LEA DAVISON: We're here in Tahoe.
Specialized gave me a call a couple weeks ago saying,
hey do you want to ride with Kimmy Fasani,
she's a pro snowboarder.
And I said, yeah I do.
It sounds awesome.
She may ascend 50 foot cliffs and I definitely don't do that.
I race 50 rabid Euro girls.
I'm not in World Cups.
And it's very different, but we have
a lot of similarities in training.
And she is coming back from a knee surgery
and I've come back from that same surgery.
We had a lot to talk about.
KIMMY FASANI: From the get go Lea
was able to give me really good advice,
made some adjustments to my bike, things
that I didn't really know would effect my riding so much.
LEA DAVISON: I'm a big believer in mentoring,
and especially females mentoring other females.
I think it's a different experience.
And that's part of the reason that my sister and I
founded the Little Bellas.
Which is an all girls mentoring on mountain bikes program.
So that's something I really believe in.
I think it really helped for her to follow me
because I was the same when I was learning how
to mountain bike.
I would follow the guys down the trail and just watch and learn
and it made a lot of sense to me.
That combined with some instruction and some tips,
I think it really made a big difference.
So I think first we have to think about line choice.
This may look like the easiest line
because it's not over the big scary rock,
but actually going up and over the rock is the smoothest line.
KIMMY FASANI: She gave me a lot of pointers just
about how to ride with a better grip and stance
and to keep my arms wider and kind of
just have them be shocks too.
LEA DAVISON: It's just little things that really add up.
And when someone is receptive to getting feedback and learning,
which she really is, it's a great process.
KIMMY FASANI: If you can go out with a group of people that
are a little bit more experienced than you,
there's bound to be somebody in there that's
going to have a piece of advice for you.
So being able to experience other peoples' opinions
and apply them to your riding is really
going to help you further your riding.
Being part of this Specialized family
has been such a once in a lifetime opportunity, really.
It came at a time when I really needed something else.
It became an amazing outlet for me
to show everybody else that I was
learning how to ride a mountain bike.
I hope that I was able to inspire people
through that channel, but also it
has just given me a really deep passion for something
that I didn't really have as wholeheartedly as I do now.
, Overall, I'm really excited just to take everything that
I've learned this year with mountain biking and take it
further.
Go visit other places, experience new trails,
hopefully embrace new people and just
be in a new environment, new space, kind of all summer long.
And just see how much I can really progress my riding.