Steve Peat is the king of downhill, a true legend of the sport. He's competed in 20 World Championships (winning one in 2009), won 17 World Cups and has positively influenced multiple generations of world-class downhillers from Great Britain. With a smile on his face and beer in his hand, here are 15 lessons we've learned from the Great One.
All photographs by Sven Martin
It's like the guy is filled with beet juice. WTF, Peaty?!
Prior to winning his first World Championship in Canberra in 2009, Peaty was still everyone's favorite downhiller. With World Cup podiums coming out of his ears just like those beer cans, the elusive one-day race did not define the king.
Fingers and flare.
He's been to 20 World Championships, case closed.
Don't let cold, rainy winters, driving on the wrong side of the road or blood pudding get you down. Turn that frown upside down.
Bromont, 2008. I'm still pissed about this photo. Sven sent it from the first day of practice for Littermag. I made it the cover because it was so sick! Guess what? The old man is just standing there, posing the shot and Sven didn't say anything until like a year later.
The day they can't go hand-in-hand, I think we'll all quit.
Come on, Peaty has a box on his head and Rennie is passed out, we had to come up with some lesson just to run this photo.
We know Peaty is plenty fit, but he's also plenty cool and plenty down to earth, and that seems to make all the difference.
There's no arguing Peaty's positive influence as a racer and a human on any of the successful downhillers to come out of Britain.
Before Minnaar grabbed the 300mm, Peaty may or may not have shot this photo on the right. We're going to say he did.
Had Steve Peat ever thrown in the towel in years past, our sport would suck today. Thank you for never giving up, Peaty!
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Paola Pezzo likes that.
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Pininator
1/13/2013 10:40 PM
There have been many different dominant racers that have come and gone during the span of his eternal career. THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!!!!!

Awesome story about the Bromont pic, btw.
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