Datta Patil is a pot-bellied farmer who has been ripping through trails sans shoes all his life.

He is an unspoken hero in the mountain biking community, embodying true grit and passion From a remote district in the western state of Maharashtra in India to the mountains of Switzerland, for 43-year-old Dattatreya Patil, a grape farmer from Sangli, it's been a journey through mud, dirt, pain and passion. (more…)