MCREY Motocross

Paige and Kelly McReynolds - Founders for MCREY Motocross

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• Deeper dive into the MCREY MotoCross story; by checking out the site, it sounds like there’s some great stories, epic crashes, outfit changes and more.
• Did either of you compete/race in MotoX? What’s that like?
• They say that necessity breeds invention, but in this case necessity begets a business… Let’s talk more about how MCREY Motocross got started, and what products you offer.  
• Do you have a background in fashion?
• If a young girl walked up to you today and asked, Why do you race? What would you say? 
• How should racing change to be more inviting to more people, esp. Women?

and much, much more!

Crew Chief Brad: [00:00:00] BreakFix podcast is all about capturing the living history of people from all over the autosphere, from wrench turners and racers to artists, authors, designers, and everything in between. Our goal is to inspire a new generation of petrolheads that wonder. How did they get that job? Or become that person?

The road to success is paved by all of us. Because everyone has a story.

Crew Chief Eric: Our guests tonight are the epitome of yin and yang. One being sassy and independent, while the other gentle and loving. From an early age, they were encouraged to try anything and everything. And there was only one thing these sisters had in common, and that was their love for adventure.

Fascinated with off roading from an early age, receiving their first dirt bikes around the age of 10, they quickly realized, like any sport, it requires proper gear and safety equipment. But the problem is, there were hardly any options for young ladies. During the pandemic, [00:01:00] sisters Paige and Kelly McReynolds jokingly talked about what their dream company would look like.

Women’s motocross apparel that they actually wanted to wear, instead of whatever they could scrounge up in the men’s section. They sat down at the whiteboard and within an hour had a name, slogan, and their first design sketches. They knew they had something special and they wanted to share their story.

Their designs and their passion for adventure with other women and girls around the world. So join me on this adventure with my co host Mountain Man Dan and our guest Paige and Kelly McReynolds to share their story and tell us all about McRey Motocross. So welcome to Break Fix, Kelly and Paige.

Paige McReynolds: Woo.

Thanks for having us. Wow. What a wonderful intro.

Crew Chief Eric: Thanks. So why don’t we dive deeper into this McRae motocross story? When you check out the website, it sounds like there’s some awesome and epic stories, crashes, outfit changes, all sorts of stuff. How did it all start?

Paige McReynolds: with a [00:02:00] crash. I crashed and ripped my gear, my jersey specifically.

So I just wanted to replace my jersey and realized that because it was a couple years old, they no longer sold it online. Like I couldn’t find it anywhere. And so I’m like, okay, well now I’m not only just buying a new jersey, I have to buy a new pair of pants. At least for me, I want my stuff to match. And I feel like that’s a cross.

That’s like a cross. I feel like most riders like. You match your gear. And so it just started this conversation between us where I was super frustrated that I had to buy a whole new kit, just because I had a huge rip in my sleeve. We started talking about what our dream Jersey would look like. If I could create any Jersey, what would it be?

Animal print for me, it’s very natural choice. And so we started sketching that up. And literally, like you said, within I think an hour, we had a name, a slogan, and our first Jersey sketch. And we were like, dude, this, I feel like we should do this. It was kind of a, we’re like, I think we’re kind of, and all of a sudden we had like a logo and shirts.

I was like, Oh, we’re doing it. Cause we lived together at the time and we’re up in Northern California and our entire living room [00:03:00] was just sketches. Like there was all our pencils, paper colored pencils everywhere. Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: Do you guys have a background in fashion? Nope.

Paige McReynolds: Not like an actual degree or certification.

And if you look at like our pictures from like Fifth grade, you would definitely notice we have no style, but we were always involved in like, creative projects growing up. We both took art classes. We would make bags and shirts out of like old clothing. Oh, that’s right. I totally forgot that. Yeah. And like, as you get older, you know, in high school, we would keep up with trends.

So we like, we like style and whatnot, but we do not have a degree or anything in fashion background. Yeah. So we started riding, learned how to ride when we were younger. And then I think for both of us, at different times, we took time off. Mostly when we were, I think, a little bit older in high school and then went to college.

We both went to Sonoma State, so we weren’t home. There wasn’t something that we did by ourselves. And it wasn’t until we both moved back to the area that we really started getting back into it. Made [00:04:00] friends that ride that were our own age. We got our, you know, had our own bikes that we could take with us.

And all of a sudden we realized. We could do all of this by ourselves. Like, why do we have to be with our dad to do it? Why do we have to be with family or friends? We can ride all on our own. We can take our bikes out by ourselves. And to add to it too, we were like on and off with dirt biking just because our family does so many other sports.

Like, each season has its… sport we do. So summers was for wakeboarding and then winters was for skiing and snowboarding, and we always had other stuff going on. And I feel like for racing, you really have to, I mean, it’s a full on sport. Like I played soccer, she played softball. Like we know what it means to dedicate.

And I just don’t know if we’ll ever have like the full time and energy to be like full on racers, but we definitely. Want to race in the future. And that’s also kind of why it took so long to get to this point, but it’s kind of perfect timing, like our age and now just feeling so dedicated to the sport that we want to create a business around it.

So growing

Crew Chief Eric: up sounds like a family affair, but going out there, riding and whatnot, were there other girls that rode with you? Did you ride with other guys? Just you [00:05:00] guys like out with the fam by yourself. So,

Paige McReynolds: yeah, it was normally our dad and his friends and then his friends sons. And that’s how we. Became friends with a lot of our, some of our best friends now was through that.

For the most part, we were always the only two girls. There were a couple of rides where some family friends, like a couple, maybe older women would go riding with us. Up until like a year ago, we haven’t really had any friends our age that ride that are female. Yeah. That just became very normal for us.

Like we didn’t even really think about, I mean, it sucked. It was a bummer. Like, man forced us to get really close, you know? Yeah. You know, it’s like we just, were always riding with the dudes and that’s just how it was. And there wasn’t really any other option for, or we didn’t see any other option. Um, yeah.

And we’re very family oriented, so, I mean, of course we had like friends growing up, but our family does a lot too much. Yeah. Together. Like we had ditch out on plans with friends ’cause their dad’s like, we’re gonna man with the next week. And we’d be like, all right, bye. So I feel like it felt really normal.

Now it’s like, we’re like, Oh my God, there’s all these other people that ride at our age. [00:06:00] Cause we were used to riding with just our family. It’s rare to meet as many people that do as many hobbies as we do and work beyond spoiled with how much that our parents have encouraged us to do and gotten us involved in.

So I think we are just like, this is. You know, it’s our parents and us that do all this stuff together, but it’s awesome to now expand that and through our company, we have found so many other people that like to do what we do.

Mountain Man Dan: So you guys mentioned that you guys were up in the Northern California area.

I’ve only ever ridden out in California. One time that was down a little bit South of the Fresno area is the terrain up in Northern California. Similar to that, or is it more mountainous or

Paige McReynolds: more mountainy, like a lot more Redwood mountain rock, little more single track. I would say a lot more single track.

That’s probably why we stay away from it. I don’t do well on single track. It’s too much pressure to keep your tire in a, such a small, we need space. I need space to make a mistake because if I, like, if I veer off, I need to be able to course correct and come back. We’re still like, you see that rock and you’re like, don’t look at the rock.

You’re going to hit the rock. And I’m like, all I’m doing is looking at the rock [00:07:00] and I’ll send you off trail. And I’m like, I was that should definitely have to master

Mountain Man Dan: the art of balance when you’re doing trails like that.

Crew Chief Eric: And we ran into you guys at the mint 400, which is the complete opposite of single track, right?

I mean, it’s as wide as it can be. The motorcycles have their own thing. I mean, I can’t believe how long they were out there. I mean, absolutely all day. Do you guys see yourself maybe one day doing something like the mint 400, something big?

Paige McReynolds: Hey, I don’t know what’s my niche. Not what I thought you were going to say.

I don’t know if my niche could handle that much. We have some genetics in our family that has given bad niche to Paige. But I really think Why not? Why not? Like you said, we really want to try writing, I think, getting involved. in this. It makes us just want to try new things. We don’t want to say no to anything if we haven’t tried it.

And we are pretty decent writers, I feel like. Not amazing, but like we’re definitely willing. I think we surprise people. We’re obviously a little. We’re eccentric and we’re a lot. And I feel like people don’t expect us to be on two fifties, which is, we get that a lot, especially at events like the [00:08:00] mint 400 and whatnot.

And then people go riding with us and they’re like, I’m not going to lie. You’re a lot better than I

Crew Chief Eric: thought you were going to be. So why don’t we crank up the way back machine a little bit and talk about Paige and Kelly, the young ladies, right before McRae motocross and talk about your experience in dirt bike racing and what seems like hair scramble and some other things. You got into it, honestly, right?

Sounds like from your parents and from your dad. So what was that like getting on a bike at 10 years old and then going into racing?

Paige McReynolds: We’ve never raced. Actually. We were going to start racing this year and then we didn’t register for the Biltwell 100 in time. Stay tuned. We are going to race eventually.

But for us, I think I was in middle school and you’re in elementary school. And we came home from school. One day the garage was open. There was a one 50 and a one 10 sitting in the. Garage and we pull up and dad’s just like, girls, you can tell that we impersonate our dad a lot. Girls, you’re going to learn how to ride dirt bike.

And we’re like, I don’t even know what this is, but sure. And then a couple hours later, this [00:09:00] semi truck pulls up in front of our house and this crate gets dropped off. It’s a go kart with a roll cage. And dad’s like, we’re going to. Build it. And by we, he meant him, but we became like a full off road family in a matter of like three days.

And I was like, I don’t know what this is.

Mountain Man Dan: Two quick questions. One, the brand of the bikes that were in the garage when you came home that day. And do you still show loyalty to that brand? Or do you not show any brand loyalty for the type of bike you ride?

Paige McReynolds: We have show brand loyalty. So the one 50 was a Honda and we are both Honda gals through and through.

We’ve only had Hondas. was a Suzuki.

Crew Chief Eric: Tell us maybe like one of your most epic stories or one of those adventures that you look back on and go, that was absolutely amazing.

Paige McReynolds: Well, cause when you said epic, like the first thing that came to mind is when I crashed into two trees. Yeah. That’s what I thought.

Okay. But that’s not epic. Like, Ooh, that was slick. I went riding with my friends in Gorman, which is I mean, it’s Southern California. I’m trying to [00:10:00] think of like how to describe where it is. There’s some open trail, but there is a lot more single track or like not all technical or single track, but definitely like smaller trails on the side of a mountain.

Yeah. I don’t know what it was. I think I was just, I didn’t know. I didn’t know. A little nervous. I think there was a 90 degree hairpin turn that I didn’t know was there and I’d hit it. And then, you know, they say like when in doubt, throttle out. Well, I throttled out and I throttled out off the side of the trail and landed in a tree, like went down the hill, landed in a tree.

And I like was stuck in the tree to the point where like my feet were on the pegs and I was still sitting upright. Like my bike was sitting upright by itself in the tree. One of my best friends comes over and he’s like, damn it, McReynolds. And I was like, when in doubt, throttle out. He’s like, now we got to go get everyone to pull your bike up.

We have toe straps on our bikes. For these reasons, because we do this a lot. So our dad just put those on there, pulled my bike up, got it out, kept riding. And then probably like 30 minutes later on a different turn on the same trail, I did it again. And this time, like all my plastics bent [00:11:00] back. My front plate fell off.

We had to disconnect like all the wires and everything. My leg had a bruise, like literally the size from my hip to my knee on it. Cause it was in between the tree. And dad’s like, this is why I don’t let you guys go by yourselves.

Crew Chief Eric: Never off road alone. They say,

Paige McReynolds: yeah, it was like pretty epic when we wrote in the, I was gonna say when we wrote in the snow, that was like a really cool day that was in Cal city.

And we were riding up in the snow and it was just like. a really cool we don’t get to do a ride in the snow a lot so it’s just different beautiful and really cool and our family was with us so until we fell and there was just snow like stuffed in my helmet and my chest protector someone came like whipping around the corner and so we all like hit our base but it’s snowy.

So we all like slid and then everyone got up and it was just like snow stuck in your goggles. You’re like, well, that was fun day. That was fun day. Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: Oftentimes in the four wheeled world, we talk about, you know, these legendary tracks and court places like Laguna Seca, Lamans, [00:12:00] and, you know, Rhode, Atlanta, whatever the people that have on their bucket list that they want to go drive their vehicles at.

So I wonder for you guys. Is there a trail that you’ve heard of or a place that you want to go? Maybe like off roading in Alaska or something like that. Is there some sort of epic journey that you guys have on your bucket list that you want to do on your bikes?

Paige McReynolds: I have a couple locally for a trail. One of them is called bean Canyon.

And the only reason I want to do it is because. All of our friends do it and talk about how hard it is and they’re like, you’re not ready to go. And I’m like, try me, try me. I’m like, come on, take me out there. I want to try and do it. I know it’s hard. I like, I know I’m not going to do it well, but the fact that everyone tells me how hard it is and they’re like, Oh, maybe you’re not ready.

Makes me want to do it even more. Yeah. I feel like bean canning for us. Cause for that reason, also we got to do the Sierra safari. Cause our dad does it. And it’s this ride up in mammoth lakes and it’s three days. Right. And it’s like, It’s pretty extensive. My dad’s like, you can’t before he’s like, you guys can’t do it.

Like it’s two, it’s three days, 120 miles a day. It’s too much. It’s too much. It’s [00:13:00] rocky. We always mess with them. We’re like one year, we’re going to show up without telling you. And we’re going to be like surprised. So I feel like we have to do that. We’ve just been talking about it for so long. I feel like those are actual.

Well, you know what? I don’t want to say that. I think everything’s tangible, but those, I, I, I think I can see in the much closer future, but I think one thing that would be really awesome is riding, just riding on a super cross track. Like I don’t want to ride with, I don’t mean anyone else on the track with me.

Like I’m not trying to race anyone. Liability reasons. No one else is going to be allowed on the track. For their safety, no one else could be allowed on the track. I think it would be really awesome just to have the opportunity to like ride my bike around the track.

Kelly McReynolds: Yeah.

Paige McReynolds: Just any of the supercross tracks.

I don’t care which one. And I think at Loretta Lynn’s as well. I think that would be really cool just to say I rode my bike around the track at Loretta Lynn’s. Yeah.

Mountain Man Dan: We generally don’t get too many two wheel enthusiasts on the show and we’re aiming to correct that by getting more individuals. Such as yourselves on.

So a lot of times we often ask questions like, what’s your thought on the [00:14:00] sexiest car of all time, ugliest car of all time. But in your guys case for motorcycles, what is your favorite bike, sexiest bike, worst bike you’ve ever ridden? Things like that.

Paige McReynolds: I mean, have you seen our bikes? I was going to say, I feel like if we say anything other than our own bikes, then we’re out of, we got to go.

We’re done. We to

like, I think our bikes. are cool just because we have McRae graphics on them and they match other than our numbers, but like we have our butterfly on it and the McRae logo and use our colors. But then we also have our individual seats. So my seat is leopard print and Kelly’s is sparkly gold. We call it the Dolly Parton seat.

So I, yeah, I mean, you know, I look at our bikes and I’m like, she looks good. That’s my baby. So there’s,

Crew Chief Eric: there’s no like three bay bucket list. Like you want a Ducati and a triumph and you know, whatever in your garage, you know, in your collection of motorcycles, nothing like that.

Paige McReynolds: We did recently go to a street motorcycle event and [00:15:00] we kind of were thinking like maybe a pair of Harleys would be really cool collection.

I was looking at this like 1973 street Honda. I was like. That’s a pretty sweet, but it’s on Craigslist. I got her saved. So, you know, I feel like we got to come back to that one. We’ll check back in with you. I mean, cause dirt bikes, we got to stick with Honda through and through the rest of our lives, Honda, but street bikes will come back because our family’s like not big on our mom works in insurance.

So for her street bike, she’s like, nope, liability, but maybe now that we’re older, you know, and we’re just. met that community of women that ride street bikes. And it was just very cool. And we’ve rode our dirt bikes just like on the street in the neighborhood. I’m like, man, I could just like, I can see myself do this.

Yeah. So it’s something we might be entertaining. I thought we’re entertaining soon.

Crew Chief Eric: So we should probably go back to talking about what this episode is about, which is McRae motocross. I gotta say, I love the whole slogan. It’s what got my attention, which is the design to get dirty. I just love that. And [00:16:00] the quote on the website really kind of sets the stage.

Shopping for women’s MoTex gear can be frustrating and disappointing. The prints are undesirable. The fit is terrible. We hear you. We are you. You know, they say necessity breeds invention. necessity begets a business. So let’s talk more about the products you offer, how they’re designed, how they’re different, you know, and those kinds of things.

What are, what are you putting out there?

Paige McReynolds: You know, really focusing on, we have street apparel. That’s what’s currently available on our website. I think our street apparel is awesome, but that’s definitely like, that was not the focus of this business. Our main focus is women’s motocross kits. So the jerseys and pants that you wear when you ride for us, like the Jersey specifically.

So, We made a lot of technical enhancements to the jerseys that we feel like make them better suited for a female rider. So designs alone are just like nothing we’ve ever seen before in the motocross or off road industry. You know, tailoring the sides so that it fits a woman’s natural curves a little bit more.

Shortening the hem so that they don’t go down to our [00:17:00] knees and like bunch up when we try to tuck them into our pants. And then we came up with a snap design. So on the front of the jersey, there’s. Four snaps on each side of the front and you open them up so you can pull them over your gear without it getting stuck on anything on any of your protectors.

And then you just snap them closed. And then for the pants, same idea. Like we made a lot of technical enhancements. We basically just, we took what we had and we’re like, Hey, what do we like about this and what do we not like about this? And we asked a lot of our friends, a lot of the women writers we’ve met over the past couple of years.

And we’re like, what is your ideal pair of pants? And so higher waisted, more stretch panels, like women’s pants. I think. Sometimes our friends and other companies think like it’s for women. It needs to be skin tight. And it’s like, I don’t want to wear skin tight clothing while I’m riding. That’s not comfortable.

And so that’s what we’re focused on. That’s what sets us apart. I mean, again, I think our apparel is cool, but at the day, like it’s. It’s a pair. It’s a pair.

Crew Chief Eric: You have a huge challenge in front of you because let’s face it. Men’s sizes and cuts are pretty standard. Large, extra [00:18:00] large, 2XL. Then you got your 36, 38, whatever size you are and you’re in seam.

And it’s pretty basic, right? But women come in, I hate to say, all shapes and sizes. So you guys have to have like just a mountain of challenges ahead of you to say, Yeah. What works, what doesn’t, and to your point, stretch panels, isn’t that to make a size sort of work for people? So how have you overcome that?

Paige McReynolds: Yeah, you know, on one hand, we, we want to be as inclusive as possible for everyone in the community. And I think another big thing for us is there might be women who aren’t. in the community yet, but they don’t feel like that there’s a place for them. And so we want to create, we want to open that door for other women to see the industry and to see us and our company and be like, okay, I can do this too.

Like I can go buy a bike. I can learn how to work on it. I can do all this stuff by myself. And so all that being said, we want to be extremely inclusive, but there is only so much we can do. within our budget and our first run. And so for the first run of pants specifically, cause I think we will run into more hurdles with the pants than the jerseys.

We did what we felt was standard [00:19:00] sizing. So small through extra large based on our sizes. And we feel like we’re pretty like standard in terms of we’re not at one extreme or the other. And so we kind of use that. starting point. And, you know, we just ask for patience from everyone else that it will take some time and a little bit of extra cashflow to, to get those additional sizes.

And we have a lot of ideas about, okay, these are going to be our super durable waterproof pants. And then we’re going to have a pair of extremely comfortable. Soft canvas pants that are tailored maybe more to the ladies who like to sit around the campfire as much as they like to like put around on their bikes.

And so we have ideas where you’re going to create products that fit everyone and everyone’s not only just fit physically, but style and needs. We just need a little bit of time to build that inventory. We just have to take it one day at a time, honestly, like we do have a lot of ideas and not just for this.

but for other sports to include women. And so starting with one pair of gray pants, and then we want to hear critiques. We want to hear what other [00:20:00] women have to say like, Hey, this didn’t fit my body. And this is why great. We want to hear it. So then when we bring out new pants, we want to one day be able to provide it.

So I can fit as many body types as possible. And like Paige said, too, with the street wear and also what other things we’ll be bringing out, we’re hoping to include women who. are like diehard riders and want to get out there and get into racing, but also other like women that do want to just chill at the campfire and maybe like ride in a razor or something.

Like we want everyone to feel welcome in this community.

Crew Chief Eric: And you’re a hundred percent right. Because the challenges exist also in the four wheel community, where if you look at women’s driving suits, the Nomex suits and things like that, it’s all just super boxy. And I hate to say I’m flattering. You’re starting to see.

Some color palette changes, but in terms of cut and finish, it’s just the same old kind of banana suit that we all zip on like onesies or whatever. It’s terrible. I mean, the guys ones aren’t any better, right? They’re not form fitting or really tailored in any way either. They’re just boxes. Basically

Paige McReynolds: careless guys just care.

They don’t care. We

Crew Chief Eric: just, we [00:21:00] want cool patches all over our stuff. Like it’s, you know, stroke stroke race, like Burt Reynolds, you know what I mean?

Paige McReynolds: And my existence. And we’ve gotten this question because, you know, I think for so long, there’s only been a handful of companies in the off road industry that people can name off the top of their head and they all look the same, no offense to any of them, but they do, they all look the same.

And so when we started coming out with our stuff, we’ve shown a couple snippets of our jerseys and our pants, and some of our friends have seen it and people are very quick to tell us like. You don’t have your name on it. You don’t have your logo on it. What about your sponsors? Well, what, when you race, what are you going to do?

And I’m like, hold on, excuse. That is literally what we’re trying not to do. Like, I don’t care. I don’t, my ego doesn’t need 15 logos up my arms to make me feel better about myself riding. Like we put a very simple butterfly logo on our chest and that is the only logo that will be on our jerseys to your point, like, I feel like guys like get really stoked on that.

Like all the logo, all the brands that they’re wearing and they’re like. Look who I’m wearing. Look at this. And like for women, I’m like, I just want to look cute. I don’t [00:22:00] care. The sport is really intimidating again into like this huge piece of machinery. You’re sitting on it and now you’re trying to go over rocks and sand and technical terrain.

I mean, it’s already intimidating enough. Slap on a bunch of like big company logos and stuff. It can look scary. So I think we are trying to bridge that gap where it’s like, if that maybe is a little overwhelming, then we’re the brand for you where it’s really just like. We’ve got good looking stuff that’s durable.

And it’s not so overwhelming in pattern. It’s like very just, we call it our free baby, free moto baby, because we love free people styles, which is a clothing brand and it’s a lot of like organic, like florals and neon and stuff, but it’s very different than what’s in the moto world. And so we’re introducing that.

So it’s helps women be like. That’s really cute. I actually would just like to wear that. It kind of looks like a long sleeve I have. That’s kind of the point. It’s like this comfortability, this familiarity with something that’s already in their closet, but just in a different way that can attract them to the sport.

Makes it a little less eerie.

Crew Chief Eric: So let’s also talk just for a moment about safety, right? Because that’s always a concern in every mode of sport. [00:23:00] People that we talk to all the time, and we’ve had some other safety gear providers on, you know, obviously in the four wheeled community. So one of the things that comes up, the durability of the clothing, like you said, waterproofing is something that’s important.

to you guys in the motocross world, but also fireproofing. So how much of this gear is Nomex rated? How do you get it certified? Things like that. And I also wonder, are you also faced with the challenge of making your apparel work with the safety gear that exists, like the padding and like you talked about the chest plates and things like that.

So how does all that work together with the McRae line of apparel?

Paige McReynolds: I would just like to say that we are not certified. We are not selling any form of. Protective gear. We do not claim that our jerseys or pants will protect you from any sort of harm bodily play anything. Like we’re not like our gear does not do that.

We’re just guaranteeing you look good. It says it on the tag, but

Mountain Man Dan: I’ve had plenty of name brand apparel, and I will say that it is not hold up the heat and fire and stuff because I had plenty I’m getting melted and [00:24:00] stuff. So I’ll just throw that out there for you. So

Paige McReynolds: I appreciate that. Thank you. Yeah. You know, we’ve done our research and especially I think for the pants.

To try to find the best materials possible that we think will work. And so we’re not using a leather, but sometimes there’s a leather patch or a dilemma or something on the side of your leg. That’s the leg. That’s especially the one that sits next to all your pipes and your motor and whatnot. We took all the fabric samples and hung them on, you know, the hangers that have the little clips on them.

And I turned my bike on and I ran my bike. For like 20 minutes. And I hung the hanger next to that with all the fabric samples and just let them sit a centimeter from the hot pipe for about 15, 20 minutes. And we’d like pulled everything up and some of them had started belting. So we were like, that one’s out.

Some of them held up really well. And we’re like, okay, that one, that’s a good option. So we have done our research in terms of. Trying to use the best material, because obviously we want to use stuff that holds up. We don’t want it to rip in the first wear. We don’t want it to start melting, you know, just because your leg is sitting next [00:25:00] to the pipe.

And so all that being said, we’re doing our best. I know I’m sure as we grow and as we are in the industry more and talk to more people and start to see different types of materials, like. I’m sure our pants will evolve and change. I hope they do. It’d be cool if like our only pair of pants just like crushes it.

And we’re like, great, that’s awesome. But we will always continue to evolve. We wouldn’t be doing our jobs right if we weren’t, but we do come across some, I don’t necessarily know if they’re like problems, but we do have to keep in mind like what already exists. So do these pants, like the bottom of our pants, are they stretchy enough to accommodate?

existing knee pads, but without being too tight. Like if someone wanted to wear padded shorts under their pants, like do our pants allow for that kind of movement in that room? And same with our jerseys for anyone who wears like the different sizes of protective gear. Like those are all things that we have to take into account.

And we went through several samples, like having to change materials and make adjustments for this reason. So we’ve been through materials and we’ve now come to this last one, especially with our pants that we’re like, This is durable. This is [00:26:00] what people need. This is what we want to wear. We’ve had to go through it though.

We’ve had to make some changes and especially after doing research, realizing some materials won’t work and these ones are better. And then actually using materials from different sports on our pins. We’re like, this is actually going to work way better, particularly from a woman’s body to like certain stretch panels.

We’ve put in that work ourselves to make sure that it’s going to fit. Over our protective gear and also hold up while riding and whatnot during certain weather. And I think what’s cool, our manufacturer has never made motocross pants, either motocross gear, which we were a little nervous about at first, but I think it actually works in our favor because we don’t know what we don’t know and they don’t know what they don’t know.

So we don’t have anyone telling us. Well, this is how everyone else does it. This is how it’s always been done. Like we don’t have anyone telling us that what we’re doing is wrong, which again, on one, like we, we welcome feedback if something is visibly wrong with our product, like we would obviously want to know, but we have out of the box ideas and what we’re doing is out of the box and to have.

A manufacturer say, Oh, you want something durable and strong and breathable. Here are [00:27:00] your fabric options. And it’s not based on what anyone else in the industry is doing. It’s just based purely on what we’re looking for in our materials. On the

Crew Chief Eric: need. Yeah, absolutely. The sky’s the limit here, right? You’re starting with the outerwear and like you’re talking about the pants and the jerseys.

And like that, but I could obviously see this going into undergarments. I could see it going into gloves, maybe shoes, even maybe let’s, let’s dream big helmets, right? Goggles got to be coordinated all the way through. That’s really cool. But to your point, you have to crawl before you walk, before you run.

Mountain Man Dan: A lot of times when we have companies on to highlight their business and such, we ask them what’s in the name and to give us information regarding that, or for you guys with something that’s really significant is your logo, the butterfly.

So what is the importance and meaning behind the butterfly?

Paige McReynolds: To make a long story short. Well, I don’t know. Do you want the long story or make a

Crew Chief Eric: short story long? Let’s go for

Paige McReynolds: it. Yeah. When we first partnered with a graphic designer and a brand developer, when we had this idea, we specifically said, we don’t want anything girly.

We don’t want butterfly polka dots flower. [00:28:00] I don’t know what else we said, like stars, like just nothing girly. Because at the time in our mind, we didn’t want to be so obviously different that it would deter people from supporting our brands. We wanted our brand to kind of just. Fit in with the rest hindsight.

We were very wrong. We don’t want that at all, but not doing that at all. So, you know, if we felt like the women’s options that do exist in the market, currently it is a very specific look, it’s a very specific vibe and we just don’t necessarily resonate with that. And so we wanted to try to stay away from that.

Well, fast forward, he came back to us with the logo that we’re both wearing on our shirts. And we were like, and it has little handlebars on the side and we’re like, we really like it. But it’s not our logo. And he’s like, okay, what do you want? And so we sent a couple more sketches and we did it separately.

And he came back to us and he’s like, both of the sketches that you send me have butterflies in them. And we’re like, Hmm, interesting that you didn’t want,

Crew Chief Eric: you didn’t want butterflies, but now you want butterflies. Yeah, we didn’t know we

Paige McReynolds: wanted them apparently. And I like, we’re a headache. We know we’re, [00:29:00] we’re a lot, but like, I mean, and so he came back to us with.

Our logo, the butterfly, it’s ombre, the orange and yellow. And we just immediately looked at each other. We were like, that’s it. And for a lot of reasons, butterflies have a meaning in our family, special meaning. I have two of them tattooed on my side. I don’t know why I didn’t think of that sooner, but I’m like, I, I have two butterflies tattooed on my side.

Like that’s how much they mean to us. Our mom loves butterflies. So I feel like that has had an influence as well, like our interest in them, just being their beauty. And I don’t know, there’s something really pleasant when a butterfly’s around and now it. So it kind of started that we’re like, wow, it’s really cool.

It’s got like this family thing behind it, but now it’s cultivated into this new meaning for us that we have undergone so much transformation over our lives. You know, truly, you know, starting as a caterpillar, if you saw pictures of us from like middle elementary school, you’d be like, Oh yeah, caterpillar, you guys.

Rough years. Um, there is this form of transformation that comes with a butterfly and especially starting this business together. Our relationship has [00:30:00] transformed so much and we’re kind of spreading our wings and finding our way and really embracing our own authenticity. But then what we bring to the table together, definitely.

And we. couldn’t do it because of that yin and yang style we have. That’s really what makes this business what it is. Like, I don’t think it would have the same success if it was only one of us. It’s just been interesting how that’s now, like, it’s turned into this thing where it’s really about transformation and how we hope, too, that people see the butterfly and they’re like, You know what?

I can make that change today and be the woman I want to be or be the girl I want to be. And I can like start that change now. We’re hoping that this butterfly can be a representation of being bold, being courageous, getting on that dirt bike, going fishing with the boys, getting your girls to go out fishing with them.

You know, like I, we really hope that when you look at our butterfly and everything that it embodies. That’s what you feel.

Mountain Man Dan: I’ll say I can definitely have a strong appreciation for you guys trying to get women into the sports because for years, being a father of a little girl, when she was first born, my aspiration was for her to become the first [00:31:00] professional motocross rider, but I don’t think it’s going to happen, but she still likes to go out and ride.

Paige McReynolds: We’ll sponsor her. If she does, we will sponsor her. Absolutely.

Mountain Man Dan: I’ve seen, like you were mentioning earlier with road bikes and stuff. I’ve noticed in probably the past, a much larger presence with women coming out riding because I ride street bikes as well. I love seeing more women involved in it because if there’s more women involved in it, and like Eric was mentioning earlier, we’re trying to spread the enthusiasm across all spectrum of motorsports.

And one of the key areas is the youth and women, in my opinion, to get them more involved. So what you guys are doing, I applaud it because I really see the need

Crew Chief Eric: And I think there’s a quote on the website, if you don’t mind me stealing yet another one, because it leads me into my next point that kind of summarizes this whole thought.

And it reads the butterfly symbolizes everything women are and who we hope to become bold. Beautiful, elegant, unique, and transformational that really resonated with me. And I think it’s very true. And it, but it also speaks to your [00:32:00] guys creativity and the writing on the website. I think this is something that goes unappreciated about the McRae motocross website, because there’s a lot of these like golden nuggets in the blogs and on just simple things like the about us page, you know, where you’re giving people these titles, like, you know, VP of treat distribution and all this fun stuff and it, it’s super engaging and it makes me want to read.

More and stay on the site and do all these kinds of things. So, you know, you guys are very multi talented. You’re very clever. And I think it speaks across the board in terms of the brand and what you guys are doing and thinking outside of the box. So I really got to applaud you guys for that.

Paige McReynolds: Actually, Paige is responsible for the website.

1000%. I mean, too, you’re asking like, Oh, do you guys have a background in fashion? Nope. And we’re not racers. We don’t have a background in these things. Paige was anything that we’re doing. And I honestly think that gives us a leg up in a lot of ways. She was a communication major. So you can see from our website, Paige writes beautifully when she would write all my speeches for stuff.

She really [00:33:00] knows how to grab someone’s attention in that sense. And so that’s her background. She also has worked in like corporate America with different companies and whatnot. And then I was a psych back.

I was in psychology and I was working as a counselor for several different populations. And so those things combined kind of give us a different edge that we’re not just two girls on dirt bikes. Sure. You know, we know how to ride a dirt bike and we can ride a wakeboard, like we can do all of these things and be a face that woman can look at and be like, okay, they can do it.

I can do it. But at the same time. That’s awesome. I think part of our blog too, is that we’re a lot more than that. We’re a lot more than two athletes. We think deeply about life and about the world around us and supporting our community and uplifting other women. And I think that comes from having that background in the majors that we had in the way we were raised.

Her introverted self couldn’t handle anymore. She was like, and I’m done and close. Um, well, I think to add onto that, there has been a lot of push for supporting women, businesses and women empowerment over the past [00:34:00] couple of years. And. So what’s really important for us is we don’t want to just be another trend.

Like I think we started the company at the perfect time. Like we really nailed it with timing in terms of what’s happening in history, but we don’t want to just talk about it. We don’t want to just tell women to be authentic, live yourself, transform into your highest power, like stuff like the cliche stuff that you hear all the time, because while we do want that, we realized that in order to actually inspire and empower women to do those things, we have to do those things.

We have to be those things as well. Through that, you know, we’ve learned starting this company, like we just try to be as honest and open as possible, like pushing ourselves out of our comfort zone on our blogs and on our YouTube video and on social media. Like we just try to be as authentically ourselves as possible, so to hopefully inspire other women.

Oh, okay. Like I can be kind of weird and quirky and still be funny and like I can put on social media and no one’s gonna judge me. And if they do, who cares? Yeah. I just think that’s a big thing for us is. If we’re going to not just talk about it, but be about it and hopefully [00:35:00] embody the things that we blog about and do

Crew Chief Eric: those.

And I think the bigger difference is when you look at your guy’s website versus a lot of other ones that are out there, you can tell it’s the same level of professionalism you’d expect from any website today, but there’s a sense of realness there. And there’s a sense of you guys coming through. that you realize very quickly, this was not written by some guy in a cubicle who cranks out 50 of these a day.

And it’s just regurgitating the same stuff. It’s like, this is legit. This is for real. And it speaks to both of you guys. And so again, I found it to be a lot of fun and I’m looking forward to whatever the next blog post is that comes out. I also want to turn this around because you hit on my next. Really important point, you know, talking about doing it rather than saying it, being that beacon, being that role model, being the hero for young ladies.

And so I wonder if a young girl walked up to you today and said, why do you race? Why do you do this? What would you say?

Paige McReynolds: We’ve had a couple of instances where young girls have come up to our booth and it’s. It has [00:36:00] made us cry. Um, I mean, the guy like Terry talking about it now, it has made us cry because they’re so excited about seeing something so cool and beautiful, like a butterfly, but then it’s also for women, like just how excited little girls get.

It just like, that’s why we started this. And we talked about, you know, when our stuff is in stores. We picture a young girl walking in with her family and like in traditional American fashion, like the family walks in, they’re looking to buy stuff for their son. And the little girl sees the big butterfly logo.

And she’s like, there’s stuff for me too. I can ride. I can do this sport. That’s a huge part of why we do what we do. And I think selfishly we do it because it makes me feel confident and powerful. Like when I’m taking my bike out by myself or, you know, I’m throwing this 300 piece of machine around, like, I feel really good about myself.

And I’m like, I know I can do anything. I can conquer anything. Selflessly, why we started this is to help others feel the same way. Is to help young women and young girls, or of all ages, to be totally honest. Like, [00:37:00] I think it’s never too late to start something new or to make a change or do something different in your life.

And it’s just to make them feel like they also have a place and that it’s not too late. Only thing I had to add to that was Everything you said, of course, and then I think something we reflect on is, I’ll be having not such a great day and I’ll just be like, God, I don’t feel beautiful. I don’t feel like I’m enough.

And why would this person be interested in me? I don’t even know if these people like me. I’ll be having these negative thoughts and I’ll check in with myself for a second. I’m like, hold on a second. Like I can kick butt on a dirt bike. I can get it on a trailer by myself. I can tie that thing up and get out there.

And I can jump on a wakeboard and I can do all these things. Like there’s something about like getting involved in these sports that we think is like so important to just find your thing that you like, because there is something so empowering about it. And then I like check them because I’m like, I’m just kidding.

I’m a bad ass lady. I feel like worthy again. And I, it’s, there is something very cool about that. And we’re hoping as we’ve done that with each other, we check it. Sometimes she’ll be having a bad day and I’m like, listen, you’re a [00:38:00] bad ass lady. You’re the whole package. We do it for each other all the time.

I’m like, this brand is our life. Like that’s why, you know, you’re seeing it on our website that it doesn’t sound like someone else wrote it. It’s cause it’s not, and this brand is really us sharing our lives and how we live and what we think with everyone else. Cause I think it’s so important to share.

Crew Chief Eric: To borrow a phrase, you guys are sending it. So like the full extent, right? So I love it. I love it.

Mountain Man Dan: To add to that, you mentioned you have a psychology background. The past two years with the whole COVID and all that has been very stressful for everybody. And I see it extremely stressful for females. Like you were mentioning, you think about the fact you out there on a bike and slinging around, like it’s nothing hitting them, jumps, hitting them, pervs.

And it brings that emotions. For me. I’ve always thought that, you know, it’s a great spirit lifter and I think it’s just really good in that aspect.

Paige McReynolds: Yeah. And you can’t think about anything else when you’re on dirt bike, you are focusing on what you’re doing. So there is that little bit of a perspective check.

Like you might be having a bad day. There might be a [00:39:00] lot on your mind. You jump on a dirt bike, ride around, you come back, you’re like, I don’t even. Like, my problems are kind of flown away with the dust behind me, you know, there’s just nothing else you have to think about but the trail. There’s something very therapeutic about that.

That’s what

Mountain Man Dan: clears your mind.

Paige McReynolds: Yeah. Do you have a bad day when you’re out in the desert, like camping with your friends in the desert? Well, like a crash. But I feel like even that, like even that, it’s like you might have a bad crash or something happens, but it’s kind of, it’s pretty impossible to have a bad day when you’re out with a bunch of your friends.

Sitting by a campfire, everyone’s having a good time, like laughing, telling stories, playing cornhole, like the entire community around it, the entire vibe. And now we’re in a place like most of our friends are in this community and it’s like, that’s all like I could just normal.

Mountain Man Dan: Yeah. It’s normal.

Paige McReynolds: Yeah. And

Mountain Man Dan: even with, even with the days that you have bad crashes or stuff, when you’re back at the campfire and everybody’s.

You know, safe. Nobody was injured. That’s when it turns into laughing time. Erica mentioned I’ve had my share rising from our guys and events. So it increases the mood. It makes all I’m

Crew Chief Eric: going to say is we [00:40:00] have video to prove it and I’m going to leave it where it is.

Paige McReynolds: Hey, you know what? Ain’t nothing a little Captain Morgan can’t fix, right?

You come back from the campfire. And as

Crew Chief Eric: we’ve said, probably a million times, if we said it once, the worst day at the track is still better than any day anywhere else. So it’s all good. Right? So, so going back to their thought, I want to get your guys opinion on something. A lot of people often confuse.

Motorsports with being like super geeky and really nerdy. Like you need to be an engineer. You need to be in STEM or hard sciences to really get involved. And you guys are ingenious. You’re resourceful and work on your own bikes. Is it really as hard as people make it out to be?

Paige McReynolds: Yes and no. Like we do the bare minimum on our bikes, but we have a vice president of bike operations, AKA our dad to do those things.

Like if you asked me to take my bike apart. And dad’s not an engineer. Let me just say that right now. He can work on a bike, but he is not an engineer. He’s a redneck engineer. Yeah.

Mountain Man Dan: The best kind.

Paige McReynolds: Exactly. [00:41:00] And I would honestly love to get to learn more about working on my bike as we’re growing in this company.

That’s something that I realized I want to. Not necessarily like be better at, but just take more time and put more effort into learning more of the intricacies and the ins and outs of my bike. Cause I feel like prior to this company, it’s just been like oil chain, air filter, okay, get on ride. But I think really understanding the carb and the gas and how everything works together, that makes a huge difference in the relationship that I have with my bike.

We’re very lucky. We’re very fortunate that we have a dad who does know how to do that stuff and does work on it. But you don’t have to know someone like that to own a bike. There are shops that will do all of that for you. Like you can just take your bike to them and be like, I don’t know what happened.

And I like, I think it’s important to know. I think it’s important to know the basics and basic maintenance, but I also, that’s part of the approachability and people get really scared of the sport because it does seem really daunting and expensive and you have to have all this knowledge. And I would argue that.

You don’t like in, in anything that you do, there’s always someone you can [00:42:00] pay to do it for you. And so I think it’s kind of whatever you put in is what you’re going to get out. And of course, like there is a level of engineering though, to working on your bike. I don’t want to take, I bet you don’t have to be an engineer to work on your bike.

But I think if you really want to get involved with the mechanics of a bike, then absolutely. And there are people, there’s tons of YouTube videos. I mean, you can call yourself an engineer, but you’ll definitely be doing engineer like things. But I think if that’s something you don’t want to get involved in, that shouldn’t be a reason to not get involved.

Mountain Man Dan: Every place I’ve ever been at riding here in the U S and even overseas. If you break down on a trail or something, other riders will stop and they’ll be willing to help. So it’s not like your average commuter going down the highway. Breakdown alongside the road and people just keep driving by for hours, people stop and help and it’s

Kelly McReynolds: a

Mountain Man Dan: great thing because that whole community is much more willing to help others than the average citizen, I would say.

Paige McReynolds: Oh yeah. The amount of times that like we’ve been on a, we’ll be on a group ride or trail ride and I’ll fall in the back or something. And the rest of the group just keeps going. [00:43:00] Cause they don’t know that you fell and I’m laying there. I’m like, Oh, okay. And I like. I just need, you know, it’s like the bike’s laying on top of me.

Gas is pouring everywhere. I’m like, I just need a second. Like I can’t reach my kill switch. I just need a moment, but people will come up and be like, are you good? Can we help you? I’m like, keep going. My group will turn around eventually, but you know, people always stop. Most of the time people have tools.

Yeah. Someone will help you. It’s interesting. You mentioned that about the community, cause we’ve really felt that as well. And there’s been some people that have asked us, Oh, you know, being two women in this male dominated sport, have you experienced sexism? And honestly. Minimally, maybe a moment or two, but honestly, we feel so much support from the men in this community.

They’re like, we want like our wives, our girlfriends, our daughters. We want them out there. We love what you’re doing. So it kind of goes with that. Like, it’s a very supportive community in that sense too, that people want more people. It’s more fun to ride and camp when there’s more, so they don’t want it to be intimidating.

They, they want you to win. I think that’s really cool about the community as well.

Mountain Man Dan: I’m going to let you in on a little secret about that. [00:44:00] The secret is those of us that have. Females on our lives, if we get them involved in it as well,

Paige McReynolds: you get to go more,

Mountain Man Dan: yes, that, and they’re more willing to let us spend more money on it.

So

Paige McReynolds: there you go. That’s what we’re trying to find men. That’ll let us do the same thing. Yeah. I’m like trying to find me a man who will let me spend money on a dirt bike. I’m like, I want different plastic, change it up, different tires. I feel that

Crew Chief Eric: we hit on a lot of important topics. And there’s one thing that I want to address, you know, the changes that are needed in the motorsport world, whether it be in motocross, whether it be in vehicles and road racing and things like that.

And obviously you guys are making a big change in the way we look at motorsport and motocross. But if there was something that you could change about motorsports, as you know, it to make it more inviting for women, what would that be? What do we need to do to make it so that we can get more women engaged?

Paige McReynolds: I think definitely seeing like more women faces in the sport. I mean, we love seeing the guys race and they’re awesome and they work their butts off to get to that point. It is mainly male faces. And I [00:45:00] think it would be great if we did start seeing a lot more female vendors, promoting female writers and brands at events.

I think that’s definitely a start and hopefully we can contribute to that. If I saw more women writing when I was younger, I’d be like, Oh, this is. I feel like a lot of times you think this is like a sport for women. I mean, and cause if you’re only seeing men, you’re kind of like, I don’t know. I’m not seeing other chicks do this.

I don’t think that would be for me, but if you’re seeing a lot more representation, I think it’s definitely easier to be like, well, I mean. Like this group of ladies are doing it. So why can’t I do it? And I think there’s definitely a lot more of that happening right now and also coming. So we’re answering the question.

Yeah. I mean, seriously, because in order, that’s what we’re trying to do in order to get more women involved. You want to see gear that was actually created for women, not just an afterthought. I will fight anyone on this existing women’s gear. It looks like an afterthought. It looks like it was created by men.

Four women at the end of the meeting, they were all tired. They wanted to go home and they’re [00:46:00] like, slap some pink and stars on it and call it a day. And I am, to me, that doesn’t scream this sport is for you. Like, it’s just like, Hey, if you decide to come with your husband, with your boyfriend, you can wear something, but it’s like, ultimately there’s no room for you.

And so. I think doing exactly what we’re doing, creating more gear, having more conversations, women tend to be a little bit more apprehensive than men. Like I think men are more likely to just buy a bike because they’ve always wanted to, you know, like I feel like I could see a guy is more likely to be like, I’ve never written, but I want to, I’m going to buy a bike on Craigslist and I’m going to give it a go.

Whereas for a woman, like. The chances of that happening are a little bit slimmer. And we’ve talked about one of our goals would be to create a summer camp for youth where girls can come and learn to ride. And maybe they’re not riding every day, but that’s part of the experience. And maybe doing something like that for women of other ages as well, where it’s the not scary experience.

There’s trainers, people to show you what to do. There’s no [00:47:00] judgment and you can learn at your own pace until you’re comfortable to go out on your own.

Mountain Man Dan: It baffles me. The fact that we haven’t seen more of a female presence in motor sports, because unlike your normal physical sports, like basketball and football and baseball, motor sports.

It doesn’t come down to the physical abilities as much to where the machine does a lot of the work. And I’ve been telling my daughter since she was younger that especially in something like motocross, women are very fortunate because your guys center of balance is lower than a male’s. So it actually makes you guys a better rider in many ways.

And the fact that we haven’t tried as a society to push more women to be on bikes out there, I’m just dumbfounded by the fact that we haven’t done that.

Paige McReynolds: Well, and I think something that we’ve realized over, you know, going back to like, we haven’t experienced a lot of sexism, we’ve actually had a lot of support from men, but I think we had to overcome our own barriers that we created, you know, a little bit of an imposter syndrome that because we haven’t raced, people throw names at us all the time.

And I’m like, I’m going to be honest. I don’t know who you’re talking about or because we [00:48:00] can’t take our bike apart and put it back together. Like. I think people are very quick to judge your existence in the industry based on those things. Who do you know? Can you take your bike apart? What have you won?

What have you raced? And so we had to realize it doesn’t make us any less. Like it doesn’t make us bad riders because those things. So we’re just going to be honest. And we’re going to say like, we don’t know, but, uh, we’ll Google it later. That sounds cool. Like, and I. So I think that’s the, the first piece of it that it is intimidating.

And I don’t know if I would have gotten into it had it not been for our dad, like putting us on a bike and being like, go for it now. I can’t imagine my life without it. Like I love dirt biking motocross, like more than a lot of things in my life. And, but I think the other thing too, is. Which has been kind of sad and hopefully we can change it is that while we haven’t experienced a lot of outcasting from the men in the industry, I think the women in the industry, there, it is a little bit more of a, there’s a lot more competition.

Yeah. And I, no disrespect, I think for the women that have made it in the [00:49:00] industry and are successful, like they had to work very hard to get to where they are and they had to overcome a lot of obstacles. And I don’t want to take that away from them, but I just feel like now we’re in this place where it’s like.

Why can’t we coexist? Why can’t we be successful and you be successful? Why does it have to be one or the other? The men clearly have it figured out where there’s 10 major companies that exist and they all sell gear fine and they do their thing. And so, but we realize in that in moto industry, it is a man’s world.

And so when a woman makes it, it feels like a huge accomplishment. And so when another woman comes in, it can feel very threatening to that success. We don’t want to like throw shade at any other woman. We absolutely could. See where it’s coming from, but we’re hoping that we can show them that we’re here to support them just as much as we’re doing our own thing.

And if other women want to start making kits, we want more options. Like that’s totally fine. We don’t have to be the only ones to do it. Every company is going to be so different. We obviously come from a very personal, like family oriented type of style in this, and we don’t know a whole lot about what Paige is saying when it comes to like taking your bike apart and the people, but because we’re doing something.

We [00:50:00] think it is actually bigger than that because we don’t want to just stay in motocross, even though we love that. We do want to get into other sports. We want to open up the extreme sports world for women. That is our main priority. That’s where my thought ended.

Crew Chief Eric: And that actually leads into another question, maybe a combination of questions here.

So pants and jerseys and things like that. Are there any new products that you want to talk about that are coming online, you know, while this episode is airing any shout outs, promotions, anything you’d like to share?

Paige McReynolds: Our jerseys, we are pretty confident that they will be launching by mid April at the latest.

We’re ready to go. Our jerseys are in production and the second that we get them in hand, we are launching them because this has been a very long time coming and we’ve just, with the pandemic and everything else, we’ve experienced a lot of roadblocks. So we’re, let me tell you, we threw ourselves into the fire and We’re learning how to fire dance and it’s been really fun.

Hey, shout out to my business partner, my sister for being really awesome. Our parents for allowing us to live a very [00:51:00] unconventional life. Paige was born first and they’re like, okay, a daughter. Like we’ll try again. My dad’s like, we’ll probably get a son the second time. Then I came out and they’re like, two daughters.

My dad’s like, he’s like, I’m treating them both like sons. I don’t care. And like, I guess I ended up benefiting us in the end. There was really nothing. Our parents told us we couldn’t do. Sports wise, obviously there were a lot of things. There were some other, there’s some other things that we just can’t.

But when it came to trying new things in sports, the world was our oyster. They encouraged it. And I, so shout out to Keith and Gail and our parents for, and for letting us happen, letting us use the house as a warehouse. Letting us live headquarters, but no, all jokes aside. I mean, thank you to both of you.

This has been such a wonderful conversation and we do have a promo for your audience. So through the end of March, March 31st, through the last day of March, use code McFix. So M C F I X. for 15 percent off your order online.

Mountain Man Dan: My daughter’s going to love that. Cause when Eric brought this podcast to me and mentioned it, I looked your guys website up and was going through it.

And of course I brought my daughter in to the office. I’m like, Hey, check this [00:52:00] stuff out. What do you think of it? And she fell in love with a lot of your guys apparel. And she was like, I want one of their hoodies.

Paige McReynolds: And we should have some more. We’re working on hopefully some more youth stuff. Once we get our adult kits out, our next focus is going to be youth kits, because that’s a really the main focus for us.

Selfishly, obviously, we want our own kits to come out first so we can wear them, but then second to that, we really want to make youth kits. And so yeah, if your daughters have any recommendations for styles that they’d like to see, I mean, because I’m not seven, unfortunately, so I just don’t know what’s Cool anymore.

I envision, you know, something with unicorn, like something might have to be more of my style. Yeah. Kelly’s probably going to design her. Yeah. I like flowers and unicorns and things. And I think as for like future, if women came up to us and we’re like, can you please make apparel gear for can any four wheel other stuff that we don’t know enough about?

I think we just have to wait until we do have a big enough company where we have employees and we can hire people that specialize. In that sports, I feel like that’s so important. If we were just to make [00:53:00] apparel or gear for things that we don’t do, I feel like we wouldn’t be doing those women justice, anything to help women get involved in extreme sports we want to do, but we would probably have to wait until we would have the bandwidth and the money to hire people on that are part of that sport and can give like an actual personal touch to those things.

So that’s really important to us and real insight on what women want for those sports.

Crew Chief Eric: Well, folks, especially our lady listeners. out there as you’re tuning into this episode of break fix. I think it’s time for y’all to update your closet with the hottest new items in motocross gear. If that’s the case, then look no further than McRae motocross company.

You can learn more about them at www dot. mcraymx. com that’s m c r e y m x. com and be sure to follow them on social at mcray underscore mx on instagram mcray motocross company on facebook at mcray underscore mx on tiktok and they have a youtube channel Don’t forget to keep up with all their very clever blogs and be [00:54:00] sure to check out our follow on article on gt motorsports.

org for more details about this episode, Paige and Kelly. I cannot thank you guys enough for coming on the show. This has been an absolute treat. You guys are a. Bundle of energy and inspiration. And I really wish you guys the best of success as you launch your new line and everything. We look forward to seeing what comes next.

Paige McReynolds: Awesome. Thank you for having us. We’re stoked to be here. Sorry. We talked your ear off. By we, I mean you. And by we, I mean me.

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Skip ahead if you must… Here’s the highlights from this episode you might be most interested in and their corresponding time stamps.

• 00:00 Introduction to Break/Fix Podcast
• 00:27 Meet Paige and Kelly McReynolds
• 00:58 The Birth of McRey Motocross
• 01:45 Challenges in Women’s Motocross Gear
• 03:39 Riding Adventures and Experiences
• 07:18 Future Goals and Aspirations
• 15:46 Designing McRey Motocross Apparel
• 22:54 Safety and Material Testing
• 26:17 Innovative Motocross Gear Design
• 27:29 The Story Behind the Butterfly Logo
• 30:48 Empowering Women in Motorsports
• 33:52 The Importance of Authenticity
• 38:24 Community and Support in Motocross
• 50:18 Future Plans and Promotions
• 53:20 Conclusion and Farewell

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