this is gustavo ortiz, a competitive mountain bike rider and a national champion in chile.ountain bike trail but a canadian company think they have developed a solution. i broke my back in 1996, snowboarding. and prior to that, i loved mountain biking, i loved snowboarding and climbing. i was like a kid who loved the outdoors in canada. and very early on in my injury, i realised that i was going to be100% reliant on technology. so, a machinist by trade, christian began building experimental adaptive mountain bikes at home. the problem was always that i would tip. i would tip over. or i would go fast down a hill and corner and tip to the outside of the corner. for years and years he tinkered with different designs, but nothing worked. so he focused his energy, instead, on a custom cross—country ski chair that could shift and pivot on undulating snow. it was when skiing that a light bulb went off — if he flipped it over he would have a system that allowed the wheels to articulate and absorb shocks independently. the main, main thing is the articulation — so with that you can