WORDS: Grant Herbert
PHOTOS: Red Bull Content Pool
HERBERT’S
REDBULL
ROMANIACS
t was like every hour’s riding was a
war. The Silver Class at the Redbull
Romaniacs is always really hard, but for
2018 it was pretty much too hard due to
the almost continuous rain on day one. The
only good thing I could take from it was that
the conditions were exactly the same for
everyone.
I did something like 11 hours of riding on
the first day, and was absolutely shattered...
and that’s how I felt for the next three days.
You should have seen the faces of the
riders and heard the comments at the end
of day one! A lot of riders were completely
exhausted, but what could the organisers
really do about it? They couldn’t exactly
control the weather! In the end, they helped
Kiwi Rider Grant
Herbert took on the
Silver Class at the 2018
Red Bull Romaniacs.
2018 was an epically
difficult year...
by taking six sections out from day two, just
so riders had a chance of finishing. I must
have fallen off something like 100 times
throughout the day, which was around 10
hours of riding. That evening it rained all
night...
Days three and four were big days from the
moment I got on the bike to when I could
finally get off it again. It was something like
nine hours of riding on day three and then
six to seven hours on day four. In the end
I managed 29th in the Silver Class, with
fellow Kiwi Phil Singleton in 13th. I think
my body is still trying to heal itself now,
several months later; I lost something like
three to four kilos over the course of a long
weekend!
KIWI RIDER 93