It’s starting to feel wintery here in the UK, with temperatures plummeting and the nights drawing in. If the fact that it’s only two months or so until the shortest day doesn’t console you, take a few minutes and transport yourself to a world of sunlit loam, sweet berms and unbridled, spittle flecked jealousy, with Paul Gannon and G.H.Y. Bikes:
David started mountain biking in the 90’s, by which he means “Ineptly jumping a Saracen Kili Racer off anything available in a nearby industrial estate”. After growing up and living in some extremely flat places, David moved to Yorkshire specifically for the mountain biking. This felt like a horrible mistake at first, because the hills are so steep, but you get used to them pretty quickly.
Previously, David trifled with road and BMX, but mountain bikes always won. He’s most at peace battering down a rough trail, quietly fixing everything that does to a bike, or trying to figure out if that one click of compression damping has made things marginally better or worse. The inept jumping continues to this day.
