On The Pegs P 108
On The Pegs P 108
I think it was section number three in Rhode Island on the first day , there was pretty much a vertical rock and you pretty much used your whole body just to get up on it . Nobody else could even get up on it .
Yeah , I remember that one . There was a real muddy takeoff . Everybody was trying to splatter it and just spinning like crazy and almost going over the bars because there was no traction . It was one of the mud techniques I had been practicing . I just barely used any throttle and just pretty much willed the bike up with strength . If you pop the clutch at all you ’ re just going to stand and light the tire up and just not go anywhere . You ’ re basically just whipping the bike up there with no help from the power .
Do you think maybe that was some bicycle technique that you were using ?
Yes , that was basically a very , very exaggerated bicycle bunny-hop . On a bicycle you ’ re definitely kind of coasting in and just bunny-hopping up yourself . So , it was kind of just everything I possibly had to do that . It was like riding a 150-pound bicycle up to the top of the rock . It was definitely something that I ’ d taken from that . It ’ s not exactly , directly the same way but it ’ s the same kind of technique , just adapted to a motorcycle
When you go practice , do you find one obstacle that you know you need to practice on and just do it repeatedly ? Or do you set up a section that ’ s just got everything in it and just keep riding it until you clean it ?
I do a little bit of both . I like to mix it up . Typically before the season I ’ ll do at least six sections and ride them at least three times in those three times I ’ ll keep r I learned how to do it and got didn ’ t clean it within those th Typically before and after that obstacles , but it ’ s not like a nu things . At times there ’ s things want to work on , splatter stuff niques . But I really like to mak feel that ’ s the best way to pra combining all those techniqu you ’ re competing , so you wan fortable making the lines toge so much better when you ’ re t entire section rather than just is important to do those singl there also , but I think it ’ s less i Once you kind of learn them a tain level , it ’ s more important
A few years ago you told m weaknesses were hill climbs hill climbs ?
Yeah , I definitely have been and owe a lot of that to my da some land up north of us . The I was really disappointed beca kind of sandy hill climbs . I was because I ’ m no good at this st more fun and just kind of forc to ride them better and learn and take on the challenge rat ‘ I suck at this stuff . I don ’ t wan need to practice and make me actually really enjoy them . I lo