On The Pegs February 2018 - Volume 3 - Issue 2 | Page 99

On The Pegs Vol. 3 Issue 1 - January 2018 P 99 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