Adventure Magazine

REMY MORTON

This song could have been written for mountain biker, Remy Morton, he’s been knocked down more times than he can remember, yet he’s not learnt to take a softer approach. As we went to write this feature we reached out to Remy for some additional input - he was slow replying - he had broken both arms!

Born in the Gold Coast in Australia, Remy was riding a PeeWee motorcycle by the time he was 3 and started BMX riding and competing, when he was just 4 years old.

"I get knocked down, but I get up again, you're never gonna keep me down."

According to his dad, Remy always showed a no fear attitude. When he was just 6 years old he took a nasty tumble at his local BMX club and instead of quitting, simply said, “oh, I didn’t do that very well” and

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