On The Pegs February 2018 - Volume 3 - Issue 2 | Page 99
On The Pegs
Vol. 3 Issue 1 - January 2018
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about doing the Enduro series. That’s where
it is. Then also with enduros, I don’t care what
anybody says, you cannot ride a motorcycle
as hard as you can because you don’t know
where you’re going. So that I think that 10%
helps my shoulder. If it was GNCC-type racing,
I could get in trouble real quick I think if I was
pushing as hard as I could the whole time. So,
coupled with the different things of where
I’m at, I guess my career is over, but I’m able
to ride and race again. I’ve been wanting to
do something for fun and enjoy it again.
A lot of people may want to know if you ride
a dirt bike with your elbows up?
A little bit (laughs). I think at least people
from the dirt side obviously that’s kind of the
norm, but I also think people quickly realize
why my nickname was “Elbowz”.
Did you start out on a dirt bike as a kid, or
did your parents get you into road racing
right away?
My story was I was kind of like the backyard
dirt bike kid. I think I entered one race when
I was a kid, and I was on an XR 80 against KX
80s. It was just stupid. Honestly all I did was
my mom’s ex-boyfriend who got me into rac-
ing. He owned an oil company, so I just kind
of grew up riding a lot of oil field roads and
flat tracking around, riding TT-style stuff and
riding flat track stuff at my house. I never
raced dirt. Then I started road racing when I
was eight. So, I kinda went straight into road
racing, and used dirt obviously as a tool and
trained a lot, but never raced dirt or anything
like that.
There was a road-race course close to your
house called Oak Hill, right?
Yeah, that was probably the biggest help for