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Stomping Grounds: Temecula

By Tim Mutrie; Video By Cliff Talley
ESPN

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Tattoos, piercings and a penchant for things loud, painful and anti-establishment helped create the FMX rider's pop-culture persona as a sort of hybrid species: pirate meets rock star. This is not entirely inaccurate. One imagines, then, that the place where these dudes congregate in their highest concentrations -- their Pirate's Cove -- is some dark, dangerous corner of the still wild west. And while it's true that Temecula, Calif., is the freestyle moto mecca of the universe, it's no Pirate's ...

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