About Us

We are a family owned business with three generations of racing experience. Bob has been a motorcycle enthusiast since the late 60’s and along with wife, Cheryl, is the owner of Go-Race Tire Service. His son, Travis, has been racing dirt bikes since the mid 70’s and is the owner of Go-Race Suspension. Travis’s brothers Nathan and Nick both have been riding for about 10 years. Bob and Cheryl have two grandchildren, Hanna and Trevor (thank you Travis), who will begin racing this year. Cheryl helps keep them organized and makes custom handmade jewelry, which she also sells at the racetrack.

Grandma Denise Jones also helps to maintain the schedule of Travis’s children Hannah and Trevor. Without her help, weekend racing would not be possible.

ABOUT TRAVIS
I was raised around motorcycles from the young age of about 2 years old. I remember the smell of my dad’s noisy two stroke Bultaco well.  My dad was a racer and bought my first motorcycle at 5 years old - a Yamaha TY 80.  I started riding pretty much everyday at age 6. I was hooked!

In my teens, my dad and I would go trail riding every Sunday (rain, shine, or snow) up on  Brush Mountain in Montgomery County, VA. To this day, it’s the best trail system I have ever been on - except now its illegal to ride there…go figure! You can still pedal on the trails all you want though. We started racing the VCHSS in 1984 pretty much full time to the current date. My younger brother, Nathan, started riding the series with us in1996 at age 7. He is now a fast 200A rider and has got me in his sights.

I graduated High School in 1989.  I attended Community College and studied machine technology. I had always enjoyed working on, modifying, and repairing our bikes. Friends would bring my dad and me their worst bike problems. We would either repair them in our shop or take them over to my dad’s friend’s house, which was a complete machine fabrication shop. That is were my interest in suspension came from. The owner of that shop had designed his own cantilever front suspension systems for his dirt bikes. They were way complicated and worked pretty well for the times. He actually patented some of his work.

I started to experiment in my own suspension systems, taking them apart, modifying them, and changing things around to see what would happen. It was fun to experiment with different setups. It only gave me the motivation to find out what was really going on inside.

I attended Motorcycle Mechanics Institute in 1993 and I then entered the field full time as a motorcycle technician. The” black magic" of suspension motivated me to attend a real suspension school, so I attended all of the Race Tech schools (some of them twice). A few years later, I attended Traxxion Dynamics suspension school, learning the ins and outs of road race/sport bike setups. I have been testing and tuning suspensions ever since on all makes and models.

Custom-tailored suspension is the only way to gain real confidence and control of your motorcycle. It pays for itself with the smile on your face.

Talk to you soon and Go Race!

Travis Jones
Owner, Go-Race Inc.   

Hours of operation: Monday thru Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday and Sunday at the race track from dawn till dusk or until the job is done!