Dirt Action

GREEN DAYS

Red, green, yellow, blue, orange or white … cut the skin of any serious moto fan and the blood that flows will give a definite hint of their allegiances. Such is the case with Dylan O'Keeffe: scratch his skin and he's going to bleed green. Kawasaki green.

At 27 years of age, Dylan's story of a life in moto starts like most of us: he first threw a leg over a bike at ten years of age, climbed aboard a Chinese Thumpstar for a while, before graduating to a 2005 model Yamaha YZ250F … which unfortunately ended up being stolen by some low-lifes. Thankfully his dad had an ‘06 50th Anniversary YZ450F that he could borrow — when he was just 14 years of age. Score!

A couple of years later on he got his first fuelinjected 450 — a Honda CRF — and dived deeper into racing with the Red Bull Day in

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