There are few partnerships in downhill racing closer than that of a mechanic and racer. It\u2019s a kind of teamwork made more intense by the fact that one person is trusting not just his career, but his life to the work of the other. For Finn Iles, Kevin Joly has been that partner. Now, Joly is retiring, from the World Cup circuit at least.<\/p>\n
\u201cKevin has been there since Day 1 of my World Cup racing career,\u201d Iles said. \u201cFrom when I was 15 before racing World Cups. I feel lucky and honoured to have worked with such a legend all these years.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI wouldn\u2019t be the rider I am today without him with me,\u201d Iles added. \u201cI\u2019m proud of what we accomplished and forever thankful for him as much mechanic over the past 12 years!\u201d<\/p>\n
That includes Iles\u2019 three World Cup wins, nine junior World Cup wins, two junior World Cup overall titles and a world championship title as a junior.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was an absolute honour to be your mechanic for the past 12 years! We\u2019ve won some, we\u2019ve lost some along gthe journey but we started winning races in Junior and we finished winning races in Elite,\u201d Joly said. \u201cThanks for the emotions and for the lifetime momeories.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou tell yoursef all day this is the last time your doing this.And you live things totally differently when its the last time, you live them more intently,\u201d Joly added in a clip shared by Specialized. \u201cSo it\u2019s a nice life lesson. Because life moves fast and you mustn\u2019t forget the important things and that everything ends one day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Words we could all learn from, no matter what you\u2019re doing with your day.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s next? Who will step up to Joly\u2019s workbench for Iles? And what will the accomplished mechanic get up to next? All to be found out later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are few partnerships in downhill racing closer than that of a mechanic and racer. It\u2019s a kind…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":958534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,1180,264750,327344,62722,82,13009],"class_list":["post-958533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-downhill","tag-finn-iles","tag-kevin-joly","tag-mtb-news","tag-sports","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/958534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}