{"id":409446,"date":"2026-01-13T03:47:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T03:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/409446\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T03:47:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T03:47:06","slug":"interview-ken-roczen-finishes-second-at-2026-anaheim-1-sx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/409446\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Ken Roczen Finishes Second at 2026 Anaheim 1 SX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As Ken mentioned, \u201cI have a lot of confidence in my motorcycle, I feel like it&#8217;s working really well for me personally. And I think ultimately, not making any changes to the bike for months and months on end, I just have ridden it on all kinds of different dirt conditions. So, I mean things can always happen, you can crash, be caught off guard, but overall, I just know my motorcycle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Ken says he hasn\u2019t changed his bike in a while he really means it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI literally haven\u2019t done one click change since probably before Daytona,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I haven\u2019t touched it, I am a little bit scared to mess it up, I just know it very well. We always attempt to test, like we have it in our minds and them I am like, \u2018No, I am just riding.\u2019 Because like I said I have ridden it on hard pack, sandy, clay, it doesn\u2019t matter. And other things it could be better at times, maybe, but I am a little bit worried about messing other areas up as well. And I think my riding shows that the bike\u2019s plenty good enough to be up on top of the box.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While so many other riders are dealing with switching bike brands, Ken is already comfortable in all conditions. And a comfortable <a class=\"show_card\" href=\"https:\/\/racerxonline.com\/rider\/ken-roczen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Roczen<\/a> is a fast <a class=\"show_card\" href=\"https:\/\/racerxonline.com\/rider\/ken-roczen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Roczen<\/a>. If he can add consistency to his repertoire for 2026, things might just get interesting for the #94.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Ken mentioned, \u201cI have a lot of confidence in my motorcycle, I feel like it&#8217;s working really&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-409446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}