Steve Peat Announces 2016 Retirement

UK mountain bike legend Steve Peat has announced that 2016 will be his last downhill racing season. To talk about it, he made a video in Norway with some lovely riding:

Steve is so much more than a racer, supporting and hosting events like bike jumbles and races, especially in his local community of Sheffield. He’s also a tireless proponent of getting kids into cycling.

Here’s hoping 2016 is a good year for Peaty. For now, given it’s only ten-thirty a.m., we raise a cup of tea to him and look forward to all the things he’ll do thereafter.

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David Hayward

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.