On the Pegs - December 2021 On the Pegs - Volume 6 Issue 12 - December 2021 | Page 31

Zach at Tough Like RORR Hard Enduro 2021
WHERE DID THE NAME ZACHATK1 COME FROM ?
It was something that I made when I was really young . I think I made the YouTube channel in like 2007 . I was very young and I just made the name . There was no though ; I made the name and then it just stuck when I started making the videos .
WHAT WAS IT LIKE TRYING TO BALANCE GOING TO COLLEGE WITH RACING AND PRODUCING VIDEOS ?
Now that I ’ m working a full-time job , it ’ s even more difficult , but in college it was very tough because I just couldn ' t make the videos , I ' d come home to race and I would edit a video if I could on a weekend I go
racing then I have to go back up to college . I try to keep them going , but there are times where I just can ' t keep up and keep the videos uploading .
OVER THE YEARS , YOU ' VE OWNED MANY DIFFERENT BRANDS OF BIKES , SUZUKI , KTM , BETA , ETC . OF ALL THE BIKES YOU ' VE HAD , WHICH ONE HAS BEEN YOUR FAVORITE ?
I had a 2011 KTM 250SX that was a screaming bike ; it was for the hare scramble racing . That thing would just go ; I almost always got a hole shot in the hare scrambles on it . I don ' t know if the engine had been worked . I bought it used and I don ' t know who had owned it or what they
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