Mark Davidson

Full Name Mark Davidson
Nickname The Canadian
Date of Birth Sept 28, 1965
Place(s) You Call home Palo Alto, CA, Vancouver, BC, Toronto, Ontario
Height 5'6"
Weight 130
Shoe Size (euro or US) 42
Bike(s) Rocky Mountain Vertex TO, Specialized FSR Extreme, 1989 Kona Explosiv
Years Mountain Biking/Racing Mountain biking since 1987, Racing (half-assed) since 1995
Racing Category Sport XC, Beginner Trials
Favorite Trail/Race Monumental Trail at Eagle Mountain. Favorite race: Rocktoberfest.
Best Mountain Biking Experience First time we went to Downieville. I again realized that the earth is a magnificent playground.
Worst Mountain Biking Experience Never really had a bad mountain bike experience. The Angel's Camp Knobular "mudbath" 1998 comes close.
Likes Eve, Canadian bikes and components, steep technical riding, good trails with good friends, snowboarding and rock climbing.
Dislikes Hypocrites, variants of the Windows operating system.
Favorite fud Eve's cooking
Toe-may-toe or toe-mah-toe? Ta-mah-toe: Canadian is like British, eh?
Wool, cotton, silk, or polyester? Cotton. Is that the right answer?
Boxers, briefs, G-string? Hanes boxer briefs
Favorite CD The Beatles White Album
Why You Mountain Bike To enjoy the outdoors and get away from cars.
If You Didn't Mountain Bike, You'd... Be in a sanitarium.
Goals in Life Retire early and enjoy mountain sports with Eve. Sport class trials rider. Finish in the top 10 of an XC race without sandbagging.
In High School, Were You a Straight A Student, Nerd, Jock, Geek (check all that apply) Science geek, metalhead
Someone you look up to Scott Seery (he has more bikes than I do).
Quote "Lick the Toad!"
Something about you that we may not know Closet Madonna fan. Damn! It's out of the closet now!
If you could invite three people from history, who would they be? Salvador Dali, Richard Feynman, Frank Zappa. Should be a strange evening. Could you please pass the droopy watch soup please?

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