THE INN CROWD
How did you get into mountain biking?
My mum put me on a bike when I was three years old, like all kids learn to ride. In Latvia, where I am from originally, BMX racing was quite popular, so somehow I stumbled into it all. By the time I was four, I was racing! As a kid I was dreamy, and always somewhere else in my head, so I wasn’t taking it seriously. I didn’t know what a competition was, I was just riding on a bike.
In 2012, my family moved to Innsbruck and there weren’t any BMX race tracks nearby so I
