Discipline:

Downhill

Hates:

Speeding tickets, snapping valves in the CRF, flat landings, 4th place

Loves:

watching Rach tear apart the world cups, Stevie Bell's hair, dirt jumps, watching Athy ruin a digger, pulling back a big old tank slapper, the finish arena during DH finals.

Rider’s Biography:

Known across the world of mountain biking as Gee, the middle Atherton sibling, has been a sensation in the sport since the age of fifteen. If Charles Dickens was around nowadays he’d be doing well to construct a character that inhabited the world of mountain bikes better than Gee. His technicolour talents put the full array of accolades within his grasp and his fearless determination makes them a reality.

In 2004, at the age of nineteen, Gee won his first Downhill World Cup on the technically challenging track in the Austrian resort of Schladming. A win at this level may have seemed inevitable after his results in the junior categories, including two World Championship medals, but to gain it at such a young age was outstanding. In that year, his first in the senior ranks, Gee also won the National Championships at his first attempt. He has gone on to top podiums the world over, finishing in the top 5 of the World Cup series every year since.

Gee now concentrates his efforts on Downhill racing in which he has many World Cup podiums, national wins and most notably a World Championship gold medal, the sports highest honour. But when he steps into the other genres of the sport, as he often does, he does so like a thunder storm. With a Four-Cross World Cup win and a second at the inaugural Red Bull Rampage, the toughest of events to be judged on creativity rather than speed, he demonstrates his all round talent when others are confined to a single discipline.

Front covers the world over, naked photo shoots for girls magazines and mainstream TV appearances are now the habitat of the middle Atherton that is credited as being one of the most progressive riders of all time.