Content to help Backcountry’s entrance into MTB apparel.
A double-barrel shotgun blast shatters the cold Colorado morning at 10,000 feet. It clangs off the old brick buildings as shivering racers clip in and roll toward the Sawatch Range in the distance.
Will Sladek is there, racing and frantically trying to move up. In his head, Sladek was back in Spain. He was a young road racer on his elite amateur Spanish team where, when the gun went off, everything went nuts. Colorado, Spain, office-park criteriums, trails… when a start gun sounds or a flag drops, it’s all the same.
