Lourdes Test Event and World Cup Pre-Season Chat with Chris Kilmurray

Downtime - The Mountain Bike Podcast

Downtime MTB

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

4.9 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

We are getting pretty close to the 2023 Mountain Bike Downhill World Cup kicking off and recently ESO held a test event in Lourdes, France. Chris Kilmurray was there, so we had a catch-up to find out what went on. Who was looking fast and can we read anything into the results? What were ESO testing and how were the changes received by the riders? Also, we chat about some of the team changes and what ‘world class’ looks like as we head rapidly into the 2023 season. So sit back, hit play and listen to this episode with Chris Kilmurray.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I'm Chris Hall and this is the downtime podcast where we're going to be taking
0:07.4	you deeper than ever into the gravity-based side of mountain biking. Before we get stuck into this
0:11.6	week's episode, just a quick thank you to our supporting partners, Canyon Bikes and We Are One Composites
0:15.8	and we've got some great offers and giveaways for you. Canyon have just launched a whole new
0:20.1	range of awesome
0:20.9	e-bikes from full-blown long travel gravity options and race bred e-enduro weapons to playful trail e-bikes and there's even a new cheeky hardtail in the lineup as well. Head over to canyne.com to check them out. What's even better is that if you fancy one of canyons or some new e-bikes, then as list, note, you can get free bike guard on your e-bike order until midnight, CET on the 3rd of June
0:42.0	2023 by using the code Canyon-Fully dash charged dash 2023 at the checkout.
0:49.3	That's Canyon dash fully dash charge dash 2023, all in uppercase at the checkout on
0:54.1	canion.com.
0:55.1	Terms and conditions do apply and you can find those in the show notes for this episode on
0:58.6	downtime podcast.com. As you might have heard in the first episode of our downtime goes downhill
1:03.5	miniseries last week, we are one composites to support in the race team and we have their
1:07.5	brand new convergence wheels on the bikes. I can confirm that we are one have
1:10.9	continued doing what they do and delivered wheels that have incredible ride feel, great strength
1:15.4	and are built to an insanely high quality level. I've done multiple uplift days on them so
1:19.6	far and as I've grown to expect with we are one wheels, they've needed zero attention. They just
1:23.8	get on with being awesome feeling wheels that are direct but not punishing to ride.
1:28.0	For the month of May, downtime listeners get a very generous 15% off any, we are one, wheel,
1:32.8	rim, order package bar and stem by using the code downtime May 23. That's downtime May 23, all one word
1:40.7	with a capital D and a capital M. You'll find that code in the show notes for this episode over on downtimepodcast.com. And don't forget, you need to enter it at the very final stage of the checkout process in order for it to work. That's the confirm order page at we are one composites.com. It's listener survey time again, and this year, Magura have been kind enough to give us three sets of my favourite breaks, their awesome MT7 pros, to give away. So to be in with a chance of winning some, all you need to do is to head to downtimepodcast.com for slash survey and fill in this year's listener survey. It's super simple to do and it's only going to take a couple of minutes. It's a huge help to me to find out more about you lovely lot. So head over to downtimepodcast.com for slash survey and we'll be choosing a winner of three sets of Megura MT7 Pro brakes at random on Thursday the 8th of June. If you find the podcast provides you with some value, maybe you've learned something that's helped you riding or your fitness, maybe it's got your stoke to go riding or to come back from an injury, or maybe it's just something to pass the time when you can't be riding your bike, then it would be awesome if you're able to do a little
2:37.4	something in return to help the podcast continue and improve by setting up a small regular donation
2:42.7	via my Patreon over at patreon.com for slash downtime podcast. That's Patreon spelt P-A-T-R-E-O-N.
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