do yourselves a favor, go watch nico ride then come back and try to say its the equipment that gave him an advantage. the guy is still probably the most technically skilled rider to ever throw a leg over a dh bike.
There must be a few other people on here who were also at Deer Valley in '01 and watched him try his hand at slalom since he had never done it before. On his stock dh bike (okay i did see his mechanic install xc tubes) he qualified 1st ahead of lopes, kovarick, bootes, king, carter, etc. if that's not a display of raw bike riding ability then i'm not sure what is.
Or champery, one of the hardest tracks in the history of the sport, and he qualifies 5th after having to pass 2 riders; at the age of 31 and 5 years since his last wc downhill race!
I'd be willin to bet that if nico came back (but why would he?) and seriously contested the wc series he would still win races even after 7 years in 'retirement.' it's not the bike
but Peaty's still the f'ing man
There must be a few other people on here who were also at Deer Valley in '01 and watched him try his hand at slalom since he had never done it before. On his stock dh bike (okay i did see his mechanic install xc tubes) he qualified 1st ahead of lopes, kovarick, bootes, king, carter, etc. if that's not a display of raw bike riding ability then i'm not sure what is.
Or champery, one of the hardest tracks in the history of the sport, and he qualifies 5th after having to pass 2 riders; at the age of 31 and 5 years since his last wc downhill race!
I'd be willin to bet that if nico came back (but why would he?) and seriously contested the wc series he would still win races even after 7 years in 'retirement.' it's not the bike
but Peaty's still the f'ing man
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