She's just 22 years old, but is certainly getting lots of press, and she might be the favourite video interview for Colt at Cyclingdirt.org. It looks like she has quite a promising future as a mountain bike racer. She's certainly taken over as the most photographed smile in mountain bike racing from Marie-Helene Premont, which is interesting as she lists Premont as one of her MTB racing heroes, along with other top Canadian riders such as Catharine Pendrel and Chrissy Redden.
This month she's on the cover of Singletrack magazine (UK), no article just a masthead comment on the cover photo Emily Batty - Oh yes
Wow. Congratulations Emily Batty on a Sea Otter Elite women XC win. Actually managed to out sprint Catharine Pendrel at the finish for a Canadian 1-2 finish. Those big wheels seem to work well for Ms.Batty
Pro Women
1 Emily Batty (Can) Subaru-Trek
2 Catharine Pendrel (Can) Luna Pro Tream
3 Katerina Nash (Cze) Luna Pro Team
4 Lea Davison (USA) Specialized
5 Heather Irmiger (USA) Subaru-Trek
6 Kelli Emmett (USA) Giant Factory Off-Road Team
7 Monique "Pua" Mata (USA) Team Sho-Air
She and a couple of the other young female riders have the potential to significantly increase the interest in mtb racing. Young girls will look up to them big time and realize you can be beautiful and feminine and at the same time be a ferocious athlete. Young guys will... ...I'll just say they'll obviously pay attention too.
"On the other side of the course on the last lap, I jumped and rode the downhill in front," said Batty. "I crested the top and hit the pavement and we came into that final stretch side by side and sprinted."
"We were both feeling pretty good. We were talking to each other a little bit and decided at the top that it would be a drag race to the finish, side by side," said Batty.
Pendrel and Batty put on an all-Canadian show at the front. It was a battle between veteran racer and World Cup leader Pendrel and the younger Batty, and it came down to the final downhill turn and finishing straight. Batty had the biggest kick and won the sprint to the line ahead of Pendrel.
"Emily was my equal in every aspect today except she was my better in the sprint," said Pendrel. "This was the first time Emily and I have ever been able to work together like this in a race - we worked well together."
When asked about her teammate Batty's win, Irmiger said, "People shouldn't be surprised - and if they were, now they won't be any more."
"We were both feeling pretty good. We were talking to each other a little bit and decided at the top that it would be a drag race to the finish, side by side," said Batty.
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"Emily was my equal in every aspect today except she was my better in the sprint," said Pendrel. "This was the first time Emily and I have ever been able to work together like this in a race - we worked well together."
Two thumbs up to both of them for sportsmanship (sportswomanship?) in deciding they were just going to drag race instead of jockying for position in the home stretch on the other's wheel for the sprint. Total class acts by teammates in my opinion after they had worked together to put themselves in that position.
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Edit--actually, they are kind of teammates (when racing for Canada) and kind of not (such as in this race), which makes it even better.
Two thumbs up to both of them for sportsmanship (sportswomanship?) in deciding they were just going to drag race instead of jockying for position in the home stretch on the other's wheel for the sprint. Total class acts by teammates in my opinion after they had worked together to put themselves in that position.
:thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Edit--actually, they are kind of teammates (when racing for Canada) and kind of not (such as in this race), which makes it even better.
Catharine said she had a lot of fun racing with Emily. The two of them worked together the whole race. At the end Catharine did everything she could to get ride of Emily because she knew Emily would destroy her in a sprint. But Emily was too strong and she couldn't get rid of her.
Subaru-Trek team mechanics Matt Opperman and Andrew Shepard add a little chunk of high-density foam to the underside of the cage for better chain security
Is the foam to keep the chain from bouncing around less ?
I think it helps to keep the chain from coming off on rough sections, so yes. They showed me that trick at Bonelli and I added it to my Epic as well.
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