On The Pegs March 2019 - Volume 4 - Issue 3 | Page 71

On The Pegs E BIG GUN The Eight -time National Enduro Cham- rty fashion. Lafferty. “I had my 500 and I’d been hat are we going to do? We knew were ping guys set their bikes up and so riding in. I hadn’t ridden on a good bike e, but the EXC comes street legal with a u can race those rather than an XC-F or to save it for the end. I usually start out n the tank at the end of the day. That’s Vol. 4 Issue 3 - March 2019 P 71 EVAN S. DOWN UNDER Evan Smith went to Australia the week following the final national enduro of the season looking for warmer weather to practice in. “I went down to Australia and spent almost three weeks down there with Geoff Braico, just riding and sight-see- ing and all that cool stuff. It was spring down there, sunny and 70 degrees every day. It was awesome. It made me not want to come home to cold. Geoff showed me around to all the local spots and stuff. We even went and rode on the beach. That was the coolest thing I’ve ever done on a dirt bike, for sure. Riding big sand dunes and stuff. It was a lot of fun. It was good to kind of relax and not be rac- ing. I didn’t have to cut any laps or anything. Just got to play ride. After a long year, that was nice. n