On The Pegs July 2019 - Volume 4 - Issue 7 | Page 69

On The Pegs
Vol. 4 Issue 7 - July 2019
69
have the same departure and arrival time. Let’s say that you leave every minute,
and then you can get in the parc ferme twenty minutes before the departure.
You’re not allowed to change anything inside of the parc ferme. What we are try-
ing here is basically to replicate a Scottish so people say, “Okay, now I understand.
I will go to the Scottish.” So that’s the idea. It’s a pre-Scottish event, let’s say, that
people will say, “Okay, now I understand.” The sections are going to be very simi-
lar, inter-zone [transfer] sections. A group of sections that will be three or four sec-
tions together. Very similar to the Scottish.
Will everyone ride the same line like at Scottish?
No. That will be a little bit different. In the Scottish most of the guys of the 280
riders that participate ride at a high level. So it makes no sense for them to have
an intermediate or low level, or followers’ level line. For example, at the Two Days
in Arinsal [in Northern Spain] you have five different levels, or the Santigosa three
days [in Spain] that I have also done, you have the followers’ level. What we have
done is that we will have three different levels. First will be the followers’ level for
those guys that want to bring - for example I have some friends in Spain and their
wives have a trial bike. The wives want to do it, but they don’t want to go in the
section. So they can follow and see their husband, or whoever, do the [follower]
sections.
I’m assuming a journalist could ride the followers’ line?
Exactly. The journalists can do this inter-zone where they can access all the sec-
tions to see the pros go through the sections. Then the second category will be
the intermediate level, which will be done with easier sections than the pro level,
but in both cases, let’s say the intermediate level and the pro level you will have
- it’s not nice how you call it but let’s call it the chicken line. Nobody likes to call it
like that, but it will be a bypass that if the rider says, “Man, that is impossible. I can’t
ride that one. That’s too difficult.” Then they can just ask. They go in the section,
ask for a five, and then they take the detour [beside] the section to go to the fol-
lowing section.
Give me an idea what the terrain is like. What will they be riding over?
We will be riding in a lot of rivers. Out of the sixty sections, fifty-five sections are
in rivers and waterfalls. It’s amazing. And then the inter-zones [transfer sections],
we have a very [established] enduro ride here that is called Enduro Nandayure.
It’s an event that, as a matter of fact, I started with some other friends validating