On The Pegs February 2018 - Volume 3 - Issue 2 | Page 102

On The Pegs
was always with the front. Still obvi-
ously that’s your braking power in
the woods, but I had to learn how to
ride standing on a rear brake, which
is never something I do. So, like I
said, there’s a lot of learning curve
stuff, but I’ve been fortunate to have
a really good group of buddies that
I ride with that have kind of sped
up my learning curve and helped
me with stuff. That’s been good too.
Just mostly having fun with it, but
kind of seeing that I can go do this
and have some fun with it and travel
around and take the family and see
some stuff. It should be fun.
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road course. It had a lot of undula-
tion. A lot wider track than those
other two. I think the mix is perfect.
You see it with a lot of road racers.
Even though the Haydens were from
Kentucky, they spent a lot of time
racing in Texas because that’s where
the youth road racing was built. So
I think you look at all the Haydens,
myself, the Landers kids, they were
super fast for a while. Then Colin Ed-
wards, Kevin Schwantz, everybody.
A lot of people came through. I think
it still has that, but unfortunately
the motorcycle industry is suffering
quite a bit, and the youth involve-
ment from manufacturers I think is
I feel like so many great road rac-
not good at all, and that’s the main
ers come out of Texas because of the purpose.
diversity of the tracks. You have Oak
Hill, which is a narrow, hilly, go-kart
What is your plan for this year?
track. Then you have Texas World
Right now I’m looking at racing the
Speedway with its high banks, and
NE Pro2 class in the National Enduro
then there is the true road course at series. There are a few reasons for
Hallett in Oklahoma. Do you think
that. I think if I was trying to re-
those different tracks contributed to ally go for a championship I’d race
the abundance of great road racers
the AA class. I’m wanting to have
in Texas?
fun. Also, in the same light, when I
That’s exactly what it is. With Oak
think of the kids that are racing AA,
Hill, like I said before with it be-
they’re trying to make a career out
ing such a small track and short lap
of it, so I don’t want to get in the
time, it actually has a big variety of
middle of it even if I was able to. So,
turns from turn one to turn seven.
that’s why I’m running Pro2. I plan
Fast turns, slow turns, a lot of eleva- on racing all the national enduros
tion. Smooth turns, bumpy, narrow, unless an injury or something hap-
pavement changes, grass growing in pens. Then probably two to four Full
the middle of it. It kind of has every- Gas Sprint Enduros. I think I actu-
thing. Coupled with that, going to
ally would be better at stuff like that
Texas World, which when I was a kid because it’s more of a track. I love
Texas World was kind of a GP track if the enduro stuff. I love how long it
you were on a 125. It was a super fast is, hard it is and all that stuff. This
track, big. Then Hallett, I’d say a true is a way for me to be competitive,