Name: Richard Bell
Age: 52
29er Singlespeed
Favorite Trail: Attila the Hun Racecourse
Favorite Race: Northwest Arkansas Championships
Best Finish: 2nd at the 2006 Pigeon Roast
Favorite Riding Food: Peanut M&Ms
What are your riding goals? Finish in the Top
5 of the Beginner 50+
class this year.
Why do you ride? I ride so that I can do an
activity with my son. I also
do it to be healthy, and because "I'm competitive as
hell."
What advice would you give to a beginner rider? Don't
try to overdo it,
you can ride for the rest of your life. Ride for
fun and ride
repetitively until it becomes a habit.
If you could upgrade anything on your bike what would it be? I just got
a new Fox Triad Shock and I love it. Also, I just
went tubeless and
that is the way to go. In the future, I would
like to go tubeless with
my SS.
Worst Wipeout: I was flying down Racer's
Hill in the NWA
Championships and I smacked right into a tree.
It just stopped me
cold and I stuck there.
