On The Pegs November 2019 - Volume 4 - Issue 11 | Page 109

On The Pegs
Vol. 4 Issue 11 - November 2019
109
In the Erzberg video of General Sipes, you mentioned you needed to do
some trials bike training. Have you done any before? Are we going to see you
on a trials bike in your video series?
I’ve had a couple trials bikes since my supercross days, since probably 2010, but
this year I haven’t ridden them that much. I used to ride them a lot when I was
doing GNCC, just because they helped me so much with the technical side of the
GNCC stuff. When I asked the guys - I’ve asked Haaker and Johnny Walker and Cody
Webb, I’m like, “You guys probably ride trials a lot, right?” They’re like, “No, we just
ride our big bikes.” So that’s what I ended up doing without really thinking that
they’re already good at trials. They need to ride the big bike, where I need to ride
the trials bike more. I need to get those skills down on the trials bike because it’s
different trying to learn that stuff on a big bike. So, I will be on the trials bike more.
The Red Bull guys are coming to film at some point this year here at the house. If
that’s what they want me to do, I’ll jump on it. I’m not great on it, but I have a lot of
fun with it.
Why do you run the number 264?
As a kid, when we were just getting into racing, I’m four years old, dad said, “How
do you pick your number? You take the last two digits of your AMA number.” That’s
kind of an old school thing. I don’t think a lot of people do that anymore. So, it was
64. The last three of my AMA number are 764. At first it started out to be 64 and
then when I went pro in ’04, I did four nationals that year and I had to be a three-
digit. I couldn’t be a two-digit because you had to get points for that. That was just
the number we put in front of it. I did that at a couple amateur nationals, too. You
just put a 2 in front of it and then you got your three digits. Nothing special about
it. No meaning or anything like that. That’s kind of how it happened. n