My name is Alise Post, and I started BMX Racing when I was 6 years old in Minnesota. My older brother started about 2 weeks before me, and saw other little girls at the track and talked my parents into dragging me along to try it out and toughen his little sis up before she got into anything too girly he couldn't enjoy with me ;) When I first tried though, I was too scared. I walked up to the starting gate and decided the hill was too big and I was not about to race down it. So, my parents nearly pulled the plug and got my membership money