HARLAN PRICE
This will be my year number 3 as a Pro on the mountain bike. Which means I've spent my entire pro career with Indy Fab. I'd like to think it's a symbiotic relationship. They make stratospherically cool stuff. I'm a space cadet, who's trying very hard to stay grounded.
After graduating from college I rode a $35 dollar used bike around Europe with no prior experience riding a bike for more than 15 miles at a time. If I knew then what I know now I would have laughed at me the way the bike shop folk did when I asked them to tune the bike up pre-trip. Luckily I'm still good at doing things without thinking too much about the possibility of failure, or financial stability.
I love riding bikes. Carving lines, getting dirty, cleaning technical sections, the wind in the hair, going faster than traffic and eating bugs.
Philadelphia is the city I call home. When people ask me why I moved here if I want to be a mountain biker I tell them about the 5 hours of trail I can ride one mile from my door step. Then if I'm not too tired I can go see a show at a number of places. Sure it's a little dirty, crime ridden and full of people who don't show much brotherly love. But it's a cool city.
If I wasn't racing bikes I'd probably want to be working at a newspaper as a photographer. I'm a little rusty at the photo thing these days, but maybe one day I'll polish it up.
Next year I hope to do a major MTB stage race, a couple of World Cup races and try to win back my NUE series and Michaux Series Championships from Chris Eatough.
2007:
(18) Pro XC Races Short and Long
(9) 1st places
(5) 2nd places
2nd overall in National Ultra Endurance Series (to Eatough)
2nd overall in Michaux Endurance Series (to Eatough)
6th USA Cycling National Endurance Series
8th Marathon National Championship (Altitude!)
7th AMBC Greenbriar UCI race
Broke Chris Eatough's Course record at Wilderness 101
Beat Floyd Landis
2006:
1st National Ultra Endurance Series
1st Michaux Endurance Series
20th La Ruta De Los Conquistadors
