INTERVIEW
FMF/KTM FACTORY OFF-ROAD RACER TAYLOR ROBERT
P84
The enduro tests at the world
level are just so much more
technical than anything you
would ever see at a Six Days,
and most of it is because it's all
professional riders at the World
Enduros. There's no amateurs
and they can make the tracks as
tough as they want to. I felt there
were a couple tests where they
could have done a little bit better
job of making it safer. Especially
the ones in Finland. Those were
the ones I hated the most. They'd
run you through the forest, which
was fine, but they'd run you
through these sections with hid-
den stumps and rocks and they
wouldn't even paint the stumps.
And it's not like you're out there
on a joy ride. You're going 110%
trying to find every little second
you can and you hit those stumps
and rocks and you'll go over the
bars pretty quick. I had a lot of
really big—for lack of a better
word—'oh shit' moments. I was
really happy I didn't get hurt over
there this year because there
were a few spots where I was on
the edge, for sure.
It sounds like having done
all that, Six Days will be an
