Carey Hart Height, Age, Girlfriend, Wife, Children, Family, Biography

Some Lesser Known Facts About Carey Hart

• Carey Hart was born into a sports-loving family as his grandfather and uncles liked and participated in motorcycle racing competitions.

• He was only 4 years old when he started riding motorcycles. He learned to ride a motorcycle before a bicycle.

• He also played other team sports, but didn’t like it and gave up.

• Growing up in a single-father family, he often did other adventurous activities.

• His father always told him to pay attention to his studies and didn’t allow him to ride any motorcycle if he had a B or C grade on his report card.

• After graduating from high school with a 4.0 GPA, he moved to California to pursue his racing career.

• When he was 16, he met with an accident with a tractor in which he fractured wrists and suffered two broken femurs, and a broken tibia and fibula.

• At the age of 18 years, he started competing in the AMA Supercross circuit and in freestyle motocross in 1996.

• He later gained fame for doing stunts such as being the first rider to publicly perform the BMX trick the ‘superman seat grab’ at IFMA events in 1998-1999.

• He was the first person to perform the ‘invert Superman seat grab’ at the 1999 Gravity Games in Providence, Rhode Island which was later renamed the ‘Hart Attack.’

• He became the first rider to attempt the first backflip on a 250 cc motorcycle in competition.

• In 2001, he attempted a backflip stunt again but suffered a bad crash, suffering multiple injuries that included several broken bones, ribs, and a bruised tailbone.

• He met singer Pink during the 2001 X Games in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He soon told her that he didn’t like riding with passengers. So, he taught her how to ride a motorcycle.

• In 2002, he competed in the Gumball 3000, an annual British 3,000-mile (4,800 km) international road rally that happened from San Francisco to Miami that year.

• He has been featured in several documentaries such as Gumball 3000; The Movie and Goodtimes With Carey Hart in 2003.

• During Tony Hawk’s Boom Boom HuckJam tour in 2003, he hit the temporary side rails to avoid hitting a skater. He suffered major injuries such as broken arms, legs, and severe blood clotting during surgery. It put him out of the competition for 3 years.

• In 2004, he and John Huntington opened the Hart & Huntington Tattoo Company in Las Vegas. Huntington sold his 48% share back to Hart after opening the store.

• They dated for 4 years before Pink proposed to him at a race in Mammoth Lakes, California in 2005 by holding the signboard that read, “Will you marry me?”

• He initially ignored her and completed a lap when she changed the sign that read, “I’m serious!” He pulled out of the race, and they got engaged.

• He was the host for ABC’s Live’s X Games FMX coverage in 2005. The same year, he participated in the 5th season of the reality show The Surreal Life aired on VH1.

• Hart got into a legal dispute with Huntington in 2006 over the likeness and trademark which was later resolved.

• He made his first supercross team,  the H&H/Rockstar Moto Team, in 2007 which included him as a rider.

• They got married in January 2007, but separated in February 2008.

• When his brother Anthony ‘Tony’ Hart passed away in a motocross competition in 2008, Pink declared support for him. His family later founded the XTRM Hart Foundation to raise funds.

• In 2009, he and Pink attended marriage counselling after which they got back together.

• In July 2008, he teamed up with Cory McCormack, Jason Giambi, Benji Madden and Joel Madden to create the Las Vegas nightclub ‘Wasted Space’ which was voted the Best New Bar.

• He released his book ‘Inked: The Book’ in 2008 which featured his life story and the stories behind his tattoos.

• In 2008, the CORR (Championship Off-Road Racing Series) closed after which he formed a Short Course Truck Team named the Hart and Huntington Off-Road Team.

• In 2013, he and fellow racer Ricky Carmichael formed a racing team named RCH Racing.

• He has a tattoo of the carbon from the Indian Scout flat-track bike from the famous artist Franco Vescovi.

• He has been featured in various music videos such as Kid Rock’s ‘Bawitdaba’ (1999) and Pink’s ‘Just Like a Pill’ (2001).

• Hart has also appeared in many films including XXX (2002) and Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003).

• In 2025, he featured as a participant in the reality show Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test, which aired on Fox.

• He often drinks alcoholic beverages such as beer or whiskey during parties or celebrations.