About Ricky Brabec

Ricky Brabec (born 21 April 1991) is an American rally raid biker. He was born San Bernardino and started with BMX when he was five years old. When he was 15, he and his family moved desert city Hesperia. He was trying motocross and started with rally raiding in 2011.

He won the Baja 1000, Baja 500 and San Felipe 250 in 2014. He was fifth in the bike category at Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge in 2015. In 2016, he was sixth at Merzouga Rally and seventh at Atacama Rally in the bike category.

He made his Dakar Rally debut in 2016 and finished in 9th. In 2017, he won his first stage on his way to 12th place. In 2018, he was running in 6th place when he was forced to retire, the first DNF he suffered in his career. In 2019, he finished 9th.