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It’s a sport the 14-year-old recently found a passion for and has quickly learned how to compete in. “He’s always rode something — a four-wheeler or a dirt bike — never on a track,” mother Kera Caraway said. “He came out here one time and entered in a race to see where he went. He won first place in every division, and that’s where we started. We race every weekend just about.” Gavin rode dirt bikes often at a friend’s house. It wasn’t until his friend took him to Creekside that Gavin got a taste for competition. “I came out here and rode his bike,” he said, adding that was it. He was hooked. Gavin split the cost of his first bike — a 65 cc — with his parents, Bubba and Kera — and quickly upgraded to the KX 85, which his parents bought for him in September, just after his 14th birthday. “I’ve been doing this about seven months,” he said. The front of his bike sports Gavin 251 — his competition racing number — which carries a special meaning. Taking notes from a fellow racer, Gavin decided to honor his family in his number selection. Two is for his parents, Bubba and Kera; five is the number of children in the family — Gracen, Gavin, Adi, Savanna and Zander — and one for his grandmother, Mimi.
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avin Caraway revs up the engine on his 2019 Kawasaki KX 85 dirt bike and jets out onto the track at Creekside MX. He takes a warmup lap and then throttles it, leaning into turns, jumping tabletops and rolling down step downs as fast as he can at the motocross track just outside of New Berlin.
