INTERVIEW I MO T OCROSSER-TURNED-ENDURO RA CER BROC HEPLER
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easier if you can see the times
after every test because then
you're like, 'I got a little lead, so
I just need to keep doing what
I'm doing.' That makes it really
tough when you don't know all
day long what's going on. So,
you got to push as hard as you
can, but one fall can diminish
what you did the first nine miles.
So, you just have to find a happy
medium, I think."
Something that Hepler is still
working on getting used to is
reading arrows. Some riders
read arrows and others read trail.
Hepler does a bit of both.
"I think you've got to do a little
bit of both," says Hepler. "I know
Indiana there were a lot of turns
and stuff, real quick turns, so
you're not even looking at the
arrows because the turns were
coming up so quick. I think it
just depends on how open the
woods are, whether you can
cut some of the corners off and
make your own lines a little bit
compared to other places where
you're kind of stuck in the same
groove the whole day. Obviously,
the fastest way is just, there's the
trail. Just go as fast as you can.
You don't even have to look at
the arrows. But there's places
where you could maybe take a
little bit better line than where the
main groove was."
Though he rode several of the
rounds during last year's series,
Hepler is looking forward to
the new places and new terrain
the 2022 AMA National Enduro
Series will bring.
"People talk about the one in
the Upper Peninsula," says Hepler.
"That's pretty cool. I've never been
there. I think it's more the other
way. Living in Pennsylvania, I don't
see that much sand, so that could
be a harder, more difficult race.
Especially the first one coming up
I know is a little sandy. Then I'm not
going to go south all off-season
like some of the guys. Hopefully I
do enough riding at home and ride
sand a few times here before the
race that I'll be ready to go and not
behind the eight-ball."
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Hepler enjoys
the lower-key
atmosphere in
enduro compared
to motocross and
supercross.
