Pay Dirt: Cox turns love of motocross into track construction venture
Dylan Cox’s love for the sport of motocross began when he was only 6 years old, and he said that the sport has been “all I’ve done. ” “I’ve been racing and been around motocross my whole life,” said Cox, a Daviess County resident. He even had a pretty successful career in motocross in his younger years, spending four years as a member of Kawasaki’s Team Green and participating in over 10 races at Loretta Lynn’s, known as the world’s largest amateur motocross race, the final stop for amateur riders before they join the professional ranks.
And when his racing career ended, Cox, wanting to find a way to stay involved with the sport, began designing and creating motocross tracks as an off-shoot of his family business, Cox Excavating, which eventually evolved into Cox Excavating & Track Builds. Now Cox said that he spends the majority of his time with the business traveling around the area, including as far away as Tennessee and Illinois, building custom-designed motocross tracks for individuals and businesses, along with hosting area racing events through Full Potential Race Promotions. He began building tracks around 2018, he said, for indoor arenas in Union County’s Sturgis and Greenville in Muhlenberg County.
“I got into the indoor series, Western Kentucky Arenacross, about eight years ago, and I started building tracks for that, and about four to five years ago, I started building tracks (for others) and that’s pretty much all I do,” Cox said. He said he gets ideas by showing up to the track’s location, speaking with his client and then does “whatever feels good. ” “I know what kinds of (tracks) will be fun.
I just try to come up with something different. I’ve never really drawn out the tracks, and when I go build people’s tracks... I can’t tell you what I’m going to build beforehand because I just kinda get started and fill it out,” Cox said.
For the tracks inside the Sturgis and Greenville arenas, Cox said that he is limited by space and can “only build as much (track) as they give me (space). ” “I’ve dug down to the deepest that I could go (in those arenas),” said Cox, stating that he utilizes as much dirt as possible when building those indoor tracks. And, he said, that he can design a track fit for a rider of any size on any size of bike, depending on what the client needs, from the smallest 50cc dirtbikes up to the large, booming 450cc bikes.