DANNY HART SQUARED

Double downhill world champ Danny Hart talks about that winning run at Champèry, the move to Cube and training in lockdown

Britain’s only double mountain bike world champion is on the move. It’s been a badly kept secret, but German brand Cube snaffled Danny Hart’s signature, in turn picking up one of the most skilful racers on the downhill scene.

The Redcar man is known to excel when the going gets steep, slippery and gnarly, and his World Champswinning run from Champèry where the youngster annihilated the competition by 12 seconds in the pissing rain and had the commentators blowing a gasket, is now part of mountain bike folk law.

We know you had other offers, so what made you choose Cube?

Well, to start with, Cube was really up for signing me. So, I visited the brand and saw the scale of it; the factory, all the testing and R&D and I met the engineering team. I was really impressed. It’s a huge company and now has a refined downhill bike and is ready to try and get some podiums and hopefully some wins. We all felt we could do that together.

And how’s the Two15 downhill bike going?

It’s great. The production bike is a 29er, but the Cube team made me a mullet set-up with a 27.5in rear wheel. This is the set-up I’ve been racing for two years and I wanted to continue with what I knew. Even with the aluminium rear stays (which will be carbon soon), the bike is super-light, and I’ve felt right at home straight away.