On The Pegs August 2018 - Volume 3 - Issue 8 | Page 80

On The Pegs
P 80
DEBRIEF:
STEWAR
STEWARD BAYLOR DISECTS THE TRACK AND T
It was not your typical sprint enduro, by any means. The only time that I’ve
really ridden a cross test like this would be more ISDE. I’ve seen a couple tests at
ISDE that were tighter like this. You never seemed to get out of third gear. It was
really technical. Not technical in the aspect of rocks or roots or anything gnarly
in the cross test, but it was technical picking your lines and dissecting the track. It
was easy to over-analyze the corners and make too many mistakes because you
wanted to put your bike somewhere that it didn’t want to go. What I found was
in this hard-pack, dusty stuff you just kind of got to let it loose and let the bike