Richard Owen

Rich began riding mountain bikes back in the early nineties when he bought a Scott Tampico. A former editor of the dearly departed What Mountain Bike magazine, Rich knows his way around all things off-road, but has been known to dip the odd toe into Tarmac-based pedaling and gets a weird kick from flagellating himself up vomit-inducing road climbs. Rich spends more time than he should out thrashing trails local and further afield on his weapon of choice, a Mondraker Foxy Carbon XR, as well as his Vitus Substance V2 Apex gravel steed.