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only rider who will have to adjust, and he’s been putting in the necessary time
on the 300 two-stroke, is Zach Bell. This came up kind of looking at Zach Bell’s
riding first on a four-stroke. He’s a very fast sprinter and obviously the motocross
background helps. He’s transitioned to off-road and has kind of learned the ropes
already and should be consistent and hitting his marks on enduro type of rac-
ing where every inch counts. So he has a very good technique. Then seeing him
racing the two- stroke national at Glen Helen on a two-stroke and he was just fine
with the two- stroke, so that actually brought the idea we could actually put Zach
on a 300 two-stroke. So, Husky built him a bike and he’s been out riding here and
there during the summer, and lately he’s been putting more time on the two-
stroke. He’s very comfortable on the two-stroke, very fast. We actually just had a
training camp last week here in California, for three days. We were able to spend
some time and do our routine what we do at the training camp. We added some
new things for this year on the training camp to try to get even better prepared
for Chile. It really worked well. I think it was one of the best training camps we’ve
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had. Zach was really fast and also it was benefitting him. We did a bunch of ser-
vice work and went over some rules, so he’s getting more and more comfortable
with understanding the rules and the bike maintenance side.”
Kallonen also filled us in on the Junior Trophy and Women’s Trophy Teams.
“This year basically when I said we’re going to win, I meant we’re going to win
all three classes,” said Kallonen. “That’s our goal. Junior team, we have Josh Toth
and Ben Kelley and Grant Baylor. They’re all fast. They’ve all been to Six Days be-
fore. Grant has been super fast on some GNCC’s and also the Enduro Nationals. So
he’s really shown a great speed. Then Josh and Ben are leading the XC2 class at
GNCC and have good sprint speed as well. So looking forward to the Junior team
definitely and turning it up and hopefully getting the trophy back. They won in
’14 in Argentina, so I don’t expect anything less than hopefully repeating it now in
Chile.
“Last year was the first year with the women’s team that I have involvement. I
learned a lot. Made some changes. I kind of know now what to expect. Two of