:07:02
Trying to keep loose
was 62-year-old J.N. Roberts.
:07:05
A true legend in off-road racing.
:07:07
Always gotta keep moving.
Harder target to hit.
:07:11
Mouse arrived.
He's very quiet. Unusually subdued.
:07:15
Mouse doesn't know this but when
I was a little kid, he was my hero.
:07:19
He'd go out smokin' everybody.
:07:20
"Wow, who's this Mouse McCoy?"
Then all of a sudden, disappeared.
:07:25
I started racing
when I was four years old.
:07:27
And by 17 I was just flat burned out.
:07:30
Nothing you could do about it.
:07:31
You don't have any context
of what you're doing as a kid.
:07:33
All you know is you hate it,
you're done, you're sick of it.
:07:36
Actually that's the best thing
that's ever happened to me
:07:38
'cause now I love
riding motorcycles more than ever.
:07:39
And maybe I wouldn't have loved it
so much had I kept going.
:07:42
For every bike there's usually
three. Four. Or five riders.
:07:45
Johnny Campbell would be riding
the first 205 miles
:07:48
before handing it over
to Steve Hengeveld.
:07:50
We'll see ya at the finish line.
:07:51
J.N. Would ride 110
before giving it to his son Jimmy.
:07:55
Mouse McCoy wouldn't
run 100. 200, or even 500 miles.
:08:00
Mouse had a different plan.
:08:02
He was gonna race
the entire Baja 1000 solo.
:08:07
One man's name is synonymous
for racing the Baja solo...
:08:10
the Ironman. Van Stewart.
:08:12
Well, to do a 1,000-mile race
in a car is tough,
:08:15
but at least you can sit down
and get a drink of water
:08:18
and you're protected a lot more.
:08:19
And to do it on a motorcycle,
I mean, I can't fathom it. That's tough.
:08:23
Anybody can trail ride the thing
for the thousand miles.
:08:26
But to be competitive and do it
was a whole different deal.
:08:29
And I knew I looked up to him,
:08:31
and now, wow, I'm really gonna
look up to him if he finishes this thing.
:08:33
This is gonna be amazing.
:08:35
People say, "Don't you
worry about your son?"
:08:36
No, I don't worry about him
because he's gifted.
:08:40
And he usually gets there.
:08:41
I think Mouse is one of the best
when it comes to preparing.
:08:46
He pre-ran down here
more than anybody I've ever seen.
:08:53
Supercross legend Ricky Johnson.
:08:55
Who's like Mouse's big brother.
Had some reservations.
:08:58
Not because he's a bad rider.
He's a great rider.