On The Pegs February 2018 - Volume 3 - Issue 2 | Page 135

On The Pegs
Vol. 3 Issue 1 - January 2018
P 135
One of the perks of
going to a national en-
duro is seeing the factory
bikes up close. Getting
a glimpse of the factory
parts and trick goodies
has been known to make
sensible people max out
their credit cards for bling
of their own. And if you
get there early enough you
will probably get to see
the mechanics in action,
changing out clutches or
assembling entire bikes. It
makes you wonder what it
would be like to be a fac-
tory mechanic.
The crew at Rockstar
Energy Husqvarna Factory
Racing opened up their
pits to On The Pegs at the
final round of the Kenda
AMA National Enduro Se-
ries in Alabama, and gave
us a tutorial on a week in
the life of a factory me-
chanic.
Factory mechanics Tanner
Tremaine, who wrenches
for Thad DuVall, and Mi-
chael Thompson, who
turns the spanners for Josh
Strang, were more than ea-
ger to fill us in on the expe-
rience, as was driver (and
cook) Bryan “Blue” Heath.