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TAME THE TRAIL
My love of mountain biking started way back in the early '80s when my parents brought me a subscription to the US magazine Mountain Bike Action. In 1987 I found myself lining up for my first race, downhill competition didn't exist at that point in the UK so this was an elbow to elbow frenzy in the cross country (XC) discipline. I competed in XC races for a few seasons before finally in the early '90s, the first British National Downhill (DH) series took place. I Raced DH alongside XC and added Dual Slalom t
The sport and the bikes were evolving at such a rapid rate that by the end of the '90s I needed a new challenge, I partnered up with Rob Lee, an old friend of mine whom I had introduced to mountain biking and we started a quest to conquer the new 24-hour race discipline. We dominated the sport for many years with the Extreme Endurance Team and I found myself a niche gravity-based endurance race series (The SAAB Salomon Avalanche Trophy) that took me all over Europe, racing elbow to elbow with names like N