On The Pegs July 2020 - Volume 5 - Issue 7 | Page 94

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kind of like this green, slimy rock. I remember I took off and I tried to make it up
this thing. I didn’t make it, but I stopped and then just backed up. I rolled down
again and then I basically reset. I had backed up a couple of bike lengths. Then I
took off again and spun again and didn’t make it. Reset again, backed up again.
Then I finally got it on the third try. I remember I just wouldn’t put my feet down.
I was just fighting super hard to go for it. Where under a normal situation I probably
would have just dropped both feet on the ground and pushed it up over the
top or whatever I needed to do. But I just was super determined to not dab and
to try my hardest. It ended up paying off.
4TRIAL DES NATIONS TEAM WIN
Another is in 2000 we won the TDN in Spain. It was me,
Ray Peters, Jess Kempkes and Cory Pincock and that one was
pretty big for us because even though it was the International
Class, it was pretty stacked with other teams that we
hadn’t really been beating for a lot of years. I think our riders,
we just had a good day that day. It ended up being a really
good trial for us. I just remember we had a heck of a party
afterwards. It was cool because we were in Spain, where a
lot of the manufacturers are. I think we’ve only won it twice,
which was 2000 and 2005. I was part of those. That one that kind of sticks out
because it was the first time the Americans had ever won at TDN.