The famous kaskote, As this businessman and influencer is known in the south, he is now also a motorcyclist with dreams and with that testimony he summarizes this exciting process that, for almost an hour, he recounts with the passion with which he lives. “I sold that motorcycle the following year, because now I realize that I had an advanced head for business. I returned the money to my parents and made a difference to go for another. So start buying and selling. I went up in displacement and in the level of the motorcycles until I finished with the largest ones”Explain.
Today, at 31 years old, after starting in this world 14 years ago, he claims to have owned more than 100 motorcycles. “Some lasted two or three days. I have had three in a week. He did it for business, rather than for pleasure. I liked to buy and sell, in addition to helping myself financially”, he comments. Those were times when Alexis worked in a laundry. “I earned 80 pesos a week and with a motorcycle I had 500 left. In one day he did what it took me a month at work. Imagine… ”, he compares.
That entrepreneurial spirit that overflows in him made him have different businesses, especially buying and selling cars and motorcycles, with a laundry, which today is called Kaskote Cars and has 115,000 followers on Instagram. And that he go to Miami, to try his luck. “It didn’t go the way I wanted and I came back,” he admits. And then something strange happened to him. “I was looking for a Fiat Duna to put at the door of the new premises and I find a person who tells me that he had several in a shed in Avellaneda. I thought how can it be… And I went even though it was two in the morning when we spoke. I arrived and I had 44 different Fiats, of all kinds, zero kilometers, which had been from a closed dealership years ago. He told me ‘sell them, I want to sell the shed, then we’ll fix it’. In days I sold seven to the same person and with that I paid for the 44. And it changed my life”tells about that news that was all the rage in the media in March 2020.
It was not the only time that he came out of a complex moment by appealing to such a special personality. When the pandemic started, he had to close his store, “because who was going to buy, wash or wax a car?” His wife gave him the idea of selling hamburgers and they founded a store with his name that ‘was all the rage, we came to sell 250 burgers a night and almost 30,000 followers on IG, crazy for something homemade and personal… People even called me to buy me the recipe. We ended up selling the goodwill and refounding Kaskote Cars.”
Thus we come to today. Or, actually, months ago, when Pablo Ramos, alias El Cubano, seven-time Superbike champion, told him that he should dedicate himself to racing motorcycles. “You’ve been around since you were a child, you drive very well, you have to get involved.” Kaskote had doubts about him. “Imagine that today putting a motorcycle on the track costs me 250,000 pesos for each weekend. Its a lot of money. But I did it. Partly because today, with almost 800,000 followers on Instagram, I can shrink that amount. I have four people who pay me part of the race. They are like sponsors. Nor that I fully started looking, maybe if I dedicated myself to racing a motorcycle, I would even earn money. But I’m not into motorcycles for that. I do it out of passion”, he makes clear.
To his surprise -and to many-, Monti made his debut in the Superbike 600 Stock category with a podium finish in Colón, Buenos Aires. “I was second the whole race and in one of the last corners I overstepped the brakes and lost that place. But I didn’t care much… I was wildly happy and the Cuban came to tell me ‘you saw what I told you, you should have started years ago,’” says Kaskote, who pilots a Yamaha brand “missile”.
The story of the second race is even better. “I was in Córdoba for a service and I missed the tests on Friday and the classification on Saturday. I just arrived in Arrecifes at midnight and the next morning I could barely do five laps of the circuit to get to know it. But I started very well and in the first corner I had already passed five. I was second throughout the race and I went a little outside in a curve and when I touched it I realized that the bike was not turning, because the tire was deflating. I held on and in the last meters the engine also exploded… But I only lost one place and ended up on the podium again, with the rubber on the rim and without the engine”, he describes in disbelief.
After two races, he draws two conclusions: that he has the dough to run (“I never thought how quickly I would be able to catch up with people who have been in this for 10/15 years,” he admits) and that he should improve his physical condition. “I never did anything and now I realize that, at the end of the races, my arms, knees, legs give out… You go 200 kilometers and you have to turn 100, it kills you… I already started looking for a PF to reinforce the team I put together”, he says while waiting for the third date, in Arrecifes.
“Motorcycling is a hobby for me today, but I take it very seriously. Already in the second race I noticed myself mentally and physically looser and more concentrated. In the first one I couldn’t even talk about the nerves, too much adrenaline. Now I’m going to start training and continue polishing the team because it’s not just putting gasoline on the bike and leaving… My goal is to be able to make the jump to the next category, 600 Pro, and then see if at some point I can fulfill the dream of race in the United States and why not in Moto GP”, he says.
With Kaskote, his personality and entrepreneurial spirit, anything is possible.
Source: Ambito
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