VOL. 53 ISSUE 40 OCTOBER 11, 2016 P79
Taylor Robert
made quite a
splash in his first
season competing
overseas in the
FIM Enduro World
Championship.
BY JEAN TURNER
PHOTOGRAPHY BY KTM
"I
like riding my dirt bike where no vehi-
cle has gone before," reads the quote
on Taylor Robert's Instagram page.
After having raced motocross, the World Off
Road Championship Series (WORCS), AMA
EnduroCross and extreme enduros around
the world throughout his diverse career, it is
plain to see that the Arizona native is thrilled
by the prospects of the unknown. He found
plenty of unknowns this year in his first full
season competing in Europe, where he took
on both the FIM SuperEnduro World Cham-
pionship and the prestigious FIM Enduro
World Championship (EWC), but Robert
thrived in the face of the steep learning
curve. While he was joined by a handful of
fellow U.S. riders in the SuperEnduro series,
he was the lone American on the World
Enduro circuit, where he made history as the
first American to take an EnduroGP (overall)
win in the ultra-competitive series.
Robert is now finished with his European
deployment, but his season isn't quite over
yet. With the International Six Day Enduro
(ISDE) still on the horizon (October 11-16),
Robert hopes to parlay what he has learned
overseas to the upcoming competition and
bring home the elusive win for his country.
We caught up with Robert to hear about
his season abroad and exactly how gnarly it
is in the EWC. He also talked about coming
home to race (and win) his first-ever National
Hare and Hound, how it feels to sit out the
EnduroCross series, and where he might
compete in the future.
