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The Pinkbike Podcast

Episode 222 - Vali Höll on Why She's Back With YT for 2024

The Pinkbike Podcast

Pinkbike

News, Sports

4.6743 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

YT Industries saw promise in Vali Höll before she even started racing on the World Cup circuit, signing her on a six-year contract when she was just 13 years old. The Austrian then went on to win two Junior World Cup overall titles as well as two World Championship titles on the YT Tues before moving up to the Elite category. A nasty crash sidelined her for her first Elite World Championships in 2020, but she came back swinging in 2021 as a part of the newly formed RockShox Trek Race Team, winning the overall title in what was her first full year racing in the Elite category. In her three years with the team, she's racked up eight World Cup wins, two overall titles, and two World Championship titles. Now, in what feels like a homecoming, the 22-year-old Austrian has signed with The YT Mob. You can read the official YT Mob press release here. We talk about why Höll signed with the German brand really early in the 2023 season, what she's most looking forward to with the new team, learning to deal with disappointment, what it was like to finally race against Rachel Atherton last season, and more. The podcast is above if you'd like to listen to our conversation. Alternatively, a transcript is below.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Pink Bike Podcast. This week I'm joined by Sarah and Kaz for the news,

0:05.1

but if you want to skip that and go straight to the Valley Hole podcast, go to around the 10 minute mark.

0:24.1

Hello and welcome to the Pink Bike podcast.

0:28.4

My name is Henry and this week I'm joined by Kaz and Sarah for the news.

0:32.7

Before we go in to an interview conducted by Sarah with the one and only Valley Hole,

0:33.9

which is very, very exciting.

0:41.0

Kaz, you're down across the border in America, which is a different country to Canada.

0:41.7

Whoa.

0:43.4

I'm cluing up on my local knowledge.

0:51.2

There was a piece recently on Outside Online, which came up on the Pink Bike homepage.

0:52.0

Some of you might have read it.

0:52.7

Some you might have not.

0:53.9

But a lot of you would have seen it.

0:58.2

And it's one man's quest to ride 10,000 days in a row.

1:07.0

A 48 year old father of two from Virginia is well on his way to over nine years of riding 30 miles every single day.

1:09.8

Is that not absolutely nuts?

1:13.5

It's a lot. Yeah. especially because his idea of a ride,

1:17.7

it has to be at least 30 miles. It's not just like hopping on your bike and going around the block.

1:22.5

He has to ride 30 miles for him to count that as a ride, which is a lot of riding. And that's a lot of riding. Yeah, if you did that just for one year, that'd be impressive. Like if you wrote every day of the year or every day for two years, that's cool.

1:28.3

But he's up to, yeah, eight or nine years.

1:29.8

And now he wants to do it for 27 years total, which, like we were talking before this,

1:35.1

the headline's a little optimistic because if you'd done 10,000, that's going to be really

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