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Reigning UCI Downhill World Cup Title Holders Prove They’re Still On Top In 2018
France’s Myriam Nicole and America’s Aaron Gwin have won their respective elite category races at the opening round of the 2018 UCI DH World Cup. Lošinj in Croatia was one of the rarest of things in downhill racing; an unknown quantity. The top flight of international racing has trodden a familiar path around the world […]
Mille Johnset: Atherton Academy Star Set For Big Time
Rachel Atherton first met Mille Johnset in 2012 when Mille was a flower girl at Hafjell handing Rach her 15th World Cup. At the tender age of 11 she had already been racing for a year and had won the 2012 Norwegian Championship. “My first race was a small local race in Drammen called Aron […]
First Race of the Season – Atherton Diaries Ep 22
The first race of the season is here again. The full crew was out in force at the first national this weekend. The South Wales village of Cwmcarn hosted the first in a new series of nationals and it did not disappoint. One of the most highly attended British races in a long time, its […]
Unreal Testing In Spain! – Atherton Diaries Ep 20
After a couple of POV edits from the Atherton team we’re back to full production with them, as they hit up Malaga with only a month to go ’till the start of the 2018 DH season. Gee, Rach and Charlie spent a couple of day fine tuning their race set-ups with expert technicians Polish Pete […]
Atherton Diaries Episode 18: Tackling The Beast From The East
The ‘Beast from the East’ brought snow and bitterly cold temperatures to Wales this week. We love snow days and we love new kit days so braving the temperatures Dan, Gee, Rachel and Charlie headed out to Baltic Corris to show off their eye-popping new race kits from Endura and get in some extra testing […]