Alan Hinkes OBE is the first Briton to climb the world’s highest mountains. 

I started cycling late in life in my late 30’s, I did not like sport when growing up. 

My first year of racing has been as mentally challenging as physically, there is so much to learn about racing when you start out, but I’ve learned fast and had an amazing end of season, winning the National XC Marathon Champs and getting to represent GB at the XC Marathon Worlds (where an unfortunate puncture hindered my result), but none the less finishing the season on a high coming 5th in the UCI Marathon Series Event Extreme Sur Loue. 

Started racing when I was 12, living already whole my life in Leuven, Belgium. 

I am a lover of riding fast uphill and the current British hill climb champion. 

Iʼve been passionate about all things two wheels since as long as I can remember – starting out racing motocross before taking up downhill mountain biking, I raced this at World level winning multiple Irish national titles and strong finishes in the UCI downhill World cup series.