Meet the Crew
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< Brian Cox started simply LUXURY IMPORTS in 2004 with Nick Lawson and Dale Cox, specializing in pre-owned luxury autos. In 2005 he decided to follow his passion of motorcycles (not that cars aren’t super cool) and simply SPORT BIKES was born! His goal is that everyone that walks through the door, whether a customer, fan, or employee, gets a taste of the Premier Motorcycle Experience. Brian has been riding since 2000 and has owned a Yamaha FZR600 and YZF600, and a Suzuki TL1000S, GSXR600, and 3 GSXR1000s. He rides on the street but has enjoyed one track day at none other than Laguna Seca Raceway in California and hopes to put his track shoes on more in the upcoming years. He is married to Cassandra and they have a daughter Ava, and a son Bennett and resides in Plymouth, MN. |
| Matt has been riding for 29 years - he started on a 1970 Honda QA50 and currently owns 9 motorcycles, ranging from a 1967 Suzuki B 100 P to a 1989 Suzuki GSXR 7-11 Pro Street nitrous bike making almost 200 horsepower. He also owns a 1972 Honda CB100 with 341 original miles, and Matt sold his 2006 and 2008 CBR 1000RR’s this year and got himself a 2010 Honda CRF450. Matt grew up on motorcycles and in the industry with his father being a certified Honda mechanic and a former CRA racer, as well as an avid drag racer. At 15, Matt went drag racing and the following year he was the Trophy Bike class champion at Rock Falls Raceway. He has worked at many of the shops around the area starting with his dad’s shop, Cycles Plus on Lowry, in Minneapolis in 1989 into the mid 90’s, Roy’s Repair, Midwest Cycle Supply, the St.Paul Hitching Post and A1 Cycle Parts, before owning his own shop in Hopkins, Full Power Cycle. After selling his shop in 2007 he joined Simply Sport Bikes in 2008. Matt is a huge motorcycle enthusiast, attending as many motorcycle events and races as possible (Brainerd, Rock Falls, Grove Creek, CRA, DCTC, First Thursday, etc…) as well as at the Moto GP events at Laguna Seca and Indianapolis, and the AMA races from Road America and Daytona, and Miller Motorsports Park this year for WORLD SUPERBIKE!!! Matt got to fulfill a life long dream, in October 2010 by participating in the Skip Barber Super Bike School at Laguna Seca riding KTM RC8’s!!! When Matt’s not at work, chances are he can be found in the garage at home working on any number of his own projects. This winter he hopes to get a couple of his old Honda CB750F’s back on the road and might even get to put together a Honda CBR600F4i stunt bike just for fun!!! > |
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< Erik has ten years experience in the motorcycle industry and has been an enthusiast and grew up around motorcycles his whole life. He grew up owning dirt bikes and mini bikes and got his first street bike was he was 16 years old (2000 Yamaha R6). Erik is an avid race enthusiast. He has attended the AMA Superbike races every year since he was 7 years old, been to several AMA Motocross National and Supercross events, and has now attended 9 Moto GP events. Erik enjoys all types of racing from street bike, off road, pit bike, supermoto, ice biking, basically anything with two wheels. He owns a 2008 Yamaha R6 that he races with the CRA. 2012 will be his 5th season of racing with the CRA, 3rd as an expert rider. Goals and aspirations are to someday race an AMA event and to eventually ride the Baja peninsula in Mexico. |
| Derek Stutz > Derek has worked in the motorcycle industry for 5 years. He has been riding motorcycles pretty much since he has had his driver's license and off-road before then. He is an enthusiast of pretty much all power sports. Derek has previously owned a Honda F3, a Yamaha R6, a couple GSXR-600's and a GSXR-750. His other passion is playing paintball competitively and traveling around the country to do so. After the fall of 2011 Derek will have completed his Bachelor's Degree in Marketing from St. Cloud State University. |
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< Ryan Benson first found his love for two wheels when he bought his first dirt bike at the age of twelve. Shortly there after he began racing motocross and anything else with an engine. Once Ryan was eighteen he moved to Arizona for school with his 98 Suzuki katana 600 that he rode year round until upgrading to a cbr 929. After endless miles in the dessert the 929 eventually found itself in motorcycle heaven and he found myself driving back to good old MN. Most recently Ryan has been turning wrenches for SLXI for the past year and have put 8k on his new /previously owned cbr 600rr this past season. Ryan excited for the upcoming season hopefully and will meet lots of new fellow enthusiast and ride through many new places. |
