We caught up with Hattie Harnden at Fort William BDS to learn of her aspirations in what is a new discipline for the World #3 Enduro Racer
There’s a new face on the British Downhill scene. The 2022 British Cyclocross Champion, a former UCI World Cup XCO racer, and 2022 World #3 Enduro racer, Hattie Harnden, is now trying her hand at Downhill. Mixing it up with some of the world’s finest descenders, Hattie and the Trek Factory Racing Team headed to Fort William for Round 2 of the British Downhill Series just a couple weekends ago.
This was Hattie’s very first time racing down Aonach Mòr’s World Cup DH Track, and she had the likes of Nina Hoffmann, Camille Balanche, Monika Hrastnik and Veronika Widmann to contend with, as well as a few rapid locals like Mikayla Parton and Phoebe Gale. The frame’s 200mm travel is delivered through Trek’s four-bar suspension platform, wherein the seat stays and chain stays meat at a pivot concentric to the dropouts. This is Trek’s ABP linkage design, or Active Braking Pivot, put in place to isolate the suspension from forces exerted under rear braking. The main pivot is in a mid-to-high position on the seat tube, necessitating use of an idler pulley to minimize chain growth.
Hattie’s Trek Session rolls on an aluminum Bontrager Line DH 30 wheelset, which actually has a 29mm internal rim width. Seated onto those rims are Pirelli tires, with Trek Factory Racing having switched to the Italian manufacturer’s tires for the 2023 season after many years on own-brand Bontrager tires.
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