VOL. 53 ISSUE 40 OCTOBER 11, 2016 P81
you're up at the crack of dawn
and walking tests until dark!
[laughs] Well basically for me,
every race turns into about a
week long. I fly in on Monday,
get there on Tuesday, we walk all
day on Wednesday, pretty much
all day on Thursday. Usually on
Thursday we do a little shake-
down on the race bikes and then
we walk like half a day on Friday,
then we do a Super Test on
Friday night.
The actual days on the bike
are longer because there are
5:00. It's a regular workday!
[laughs] You're only racing for
like an hour to an hour-and-a-
half of those eight hours, but
still you're on the bike for that
whole time. When it's really bad
weather, it just wears on you so
much. It rained at all the races
except for the first race and the
last race. Not just like it rained
enough to make the track nice—
they were all complete mudders.
When you're wet for eight hours
and you have to change goggles
at every test and you're chang-
only 100 riders instead of 400 at
Six Days, and the tests are a lot
longer, too.
We usually start at 9:00 a.m.
and we get done around 5:00 in
the afternoon. Then we do podi-
ums and autograph signing and
then we go back out and walk
some more. Then you do it all
over again on Sunday. It's a lot of
repetition and a lot of work.
How many hours are you on
the bike?
About eight. We usually start
at 9:00 and then we're done by
Robert faced a
steep learning
curve in the
unique World
Enduro format,
but came out
on top of the
E2 division
multiple times.
