The Most Dangerous Event in Mountain Biking Is Finally Including Women. What Took So Long?
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10/04/2024 01:05 PM
Chelsea Kimball knew she wanted to get into free ride mountain biking after she made a jump she didn't land. During the US mountain biker's first trip to Virgin, Utah in 2017, Kimball hit a big step up - a jump with a landing that's higher than the take-off - when she was still new to the trail feature. "Definitely didn't have the skills," she tells PS. "I crashed so hard. I flew from 20 feet out of the air, straight over the bars. I got bucked and just landed like a pancake on the ground." Free ride mountain biking is premised not on racing to a finish, but on riders charging courses they . . .
