On The Pegs April 2020 - Volume 5 - Issue 4 | Page 96

On The Pegs
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FOR THE DEEP, SUGAR SAND OF THE WILD BORE GNCC, THE TEAM CUT
DIAGONAL “CHANNELS” IN THE SIDE KNOBS TO FUNNEL THE SAND INTO THE
CENTER KNOB TO GET A BETTER”PUSH” THROUGH THE SOFT SAND.
guys so we really get these bikes hot. Steward likes to ride it a little harder too.
He rides about a gear lower than I do and pushes the bike a little harder. We’ve
always both had some heat issues, no matter what bike. We put the oversized
radiators on here just to make sure that we don’t have any issues. They actually
helped quite a bit when we did the testing with them. So we got that. We got a
Quick Fill made on there last minute for Big Buck. We had that done by Commu-
nity Off-road. Community Off-road did our Quick Fills and got them done before
Big Buck. So big thanks there. Like I said, everything is kind of just last-minute
because these bikes are so new over here in the States. Over in Europe they don’t
really do anything to their bikes over there. They kind of run a stock bike and it
is what it is. Over here everybody knows that we do everything we can to make
sure we have the best bike out there so we can win these races. Especially in a
GNCC, you got to have something that’s going to get you through that race as
well. I’ve been really impressed with how well these Sherco’s have held up, hon-
estly. I feel like they’ve held up better than most bikes. In the mud races. I did a
mud race a while back, and never even overheated. Never spilled any coolant out