On The Pegs December 2018 - Volume 3 - Issue 12 | Page 81

On The Pegs
Vol. 3 Issue 12 - December 2018
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TAYLOR ROBERT
We started out really strong this year. I knew
we were going to have a strong team coming
in, but it’s Six Days and just so much can go
on. All the guys rode their hearts out, though,
even with the issues and big crashes and re-
ally technical special tests. Everybody tried
their hardest and that’s all I can really ask for.
Unfortunately, we just had too many issues to
compete for the team win. Me individually, I ac-
tually feel like I rode really well all week. I just
didn’t have a whole lot for Milner on a few days
and he got me. But I still felt like I was riding re-
ally well, second in the world. Top three in the
world three years in a row isn’t so bad, I guess. I
think I still got Sanders on that last test. I had a
big crash. I think I broke a couple ribs. So I can’t
take very deep breaths right now.
I guess the toughest thing is is just all day on
the bike every day. You have five days of basi-
cally eight hours on the bike. And you might
not be racing the whole eight hours, but you’re
out there and you’re in the elements and get-
ting beat down. Then as soon as we get done
riding, we go out and walk the special test for
the next day. I GPS’d everything and I did 74
miles of walking last week, just to walk all the
special tests. Then this week I don’t know what
our total mileage is, but it’s close to 1,000 miles
on a dirt bike. It’s been a pretty long couple
weeks.