Published July 8, 2011 03:08PM
Carl Decker on Downieville
VIDEO: Last year Carl Decker earned the right to be dubbed the all-mountain world champion. How about 2011?
Under Carl Decker's cool exterior lurks a RPM-revving madman. The long-time Giant racer with a prototype of the company's XtC Composite 29er. Photo by John Chorlton
WATCH DECKER RALLYING HIS SUBARU
Carl Decker is a man of many hats, or better yet, many helmets.
The Giant Factory Off-Road Team member has won national championship jerseys, a tattoo at singlespeed worlds and, last year, earned the right to be dubbed the all-mountain world champion at the Downieville Classic in California.
With all that going on, Decker then switches hats to something a little more substantial than a bike helmet. He puts on a crash helmet and gets into a rally car, more often than not with his Giant teammate Adam Craig as navigator.
We caught up with Decker to talk about a couple of his favorite things: Racing Downieville and racing his tricked out Subaru.