Aldon Baker

Aldon Baker, born in 1971 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, is a trainer of motorcycle racers who began as an athlete himself. He raced motorcycles at club level, was inducted into the South African army, and twice won the South African cross-country championship for mountain biking, which led to a place on the South African team at the 1996 World Championships. A planned entry in the 2000 Sydney Olympics ended when the South African Olympic Committee dropped mountain biking from its programme. Baker then worked as a personal trainer in London before Johnny O'Mara introduced him to Ricky Carmichael in 2000. His fitness and diet methods reshaped rider preparation in American motocross and supercross. He later trained James Stewart Jr., Ryan Villopoto, Ken Roczen and Ryan Dungey, and from 2016 worked exclusively with KTM and Husqvarna riders.