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I don't think he's the best
trainer at all. It starts with it be-
ing his way or the highway, and
he treats every single person on
the program the exact same, so
I don't know how that can work
because Adam [Cianciarulo] is
different from me, and I'm dif-
ferent from Dungey, and Mar-
vin [Musquin] is different from
[Jason] Anderson. Over the last
couple of years I've learned a
lot, and I know how legit training
actually works. It's easy to do a
lot—or too much. It's easy to go
on a three-hour bicycle ride, or
to get stuck in doing the same
things every single day, and
stick to it all damned year and
do the same shit and fall into the
same routine. I think it's not very
smart, but that's their thing, not
my thing. I'm doing different shit
from everybody else, and that's
how I want it.
What is the advantage,
then, of working with a guy
like Aldon?
If anything, it's a mental thing
for those guys to say, 'Oh, I'm
with Aldon, and I'm automatically
going to be good,' but Dungey's
always been fit. Before he went
to Aldon Baker, people called him
Diesel because he was always
there. It just so happens to be
that he got on that program, and
they got a new bike that turned
out to be decent—at least for him;
I don't know about other people.
One other racer I talked to
who doesn't ride for KTM said
he believes that the factory
bike is built really great for
supercross but maybe not so
great for outdoors.
Yeah, I don't know. People say
they think the bike is really great,
and maybe it is, but the guys over
in Europe aren't doing too crisp
on it, except for maybe [Jeffrey]
Herlings. So, I guess it depends
on how you look at it. There are
races where they'll be good, for
sure, but things have gone wrong
there, too, like in 2015 when Eli
[Tomac] was putting a minute on
those guys, and I was hurt. Un-
fortunately for Eli he got hurt, and
Ryan was there. We'll see what
happens at Anaheim.
What are you expecting
from those guys in 2017?
Truth is, I'm not focusing on
those guys at all. I'm just answer-
ing what you asked me about.
But yeah, I don't know. I know
what I'm planning to do, so I
guess we'll see once we all line
up in January. CN
Roczen
already looks
right at home
on the factory
Honda team.
He hopes to
finish out his
career on red.
