Amaury Pierron – Working With RockShox to Win World Cups

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🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

While I was out in New Zealand, I caught up with Amaury Pierron to unpack the highs and lows of the past couple of seasons. From those incredible wet-weather wins at the Val di Sole and Les Gets World Cups, to breaking his collarbone in La Thuile and then coming back to take the win in Lenzerheide later that season.

Then we’re joined by SRAM Race Tech Craig Miller and RockShox long-travel product manager Jason Blodgett to go deeper into how they work alongside Amaury and the Commencal Muc-Off Team to find World Cup-winning pace.

We get into some of the latest RockShox tech and explore how a close athlete/engineer relationship not only benefits those at the top of the sport, but also us everyday riders.

This is a rare insight into the relationship between athlete and engineer at the sharpest end of the sport. So sit back, hit play and check out this episode with Amaury Pierron, Craig Miller and Jason Blodgett.

You can also watch this episode on YouTube here.

You can follow Amaury on Instagram @amaurypierron4 and over on YouTube here. You can find RockShox on Instagram @rockshock and SRAM @srammtb and also over at sram.com.

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0:00.0	We're like, oh, okay, you want to play that game.
0:04.3	A lot of what we do is about building the relationship with these riders
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0:18.1	It's always fun when you feel like you're going faster and faster on your bike, but you're not out of control. Hey everyone, I'm Chris Hall, and this is the downtime podcast, the podcast for the true fans of gravity mountain biking, taking you deeper into the sport than anywhere else. As always, make sure you follow this show by hitting that button in your podcast app now or head into downtimepodcast.com for slash follow. Give us a follow on
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0:51.7	then the best way is via a small regular donation over at patreon.com for slash downtime podcast. Or you can help out by sharing the episodes with your friends or online or leaving us a nice review over on Apple Podcasts. All right, this episode is brought to you in paid partnership with SRAM and Rockshops. Who've supported us to make this conversation happen. You can check out everything they're working on over at SRAM.com. While I was at in New Zealand, I caught up with Amory Pierron to unpack the highs and loads of the past couple of seasons, from those incredible wet weather winds at the Valde Sol and Léje World Cups to breaking his collarbone in Latwil and then coming back to take the win in Lenzahide later that season. Then we're joined by SRAM Racetechrane race tech Craig Miller and Rockshocks long travel product
1:31.1	manager Jason Blodgett to go deeper into how they work alongside Amory and the comments
1:35.3	our Muckoff team to find World Cup winning pace. We get into some of the latest Rockshawks
1:40.1	tech and explore how a close athlete engineer relationship not only benefits those at the top of
1:45.0	the sport, but also us everyday riders. This is a rare insight into the relationship between
1:50.2	athlete and engineer at the sharpest end of the sport. So without further ado, here's
1:55.1	Amory Pieron, Craig Miller and Jason Blodgett.
2:01.5	Amory Pieron, welcome back to the downtime podcast, mate.
2:04.3	How are you?
2:04.9	Thank you very much.
2:06.9	Not bad, I mean, what a good type to be here.
2:10.2	New Zealand, second time in my life, and the place still's really sick.
2:15.5	It breaks the winter, hot weather, good tracks everywhere, good people.
2:21.5	I mean, yeah, everything is made for it. You're having a good time. Well, we're going to be
2:25.4	talking tech with some of your friends from Rock Shocks in a little bit. Before we do that,
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