On The Pegs December 2019 - Volume 4 - Issue 12 | Page 70

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KAILUB’S SPROCKET SCARE
Probably the only real concern… the only real issue that could have cost the World
was on Day Four when Kailub came into a service check with a bent sprocket. KR did
repair it at the check, so he changed it just up the trail on the trail, after he left the ch
“It was kind of a freak deal,” said Russell. “There was this really gnarly transfer sectio
much almost was out of it. I probably had maybe three, four miles to the next time c
top and my bike just kind of flared out on me, but it wanted to throw me over the ba
pened. I went to start it and it did it again immediately. I looked down and my chain
I grabbed a hold of it and I couldn’t get it to free up. It wasn’t off, it was still on the sp
one time and I noticed my sprocket kind of looked funny. I was like, ‘oh, man. I think
So, I took off and I knew I was going to be tight for the next time control because th
ally gnarly and they didn’t give us a lot of time in that particular section. I got back a
my bike backwards, but it wouldn’t move, so I got it on the stand. I was looking. I som
on a rock just right to where I split it in two where the actual top of the sprocket me