On The Pegs July 2020 - Volume 5 - Issue 7 | Page 109

On The Pegs VOL. 4 ISSUE 7 - July 2020 109
Ross Mauri’s Trail Jesters KTM Racing has pretty much been a feeder program
for FMF/KTM Factory Racing, having nurished Ben Kelley and Josh Toth to the
point where they now reside under the factory tent.
Ross’s next bunch of up and comers includes Jesse Ansley and Johnny Girroir.
Ansley is hurt and has not been riding, but we got a chance to talk to Girroir at
the High Point GNCC.
What happened today; they said you had brake problems.
I was feeling good today until I must have hit a lapper or tangled with someone
and I broke my back brake bleeder off. All the oil cam out and I lost my brakes.
Thought I bent a disc. When they first went out I could pump them back up and
they came back a couple times, so my thought was the disc was bent so I could
pump them back up. We changed the wheel and it wasn’t. I just pushed as hard
as I could and still gave it 100% and fought to the end. That’s all we can do and
move onto the next one.
You missed all of last year due to an illness.