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I’m watching Chris Akrigg ride a bike through his local Yorkshire woods, and there’s something different about him. It’s nothing to do with his riding style – which is a mix of aggression, pinpoint accuracy and uncontrolled wildness as ever… No, there’s something about his bike. It’s not a Mongoose.
Chris Akrigg is riding a bright blue GT. For a dozen years, we’ve become accustomed to seeing Chris appearing in his self-made videos to alternately finesse and bully his way through trail features and up and over obstacles on assorted Mongoose bikes. That era has come to an end as one sponsorship finishes and another begins. Today is Chris’s first day of riding on a GT.