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Jeff Utterback: I had a horrible mono shock early on. I don’t remember the brand. It might have been a homemade deal. The shock was way too soft for the swing arm geometry. I raced a highly modified Yamaha Moto Bike for a few weeks after Dan Gurney. Scot cut a deal with Yamaha and we did a test article for a magazine that chronicled my race attempts. My Dad built a new swing arm and Scot put some YZ 80 or XR 75 forks on it or something like that. Had trick rear shocks too. There is a photo in a magazine somewhere of me in the weeds at WSA trying to make something happen on that tank.
In the DG, Yamaha, FMF, Mongoose, Champion and SE years a lot changed for the better. What was it like going through the development process and did you have a big influence giving product feedback?
Jeff Utterback: I was very involved working alongside Scot. He really valued my opinion which was pretty cool for a 13 year old kid. The first Race Inc frames (pre FMF) had really low ground clearance. The first frame I raced I put drop out lifts on it because with 7 ½” cranks it was unrideable. The lift also made the head tube angle bearable. That geometry became the FMF and naturally the Race Incs. And with minor changes followed us to t