On The Pegs December 2019 - Volume 4 - Issue 12 | Page 71

On The Pegs
VOL. 4 ISSUE 12 - DECEMBER 2019
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d Trophy guys points
dn’t have time to
heck,
on and I pretty
control. I got to the
ars when it hap-
n was just banjo tight.
procket. I kicked it
I bent my sprocket’.
he section was re-
and I went to roll
mehow just landed
ets the base. It was
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pretty cock-eyed. I got really lucky that I made it back to
the time check. Then we were sitting there brainstorm-
ing like, what are we going to do? How are we going to
fix this? What’s the plan of attack? I can’t continue with
it like this because it’s going to come all the way apart
or my chain is going to get locked up. So, I said a few
choice words because Antti’s first thought was - because
I only had four minutes when I got to the time check….
so Antti’s first thought was, ‘We’re going to have to take
the penalty and change it now.’ I was pretty upset at
that point because if I would have done that, then my
Six Days personally was kind of thrown out the window
at that point. I felt like at the time I didn’t know how
good Stew and Ryan were riding. We had just taken
the lead the day before from the Aussies. So I knew if
my time didn’t count that day, we might could lose the
lead back. So I was a little bit stressed out and pretty
pissed off at the same time. So we decided to take ev-
erything through the time control. So I already had my
tool pack, but I took a few other tools and a sprocket
with me through the checkpoint. I found a little spot on
the side of the road, probably just right around the turn
from where the time control was and swapped it all out.
I lost like ten minutes but I was able to race through the
next transfer section and make it happen and get back
to my minute. But it took a lot of energy too. That was
my worst day overall. I think I got seventh on the day.
At that point, I had pretty much ruined my… I just ab-
solutely shredded the next thirty minutes, and we had
the longest special test of the day coming up after that,
which was like ten minutes long. So like a straight forty
minutes of going really hard, and just to make sure that
I made the next time control on my minute and didn’t
get a penalty or cost the team anything. So I pretty
much destroyed myself that day trying to just stay on
time. n