Carhartt came up with the idea to have one of their team riders invite three to five fellow team riders for a couple of days to show them his local spots. Perico was the first rider to invite some friends to Malaga and he showed them around. Arthur Dietrich, Stefan Lantschner and Paddy Gross were the riders that made it to the Spanish sunshine for Carhartt's VISIT MY TOWN stop number one. Paddy wrote a little story about it and the crisp photos come from Kay Clauberg. Expect a video soon.

Since the idea was born of „Visit my town“ I've been really excited about what's to come. Well, on February 1st Stefan Lantschner, Arthur Dietrich, Kay Clauberg and myself packed our bags to go and visit Perico in beautiful Malaga, Spain. The most of you may know that Malaga is the home of some dudes like Ruben Alcantara or Javier Ortega. So we've been even more excited to hang out with those guys and ride with them. 

I myself got a little cold which stopped me from having fun on the first two days but that's life I guess. Perico and Ruben showed us around and took us to the places where they knew we're going to have fun.

So we rode a secret backyard pool, numerous skateparks, street and trails. We've been really lucky with the weather and had a constant 18 degrees with lots of sunshine. Everyone enjoyed the trip to the fullest and riding wise there were a lot of good sessions going on.

Stefan and Perico probably spent more time in the air than on the ground this weekend, they just had good airtime everywhere we went and it's been awesome watching these guys go nuts. Arthur is that little guy always with a smile on his face and pretty amazing bike rider as well. He's probably the only guy who can do tuck no handers everywhere he wants. Other than that he's fast and dialed.

I felt a lot better after two days and really enjoyed riding one of the skateparks and some street. We´ve built a perfect crew and it couldn't be better. We spent so much time laughing and being real good friends to eachother.

So the trip was more than just Visit My Town, it's been like visit my friends and my life on top of that. Big thanks to Mike Emde and Carhartt for making these good times possible. Thanks to Perico for everything he offered to us, food, a place to sleep and just good times. Thanks to Stefan antschner for driving us anywhere. Thanks to Kay Clauberg who once again shot some amazing pictures and for the passion he always has. Last but not least thanks to the crew and the Malaga posse for giving me many more amazing moments in my life with this little kids bike.

Paddy Gross

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