Episode 86 - Greg Minnaar on the Honda DH Bike, World Cup Racing, and Staying Fast Forever

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4.8 • 718 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Can you imagine having the skills, fitness, strength, and mental fortitude to win a single World Cup downhill race? That's essentially impossible for all but a few of us, regardless of how hard we train. But there are also those inimitable racers who not only win a World Cup or three, but also defy the passing of time to keep winning... Despite much younger competitors pushing the sport to new heights. Having won four World Championships, with his first and most recent coming eighteen years apart, Greg Minnaar is definitely on that list.

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0:00.0	And we're trying to get to the top of this hill, but there were two giraff at the top.
0:06.0	And it was like a mother giraffe with her baby and as we got close as mother giraffes just started chasing us.
0:14.0	Oh!
0:15.0	And then it became a race downhill. Hey everyone and welcome to episode 86 of the Pinkbike podcast.
0:30.1	We are in the thick of field testing, a whole bunch of trail and downcountry bikes right now.
0:34.7	And while I may have missed last week's show, Brian is going to make me
0:38.4	do an efficiency test every day if I miss another one. So we sat down with Greg Minar, the goat of
0:44.5	downhill racing to talk about everything from how the hell he won world champs 18 years apart,
0:50.8	the gearbox and show a suspension on the Honda R&1 he raced, how much bike design actually
0:57.1	matters these days in downhill racing, the scariest World Cup tracks to race, and yes, what it's
1:03.8	like to get chased by an angry giraffe.
1:07.5	All right, Greg, firstly, thanks for joining Brian and us today.
1:10.2	I know you've wrapped up another season.
1:12.5	It's been a bit of a mixed bag.
1:14.3	You've won incredibly another world championship a few weeks ago,
1:17.8	but you've just hurt your shoulder at the last World Cup in Snowshoe.
1:21.6	So first of all, where are you right now?
1:23.2	And how is the shoulder feeling?
1:25.4	Yeah, thanks, Levi.
1:26.7	It's incredible.
1:28.6	This is not the first time it's happened.
1:30.3	It happened after winning in 2013 as well.
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