On The Pegs July 2020 - Volume 5 - Issue 7 | Page 106

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time advantage. So I’d always try to get in front of my competitors on the last
loop and control the clock. So they should have caught on after years and years
of doing that, but that’s what I would do at every national, if I had the time advantage.
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LOG GONE IT!
A BONUS STORY FROM RYAN YOUNG
(Also from the 1988 Pampa National)
So, they had this big, probably five-foot-high log, and a nice, foot-and-a-half
kicker log to get you up on that five-foot log. Then on the backside you had to
drop off and it was only a bike length. You’d run out of the ribben. So somehow
you had to get over this log, and stop before the ribben. So you must have been
able to roll down it on the backside. I get there on the second loop and that log
kicker was about a bike length back from where it was on the first loop. It rolled
out.
So when somebody rode in a lower class, I pushed that log all the way back into
the base of that log with my feet. Then the checker turned around and said, “Who
put that log back there?” Nobody was talking. So he got to looking and right
there was Sid Mauldin staring at me with a big grin on his face. I forget exactly
what the checker said. Something like, “That log better get back where it was or
they’re going to get a five.” Sid was there so I was like, oh shit. He’ll probably tell
him I did it. I don’t want a five. So I rolled the log back out with my hands where
it was. So I got on my bike, and then when I rode it I actually pushed the log back
with my front tire. Then back up and rode the log like it was supposed to be ridden!
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