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British riders have along history of doing the busin
After seven years away, the planet’s best trials riders returned to the UK in September. Bike was there to watch physics get defied, gravity be defeated, and the greatest of all time earn his 38th world title
AGE: 29 FROM: FORT WILLIAM, SCOTLAND (BUT LIVES IN NEW ZEALAND) Since moving to Queenstown in 2020, Lou hasn’t only notched up some top downhill results, but she’s also taken her place at the forefron
AGE: 15 FROM: CHILTERN HILLS Having raced cross-country and cyclocross since she was tiny, Katie branched out into enduro in 2020 and then downhill in 2021, with immediate success in the Southern Endu
Welsh rider wins under-23 women’s time trial in dominant fashion to take ninth world title
AGE: 37 FROM: HAMPSHIRE It seems like ‘Brendog’ has been on the MTB scene forever – perhaps because he started racing DH at just 13. He was signed by the Royal Orange team aged 16, was mentored by Ste
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