On The Pegs Vol . 3 Issue 1 - January 2018 P 117
On The Pegs Vol . 3 Issue 1 - January 2018 P 117
CODY WEBB
“ In the final , I had a fourth-place start and they changed how we drop into the woods . Before the race , I walked it in the left lane . It was just treacherous . I knew no one was going to go there . It had been untouched . You could see how people worked on the right line and made it smoother . I was like , if I don ’ t have a good start , I ’ m just going to go wide . So I quickly ran down there before the start and I moved some rocks and made it so there was just a tree trunk and rocks down there . You ’ d go over the handlebars for sure . So , I fixed it and I went from fourth to first on the first downhill . So that was the key right there , just opening up lines . I love having different options . I think coming from trials I can different what ’ s out there . From there , got up the first hill clean and just kept pushing .
“ The final was definitely tricky because there were a lot of ledges at the top of the hills . You ’ re either going to make it or you ’ re not . I think it ’ s a little different in a race like TKO where it ’ s kind of just long , relentless stuff and that one waterfall . Here there ’ s a bunch of ledges . It was awesome . It got harder and harder through that main because we were bringing up the moisture . It was perfect .
“ Jarvis Falls is tricky , especially with the lappers . I think I had one lap where no one was in there hardly at all , and there was still at least one or two people . I tipped over and went down in there once . I was going at it with no run because I had to cut everyone off . I would just rev it and get completely vertical and land on the ledge and then take off and get going again . It was really tricky . A different line every time . It was pretty loose in there without having a run .”