only one has come out as gay, Clay Davies, who rides for the Spirit Bontrager BSS Rotor team. But it took almost dying for him to realize he couldn’t be closeted anymore.
In an interview last month with The British Continental, Davis recounted the origin of his epiphany. “It took being knocked off my bike by a car nearly being killed, for me to come out.
I broke both my arms and had my head crushed by the rear wheel of an Audi. That was my epiphany, the moment I decided to come out and tell people,” Davies shared. “But it shows how deeply in the closet I had been beforehand.
I took quite literally nearly dying for me to reveal my sexuality. Basically, I thought, ‘Fuck it, I’m going to go and tell everyone now.’”That event was roughly seven.