Red Bull Cerro Abajo isn't downhill racing as most people know it. Riders drop straight through cities, flights of concrete stairs, tight alley corners, walls of spectators inches from the tape, at speeds that leave no room for a bad line. It's the fastest-growing discipline in gravity riding, and Genova's course is one of the hardest on the calendar.
Alex Marín has spent the last months making this discipline his.
Back in February, Alex closed out Valparaíso with a top-10 finish, a strong result on one of the series' most iconic tracks, and the moment his focus shifted fully onto urban DH. From there, everything led to Genova.
A week before Genova, that trust was already on record, filmed, posted, public. What was left was proving it on the stairs.
Three weeks out, Alex and Tannus confirmed another year together. Then, days before the race, he posted the video above: what it actually takes to hit stairs at 70 km/h without wrecking a rim.
Tannus: Urban DH Setup
Alex runs Tannus on both wheels for Cerro Abajo, built to take repeated hard impacts on concrete stairs and edges without compromising the rim underneath.
Concrete stairs, blind corners, full speed. No margin for equipment that can't take the hit. Alex crossed the line in third place, his first podium in the discipline, and one of the biggest results of his career.
The gear he trusted to survive the stairs is the same gear he rode to the podium on.
We're proud to keep backing Alex Marín into this next season, and excited to see where the discipline takes him next.
Because when the terrain gets bigger, the consequences get bigger too.
And that's exactly where Tannus belongs.
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