New reaches us, along with these fantastic photos, that 2016 world champion Danny Hart has just launched the 2017 UCI Fort William Mountain Bike World Cup, which will take place on June 3 – 4. Of course, in 2016 we got UK men’s and women’s world champions in Danny Hart and Rachel Atherton, both of whom will be defending their titles.
The real headline though is the images of Danny. Feast thine eyes:
By the power of Greyskull!“Danny, what is best in life?”Exactly the same kind of camera trickery Peter Jackson used for Lord of The Rings.Game Of Thrones has let itself go a bit.
(Factual aside: Last year our friend Lee had a Game of Thrones dream in which Jon Snow, despondently clawing his way up an icy 45 degree slope, turned to see White Walkers in pursuit and whined “Oh no… they’re on bikes”. And they were, all on mountain bikes. Elsewhere, The Hound was cruising round on a 20 inch BMX). Anyway, back on topic:
Kill Fort Bill?Danny looking a bit more in his element here.
Where do you reckon bagpipes fit on the cowbell-chainsaw spectrum?
Rider: Danny Hart.
Piper: David Shedden
Photographer: Stewart Attwood
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.
