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Name: Kim Steed Age: Twenty-seven Hometown: North Vancouver Sponsor: Santa Cruz Bicycles Day job: Owns a bike shop. Major recent injuries: Hip hematoma, broken rib, back knocked out of alignment. Going on a free ride: "Free riding is a bit of a circus. You find the most rugged terrain that you can and do as many stunts as possible: 360 drops, wheelie drops, spins. Hardtails -- bikes without shock absorbers on the rear wheel -- are more maneuverable and better for stunts, but they're pretty painful on the drops." Location, location, location: "Moab, Utah, is Mecca for free riders -- such nice, slick rock there that you can ride for hours and hours. But many of the top pros are now coming from what we call the north shore of Vancouver. We've got some of the biggest drops you'd ever want to see, and because it's so wet, it's incredibly challenging." Organ donors: "My friends and I will take six-hour helicopter rides to try out some untested trail. We wear padded clothes and full-face helmets, but there's always somebody who gets loaded onto the helicopter and rushed to the hospital. In the last six months, four of my friends have had to have their spleens removed. But the injuries aren't slowing anybody down. The risk is part of the thrill."
"By the time I was nine, I was already burned out on BMX. Mountain biking is more adult."
Name: Brian Lopes Age: Twenty-eight Hometown: Laguna Beach, California Sponsor: Volvo-Cannondale Professional ranking: 1998 U.S. champion in the downhill; 1999 U.S. champion in the dual slalom. Major recent injuries: Torn ligaments, broken collarbone, a dislocated shoulder. Silly rabbit, BMX is for kids: "I made the move from BMX racing to mountain biking seven years ago, because there are too many kids in BMX. Mountain biking is more adult and more of a technical challenge. You have to remember that I started racing in BMX events when I was four years old. By the time I was nine, I was already getting burned out. I quit and played the normal sports that all my friends were playing, like baseball. Boring." Breaking the speed limit: "Every course is different. The fastest is probably the Kamikaze, in Mammoth, California. You hit about sixty miles an hour there." Give me land, lots of land: "If I'm in an office on the phone for three or four hours, I start going crazy. I have to get outside." The simple pleasures of the good life: "For me, the best part of mountain biking is doing something you love and getting a chance to hang out with your friends."
Name: Wade Bootes Age: Twenty-five Hometown: Dallas (by way of Sydney, Australia) Sponsor: Trek-Volkswagen Professional ranking: Placed eighth in the 1999 dual-slalom World Cup in his first year on the circuit. Major recent injuries: None. Folks said, "Wade, move away from there:" "I first came to the United States to do the BMX circuit. I bought a van for $350 and drove from race to race, living from whatever prize money I could take. Now I travel the world and own a house on six acres of land, with a practice track in my back yard. I'm probably going to move now that I'm doing mountain biking. California is the place to be." Survival of the fittest: "It's so hard, the downhill. People fall and get hurt all the time just walking on the courses. It's always in the back of your mind that if you hit one rock wrong, you'll hit a tree and really fuck yourself up. But you have to stay positive, because if you keep thinking that way, then you will hit the tree. I just try to get down the course. That's a big part of the thrill of a good run: getting to the bottom and saying, 'I made it! I beat the odds.'"
Name: Maya Labat Age: Twenty-nine Hometown: New York Sponsor: Brooklyn Machine Works Major recent injury: Blown-out anterior cruciate ligaments in one knee. NYC blue: "It's very rare to find a top cyclist from New York. I mean, forget mountains. Here, training means chasing the crackheads trying to steal your bike. I started out by setting up jumps in Washington Square Park with some friends. But it's tough to get the attention of sponsors or magazine editors unless you live out West." Sign o' the times: "Downhill biking is hot now -- just look at Busta Rhymes in that Mountain Dew ad." Head over heels: "You're consistently taking huge shocks, hitting baby-head-size rocks at full speed, and you have to adjust just to keep going. When you're gripping the brakes so hard, you sometimes get 'eagle claw': Once you stop, you just can't get your hand to release the grip. One time I caught a flat in my front tire, but I was going so fast, I didn't realize it. The tire didn't roll up onto the next rock I hit, so I flew over the bike by about fifteen feet and landed on a rock. I opened up a gash in my leg like a bellybutton pierced open. The problem is, you take so many falls, you're not immediately sure if you're hurt badly. In every big race, some cat leaves on a stretcher." yanzic0619.

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