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California, We’re Coming Back Bigger Than Ever

Writer: Derek Guetter
Derek Guetter
14 hours ago
3 min read
ATV Big Air Tour California homecoming at Gold Country Fairgrounds in Auburn

For ATV Big Air Tour, coming to California isn’t just another stop on the schedule. It’s a homecoming more than two decades in the making.


In 2004, my brother Jon Guetter made history near Big Bear, California, when he became the first person in the world to successfully backflip an ATV. That moment changed our lives and helped change the sport of ATV freestyle forever.


A few months later, I graduated from high school, packed up, and moved to California to begin my own professional riding career.




Where It All Started


When we first arrived in California, we began riding with H-Bomb Films and the Bomb Squad, produced by Wes Miller. At the time, it was the biggest ATV film series in the world.


Those films captured a wild new era of ATV freestyle. We made headlines, broke barriers, and helped introduce ATV backflips to fans around the world. It was where we learned how to ride professionally, perform in front of crowds, produce great content, and turn a crazy dream into a career.



California became home to me for about four and a half years. I rode and filmed throughout the state, including Temecula, Hollister, Morgan Hill, Glamis, Pismo Beach, Red Bluff, and many other legendary moto locations.


I’ve ridden in approximately 13 California cities, appeared in television and radio features, worked on major film shoots, and even performed in advertising campaigns for shoe companies. We rented helicopters and produced our own film series, always looking for a way to make ATV freestyle bigger, better, and more exciting.


California played a huge role in building the rider, performer, and businessman I am today.


Derek Guetter performs the Custy trick while riding with Demons of Dirt in Lismore, Australia.


From Film Shoots to Major Arena Tours


As the years went on, ATV freestyle took us far beyond those original film shoots.


I became part of Nuclear Cowboyz, touring throughout California and performing alongside some of the biggest names in freestyle motocross, including Twitch, Nate Adams, the Metal Mulisha, and many of the top two-wheel riders in the world.  


Eventually, we took everything we learned and started doing things our own way.


That became the focus of ATV Big Air Tour.


Derek Guetter and Colten Moore perform side-by-side ATV cliffhangers with pyrotechnics during the Nuclear Cowboyz tour.


Now We’re Bringing It All Back to California


After 23 years in the sport, we’re making another giant leap.


On November 7, 2026, ATV Big Air Tour is coming to the Gold Country Fairgrounds in Auburn, California, for the biggest show and largest production we have ever created.


This isn’t just another performance inside someone else’s event. This is our show, built from the ground up using more than two decades of riding, touring, filming, promoting, and entertaining crowds around the world.


We’re bringing the biggest riders, more ramps, huge tricks, powerful sound, incredible giveaways, and 400-pound ATVs flying through the air and going upside down.


It’s everything we have learned over the last 23 years packed into one massive California show.


There has never been a four-wheeler show in California quite like this.


Derek Guetter interviews ATV freestyle rider John Langaas in front of a full crowd at an ATV Big Air Tour show.


California Helped Start Our Story


California gave us some of our first opportunities. It gave us legendary places to ride, filmmakers who believed in what we were doing, and fans who wanted to see ATV freestyle grow.


That is why returning now means so much.


We aren’t coming back as a couple of young riders trying to get noticed. We’re coming back with our own touring production, decades of experience, and the biggest ATV freestyle show we have ever assembled.


It feels like everything has come full circle.


From my brother Jon Guetter making history near Big Bear in 2004 to bringing ATV Big Air Tour to Auburn in 2026, California has always been an important part of our story.


Now we’re ready to write the next chapter.




Don’t Miss This One


California, we’re coming back and we’re coming back bigger than ever.


Whether you followed the original H-Bomb films, saw us on the Nuclear Cowboyz tour, grew up riding ATVs and dirt bikes, or have never experienced a live freestyle show before, this is the one you do not want to miss.


We’re ready to make another huge splash in California, and we need California’s moto community to turn out and be part of it.


Join us November 7 at the Gold Country Fairgrounds in Auburn, California, with shows at 12:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.

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We’ll see you there.


- Derek Guetter

Founder



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