Josh Hill has had quite the journey on dirt bikes, going from minicycle racing prodigy to factory supercrosser, X Games competitor to down and out with injuries—and now he’s back in the spotlight as a test rider and content creator
WORDS: SAM NICOLINI
Josh Hill is a busy man. He is a part-time professional supercross racer, a part-time content creator for Monster Energy, and a part-time development rider for much-buzzed-about Stark Future electric motorcycle. Josh, a former Yamaha factory rider who won an AMA Supercross way back in 2008, is also dipping his toe into organizing his own events with his Big Hill Jam hillclimb/FMX/music festival at his family’s ranch in Oregon. He’s also a part-time free rider, doing events like Red Bull Imagination, which is where I caught up with him recently. The always-approachable Hill was sitting inside Adam Laroche’s barn in Fort Scott, Kansas, waiting for the prairie winds to die down enough to make some runs on an amazing course designed in large part by his friend and fellow rider Tyler Bereman. Just as we started talking, I noticed a pretty nasty scar on his leg. . . .
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