Leogang 2025 – Pre-Race Show

Downtime - The Mountain Bike Podcast

Downtime MTB

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

4.9 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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I’m Chris, this is the Downtime Podcast and you’re tuned into our Leogang 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. I honestly considered not running the series this year, but I love doing it and from what all of us involved have heard trackside from the fans, you love it to.

So I’ve decided to fund it myself, for now.

But if this show means something to you, and you want to 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.

Loudenvielle has just wrapped up a wild and dusty race and everyone’s hot footing it to Leogang to go again this coming weekend. Join me as I sit down with Chris Kilmurray to discuss what we should be expecting from another incredible week of riding and racing. The 2025 world cup is delivering and there’s heaps to dive into, so without further ado, here’s 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 in to our Leargang pre-race show with Chris Killmurray.
0:09.4	If you're listening to this and the chances are you love mountain biking just as much as I do
0:13.4	and you want to stay as close to the heart of the sport as possible. That is exactly what we're here
0:17.9	to help you do. All season long I'll be joined by Chris for these pre-race chats and by Nico and Ollie for our post-race debrief. We're bringing new analysis
0:25.1	and insight that you won't find anywhere else straight from the track. But here's the reality.
0:29.8	The mountain bike industry is struggling right now and that means this series does not have any
0:34.1	backing. It's the most expensive thing I make with travel costs and paying the
0:37.7	team for their time and expertise. Honestly, I thought hard about not running it this year at all,
0:43.2	but I love doing it and from the amazing support we've had trackside, I know you love it too.
0:47.9	So I've decided to fund it for myself for now. But if this show means something to you and
0:53.4	you want to help keep it going, then please consider supporting us over on Patreon. You can sign up from as little as £3 a month at patreon.com for slash downtime podcast. That's less than the price of a cup of 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 time to type,
1:29.6	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. Just head to patreon.com for slash downtime podcast. That's p-a-tri-o-n.com for slash downtime podcast and help us keep it rolling. All right, Ludinville has just wrapped up a wild and dusty race and everyone's hot-footing it to Leagang to go again this coming weekend.
1:33.4	Sit down with me as I join Chris Kilmurray to discuss what we should be expecting
1:36.9	from another incredible week of riding and racing.
1:40.0	The 2025 World Cup is delivering and there's heaps to dive into.
1:43.4	So without further ado, here's Chris Kilmurray. Chris Kilmurray, welcome back to the downtime podcast, mate, a busy weekend in Lunarville. In fact, you're still there, but we're pretty compressed on time in between the two. So we thought we'd hop on and record the Leargang Post for a show. How you doing? The pre-riss show. You got it wrong. Free race show, man, I'm in a the two, so we thought we'd hop on and we called the Lear Gang Post-R-R-R-R-R-Show. How you doing?
2:02.0	The pre-race show.
2:18.2	Pre-race show, man, I'm in a mess. Although it feels like I should already be post-Leo-Gang so I can go home. Fair play. Fair play. It was a busy weekend out on the hill. Standouts for you this week? It's a long week. We got here on a Monday. Most of the athletes arrive on a Tuesday. You do a lot of nothing and a lot of something all week long and then
2:23.6	eventually tires hit dirt on a Friday and then between Friday to Sunday you just get washing
2:27.9	machined, basically. You just get rinsed turned inside out. So it's hectic.. We knew the track here in Ludenville was going to
2:36.1	degrade pretty bad especially because the sun was so strong and the temperatures were high
2:39.9	but the UV was like UV 9 UV 10 all week. So pretty uncharacteristic for end of May to have
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