Mountain Bike Rider

MANON CARPENTER, DH RACER & GEOLOGIST

Racing success came early to Manon — she won the World Cup overall and the Worlds all before her 20th birthday, then retired from the sport aged just 24. Manon now rides for Radon, feeds the ’gram and studies geology

Through my teenage years there was a period when Wednesdays

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