Come on a short journey from teenage dreamer years to professional downhill racer with Mike Jones.
I first met Mike at Llangollen Welsh Champs in 2010, it was wetter than an otters pocket and at that time the track was brand new and had basically become a straight line down one of the steepest hills in the country, absolute carnage. But i remember seeing Mike, fully kitted out in tracksuit, football trainers and a Alloy MX jersey pinning it on his Norco and just thinking. Man, i hope this boy in trackies doesn’t beat me. I beat Mike that race but he got me in the 16 consecutively after that.