{"id":18592,"date":"2016-03-07T19:50:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2016\/03\/07\/video-steps-to-the-top-ty-hathaway-r4290\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T08:35:38","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T08:35:38","slug":"video-steps-to-the-top-ty-hathaway-r4290","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/video-steps-to-the-top-ty-hathaway-r4290\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Steps to the Top &#8211; Ty Hathaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ty Hathaway, a tall, soft-spoken Californian who co-owns a bike shop in Los Angeles, has made a life of things on two wheels. He\u2019s been photographed for BMX magazines enough that he\u2019s forgotten exactly which ones \u2014 and which issues. He\u2019s been featured in clothing and helmet ads on road bikes. His Instagram feed is a visual catalogue of seemingly constant bike trips with like-minded friends. And in 2014, Hathaway re-discovered mountain biking and took on the rugged Trans Provence stage race in France, where he finished as the top-placing American. And his mountain bike jones was re-lit.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"w-full aspect-video\">\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Le2zpFwlVY8?feature=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-95658100-1457380094.jpg\" data-fileid=\"692038\" data-fileext=\"jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"692038\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"ccs-62657-0-95658100-1457380094.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-95658100-1457380094.jpg\"><\/a><br \/><a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-35450200-1457380076.jpg\" data-fileid=\"692031\" data-fileext=\"jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"692031\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"ccs-62657-0-35450200-1457380076.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-35450200-1457380076.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ty is no stranger to mountain bike competition. As a kid, he contested the NORBA National Championship Series as a trials rider. The enduro format is not really all that foreign to him, either. Once upon a time, instead of wending through the woods on a carbon-fiber mountain bike, Ty\u2019s bikes weighed more than 200 pounds and had a throttle. Coming from Southern California, though, he was more of a wide-open desert guy than a woods racer. He was good, too. Hathaway\u2019s throttle twisting career was meteoric, and he finished his first season with a single-digit number plate.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-02127600-1457380080.jpg\" data-fileid=\"692032\" data-fileext=\"jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"692032\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"ccs-62657-0-02127600-1457380080.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-02127600-1457380080.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quicker than most people advance up a single racing class, he landed a spot on the Honda team for the legendary Baja 1000. Taking over riding duties at one of the team\u2019s planned pit stops, he took off at the kind of scary-fast speed that The Thousand demands. But mechanical issues didn\u2019t allow him to brake when he got to the first corner. He woke up in a hospital, and decided that chasing a paycheck as a motorcycle racer wasn\u2019t worth it. He still rides, and remembers his motorcycle racing days fondly \u2014 he does a trip with his dad every year \u2014 but bicycles are his passion.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-40741400-1457380083.jpg\" data-fileid=\"692033\" data-fileext=\"jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"692033\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"ccs-62657-0-40741400-1457380083.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-40741400-1457380083.jpg\"><\/a><br \/><a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-45890200-1457380086.jpg\" data-fileid=\"692034\" data-fileext=\"jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"692034\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"ccs-62657-0-45890200-1457380086.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-45890200-1457380086.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ty headed to New Zealand last year to experience Crankworx \u2014 he\u2019d never seen a Dual Speed and Style or a Whip-Off Championship or a Slopestyle event before. And of course, he was there to compete in the opening round of the 2015 Enduro World Series. As natural as he is on a bike of any kind, Hathaway\u2019s 70th place overall finish in his first Enduro World Series event sent him home with a long list of lessons \u2014 nuggets he\u2019ll undoubtedly take with him wherever he races next.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-99393100-1457380088.jpg\" data-fileid=\"692035\" data-fileext=\"jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"692035\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"ccs-62657-0-99393100-1457380088.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-99393100-1457380088.jpg\"><\/a><br \/><a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-61914200-1457380090.jpg\" data-fileid=\"692036\" data-fileext=\"jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"692036\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"ccs-62657-0-61914200-1457380090.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-61914200-1457380090.jpg\"><\/a><br \/><a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-61510700-1457380092.jpg\" data-fileid=\"692037\" data-fileext=\"jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"692037\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"ccs-62657-0-61510700-1457380092.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-61510700-1457380092.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next time out, it\u2019s a safe bet that Ty will end up closer to the front of the results list than the back. Not that it matters all that much, though, because this is a guy without much to prove. For Ty, it is all about the fun, the experience, and about being a participant in another adventure.<\/p>\n<p>Video by: Mind Spark Cinema<br \/>Photos by: Adrian Marcoux<br \/>Words by: Joe Parkin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ty Hathaway, a tall, soft-spoken Californian who co-owns a bike shop in Los Angeles, has made a life of things on two wheels. He\u2019s been photographed for BMX magazines enough that he\u2019s forgotten exactly which ones \u2014 and which issues. He\u2019s been featured in clothing and helmet ads on road bikes. 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