August 2020 -- Vol 4 -- Issue 8 August 2020 | Page 200

On The Pegs 200 of the year. Then I signed with Beta to do trials and enduro. Slowly I just kind of started fading out of the trials thing. I was still doing the nationals, riding the pro level. I was kind of bummed because I had won at least one event every single year until 2015. I almost won the last one of the year because Pat wasn’t here. Andrew Putt got me. So I’m a little bitter about that. Again, I was on the four-stroke Honda. There was one splatter without a kicker and I fived it. It was in Wyoming. Every single lap I fived the same section. I lost by like two points. So fifteen extra points in one section that I watch him fly right out of. Just wide open for like five seconds. Tony Bou is a freak for riding so good. His bike’s a freak, too. I had a pretty good one, too, I rode the stock Honda. They built a bike in Spain. It was the first time I ever actually had factory suspension. I actually had built Showa stuff on there. It was really nice. That was really good suspension on the bike. I think it was a bigger motor, like a 280 or something. So it was a super fun bike to ride. I really enjoyed it. For some stuff, I thought it was better, but the splatter… I don’t know what it is. It was just like a flat wall. It was undercut too, a little bit. Not even big. Just couldn’t get the lift. With trials, it was just kind of always what I did. I still dabble in it here and there. It’s super fun. It’s all you do. I don’t know if you remember Max Malsbury. He grew up super close to me and we’d ride every weekend. Even Stevie Darrow. We’d ride on weekends with Stevie before he stopped. He stopped earlier than Max. Max was really good. He won the High School championship the year after I did. We called ourselves the California Power Team for a while. Max went away for school. He had a knee injury. I kind of was just riding by myself. I just felt like I lost that progression. Then I started riding the dirt bike when I was riding for Beta and it was like every time I rode I felt like I saw improvements. That’s kind of when things started changing for me. Tell me how you think trials has helped your big bike riding. I wouldn’t say it’s helped me much at the GNCC, but for this hard enduro stuff, or even I’ve ridden a national enduro before. My first time ever riding an enduro bike I rode with a local A-level guys and I was right there with them and I had