Lenzerheide 2025 – Pre-Race Show

Downtime - The Mountain Bike Podcast

Downtime MTB

Sports, Leisure, Fitness, Health & Fitness, Hobbies, Wilderness

4.9 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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I’m Chris, this is the Downtime Podcast and you’re tuned into our 2025 Lenzerheide pre-race show with Chris Kilmurray.

If you’re listening, that means that like me, you probably LOVE the sport and want to know as much as possible about what’s going on. That’s exactly what we are here to do.

Throughout the season, we’ll be bringing you analysis and insights that you won’t hear elsewhere.

However, as you probably know, the mountain bike industry isn’t in a great place right now and as a result, this series doesn’t have any brand support. The World Cup coverage is the most expensive thing I produce, as it often includes travel and I like to pay the guys for the expertise that they bring to the table.

So I’ve been funding it myself, along with the support of our wonderful Patreons.

If this show means something to you, and you want to help me keep it going, then please consider supporting us over on Patreon. You can sign up for as little as £3 a month at patreon.com/downtimepodcast. That’s less than the price of a coffee, but it makes a real difference. The more of you who chip in, the more likely it is that we can keep doing this.

I know times are tight. But if you value what we’re creating here, if it helps you stay connected to the sport you love, then now’s the time to chip in and help out.

A big thanks to all the Patreon’s who came along to our ‘ask me anything’ with Chris, Neko and Olly last week, I hope you all had fun.

This week we’re off to Lenzerheide for round 8 of the 2025 World Cup. With the season heading into its final stretch, every point counts and the pressure’s at boiling point. Who’s on form, and who’s going to crack? As always there’s heaps to dive into, so sit back, hit play and listen to this Lenzerheide pre-race show with Chris Kilmurray.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm Chris, this is the downtime podcast and you're tuned into our Lenza Hider pre-race show with Chris Kilmorry.
0:09.3	First up, a quick reality check. We're well over halfway through the season now and we still don't have any funding for this series.
0:15.4	This episode exists due to our wonderful patrons and our desire to keep making it happen for you all to listen to.
0:54.2	So, a big thank you to those of you who support this. It really does make a massive difference. If you're on the fence about supporting, then we'd love it if you come on board and help out via Patreon. You can sign up for as little as £3 a month at patreon.com for slash downtime podcast. That's less than the price of a coffee, but it makes a real difference and can help us keep this thing going until the end of the season. I know time's a tight, but if you value what we're creating here, if it helps you stay connected to the sport you love, then now's the time to chip in and help out. All right, this week we're off to Lenza Hider for round eight of the 2025 downhill World Cup. With the season heading into its final stretch, every point counts and the pressures at
0:58.1	boiling point. Who's on form and who's going to crack? As always, there's
1:02.0	heaps to dive into. So sit back, hit play and listen to this Lenza Hider pre-race show with
1:06.8	Chris Kilmurray.
1:11.2	All right, Chris Kilmurray. Welcome back, Chris Kilmurie, welcome back.
1:13.3	We're fresh from Chomperee World Champs,
1:15.4	which turned out to be quite the race, eh?
1:17.3	Welcome back.
1:18.0	I've never left, it seems.
1:20.4	What were your thoughts then?
1:21.5	Give us your kind of takeaways from Chompry,
1:23.4	because it was a very different week in many ways, right?
1:25.8	Different track to anything we've seen for quite some time on the circuit
1:29.0	yeah i think a lot of the predictions we had kind of from the pre-race show for chambre came through
1:36.8	and then a lot of them weren't predicted let's say it was a bit interesting novel weird in some ways
1:43.5	so it became a raceetrack by the end
1:45.7	which was which was really good um kind of like i said my my post race nerd notes um you know
1:52.4	300 or 250 world class racers will generally dig in beat in a good racetrack by the end it remained
1:59.6	tight it remained tricky.
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