“I was in the air thinking, ‘Did you really just go off the side of the loop?’ ” Macduff recalls. “And I thought, ‘You’re dead.’ And then I took a deep breath, turned my head, looked toward the ground and thought: ‘OK, I’m not going to die. Mountain bike brands signed him to wear their clothes and use their latest equipment. “Macduff is a different character in the mountain bike world,” says Louis Lhomel, a fellow rider, filmmaker and friend. “And, that day, when I was riding in the loop — that day when I almost killed myself — I was enjoying myself.

Source: National Post October 13, 2016 16:18 UTC