Marc Beaumont had a year off from downhill racing in 2015, but this year he’s hoping to make waves with his comeback, this time racing with the successful Madison/Saracen team.
But it’s hard to go from riding in the woods to the world stage again and it takes a lot of preparation, as this beautifully shot video shows.
Not entirely all glamour, this bike racing lark
Marc is a popular character on the scene, with a cheery character and a great, flowy riding style. With ‘The King of Flow’ Will Longden as his new team manager, we have great hopes for the chap.
With Will as his manager, the prospects are goodAnd you don’t need a huge bike to get some big air
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.)
