VOL. 54 ISSUE 7 FEBRUARY 22, 2017 P91
STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY FUTURE7MEDIA/ROBERT LYNN
I
f you were a '90s child then there's a strong
possibility you will have owned a No Fear
t-shirt with the slogan "It's not the size of
dog in the fight, but size of fight in the dog."
Being on the short side of average height I
wore mine with pride until the print eventually
faded out. It's now 9:30 a.m. on a blustery
cold Sunday morning in January 2017, and as
I stand in an obscure French quarry prior to
the start of the Ales Trem Hard Enduro, that
slogan pops into my head again.
While taking shelter under Sherco's bright-
blue promotional pop-up tent, Marc Teis-
sier—Sherco's founder and owner—is casu-
ally leaned over a display bike shooting the
breeze with a potential customer. It's a rare
sight and one I can't quite imagine Mr. Sherco
being replaced by Mr. Honda, Mr. Suzuki,
Mr. BMW or even Mr. KTM. But here we are,
just over an hour before the race begins and
the head man behind Sherco's landmark
2016 EnduroGP World Championship win is
unobtrusively at ground level happily talking
Why staying true to his
roots has led Marc Teissier
and Sherco to the top of the
off-road tree. We have an
interesting conversation with
Teissier about the future of
Sherco, fuel-injected two-
strokes, and what might be
a brewing controversy—
are extreme enduro/trials
getting too extreme and
hurting the sport?
Marc Teissier is
the man behind
the French mo-
torcycle company
Sherco.
