Today, to my surprise my friend Dennis from sweden turned up here in Granada to ride. Good thing for me, I was getting pretty bored here with Juzzo gone. I had planned to get some bike time in this this afternoon and just smash out as many downhill runs as I could. Dennis and his buddy Felix drove down from Sweden to escape the cold weather and were stoked to get out on the Downhill bikes. For them it was the first time this year. The track here on the La Zubia hill was in good shape. The dirt here is usually so dry and sandy that the rain this past week gave the soil lots of grip. I have been spending more time on the XC bike lately, so today was my first day on the track as well. I managed to punch out about eight runs. With Sander man driving the sprinter, we were able to just keep moving pretty quickly. I was running the new Vans sticky rubber shoes and they gripped so well I couldn't even tell I was on flats. Awesome riding shoes. Just got word on my new helmet from Kabuto as well. They have recently been developing the new ixa bicycle specific full face helmet, which Greg ran at Monte Sainte Anne last year, and they've got the new ones shipped out to us now. Turns out that to get them to Greg and I in time for the first few races, they had to hand make the shells for the two of us. That makes those two helmets pretty expensive haha. I worked with Scott Hart on the art and design for my helmet and from what I've seen so far it looks amazing. Looking forward to more bike time and a fun day tomorrow followed by a couple more days here next week before I head over to Gouvea, Portugal for my First race of the season. With how good the riding is here this time of year, I really don't want to leave.
Check out my new helmet here:
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