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Slater Skins
Company
Bio
Established in 1995 by John C. Slater,
founder and CEO.

John started riding at the age of 6 with guidance
from his father. A year later he started racing. In 1976 he saw his first
Pro race live at Unadilla in upper state NY, the Trans AMA and saw Roger
DeCoster, Adolph Weil, Rex Staton on Harley Davidson, Gerrit Wolsink,
Marty Smith, Tommy Croft, and Jim Pomeroy all racing there. Over the next
sixteen years, John started racing pro, with his most memorable moment
being when he qualified in 1992 for the Unadilla 250 USGP. John has also
watched the legendary races between Bob Hannah and Kent Howerton at
Southwick. At this point John had decided he wanted to be involved with
Motocross for life. John had the opportunity to see the 1987 Trophe
DeNations at Unadilla.
He moved from the East coast to the
West coast in the early 90’s to start his first motocross business. After
a few years decided to refocus his efforts back on the East Coast in
Connecticut and started SRP Slater Racing Products where he introduced
SLATER SKINS.
SRP manufactures SLATER SKINS, full body panels made
from polypropylene, high impact, heat resistant plastic. This material is
very durable and is paintable, unlike many other plastics. SLATER SKINS
are a set of streamlined panels designed especially to help promote the
off-road racing sport by giving corporate sponsors 1,200 square inches of
advertising space which is 900 square inches larger than the stock
panels.
John promoted, built and designed Arena crosses in New
Haven, CT at the New Haven coliseum, as well as promoting Monster Trucking
events there. He sold sponsorships on the SLATER SKINS and hired riders
for the Arena cross. The largest sponsor he brought in for these Arena
Events was Foxwoods Casino.
SRP has worked with Mike Metzger, Mike
Jones, Kenny Bartram and Jeremy Stenberg in the freestyle market. Metzger
won the Vans Triple Crown while sporting the SLATER SKINS. Freestyle has
gotten the attention of Corporate America with the introduction of NBC’s
Gravity Games and X-Games. The 2000 Gravity Games had even more riders
sporting SLATER SKINS including Mike Jones.
SLATER SKINS were
First, Second and Third on the Saturday Gravity games. The Sunday games
showed the Second and Third place riders with the SLATER
SKINS.
Because of the coverage at the Gravity games, John was able
to get SoBe to sponsor a freestyle rider, Kenny Bartram who subsequently
became injured just before the X-Games. John and SoBe then managed to hire
on Trevor Vines to replace Kenny Bartram in time for the X-Games. SoBe
continues to sponsor Trevor Vines and Team SoBe Suzuki Motocross.
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