Baby Blue on Pink: The Kit That Tells Tahnée Seagrave’s Whole Story

Published by Radical Life Studios / MTB Report

Fox just dropped Tahnée Seagrave’s “TS57” signature collection. Look closer and it’s more than riding kit, it’s an autobiography in fabric: her signature pink, a baby-blue nod to a childhood hero, and the tiny Alpine village that made her. Here’s the story behind the colors, London, the mountains, rainbow stripes, and one seriously long road back.

A kit is rarely just a kit

You can write a signature collection off as clever marketing. Or you can look closer and read it like a diary. “TS57” stands for Tahnée Seagrave, one of the defining riders in downhill, the discipline where you race steep mountain tracks flat-out against the clock. The set, jersey, pants, goggle and more, comes in her unmistakable pink, laced with baby-blue accents. Both colors carry a story. And it starts not on a podium, but with a move.

A London kid in the Alps

Tahnée was born in South London on 15 June 1995. At eight, her family: dad Tony, a former BMX racer, and mum Joanne, packed up and moved to the French Alps, to Saint-Jean-d’Aulps. The little village in the Vallée d’Aulps sits in the Portes du Soleil, a stone’s throw from Morzine and bucket-list World Cup tracks like Les Gets. That’s exactly the move the collection is talking about: pro riders stayed at the family chalet, young Tahnée grabbed a bike, and never looked back. She started racing downhill in 2007. The Alps were her playground and the dream was born.

“Follow My Dream” — a family builds a team

Pro sport costs money, downhill especially. So in 2009 the family simply built their own team: “Follow My Dream,” FMD for short, created to get Tahnée and little brother Kaos to the races. That DNA — family, hands-on, no fuss, still runs through everything. In 2013 the breakthrough came: at 18 she was crowned Junior World Champion in Pietermaritzburg, earning the rainbow stripes only the reigning world champion gets to wear. From there it was straight up, in the best sense.

Top of the world — and the thing with pink

The big years followed: a string of World Cup wins and several World Championship medals, silver in 2018 and 2019 and bronze in 2014 among them. Twice she missed the overall World Cup title by a whisker, to Myriam Nicole in 2017, to the near-unbeatable Rachel Atherton in 2018. And because she went fast while dressed head-to-toe in pink, the color became her signature. That’s the pink all over the TS57 collection. No accident, a signature.

The long road back

Then comes the part that hurts. In 2019 a heavy practice crash at Fort William set her back, shoulder, surgery. In 2020 a broken leg cost her most of a season. And then the darkest chapter: a crash with head trauma, plus mental-health struggles she has spoken about openly, a stretch where not just a career but a lot more felt uncertain. Three long years without a win.

On 15 June 2024, her 29th birthday, the circle closed. On Val di Sole’s notorious Black Snake, wet and mean, Tahnée rode to her first World Cup win in three years. A run that ended in tears at the line. World Championship bronze followed soon after. She had never written herself off.

“Baby blue for the hero, pink for herself — and the Alps for where it all began.”

Baby blue — a bow

And now the baby blue makes sense. It’s a nod to Vanessa Quin, the New Zealander who in 2004 became the first Kiwi elite downhill World Champion, on her baby-blue Intense, and at Les Gets, the very track next to Tahnée’s Alpine home. Quin, too, had fought back from serious injury, a broken neck. So the baby blue on pink isn’t decoration, it’s a bow: to a comeback, on the mountain that shaped Tahnée. (The collection dates Quin’s bike to 2003; her title came in 2004, at Les Gets.)

Where she stands now

In 2025, FMD and Orbea rebuilt the whole team around a brand-new prototype, the Orbea Rallon DH, project name “The Gravity Cooperative.” At the project’s very first World Cup, in the Polish mud, Tahnée took the win; more followed. 2026 got harder: mid-season she pulled the plug and went public about needing to properly heal and rebuild rather than grind through the races hurt.

Which is exactly why the TS57 collection isn’t a victory lap, it’s a statement: this is me, this is where I come from, and these are the people who carried me. Baby blue, pink, the Alps. The rest of the story Tahnée Seagrave is still writing — Follow My Dream, same as ever.

Saint-Jean-d’Aulps, August 28, 2026 · by Robert Langer