Dakotah Norton

Yeah.

and uh i think he was you know he's not a regular world cup guy he's a fucking talented racer but not necessarily like as uh well like accustomed to the whole process as everybody else and it clearly worked for him he beat yeah the most pro people there are and he beat loris vergier ryan pinkerton like dakota norton he's ahead of all of the jordan

williams like i mean yeah

yeah and he's like kind of local but like he only he spends like i think it's like winters in squamish or something and he's from cam loops though so it's like

Um, and we just wanted to take a look, do some benchmark testing, and kinda see where riders were liking it, where they weren't liking it, why they were choosing, you know, the Assegai or the DHR over the DHF, which is, you know, stuff that we all kind of feel as personal riders, but just hearing it directly from them in a controlled setting.

Um, so 2021, uh, we did some testing with Dakota Norton on, uh, the DHF, and, uh, shout out to him.

He's been a great help in these, these projects in particular.

Uh, but a weekend before a World Cup, like a week, a week within a World Cup, we got him on a DHF, which is a tire he hadn't ridden for, like, 10 years, and he just went about it happily, uh, in the middle of his, you know, setup procedure for a World Cup.

It's like I look to my left and there's Jackson Goldstone.

I look to my right and there's, like, Dakota Norton.

It's, like, it's a crazy feeling.

Yeah, sick.