The List: Top 10 Baby Items Used in Motocross
Thursday, July 7, 2011 | 11:00 AM
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By: Matt Walker
Former AMA 125 Supercross winner Matt Walker is still heavily involved with the sport teaching riding schools, and as such, he's discovered some secrets to making your day at the races a little easier. Take it away, Stalker:
If you’re like me and your baby is no longer a baby (mine is almost three going on 33), your house is still filled with baby Items. And you’re considering tossing them in the trash. Think again. Here’s a list of my top 10 uses for baby items for Motocrossers. Thank me later!
10) Baby sunscreen, Coppertone Water Babies SPF 50.
Sunscreen is an old trick that riders use on really hot days. It is believed to lower your body temperature and make the sun’s heat feel less intense (It really does work). I like this brand because it doesn’t sting if it gets in your eyes. It’s also waterproof and it stays on good even when you’re sweating a lot.
9) Baby Water, Nursery Brand.
We all drink water at the track. I like this brand because it comes in 1 gallon jugs of purified drinking water. It also has added minerals for taste.
8) Baby Food, Peter Rabbit Organics Pouches.
Eating on race day is always hard to do, partly due to nerves. With the Peter Rabbit fruit pouches the fruit is pureed into a small pouch. I like this because it’s so portable and convenient. Perfect for the racer who needs to eat on race day but can’t.
7) Diaper Rash, Boudreaux's Butt Paste.
Every racer gets Monkey Butt. This "Butt Paste" works the best and is great for those long days on a rough track. I wouldn’t leave home without it.
6) Baby Powder, JOHNSON & JOHNSON.
Any brand baby powder works. Use it on your hands before you put on your gloves and it will help with your gloves getting wet from sweat which leads to blisters. I also use this on my feet before I put on riding socks. Ever put on riding socks with sweaty feet? You’re welcome.
5) Petroleum Jelly, JOHNSON & JOHNSON.
I use Petroleum Jelly on my goggles when conditions are not perfect. Spreading the jelly on the foam at the top and inside bottom of the goggle helps keep dirt from getting in your eyes. Spreading a thin layer on the top foam keeps dirt from coming in. Spreading it around the bottom, inside the goggle, helps trap any dirt that may have fallen through the top.
4) Razor bumps, Desitin.
We all get razor bumps. Racers think they’re swimmers so most shave from top to bottom. Frequent shaving leads to annoying razor bumps. Spread Desitin on your soon to be bump area and the bumps will go away. This product is amazing and works on your neck line as well.
3) Hydration Drink, Pedialite
For years this baby drink has been the drink of choice on those hot days by racers. Because of its high levels of electrolites and sodium, it puts back in what your body sweats out.
2) Baby Wipes, Up&Up (Target brand)
With all the sweat and dirt in MX, it’s hard to keep a pimple free face. Baby wipes help with that along with much more. They’re perfect for cleaning goggle frames, roost on your gear, even Helmets. You can’t have too many baby wipes at the track. The uses are endless.
1) Laundry Detergent, Dreft brand
Dreft is by far the best detergent for getting stains out of riding gear. It’s made and designed for getting baby formula and baby poop out of baby garments. I like this because it’s strong enough to lift Georgia red clay out of riding gear, but gentle enough to not fade colors. This is why it’s my number 1 pick for Baby items used in Motocross.
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good article Matt!! Hit me up!
Awesome suggestions, thanks for this!
Great list Matt. The only thing i wouldn't want guys to use is the sunscreen. I feel that sunscreen blocks your pores, which will raise your body temp because you cant sweat properly. And in light of recent tragic events, we should be aware of this.
Baby powder is also good to use when changing flat tires, powdering the tube helps prevent pinching and binding while inserting the tube and re-mounting the tire bead. But I guess the pros never change their own tires. :)
And the baby powder gives your tires and tubes that spring time fresh sent [smile ] ... Been useing it for years...good article...
Dude! Awesome article!!! As I am a new rider it would literally take years to build up this kind of arsenal of secrets.. and some of that stuff many would never think of especially if they don't have kids... Keep it Coming'!!!
I concur. Great stuff! After having kids, I never travel w/o baby wipes and Butt Paste. Oh yeaaaaaa!
Best use for baby wipes, no doubt. except for helping prevent cranky-a$$. My oldest son is seven, and lemme tell you, since disovering baby wipes, I haven't had any irritation "post-powder room" since he was born! hahahaha Seriously though, great stuff Matt. I've used many of these tricks in the past and he is spot on with his anaylsis. Keep these lists coming!!
Good to hear from you Matt...last time I talked with you was at Red Bud on the PA
system.
Bevo showed me some of these tricks like petroleum on goggles.
Yes, and the baby powder on the knee braces and these areas goes a long ways.
Thanks for the tips.
Great job.
The Desitin works well for "monkey butt" or any heat rash, its awesome. Pedialite works great, my son hits it sometimes during soccer tournaments in the summer months, his teammates think he's nuts. The baby powder works good of course, but for your feet, use Gold Bond foot powder, I use it every morning before work, I wear work boots all day outside in the heat, this stuff works great.
Great ideas, just a couple of thoughts. I would not recommend using J&J baby powder or Vaseline petroleum jelly. Talc is a know carcinogen and petroleum jelly is a petrol-chemical also a know carcinogen. Use corn starch based baby powder and scuba mask mustache sealer. Kirkland (Costco) brand baby wipes are also a good choice, I use them on everything from corporate aircraft interiors to my grand daughters hinney.
Thanks Matt, good article, good to see you around keep em coming!
Hahaha! Awesome list! Only the folks with kids know this list to be true and know that every item on it works. Next list- Feminine products used on race day!
I have a pair of Doug Henry's Goggles from RED BUD and they still have a strip of feminin pad glued to the top foam
Baby water? That stuff should be banned. That shit is a scam it contains extra Sodium Fluoride the same stuff found in rat poison. Maybe a google search will enlighten you, I hope so.
"Boudreaux's Butt Paste"
I know it can't be, but I cracked up when I saw this - thinking instantly of 'Baz" Boudreau. An editor for either MXA or Dirt Bike, many years ago. Who then went on to become a Pastor. Yes, I'm Old.
As for the nasty stuff in Baby Water - really? How would that get past the authorities? Not knocking you Mike - and I've seen things like that get through, but that's downright scary if that's the case.
Baby Wipes - Check, Baby Food, Check again.Baby Powder - yup that too. Petrolium Jelly - yup, yup. Pedialite - sounds like a good idea, as does the Baby Sunscreen.
You forgot the Dummy / Pacifier - to give to the nearest whinger at the race - sometimes it can be you, the one that brought it. It happens to all of us.
@jd805, I was thinking the same thing but didn't want to post it!
Reminds me of boxing! Some boxers use tampons on their hands when they wrap them. Whatever works!
Some scrawny MX rider trying to get through customs with all those baby items would be detained for baby smuggling, and fisted all afternoon by Bertha Unibrow, the legendary Lithuanian body cavity searcher employed by the airport.
Fluoride is in toothpaste too, it's used to kill germs in your mouth. I didn't want my kids drinking it but everyone argued that the kids need fluoride even before their teeth come out. There's a reason the kiddie toothpaste doesn't have it, and there's a reason it says not to swallow the adult toothpaste. Google it like the previous poster said, if I remember correctly, it's a by product of some industrial process.
A hunting buddy turned me on to unscented baby wipes long before I had kids. The uses for MX are seemingly endless. They do a great job cleaning up two stroke mix that always seems to leak out of the vent hole on my jerry can, takes chain lube off of the area near the shift lever, and the chics will thank you when they have something to clean their hands with coming out of the nasty porta-potties. The cheap off brands work just as well as the higher priced brand name stuff, don't waste your money.
Feminine products: a great hockey coach insisted we keep maxi-pads in our first aid kits. When we looked at him like the crazy s.o.b that he was, he asked us if we ever saw what happens when someone gets an artery gashed by a skate blade and stated enthusiastically "what better to soak up large quantities of blood!"
Pedialyte tastes horrible. When my kids were toddlers and got sick, doc said to give them some (it comes in popsicles too, but that's no better) but they wouldn't drink it. Gave them good old fashioned grape gatorade and they guzzled it down. If you ever get stomach flu, it tastes the same coming back the other way!
Never thought of using the butt paste on myself. I imagine Desitin would work just as well, why stock both? For my kids it seemed to work better on their rashes than the Boudreau's. Monkey Butt powder is awesome, comes in handy for 1000 mile days on the Goldwing.
Countries in Europe have banned fluoride. According to "Clinical Toxicology of Commercial Products," fluoride is more poisonous than lead and just slightly less poisonous than arsenic. It accumulates in bone over years. Not only that, but the largest U.S. study of fluoridation and tooth decay showed that the number of decayed, missing, and filled teeth per person was virtually the same in fluoridated and non-fluoridated areas. And they filled them with mercury! Scientific opposition to fluoridation has been suppressed since 1950 when the U.S. Public Health Service first endorsed its use. The things they do to us!
We used to use baby bottles for measuring oil etc.
A pacifier works well for keeping roost out of one's mouth, but it requires nose breathing. This will only work for riders like James Stewart. I would pass out from lack of oxygen.
Hey Walker... Remember when that girl Stacey used to whip up on you in the pee-wee class.. Those were the days...