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.
• He got his first job at the age of 12 was taping and finishing drywall in Las Vegas in the company of his father’s friends.

• 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.

• After the racing season ended in 1998, he enrolled at a community college to become an accountant. But he did a first freestyle motocross demo on Warped Tour and FMX that became a hit, so dropped out his plan of studying.

• 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.’
  

  Carey Hart doing a stunt

• 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.
  

  Pink riding 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.
  

  Carey Hart in the hospital after surgery

• 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.
  

  An outlet of Hart & Huntington Tattoo Company

• 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?”
  

  Carey Hart and Pink when they were dating

• 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.
  

  Pink proposing to Carey Hart in a race with a board

• 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.
  

  Carey Hart and Pink a few days after their marriage

• 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. It closed down in 2010.
  

  Carey Hart’s bar ‘Wasted Space’ that closed in 2010

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

  Cover of Carey Hart’s book, Inked The Book

• 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.
  

  Ricky Carmichael and Carey Hart

• In 2016, he founded a motorcycle rally charity organization named Good Ride, to help veteran motorcycle racers and their families.

• In 2019, he partnered with Next Green Wave Holdings Inc. to launch CBD products under the name HartLuck.

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

  Carey Hart’s tattoo made by Franco Vescovi

• In 2020, he moved to Los Angeles as his wife Pink and son Jameson were diagnosed with COVID-19. He and his daughter didn’t get infected by the virus.

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

• In November 2022, he suffered a wardrobe malfunction as his trousers split before the American Music Awards.

• 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.
  

  Carey Hart during an episode of the reality show Special Forces

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

  Carey Hart drinking beer

• He has worked with many celebrities including Brad Pitt and his son when he helped them build a custom motorcycle in the early 2000s.

• Whenever he steps out of his house, he always carries his wallet, a pocket knife, and a hoodie.

• He was good at Maths but found it difficult to read as he was a dyslexic.

• He saved more than 50 helmets that he custom painted or had any importance to him, which he kept at his workshop.
  

  Carey Hart’s signature helmet

• He liked surfing during his teenage years and often went on vacations to Lake Mead or Lake Havasu.

• He has tried to get his wife to do surfing or play golf but she has never done these as she is afraid of sharks and thinks that golf is a man’s sport.
  

  Carey Hart surfing while his wife Pink cheers

• He likes to spend time with his daughter and got her to watch his favorite cartoons Tom and Jerry and Scooby-Do. He watched her favorite movie Frozen so many times that he got fed up.

• He is often targeted by parental organisations for letting his children do adventure activities such as driving motorcycles, but he has said that he raises them like he was raised and wants them to follow their hobbies.
  

  Carey Hart’s daughter before a race

• He had an on-and-off relationship with his wife Pink over the years. So, she has sung a few songs of him, but he said that those lines never affected him.