On The Pegs March 2019 - Volume 4 - Issue 3 | Page 70

On The Pegs
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LAFFERTY BREAKS OUT THE
Mike Lafferty came out of retirement to ride a KTM 500 EXC in the Sumter Enduro.
pion knocked down a few trees on his way to the win in the AA class in typical Laffer
“KTM had some plans for me to maybe ride an EXC, like a 250 or something,” said L
riding it probably the last five or six months. Leading up to this race, it was always wh
were going to sponsor the spaghetti dinner. I did a service seminar on Saturday help
forth. I said, hell, if I can still ride, I’ll do that too. So I just figured I’d kind of get some
since I retired.
“On that EXC I’d like to show people that it is raceable. That the 500 is a lot of a bike
lot of restrictions. I just rode the thing stock and it works fine. To show guys that you
linkage bike.
“I felt pretty good during the race. I didn’t start off 100% because I knew I wanted t
like gang busters and then get tired as the day goes on. So I wanted to save some in