HERE, in a weekly(ish) column by Alyssa Roenigk, senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and author of The Big Jump: The Tao of Travis Pastrana. So much for a summer vacation. Or sleep. Check out the excerpt below from her latest article on Travis: Free Time? Nope, Freestyle.?Never trust Travis Pastrana. At least when he tells you that he absolutely, positively, definitely will not do something. That's not to say he's lying when he tells you these things. He's not. In that exact moment, whatever he says is the truth. In that moment. It is the truth.'I am not doing a double backflip at X Games.''I will never do the double backflip again. I promised my mom. I mean it this time.'The guy changes his mind faster than his pit crew can swap out four Goodyears. Two weeks ago, while shooting a commercial for X Games 17 at his home in Maryland, Pastrana said there was a zero percent chance he would sign on to compete in Moto X Freestyle this month. He was so certain, in fact, that he wasn't willing to say, on camera, that he was competing in FMX, "just in case" he changed his mind. "I am not doing freestyle," he said. "How many times can I say it? I'm not doing freestyle. Write that down." Find out what else Travis has up his sleeve for X-Games at ESPN!" />


Pastranathon: Free Time? Nope, Freestyle



Travis Pastrana has a busy summer ahead. By August, he will have brought his Nitro Circus Live show to the U.S., filmed for a 3-D movie full of first-time stunts, competed in Moto X Best Trick and RallyCross at X Games 17 and made his NASCAR debut in the Nationwide Series. And ESPN will have chronicled it all HERE, in a weekly(ish) column by Alyssa Roenigk, senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and author of The Big Jump: The Tao of Travis Pastrana. So much for a summer vacation. Or sleep. Check out the excerpt below from her latest article on Travis: Free Time? Nope, Freestyle.

?Never trust Travis Pastrana. At least when he tells you that he absolutely, positively, definitely will not do something. That's not to say he's lying when he tells you these things. He's not. In that exact moment, whatever he says is the truth. In that moment. It is the truth.

'I am not doing a double backflip at X Games.'

'I will never do the double backflip again. I promised my mom. I mean it this time.'

The guy changes his mind faster than his pit crew can swap out four Goodyears. Two weeks ago, while shooting a commercial for X Games 17 at his home in Maryland, Pastrana said there was a zero percent chance he would sign on to compete in Moto X Freestyle this month. He was so certain, in fact, that he wasn't willing to say, on camera, that he was competing in FMX, "just in case" he changed his mind. "I am not doing freestyle," he said. "How many times can I say it? I'm not doing freestyle. Write that down."

Find out what else Travis has up his sleeve for X-Games at ESPN!



07.19.2011