Gravel Burn stage 6 recap with Hayley Preen

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4.8 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Stage 6 of Gravel Burn did not go according to plan. Strong winds led to treacherous conditions, and after Swiss rider Andri Frischknecht suffered a crash due to high crosswinds, the 144-kilometre stage was neutralised. To recap the day, Payson is joined by South African rider Hayley Preen, who is currently sitting in third place in the GC. They talk about the weather out on course, what it was like to slow roll the rest of the stage after the decision was made to neutralise it, and what they...

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0:00.0	I'm Pace McElvin and this is the With Pace podcast.
0:11.7	We were descending and not fast and I was one of the first maybe like one or two guys ahead of me.
0:17.4	And then we had Simone come riding up the hill, shouting us to turn around and ride back up. He come riding up the hill
0:20.9	shouting us to turn around and ride back up
0:23.3	he was riding up the hill
0:24.8	backwards on course
0:26.0	stressed telling us to stop
0:29.0	and turn around and ride up
0:30.3	and he was going to go right up I think to
0:32.8	Andre's partner
0:33.6	and just explain
0:36.4	and partner and just explain.
0:42.6	Okay.
0:51.9	Haley, we are trying to knock out a very quick stage six update before yet another storm hits.
0:56.2	What are those birds that are interrupting us right now, by the way?
0:57.6	Egyptian geese.
0:58.2	They're what?
0:59.3	A hardidaws.
1:00.8	Excuse me?
1:01.9	Hardidaws.
1:04.1	You have a bird called a haughty daw.
1:04.9	Yes.
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