Fabien Cousinié: from downhill racer to UR NS Bikes team manager
Chapters (23)
- Teaser
- Introducing En Roue Libre
- Introducing Fabien Cousinié
- Summary
- Introducing Agence Line
- Back to his roots?
- How he got into cycling
- Mick Pascal joins the team
- How he recruited Mick Hannah
- Mick and Tracey Hannah’s first World Cup
- A quick message
- The day he helped Aaron Gwin out
- Alex Fayolle’s return
- His agency Creatur Production
- The Megavalanche
- His view on racing today
- How to spot and support juniors
- Women
- Young prodigies on the way?
- What we can wish him for the future?
- A final word?
- Thanks to the Mercure Loudenvielle
- Conclusion
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Episode in French.
Fabien Cousinié is a former professional downhill mountain bike racer, manager of the UR NS Bikes team and head of the agency Creatur Productions.
Fabien is what I call a jack-of-all-trades genius.
The rather annoying kind of guy who is at ease on just about any kind of machine and able to get out of any kind of situation.
A former pro downhill racer, he set up his own team and brought on board some iconic riders such as Florent Payet, Mickaël Pascal, Mick and Tracey Hannah, and more recently Alexandre Fayolle.
And all these names have one thing in common: Fabien gave them a chance, or a second chance, by bringing them into his team — like Tracey Hannah, who won on her first World Cup appearance after 5 years away from racing, and whom Fabien recruited while she was working in a sand mine.
Fabien has lived through plenty of stories like this one, and in this interview we look back at some of them and at what mattered most to Fabien in his career as a rider and manager.
In this episode, expect to discover:
– How Fabien launched his team and managed to recruit top riders
– How he relaunched the careers of Mick and Tracey Hannah and enabled them to achieve the best results of their careers
– The stroke of genius that helped Aaron Gwin win his first World Cup.
– His view on how downhill has evolved and his concerns about the sport’s accessibility
– How he sees the place of juniors and women in teams progressing
– How he splits his life between Canada and New Zealand and why he chose to settle there
– A few gems of anecdotes gathered over his career
– And plenty of other things.
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