England’s own, Sam Reynolds, has more than 9 years of Mountain Biking experience. This global icon visited Mexico to participate in his first urban downhill competition, "Down Puerto Vallarta" and is also one of our featured athletes in the soon to be released State of Mind video! Learn more about Reynolds below:
Both are important, whoever has the most skill has the best chance but you have to be confident in a dangerous sport like this.
Not being happy.
Every week really! The biggest example I guess is Rampage, it is super risky but the superman across the canyon is probably my career highlight.
It's not easy, its the biggest battle for a freerider. You have to be mentally strong and believe in your knowledge of what you can and can't do. Sometimes knowing its not right and stepping back is just as important.
No just relax and have fun, that's when I ride the best.
No but I always put my right knee pad on first!
Rampage is the worst, a week of solid building then straight into the gnarliest thing you've ever tried!
I really like anything in the FEST Series, the jumps are always big and work well and its always a great time. We work more as a team to create a great video rather than against each other like in a competition.
It’s one of the closest linked sports to nature. We get to ride in some super remote places around the world and see countless numbers of different terrains. a lot of the time you can just ride a natural track too, no built features at all which is really cool, not too many sports are like that.
It was great! Of course I have seen the Urban downhill events before and thought it looked really cool but never thought I would race one, not really being a racer myself. But when Monster invited me to come and try it out I couldn’t say no! I came really to ride the jumps but actually the racing and the course was awesome. Was a real challenge to even ride down the course let alone at speed, but was a wicked personal challenge especially with so many people watching and cheering us on.
Knowing the grip level is important, but that's difficult as we don’t really practice racing on streets! Especially different pavement surfaces, wood, dust etc. It also has tight walls and steep steps which I totally want used to riding so fast next to. One tiny mistake and you can really hit something hard.
Great hospitality, incredible food, amazing views and cool surfing. It was actually my first time in Mexico and it was true what people say, it was just a big party the whole time!
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