“Then they started doing this trick stuff, at the track over big jumps,” Moore said, “and they started asking about it, and I kept saying: ‘No, no. Wade Moore didn’t mind the racing or the thousands of dollars to keep them on the road. Michele Moore and her husband, Wade, were not wild about the boys’ burgeoning passion for freestyle, the practice of hurtling machines off a ramp. Even if I couldn’t do it, he would push me until I could.” “When we raced together, he pushed me to go faster and made me jump jumps that I wouldn’t have done. “I can pretty much say he taught me everything I know,” Colten Moore said. Their mother, Michele Moore, has a photograph of them as little boys turning flips on a trampoline, one mirroring the other down to the lighthouse smiles. Never far behind him was his younger brother, Colten. He was wired different than most people.” But then a few hours or a few days later, he would look like an artist soaring up there. “He’d let go of a hand here and do twist there - subtle stuff just to get a feel. “I’d watch him work through a routine, and sometimes, it looked like nothing was happening,” Cuartas said. He possessed the discipline to break down and think through tricks. It’s all we could afford.”īut what Moore liked to do more than anything else was make his machine fly. Then we’d share a room and do what’s called bench racing, reliving the day’s races. “He’d show up by himself in a beat-up truck after driving all night,” said the team’s owner, Jorge Cuartas. He hooked up with a team based in Georgia and competed throughout the South.
He had a Hollywood smile, an easy manner and a world of racing talent. As on most weekends on the ATV tour, however, it meant that competitors shared recreational vehicles and campers as well as fuel pumps and any other part that failed.Ĭaleb Moore showed up on this circuit as a teenager.
The best racers in the nation were here in October for the ATV Pro Challenge in Memory of Caleb Moore, which offered $30,000 in total prize money, a record for the sport. The life of an all-terrain vehicle racer is a peripatetic one, big on low-budget adventures but small when it comes to paychecks.
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