#2 Ben Myburgh-Las Cassas, TN, USA

My name is Ben Myburgh and I think I may be the youngest racer attending. I am 24 years old and have been truly blessed by everything that has happened in my life and owe everything I have to God. My love for motorcycles comes from my father and my background in bicycle trials. In high school my father and I started riding together and that is where the adventure riding bug bite me. While working at my own business as a flight instructor in 2009 I convinced my dad to race Black River Stages Rally with me. The precious time we spent together was rattled however when 2 days after racing my father would fall from the second floor of his business balcony only to be crushed by a falling desk. My father spent the next year in and out of ICU for 20+ surgeries when in Oct 2010 he passed away from brain cancer, still not being fully recovered from the fall. Being that motorcycle was the last thing I did with my father and was really the first time we got to spend as an actual father and son, motorcycle is something I will always cherish. After his passing I decided I should sell my business at the flight school and take a motorcycle trip. The trip was something I did for my dad because is was something he always dreamed of doing. The trip started in TN and ended in TN... 25,000 miles later around the world. Now back from the trip and back in school for engineering following my fathers foot steps I have my eyes set on the Dakar Rally and feel that the Baja Rally is my opportunity to begin my next journey.

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