Saddleback Launches Intense UK Race Team

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Today, Saddleback, the importers of Intense, Troy Lee Designs, ENVE and lots of other good stuff has announced a seriously UK-based downhill and enduro race team.

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That’s quite a list of co-sponsors too…
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Just one of the fancy machines in the team’s truck.

It states (in block capitals, no less) “WE AT SADDLEBACK RECENTLY CELEBRATED INTENSE AND TROY LEE DESIGNS BECOMING A PART OF OUR FAMILY. WHEN LINED UP BESIDE OUR OTHER BRANDS SUCH AS CHRIS KING, ENVE, ROTOR AND ASTUTE WE HAVE ALL THE INGREDIENTS FOR SOMETHING SPECIAL. WE WANTED TO CELEBRATE THIS COLLECTION OF MOUNTAIN BIKE POWER HOUSES AND THERE WAS ONLY ONE WAY TO DO THIS. SADDLEBACK ARE PROUD TO PRESENT… INTENSE RACING UK”

Saddleback has made a very nifty video showing the team in action and in training…

The Bristol-based distributor says that it set out to choose a team of riders that “represented the Saddleback ethos and we believe we achieved exactly that. The rider roster is seven strong and will cover downhill and enduro Internationally.

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We imagine there’ll be a lot of this type of behaviour

Martin Astley, the UK brand manger for Intense and Troy Lee Designs had this to say “Each and every brand involved with Intense Racing UK has a deep-rooted race heritage, racing is their life blood and is a huge influence on everything they do. Here at Saddleback, our focus and passion is also racing. Intense Racing UK is our first ever mountain bike race team and we aim to deliver the best product and race support to a select team of elite riders who can not only deliver results but also embody the passion for racing with a positive and fun approach to competition that the supporting brands have nurtured over the last 30 years.”

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Martin Astley has brought the team together

Rider Roster.
Here’s who you’ll be able to see racing for Intense UK this year.

CHARLIE HATTON, Home: South Wales. Ride: M16
Category: Elite DH

JOE BREEDAN, Home: North Wales. Ride: M16
Category: Junior DH

OLLY MORRIS (Team Manager), Home: Bristol. Ride: M16
Category: Elite DH / Team Manager

JESS GREAVES. Home: Bristol. Ride: M16
Category: Women’s DH

SAM FLOCKHART. Home: Scotland. Ride: Tracer
Category: Elite Enduro

AJAY JONES, Home: South Wales. Ride: Tracer
Category: Expert Enduro

ANDREW TITLEY. Home: Bristol. Ride: Tracer/M16
Category: Vets Enduro/DH

NATHAN CARR. Home: Weston Supermere
Enduro Mechanic

ANDY LUND. Home: North Wales
DH Mechanic

We reckon this’ll be the hashtag to follow: #INTENSERACINGUK and here’s where to see the team.

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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.)

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