On The Pegs May 2020 - Volume 5 - Issue 5 | Page 87

On The Pegs VOL. 5 ISSUE 5 - MAY 2020 87 I go down the the importer the next morning for the meeting, and the execu- tives of Bultaco America bring me into the front office conference room and offer me a job riding trials, and my mission is to follow Rob Edwards across the USA and compete against him in all the promotional events he will do for the major USA trials clubs. Whoa, wait! That means I must quit my good paying job, pack my bags, bike, gear, tools and do something nobody had done before, ride trials events with all the major clubs all across the USA. This was a scary decision, quitting my good paying job launching out into the unknown, then driving all the way across the USA and back all by myself. I took the leap of faith, and in the first Trial in Colorado, I beat Edwards, causing another insult via injury to the Montesa promotional department, where I was getting very unpopular. Being the very first person to ride with all the major US clubs was interesting. Nobody used the same rules, nobody used the same marking sys- tems, so each new event was a game of mental chess to remember everything. That was really how my career as a Professional full Time Trials rider began, so it’s only fitting I tell how it all ended. I will let the AMA Magazine tell the story for me, this is what they wrote. Being a Pro Trial Rider is NOT fun, it’s actually one of the Hardest Jobs I have ever held, and I’ve had some tough ones. So when you see riders like Toni Bou, or Raga, don’t envy them, the pressure up top is almost unbearable. But winning events in Trials was not the Biggest Thrills of my Trials career, it was meeting my Wife Debbie Evans, the cute little Yamaha Factory rider, who has made me the best wife imaginable. Then how it all lead me into my career in Hollywood, which is really both Debbie’s and my calling, the Motion Picture and TV Action industry, which is where both of us have really left our mark in this world. n SUBSCRIBE! IT’S FREE!