Rob first met Max in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. They had both signed up for the inaugural Silk Road Mountain Race and were signing on. Fast forward a week and both were scratched from the race and sat in Naryn (or scratch city as it affectionately became known). Together with three other riders that had scratched (70% of the field scratched this year) they formed a grupetto and rode the rest of the route to the finish. Later Max reported on Rob’s SRMR build, the Kegety. Click the link below to read about it.