Hey everyone, I'm Chris Hall and this is the downtime podcast where we're going to be taking

you deeper than ever into the gravity-based side of mountain biking. No supporting partners for this

one so I wanted to quickly talk about misspent summers and something exciting that we've got

going on this week. Miss spent summers make the awesome yearbooks, Hurley Burley and the World Stage

Book that document our sport in amazing quality print publications for all of us to treasure for years to

come. If you haven't already got some on your bookshelf, then you really should. A couple of

years back, we teamed up to make downtime EP, which is a biannual print journal that takes

the topics and guests from the podcast and brings them into a stunning thing to have, hold, read and share. A massive thanks to everyone who supports us by either subscribing

or buying separate copies. It really does help all of us keep documenting this sport that we all

love. If you've not yet seen downtime EP, then head to misspentsummers.com and check it out.

The exciting news this week is that we're going to be hosting a pop-up space in Lejeet while the downhill World Cup is in town. There's going to be an incredible photo exhibition put together by a long-time Dirt Magazine editor Mike Rose, alongside some iconic images from the Miss Spent Summers Yearbooks, from Sven Martin, Boris Bayer and Seb Shek. I'll have a little studio space where I'll be recording some episodes and satellite coffee mausine are going to be there to keep everyone caffeinated. So if you're in Leje this week, then head to Yetimoblier on the High Street and come and say hi. Yes, that's right. We have taken over the local estate agent's office. Just a few more quick things before we get stuck into this week's

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ford slash downtime podcast. Big thank you to Peter Matthias, who joined this week. up a small regular donation via my Patreon, which you'll find at patreon.com forward slash

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