It's not unreasonable to say that we touch the very bone of cycling when we pronounce the Misser surname.
We are talking about a family of pioneers. Tomás and Pau's father, Josep, was a biker when fat wheels were an extravagance on this side of the Pyrenees. "I remember racing with a rigid Peugeot with a geometry very similar to the road" he points out. Tomi Misser on his first days back in the Pyrenees. Mondraker.
But not only that, in Josep's hand was one of the great moments of MTB in Spainwhen he took charge of the organization of a memorable round of the World Cup in his village of Llinars de Vallés.almost thirty years ago. How much we have heard about those days...
So it's not surprising that when we chat with Tomi Misser and mention the word bicycle, a sparkle comes from his own voice: "It's everything, since always, for more than thirty years, with three very marked cycles. The first one as an obsession, with the pressure to be as high as possible; then a time of impasseAnd for the last few years, a way of enjoying and discovering my limits.
"I am 46 years old and thirty years I have lived intensely on or next to a bike. When I didn't compete, we created a clothing brand and organized downhill races. On or between them, there have always been bikes in my life," he says.
With Mondraker from the beginning
A journey that began, as he himself says, thirty years ago, when he was twice crowned world downhill runner-up and once winner of a European, successes that started a trajectory that, with different intensities, draws a circle on a mark: Mondraker.
"I have a great relationship with them forever, from the very moment of their creation, back in 2003. Then with machines inspired by other brands and now marking style and trends. In this time the brand has had a great evolution, innovating in geometry and suspension to such a level that now others are following" says Tomi.
For Tomi, the great progress of Mondraker inspires the path that Gobik In a way, I'm on board with two brands that haven't stopped improving year after year, and that's an inspiration.
Meet Gobik from his "Unstoppables" era and since then "the improvement has been constant and remarkable," he says. In some way, the passion for cycling of those who are in charge and who have always passed it on to me. They have managed to design garments of brutal quality, comfortable and with an enviable fit.".
It's funny, this kind of return to the origins catches Tomi in a maelstrom of continuous experimentation, looking for the limits of cycling. non stop with a commitment to cyclocross in which he never lost the desire to compete with the elite, he who is already a master 40.
And he does it while combining it with his work of communication of the sport of his love, along with the brands that support him. "I dedicate myself to spreading the word and talking about what I like, while at the same time I'm also testing material. It is clear that for this year everything is subject to the evolution of the pandemic, but I hope to be with the Primaflor team, explaining its intricacies, racing some stage races and continuing to grow in cyclocross".
By The Notebook ofJoan Follower
