If you ever wondered what an on-bike “training routine” looks like when you’re blessed with the talents of 2016 ISDE Individual World Champion and FIM World Enduro winner Taylor Robert, then check out this vid posted by Hard Enduro on YouTube. The Hard Enduro moniker seems to be a misnomer, as Robert makes almost everything look easy while playing around in his Rio Verde, Arizona, backyard.
This is the kind of skill that one can acquire when they start racing dirtbikes at the age of 4 and spend the next 11 years tackling the amateur motocross scene, including the AMA Amateur National Motocross Championship at Loretta Lynn Ranch in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.
“I was never the fastest kid on the motocross track but I got better every year until I was consistently a top-five guy in my class,” Robert says on his website bio.
Robert was 15 when a serious accident at an amateur motocross left him with broken vertebrae and altered his path to motorcycle racing stardom. At the time I was getting somewhat burnt out with motocross and my dad was racing the WORCS series [World Off-Road Championship Series] with a few of his buddies,” Robert sayd. “I decided in 2006 that I would try the whole series, and within a year of racing WORCS I already had more support than I ever had racing motocross.”
Robert spent two years finding his off-road racing legs, but by 2008 he was already a multi-time series champion in the A class and had also won the Pro2 class title after posting five round wins. He also dabbled in the Pro class in 2008 where he finished on the box in his first Pro race before coming back to finish fourth as a full-time Pro in 2009.
“I kept getting better and more consistent every year and won my first pro championship in 2012,” Robert says. “Around this time I started racing a ton of different races around the world including X games, Endurocross, ISDE, Baja, Beach Races in Argentina, and select extreme enduros.”
Fast forward to 2016, and Taylor Robert is on top of the off-road, not only winning the 2016 ISDE but playing a pivotal role in America’s first World Trophy win in the 91-year history of the prestigious event. Part of his success could be attributed to the season that he spent competing in the 2016 FIM Enduro World Championship, where he won the final round of the season and finished seventh in the all-inclusive EnduroGP Championship and fourth in the E2 class the he contested. Robert can also count among his career accolades numerous other ISDE gold medals, an X Games EnduroX gold medal and the 2012 WORCS title.
Watching this video, it isn’t hard to see why he is so damn good!
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