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Adam Pearson
Adam is in his 3rd year of veteran nationals and after coming back from injury last winter. He treated himself to a new bike and has found his MTB mojo once again and is gaining in confidence. Adam predominately rides DH and has been making friends with his enduro bike when riding in Madeira in 2024, Looking to 2025, to mix things up a bit he plans to ride some Enduro races to enhance his overall fitness in preparation for the DH season.
Andrew Begg
Andrew has always enjoyed MTBing, but it wasn’t till 2017 that he returned to try racing. Quickly realising an old 26” wheeled Trek Fuel Ex wasn’t going to do it, a modern enduro bike was purchased and has never looked back.! Now a keen enduro racer, 2024 was his first full season racing and completed the BNES. Andrew’s looking forward to building on all he’s learnt from this and see where 2025 takes him…. lets goooo! When not racing, he enjoys nothing more than having fun with his mates on bikes, lapping his local trails and hitting new trails further afield. But he has to confess, when chilling out, you’ll find him on the XC bike doing long dreamy days in the wilderness, occasionally pedalling for days without sleep.
Craig Brooker
Craig started biking late in life after surfing around the world in his younger years. After his first race in 2015 he found himself hooked on the adrenalin of Downhill Racing! Training hard with the hunger to succeed, Craig enjoys life rubber side down and this has now become the norm. Spending most weekends advancing skills on the trails and often found at Dyfi Bike Park with friends.
Gareth Kenyon
Gareth is entering into his 4th season with our Crow family. Ever passionate about biking, you’ll often find him out riding his lovely, purple Santa Cruz Mega-plougher. Hailing from the Peak District in Derbyshire, he loves nothing more than riding the abundance of amazing local trails and often sports the Crow colours at a number of summer enduro races.
Lachlan Criggie
Lachlan started riding when he was 2yrs old. At the age of 9 he entered his first Enduro race. His chosen disciplines are Enduro and Downhill with his favourite trails being fast & loamy trails in woods. He competes in the DoonThaBrae enduro series, Scottish DH series and British DHs. Currently, he rides a Santa Cruz Nomad supplied by Cycle Highlands. His goals for 2025, at the tender age of 14, are top 15 overall in the Scottish DH series and a top 8 overall in the Enduro series in his category. His ideal day out riding would be on a Enduro ride in the snow.
Lynn McKinley
Lynn tried mounting biking back in April 2018, and absolutely loved it. She likes to get out biking at every opportunity. The trails in Aviemore are endless and there is so many trails to choose from. Lynn rides a mixture of natural trails and trail centres, with Laggan Wolftrax being her favourite, but loves to ride in different places all around the UK. She currently rides a Juliana Roubion. Lynn is hopefully riding in Ainsa next year and do some mountain biking in the Pirineos.
Matt Dean
Matt is a Veteran Downhill Racer. He has been riding most of his life but started racing about 10 years ago. In that time Matt has competed in 82 races. In the off season he spends most weekends uplifting somewhere or riding at Farmer John’s MTB Park. He is a big fan of steep tech but also like jumping anything on an MTB. Matt also turns his hand to building and modifying cars when he is not on a bike and loves to skateboard on mini ramp. If you see Matt on the trails go and say, “Hi”, you can do some runs together.
Piers Rickard
Piers has been riding MTB since the competent, non-suspension MTB’s became available. His first MTB was the Raleigh MTrax followed by the original Orange P7. When his day-to-day Crow duties allow he races, (occasionally), with the most of his riding done on steep and natural enduro style trails. 2024 was not a good one for riding as life got in the way, a broken wrist, changing job and moving house kept him off the bike. 2025 will be different with group rides with the team planned as many races as the day job allows.
Ruth McDougall
Ruth began riding bikes with her family when she was three and competed in her first race, (XC), at aged seven and has never looked back. Since then, Ruth has raced XC, Cyclocross, Downhill and Enduro with her speciality being Enduro. She likes riding any type of trails and going on long endurance rides. 2024 was Ruth’s most successful ever, with several top steps to her credit. She hopes to build on this success for 2025.
Vaska Allsop
Vaska started her MTB journey with XC in the Peak District in 2013 but soon found the real fun lies with DH and Enduro. Even though she runs a very busy Sports Therapy clinic, every spare minute she’s got is dedicated to riding. Having as much fun as possible on the bike is Vaska’s main goal but she is competitive. Vaska has won the overall title for the Pearce DH series in the Senior Ladies category in 2022. In 2023 overall National Downhill Series winner in the Senior Ladies category. Vaska stepped up a gear in 2024 and entered the Elite Ladies’ National Downhill with a podium 5th place at Antur Stiniog. She also won the overall Elite Ladies category in the Pearce DH series. Vaska took part in the Trans Madeira 5 day Enduro race in May of 2024 and finished in 4th place amongst a solid international field.
She loves off-season training and is stoked to what 2025 brings.