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torcycle , I ’ m probably just not going to do it .
How much will you continue to train ?
The good thing about what I ’ ve got going on is , the training part has never bothered me . Nowadays it ’ s the riding part and the structure of the riding and the intensity you got to ride with to practice and then take it to the races . Like I said , I ’ ve been a big creator of this progression of the sport of how people practice and get ready for these events . It ’ s just dangerous . It ’ s scary . That ’ s what I ’ m realizing . When I wake up , don ’ t get me wrong , I love racing a motorcycle and I love the feeling of winning , but when I get up and go cycling and go to ride , I don ’ t mind going cycling and going swimming . I can ’ t run anymore . My knees are jacked , my ankles . But the training part , going to the gym and training is good for me . It ’ s the riding to be honest with you . It ’ s knowing that you got to go practice with all intent of going just as fast as you ’ re going to race . And if you don ’ t do that , you ’ re not getting much out of it . I ’ m not in a place mentally where I want to do that anymore . So getting motivated to actually just do the riding part is where I ’ m lacking at the moment . At least for off-road I ’ m still going to race , but that killer instinct is slowly dwindling away and the motivation to hang it out there and stay at the top is what ’ s the hardest part to do , is the riding part .
Do you have any desire to do other things like Ryan Sipes is doing and ride a lot of different types of events ? No , not really .
Is there anything you have left to prove at Six Days ?
Yeah . I would like to have won Six Days . I feel like I threw one away in ’ 15 when Ryan won and I blew my knee out . It ’ s a tough event . Those guys are a little bit more on point at certain places and the terrain is so varying . It ’ s funny . You can almost go anywhere in Europe and it ’ s going to be like California . It blows my mind . There ’ s so much desert-type terrain over there . It ’ s kind of off-the-wall . We went to Portugal and it was a lot like Southern California . It ’ s just tough for me because I don ’ t ride in that stuff and it ’ s hard to get comfortable in those conditions . I enjoy Six Days but it ’ s a tough event . I would like to win . I got another year to do it . I ’ m going to race ’ 21 , going to Six Days in Italy . It ’ s more east coast type terrain . I know those Italian guys , there ’ s a lot of fast riders and they ’ re going to be really good too . That race there ’ s so much that can go wrong and there ’ s so much time on a bike . It would be a huge feat to do it . I ’ m not going to put too much stress on