Hello and welcome to the Pink Bike podcast. This week is something of a secret Monday podcast as Sarah Moore catches up with downhill rider Ronan Dunn.

Now, Ronan's had a couple of breakout seasons aboard that continental nukeproof team, including some quite amazing podium runs.

So with his big move to Mondraker, Sarah thought she'd catch up with him to talk

all things downhill. We really hope you enjoy it. Thanks for listening. Ronan Den, thank you so much

for coming on the Pink Bike podcast today. Hi. Yep, stoked to be on. It's a bit of a pleasure for

sure. Really, really enjoy doing podcasts and talking,

talking mock with people, so I can't complain. Awesome. I'm looking forward to it. I know you've got

some big changes coming your way for 2024, so I'm excited to get into that. But first of all,

where are you today? And how is your day been? Yeah, I'm home in County Wicklow in Ireland and yeah, I just finished off a big

modocross day, so can't complain and then off to the gym later. So yeah, usual pretty good day

anyway. That's a typical winter, winter day for you. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, just tipping away, really.

So let's get into the big news.

Who are you going to be riding for next year?

So 2024 and beyond, I'll be riding for Mondrager factory racing.

So it's a program that I'm insanely honored to be on.

It's a Mondrager is a bit of a dream brand for me for being a fan as a kid and riding one of their bikes to now being on their first factory program.

It's pretty cool.

So yeah, super stoked for it.

So let's get into the details.

Like at what point in the season did you know that you were going to be riding for them? How did the relationship come about? Like, let's get into the details of that.

Yeah, so the season was going pretty, pretty well. Like, I was real happy with the way I was going with

I think I just came off an eighth place in Leo gang and then 11th Valdezal.

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