Successful shoulder surgery for Rachel Atherton

We’ve just heard that Animal Commencal rider Rachel Atherton is back at home after successful surgery on her injured shoulder.

Rachel, the current female Downhill World Champion, is recovering well after the operation and is already itching to get back into training.

Rach said: “I’m so stoked – I can’t believe how well I felt even the next morning – the surgeon has worked wonders. I’d like to thank everyone for their messages of support and hope to be back action as soon as possible.”

Follow Rach’s recovery via her blog: http://animalcommencal.tv/rachel/blog/

And join the Atherton ‘Extended Family’ at www.athertonracing.co.uk to stay in touch with all the latest news from team Animal Commencal.

The Singletrack team are looking forward to seeing her back on a bike soon

Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)