More DH

Here is another video from the 2008 World Championships. This one is Gee Atherton, who won the overall. Ashleigh and I met him and his sister (also DH WC that year) at Interbike that year. Ash had no clue who they were and kept asking about some orange goo they were playing with. It was D30, the stuff that 661 put in knee pads nowadays. They thought she was crazy and gave her an autographed poster to settle her down. She ignored it and kept asking about the goo. She thought they were sales reps, not world champs. It was hilarious.



Notice also that everyone was wearing skinsuits at the '08 Worlds. The Athertons were basically the skinsuit killers who lobbied the UCI to illegalize them in favor of baggies. Naturally, they were both using them when the biggest race of the year was on the line. Now everyone just pins their baggies as tight as they can. Hopefully they never illegalize skinsuits for cross and cross country. Coz skinsuits are comfy, aero AND sexy.