2021 Silver Mountain Extreme Enduro Results

Cycle News Staff | June 23, 2021

Trystan Hart came out on top of a race-long battle with Mario Roman and Cody Webb to win the Silver Mountain Extreme Enduro in Kellog, Idaho, June 20. The event, held at the picturesque Silver Mountain Ski resort, served as round four of the AMA Extreme Championship. The event features some extremely difficult up and downhills and attracted over 400 riders with only 32 riders completing the full course on Sunday.

Photos Brandon Krause

The Pro and A-class riders competed in an 18-mile hot lap on Saturday to set the starting positions for Sunday’s main event.

FMF KTM’s Hart set the fastest time of 43 minutes and six seconds. Ryder LeBlond was just four seconds back on his Delullo Racing Husqvarna. Taylor Robert (FMF/KTM) was third fastest ahead of Bulgarian Teodor Kabakchiev (Husqvarna).

Cody Webb rounded out the top five on his Sherco.

Sunday’s main event featured a 25-mile single-loop course with a four-hour time limit. Rockstar Husqvarna’s Colton Haaker jumped out to the early lead. The California native now lives in northern Idaho, not far from the event and was looking to earn a win close to home. Webb moved into the lead by the first checkpoint, which took nearly 35 minutes to reach.

Roman and Hart were not far behind. Kabakchiev was fourth ahead of LeBlond and Haaker had dropped back to sixth.

**Spain’s Mario Roman came up just ten seconds short of the win in Idaho.**

By the second check point, Roman had taken over the lead with Webb and Hart within 20 seconds of the top spot. Haaker moved back up to fourth, a little over three minutes behind the leader with Kabakchiev holding fifth, another three and a half minutes back.

Hart worked his way into second and made a late pass on Roman to take the win with a total time of one hour, 45 minutes and 30 seconds. He was just 10 seconds ahead of Roman on the Factory Sherco, while Webb finished third on the FactoryOne Sherco, one minute and 43 seconds behind Hart.

Haaker held on for fourth place ahead of Kabakchiev.

Robert finished in sixth position with Keith Curtis in seventh riding a Sherco. LeBlond dropped back to eighth after having to loop back to reach a missed checkpoint. Brandon Petrie finished ninth on a KTM and Will Riordan rounded out the top 10 on another KTM.

**Cody Webb battled with Hart and Roman for the top spot but couldn’t make it happen at the finish.**

“Today was a day perfect day. I had an intense battle with Mario and Cody the whole race,” Hart said. “It ended up coming down to a downhill one-mile from the finish and I held the gas on longer to take the lead and sprint to the finish for the win.”

“Trystan was just too fast in the fast sections,” Roman said. “We would all come together in the very technical, make different passes, but ultimately I got passed near the finish in what seems like he was pinned in fifth gear.”

“The steep shale seemed to be my undoing,” Webb said. “My feet would slide out from under me when trying to plant for pivot turns and such. This would take me off my line taking away time. The three of us battled hard, and we were right together on the final major climb, but I just didn’t have enough to get it done today.”