Kenny Bartram (born on August 23, 1978) is an American professional freestyle motocross rider (FMX). Bartram is from Stillwater, Oklahoma, and is nicknamed "The Cowboy." Bartram usually wears orange in competition reflecting the colors of nearby Oklahoma State University. Before his career in FMX, he won many Oklahoma State Series MX Races. Out of all other riders, he currently has the most wins with 57 in all. Bartam has also suffered plenty of injuries, including 22 broken bones, 7 knocked out

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, a steel plate in the

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, and a damaged blood vessel in the

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. Bartram is contracted with KTM.

Early life

Bartram was born in Stillwater, Oklahoma on August 23, 1978.

Career

From 1996 to 2000, Bartram has competed in the 125 Class of

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, and he also been riding

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, KTM and

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dirt bikes. Bartram's favorite music is

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, and also he is a professional Supercrosser, a Motocross rider and a icon. In 1999, at the Gravity Games I, in

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, Bartram along with his best friend

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, performed together in the Moto X Freestyle Team. They won their first ever Gravity Games Gold medal together. At the 2000 X Games ( X Games VI), in San Francisco, California, Bartram made his first X Games appearance in Moto X Freestyle. He finished in 15th, and did not qualify for the Freestyle finals. At the 2000 Gravity Games, Bartram qualified in 4th from the Moto X Freestyle. He would go on to finish in 3rd place, thereby winning his first ever Gravity Games Bronze medal while riding the

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. At the 2001 Winter X Games V, in Mount Snow, Vermont, Bartram competed in the debut of Moto X Big Air event on snow while riding the Yamaha YZ250F. He finished 5th on his debut in the event. In May of 2001, Bartram switched from the 125 dirt bikes to the KTM 250 SX two-stroke, which is a heavy dirt bike. At the 2001 X Games ( X Games VII), Bartram performed a "Shaolin to Sterlizer" and finished 1st. As a result, he won his first ever Moto X Big Air event and also won an X Games Gold medal. At the 2001 Gravity Games, Bartram qualified in 2nd in Moto X Freestyle prelims, but only finished 7th in the Moto X Freestyle finals. At the 2002 Winter X Games VI, in Aspen, Colorado, Bartram has the silliest

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ever, but he failed to repeat his 2001 Summer X Games Moto X Big Air Gold medal, and he finished 6th in the Moto X Big Air event. In the 2002 Gravity Games in

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, he qualified in 3rd from the Moto X Freestyle prelims, and in the finals, Bartram finished in 3rd place, and took home his second Gravity Games Bronze medal in the Moto X Freestyle event. At the 2002 X Games ( X Games VIII), Bartram qualified in 2nd from the Moto X Freestyle prelims, yet in the finals of Moto X Freestyle, Bartram tried to pull off the "Backflip" off of a dirt kicker and broke his

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. Still, he finished in 2nd in the Moto X Freestyle finals and won the Silver medal. After fully recovering from his ankle injury from X Games VIII, at the 2003 X Games Global Championship, Bartram along with his teammate

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performed "Backflips" and won the Gold medal in Moto X Freestyle for Team USA. At the 2003 X Games (

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), Bartram made his Moto X Step Up debut, and finished 7th in the event. In the Moto X Freestyle prelims, Bartram qualified in 3rd and finished in 4th in the Moto X Freestyle finals. He made a comeback in the Moto X Big Air, performing the "Backflip Heelclicker" and finished in 3rd thereby winning his second Moto X Big Air medal, the Bronze medal. At the 2004 X Games (

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), Bartram competed in three events. He finished 10th in Moto X Best Trick and 6th in Moto X Freestyle. He did not qualify for the Freestyle finals; he also finished 11th in the Supermoto event. At the 2005 X Games (

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), Bartram performed a "Side Saddle Take-Off Backflip" and finished in 4th in Moto X Best Trick. In Moto X Freestyle, he qualified in 5th from the Moto X Freestyle prelims. In the finals, he finished 2nd after pulling off the same trick and winning his second X Games Silver medal in Moto X Freestyle. At the 2006 Winter X Games X, Bartram finished in 8th in Moto X Best Trick, and he did not qualify for the finals. At

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on Friday morning, while on a practice run, Bartram suffering a fractured

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and broken

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. Bartram is also a part of

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Other appearances

Bartram features as a playable character in the video game, Crusty Demons, released on PS2 and Xbox. He is also featured in the 2003 video game MTX Mototrax: Nitro Circus Rally Car Racing.

Events

*2002 WFA Cleveland, OH - Freestyle: 1st *2003 Red Bull X-Fighters - Freestyle: 1st (Valencia, Spain) *2003 Red Bull X-Fighters - Freestyle: 1st (Madrid, Spain) *2005 Red Bull X-Fighters - Freestyle: 3rd (Mexico City, Mexico) *7 World Championships *Rally America Rookie of the year, and 2 Rally America National Championships *2 time WFA and IFMA Champion, VTC Champion

X Games competition history

Gravity Games

References

External links

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Bartram's bike brand
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