On The Pegs January 2020 - Volume 5 - Issue 1 | Page 48

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now where we have closer to a real crew of people that help make it happen. It’s
definitely lightened the load a little bit.
I don’t think people appreciate the attention to detail because I don’t
know of any other series that ribbons the entire course.
Yeah. That’s usually the first thing people are just absolutely shocked by, if they
come from a hare scramble or a traditional American enduro background. But
when you start looking at the times, after Sunday, Sipes was ahead of Kailub by
six-tenths of a second. You have to have defined boundaries because the differ-
ence between first and second sometimes is less than a second. If you don’t have
the course cut in like that and bannered off, then who knows what can happen?
Can you talk about any future plans for the series?
Don’t really know what the future holds. I get asked that a lot. I want to just
keep moving forward. It’s funny, a lot of people ask if I’m going to keep doing it.
I’m way past the point of no return now. There’s no turning back. I’ve invested
everything I have into making this thing work, so there’s no turning back. There’s
all sorts of ideas that I have. I’d like to do another three-day enduro, but make it
part of the series to try and get more riders involved. I talked with Taylor Robert
if we could figure out some way of doing some sort of east/west shootout with
the sprint enduro series. There’s all sorts of things. A lot of people ask if maybe we
could add a third special test. As we continue to grow and build the infrastructure
to where we could do things like that, there’s all sorts of things that I’d like to do.
It’s just right now trying to do my best to perfect what we’re doing and just keep
going from there.
I’m sure people are aware of it, but talk just about the scheduling night-
mare every year of just putting together a series with everybody else?
It’s a problem we’ve kind of created for ourselves where we’ve got the top rid-
ers from basically all of the series on this side of the coast racing. So I can’t sched-
ule on top of GNCC and I can’t schedule on top of national enduro. So there’s 23
weekends gone right off the bat. Then you’ve got two weekends for the ISDE.
We’re at 25. Half the year is gone before I ever get a chance. It’s really tough, but
in a way our schedule almost gets made for us. I wait for national enduro. I wait
for GNCC. I wait for Six Days to post their dates, and then we just kind of fill in
between. But it’s hard. There’s always a local series that we don’t want to sched-
ule against when we’re moving around the country. You add those dates in, and