{"id":639,"date":"2009-01-15T10:24:47","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T08:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conradstoltz.com\/riding-with-christoph-sauser-and-conrad-stoltz\/"},"modified":"2009-01-15T10:24:47","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T08:24:47","slug":"riding-with-christoph-sauser-and-conrad-stoltz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conradstoltz.com\/index.php\/riding-with-christoph-sauser-and-conrad-stoltz\/","title":{"rendered":"Riding with Christoph Sauser and Conrad Stoltz…"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was “Make a wish” for 16 year old mountain biker Justin Pictor from Stellenbosch South Africa. Fresh off a great 3rd in the under 17 race at South African Mountainbike Nationals last week, it was good to catch up with Justin again.<\/p>\n

A year ago I rode with him and some friends. His ability and enthusiasm for mountain biking was fun to watch. I raised his saddle by a massive 3cm, helped with a technical, nutrition and racing tips. He trained really well, right through the holidays, and all around he has improved tremendously in just 1 year.\u00a0 Its fun to watch the kids improve in leaps and bounds, because once you get to the top level, (and has been there for a while) improvement is few and far between.<\/p>\n

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Christoph Sauser, (Susi)<\/a> 3x Mountain bike World Champion, Justin Pictor & myself getting ready to ride fine Jonkershoek single track.<\/p>\n

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On our way to riding fine Jonkershoek single track…<\/p>\n

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Riding fine Jonkershoek single track…<\/p>\n

But then, carving Masons trail- some fast, narrow single track, Susi’s rear wheel slid over the edge, but then caught again, high siding him and for the next 5 seconds I watched Susi skid along the trail on his backside.\u00a0 I grabbed\u00a0 big hand fulls of brake and stopped just in time. (Thanks to the 29ers big tire contact patches, of course!) Susi was ok, but his BEhind was less ok.<\/p>\n

His seat post bracket had broken, and he quickly applied his engineering degree to affix the saddle with a tube.\u00a0 Justin watched wide eyed- I’m sure his mates will hear about this story at school!<\/p>\n

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Patent pending…
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It was “Make a wish” for 16 year old mountain biker Justin Pictor from Stellenbosch South Africa. Fresh off a great 3rd in the under 17 race at South African Mountainbike Nationals last week, it was good to catch up with Justin again. A year ago I rode with him and some friends. His ability […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,102],"tags":[302,1749,1752,1754,654,660,780,1112,1181],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n