On The Pegs March 2019 - Volume 4 - Issue 3 | Page 67

On The Pegs
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Vol. 4 Issue 3 - March 2019
JOSH TOTH HAS
“ARM-PUMP“ SURGERY
Last time you rode one of these it was on a big bike, so what made you decide
to ride this one?
We had some plans maybe to ride an EXC, like a 250 or something. I had my
500 and I’d been riding it all probably the last five or six months. Leading up to
this race, it was always what are we going to do? KTM pulling out and not doing
much of them, we were going to sponsor the spaghetti dinner and I could do
a service. I still did a service on Saturday helping guys set their bikes up and so
forth. I said, hell, if I can still ride, I’ll do that too. So I just figured I’d kind of get
some riding in. I hadn’t ridden on a good bike since I retired.
So are you guys just wanting to try to get more people to ride this bike?
Yeah, a little bit. On that EXC I’d like to show people that it is raceable. That
500 is a lot of a bike, but the EXC comes street legal with a lot of restrictions. I
just rode the thing stock and it works fine. To show guys that you can race those
rather than an XC-F or linkage bike.
How’d you feel?
I felt pretty good. Didn’t start off 100% because I knew I wanted to save it for
Josh I Toth
had start
“arm-pump”
surgery
a week
the tired
Sumter
race day
and
didn’t
the end.
usually
out like gang
busters
and before
then get
as the
goes
the to
following
week
at the
Full at Gas
Gaston,
where
on. race
So I until
wanted
save some
in the
tank
the Sprint
end of Enduro
the day. in That’s
what
I did, he
fourth.
We I can’t
spoke believe
to him how
after good
the Gaston
always
so finished
I was glad
of that.
a trail it race.
was “It’s
for the
first bothered
four tests.
me
in
more
short,
intense
races,
like
the
beginning
of
enduros
or
J
days
It was really good. They set the track up really good. The club members did or a just
practicing
motocross
the high
felt The
like C it riders
was getting
worse. I
great
job. I can’t
believe with
so much
new intensity.
trial early I on.
and B riders
if that
was
because
I got not-so-fun
more muscle
in my
arms
the
got don’t
to go know
out on
good
stuff.
Then the
stuff built
was up
at the
end
and over
it was
last year
or two,
just obviously
riding after
more
and too.
more.
last I straw
kind of
longer.
It kind
of separates
everybody
that,
I felt The
great.
think was
especially
when
were everyone
in California
did the how’s
Big Six it race
out to there
and 800
it’s just
a really
with
the we
sign-up
was I saying,
going
be now?
riders
with-
intense
short
moto,
and
I
got
it
so
bad
I
couldn’t
use
my
hands.
I
did
everything.
in ten minutes. So I think the enduros are strong, so that’s a good thing.
Just riding as best I could: technique, breathing… I talked to a few people that
got it done. Zach Osborne actually made a video with a surgeon that specializes
in it time
and you
it’s a rode
pretty
small
incision
and on
short
I went
and
Last
one
of these
it was
a big recovery
bike, so time.
what So
made
you ahead
decide
him
about it and he recommended it. It’s similar to a carpal tunnel surgery
to asked
ride this
one?
but up in the forearm. They go in and there’s like a sheath - it’s called a muscle
fascia
your muscle
in your
forearm.
So a when
get arm pump
you 500
get
We
had around
some plans
maybe to
ride an
EXC, like
250 or you
something.
I had my
a bunch of blood pumped in there and it tightens up.” n