On The Pegs July 2020 - Volume 5 - Issue 7 | Page 102

On The Pegs 102 For those of you who know Ryan Young and are wondering what he is doing now, Ryan sold his shares of RYP and is semi-retired and will be focusing on trials schools and supporting the sport of trials through his trials schools, which he started long before he founded his business. “I started trials schools in 1988 and I’ve been doing it steady for the last 32 years,” says Ryan. “It’s a pretty successful thing for the local clubs. It gets them pumped up. They learn everything. Local clubs are the best way to do them; through a club or an organization. Basically they can get ahold of me at [email protected]. Keep an eye on On The Pegs for future information about Ryan Young Trials Schools. Now, here’s Ryan talking about the 1989 Pampa, Texas, US National Moto- Trials: My main focus that day was Mark Manniko because he was in the lead on the last lap. That’s who was really neck-and-neck with me, even though Jonny Anderson was in the hunt too. My whole focus was to get first place. I was watching the scoreboard and Mark was right on my heels. So, my little game ended up costing Mark like fifteen points in the last four sections. He might have jumped from first to third because of that, and I think Jonny got second. The first year I won the championship, 1988, Jonny and I swapped wins every single weekend, Saturday, Sunday. Then I sat out the last event to win the championship. But to win that day in Pampa, Mark Manniko was who I was really focused on. Basically the moral of the story is if you have a time advantage you must take advantage of it. I had a time advantage over all my competitors, because I started behind the rest of the Pro class. I had five to seven minutes over my competitors. Back then you got a point per minute for each minute you were late. So I had the confidence of never getting flat tires or breaking my bike. I was in great shape. I could go as fast as anybody. So your main strategy is, you need to start the last loop in front of your competitors and control the clock on the last loop. So what that means is I try to use up all the time limit. So if they gave you six and a half hours, you must take at least six and a half hours. After that you are into your time penalty minutes. You can even take the whole half an hour penalty period. It doesn’t matter, because your competition is going to get five to seven minutes more time penalty than you. That means, back then it was a point per