Mountain Biking UK

TRAIL CREW THETRACK PORTREATH

riders don’t you, who appear so laidback they’re totally unassuming. The kind of guys you don’t expect anything of until they swing a leg over a bike and their riding does all the talking. Nate Stephens – site supervisor at The Track here in Portreath – is someone who matches that description. It’d be fair to say that we’re not expecting too much from our visit to The Track this morning, when we pull up to be greeted by sheets of misty drizzle blowing across the face of the jumps. And things look like they might be a total write-off when it transpires that no one from the

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