RUST magazine: Rust#16

RUST Enduro
struggle, simply unable to get it to turn. I still
finished third overall in the British championship,
but I wasn’t getting the results I was looking for,
I was getting beaten by people that I’d been
destroying the year before.
“In all, those two years in the WEC were a
let down. I’d won a round of the world junior
championship in the US, but that was the only
high point. If I’d had another year, on the KTM
450 in the world championship we could have
done something, but the Berg wasn’t for me.”
BOUNCING BACK
“I went back to the British championship for 2010,
to ride for Paul Edmondson on the new Suzuki
RMX450. A lot of people couldn’t get on with the
RMX, stalling it and such, but I seemed to get the
bike perfect, found a real good set-up and we got
some cracking results, finishing second overall in
the British championship and first E2. I had an
amazing time with Paul Eddy, he made it a load
of fun, he was a great training partner and with
that it felt like we were moving forwards again.
“So for 2011 I stayed with Paul, we swapped
to KTM and had some cracking bikes and a
cracking set-up. We missed out on the overall
championship to Greg Evans after I broke down
on the second day of the Dyfi Enduro, I got it
going again but ended up sixth having lost a
minute on the going – and that cost us the
championship. But we won the Sprint