Cedric Gracia
- Date of Birth: March 23, 1978
- Hometown: Lives in Andorra, but born in Pau, France
- Other Sponsors: Oakley, COMMENCAL, Sixsixone, Panaracer, Mavic
- Other Hobbies: Playing with my Polaris Ranger, cars, riding my bike all around, houses
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Career Highlights:
- 2009: #1 Urban DH Valparaiso, Chile
- 2008: #4 UCI World Cup Final Ranking 4x
- 2003: 1st Red Bull Rampage
- 2004: 1st European Slopestyle Contest - Austria
- 2005: UCI World Cup Final Ranking - 4X #3 DH #6
- 2006: Sea Otter Monterey, USA Winner of the Gravity Omnium title - Dual
- 2007: 1st 4x Crankworx Whistler ,Canada
Bio
Cédric Gracia is a French mountain biker who now lives in Andorra. He started his career as an athlete at 6 years old as a BMX rider and then a freestyle ski pro. Cedric Gracia, years later, became a mountain bike rider. He entered the professional mountain biking scene in 2001, then part of the Volvo/Cannondale team.
He races in downhill and four cross (4X) on the UCI World circuit. Gracia rode for the Rainer-Wurz Siemens Cannondale team between 1999 and 2005, before joining the Commencal team in 2006. In 2003 Cedric won the Red Bull Rampage, a massive freeride competition.
In 2008 he took part as a guest editor for the 20th anniversary issue of Mountain Biking UK (MBUK) magazine. In 2008, he also participated in the new Red Bull Rampage: Evolution. In addition, he recently won the Crankworx 4X competition. He also recently won the Urban Race in Brazil, Paris, Chile.
Q&A
- Alcohol Is not so bad if you don't abuse it of course
- Once I got arrested because I was in the women's bathroom
- Favorite Breakfast: Nuttela and bread of course ! I am French
- Where are you going to ride and train this year? I am riding most of the time at home in ANDORRA in the vallnord bike park. I have a personal traîner to make me do all the work like a kid at the gym!
- Biggest obstacle you have had to overcome?f Family
- Favorite discipline: 4 cross, big jumps, speed and adrenaline!
- Can you call out a single career highlight and why? Rampage. Because it was the first time ever a racer won the contest of freeride MTB event.
- What's it mean to you to be riding for Oakley? First to be part of the best familly in sports! Never been scared of not having the best gear to ride in any condition!
- Favorite Oakley products and how they help you? Crowbar, of course. The visual angle is perfect and I like to ride them in 4X and DH. They are comfortable and the tear offs are realy handy to use in realy hard conditions like muddy tracks or rain.
- Who makes you laugh? Lopes
- What's your favorite number and why? 111 because it was Jean Michel Bayle number in the us for MX
- If I had a younger brother, one piece of life advice I would give him is: Give everything you got and for the thing you love the most.
CROWBAR ENDURO