My dad used to race motorbikes, so I needed to be half-raced and I used to ride around
on my bike and slide through puddles and stuff, and I think I was ready to go.
Originally I rode motorbike trials and then because I could only do that on the weekends
when there was the wind down, I kind of had a mountain bike just for getting around on
and I went up and took some local jumps and met some people up there and got into a deli.
Conjura Cycling is a new mountain bike discipline that's really taken off.
It's basically a cycle to the top and then it's a time stage down, there's five stages
over the day, so you'll do a stage cycle to the next one, do a stage cycle to the next
one.
And the race can take up to five hours across the day, it's very physical, you've all sorts
of different terrain and kind of bike to ride, it's a six inch, five, six inch travel bike,
something you can get to the top of and literally pace at and then you can do nearly what a
downhill bike can do on the way down, as close to as you can get.
As a rider, you need to be very all-rounded, you need to be very fit, but still have the
speed of a downhiller, and there is a good bit of tactics in this way, you do need to
be smart because you have to wait, it's a long race, so you can't just go half a letter
all day, you have to kind of wait up what's worth taking the risk and what's not.
I found I struggled straight away with the coming from downhill last in the long day,
it's a downhill you only train for a three minute run, where as enduro you're on the
bike for five hours riding, you're doing half an hour of racing a day, so it's just basically
building up my endurance.
So about four or five, as I said I used to cycle around on my bike, motorbike enduro,
outside the paddock there was this big hill, so I went up the hill, I said jeez it'd be
great to ride down that, so I rode down it, first time wrecked myself, I was lying on
the ground in the heat, and my dad said, don't do that again, you can't yourself again.
So everyone was off, packing up the bikes in the van, I went missing, they spotted me
at the top of the hill, and everyone was screaming with their hands in their head, and I came
barreling down the hill, of course, crashed, wrecked myself, I think I got the handlebar
in my eye or something, and since then I haven't seen much of my ridery.
It doesn't really affect me too much riding up because I kind of know no difference now,
so you know, years ago I did have a few crashes where I'd hit a tree and I didn't see the
tree, which was kind of bad, but now it doesn't give me any issues at all.
At the start of this season I didn't really have much intense race endurance at all, the
first hours gravity endurance, you know, obviously I was going to do it because it'd be fun,
I didn't expect much, I was hoping to get a good result, well I didn't do that well
at that one, but then after that I kind of trained it before and did really well, I was
third, you know, behind two of the best in the world, anybody on the season I was battling
with Joe Barnes, who was one of the best endurance riders out there, so.
This year I've fully committed to enduro, I'm not really going to race downhill next
year, so this year I was only kind of half committed between downhill and enduro, so
next year I hope to just go out to Europe, race as much as I can, hopefully get noticed,
get myself in some sort of good deal.
I'm not going to go to the next stop with you, hello, I'ma let you try to convince me
I'm not going to go to the next stop with you, hello, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
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