On The Pegs January 2020 - Volume 5 - Issue 1 | Page 65

On The Pegs
VOL. 5 ISSUE 1 - JANUARY 2020
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inter zones and 20 sections per day with a
total of 60 delightful, all level sections, most-
ly waterfalls with easy bypasses.
“The whole experience is set up as an
all-inclusive trials vacation, basically,” said
Smage. “For a lot of riders the organizer
would actually ship a crate to them and
then they would ship their personal bikes
down. That was part of the whole package.
So, there was a package that you’d buy and
then they take care of everything once you
get there as far as all your transportation
and all your food, your meals, transporting
the bike.’
According to Smage, the event was long so
they provided fuel stops throughout. So, ev-
erything is just really well-taken care of that
way. You can get your flight, show up, ride
and enjoy the weekend at a nice hotel.
“The event leaves from the hotel each
day, so you just walk down the street to
where all the bikes are and take off into the
jungle,” said Smage. “So it was really cool
to have that sort of experience. Definitely a
low pressure, fun style event but still has the
challenge element of the enduro, with the
longer days.”
Remember, it’s a 3-day event, and on Fri-
day and Saturday the sections were all in the
jungle, on the rocks with running water.
“It was really neat, interesting different sort
of terrain I would say,” said Smage. “Nothing
I have really ridden or seen anywhere else.
It became pretty tough to read the rocks
because the traction was… Sometimes you
wanted to be in the water, other times you
didn’t. So little challenges like that made it
extra interesting. Then it was just really cool