Downtime Goes Downhill – The Return
Downtime - The Mountain Bike Podcast
Downtime MTB
4.9 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Downtime Goes Downhill is back and we recently got between the tapes at the first round of the Pearce Cycles downhill series. Join me, Ben and Jonny as we share our pre-season prep (or lack of in some cases), discuss our race week experiences and look at how we might improve on those as the season progresses. We’re also joined by Quinn from One Up who’s got his own downhill race coming up and some news on how One Up can help support your local grassroots racing. So sit back, hit play and listen to this episode with me, Ben, Jonny and Quinn.
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As always a huge thank you to Fox Racing, One Up Components, Wahoo and Sprung Suspension for making this series possible.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Don't get carried away. |
| 0:01.8 | Don't do anything stupid. |
| 0:03.8 | You need, like, now of all times, you need to go home in one piece. |
| 0:08.3 | Which might seem super glossy. |
| 0:10.7 | And it was, to be fair. |
| 0:14.1 | The aim at any race, I suppose, is to go and do your process. |
| 0:17.5 | And that was out of the window straight away. |
| 0:19.5 | What did I do in that run? |
| 0:21.6 | What could I do better? How am i going to improve you guys don't look like you're in your 20s anymore |
| 0:26.9 | you might be 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. |
| 0:41.8 | If you enjoy listening to the podcast, I would love it if you consider supporting what we do over on Patreon. |
| 0:46.9 | In another year where brand support remains hard to come by at the levels we really need, it's great that some of you are helping us keep this thing going and bring in new fresh episodes each week. As we head into race season and start our pre and post race shows, that gets even more important. For less than the price of a cup of coffee a month, you can help out over at patreon.com for slash downtime podcast. Don't forget to give us a follow. It's as simple as hitting that button in your podcast app now or head into downtimepodcast.com for slash follow. You can also give us a follow on Instagram, |
| 1:14.8 | Facebook and TikTok too where we're at downtime podcast. And for the real inside line, you can join |
| 1:19.2 | our newsletter at downtimepodcast.com for slash newsletter. All right, downtime goes downhill |
| 1:25.2 | is back and we've recently got between the tapes at the first round of the Peer Cycles downhill series. |
| 1:30.1 | Join me, Ben and Johnny as we share our pre-season prep or lack of in some cases, |
| 1:35.1 | discuss our race week experiences and look at how we might improve on those as the season progresses. |
| 1:39.9 | We're also joined by Quinn from OneUp, who's got his own downhill race coming up and some news on how OneUp can help support your local grassroots racing. |
| 1:47.2 | As always, a huge thank you to Fox Racing, One Up Components, Wahoo and Sprung Suspension |
| 1:51.7 | for making this series possible. |
| 1:54.0 | All right, without further ado, here's me, Ben, Johnny and Quinn. |
| 2:01.2 | All right, downtime goes downhill is back. |
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