a turn over and over...anyway came back and just started getting better all of a sudden and then went to Ponca City, I think that was the first National that I went to, on 80's racing the novice class.  I want to say I got top 5 in the novice class, then went to Loretta Lynn's the next year.  My finishes...I never could put together solid overalls...I'd have a good moto then an awful one where I'd fall three or four times in a moto, anyway never did have great results at the Nationals but they were fun.  I went to Loretta Lynn's twice...I guess the highlight of that is one year I raced Greg Rand, Robbie Reynard, all those guys..of course they're not even around anymore.  I guess the coolest thing is I grew up racing with Kevin Windham, which was neat.

Sweet, local races or at the amateur nationals? Nah local races, he was a little bit younger than me so he was in a younger class at the nationals.  But we used to race Denham Springs, they used to have a track. We raced every weekend, we'd go to whatever track they went to ....kind of like your series, you see the same people at every race...and he was FAST then too, I mean unreal.  We'd race the open class and grown men would get mad and protest because they didn't want him riding the open class, he would smoke everybody on an 80.  He was probably thirteen, I mean that's back when people would have 500's and stuff and he'd smoke them all.  Anyway then I did the Mini Olympics one year...so Ponca City once, Loretta Lynn's twice, and Mini O's once.

Winter Olympics 1991

Beebe at Van Way Moto Playground by Terrie Shaw

...and now you're racing cross-country...last year when we chatted at the beginning of the season your goal was top 3 in the LACC Series for the year and bring your bike to the banquet [top 3 bring bikes with new graphics] - you did that, now is your goal to get the #1 plate?

Yeh that was my goal to start off - to get top 3 every race and then ...well my goal was really to get fast enough to be able race with Trampas - not necessarily get first overall but I wanted to be able to race with him.  I think he's a great rider and I trust riding around him, riding with him, and I just wanted to get fast enough where I could have a couple races where we actually raced for an hour and a half together - you know just the whole time.

-and you got to team up with him for The Off-Road Cup. Yeh, yeh that was fun.   Assuming you finish in the top 3 would you want to do the 9-hr again representing the LACC Series' Top Pro team?  I saw that on the website, looked awesome - I've never been there [Golden Pine Raceway in MS].  But yeh if my wife was all for it then I'd be all for it.  I don't have any DNF's left so...

Well we'd love to have you represent the series on the top Pro team again if it works out.  Obviously family is a big a part for you.

Ah yeh shoot that's what I tell everybody, I'm sure you do to.  Dirt bike racing, no matter what kind it is...motocross, cross-country, enduro...it's a family sport and I wouldn't go if my wife didn't want to go.  It's definitely a family sport, that's what I grew up doing with my Dad, that is why my dad and I are such good friends today.  He still tries to make every race.

And y'all have one little girl... Oh yeh, I can give you some big news, we got another one coming!   Come on! Yep eight weeks pregnant.  So that's pretty exciting.   Awesome man hope everything works out well.  So did you see yourself on the Friday Flashback thing yet? Oh yeh, not yet but I saw the email going around.  That was actually my first race ever, it was a Hare Scramble.

Beebe with wife Frannie and their little girl Amelia - photo by Chris Shows

There you go, sporting some jeans and all. Yeh I never raced another Hare Scramble type race until your cross-country series - the one in Wilson in '09 on that damn RM 450. [now he's railing on a KTM 250 2-stroke]

So staying on track with our past interviews -  1st three purchases after winning the PowerBall?

(laugh and a pause)

 ...now you can't think about it...you've got millions of dollars in your pocket, where are you going?

1. Buy a bunch of land.

2. Pay off anything my family and all owes on...parents, sister, in laws, etc.

3.  Beach house for Frannie, she loves the beach.

Alright thanks for the time, anything else you'd like to add?

Thanks to my wife and Dad, Kevin Hutchinson for keeping my bike going, Jonathan Plunkett and MTA also helping out, ...I guess everybody for coming to the races and making it so fun.  It is fun, you have a good series going on man.

Thanks to Andy for taking some time to chat and good luck!