Make Downhill Racing Great Again – Si Paton
Downtime - The Mountain Bike Podcast
Downtime MTB
4.9 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2023
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
This week I’m joined by Si Paton. Si is a 4X National Champion and downhill racer who’s grafted this way to working full time in the sport he loves. We hear Si’s story of how he ended up becoming the organiser for the British National Downhill series for 11 years. What drove Si away from that role and how did he end up reviving the awesome Malverns Festival? We hear Si’s thoughts on how the Discovery take over will impact racing on both a world and national stage along with that it will take to make national level downhill racing great again. Si has a huge amount of experience and a unique perspective from his time as a race organiser, commentator, commissaire and racer. So sit back, hit play and listen to this episode with Si Paton.
You can watch this episode on my YouTube channel here.
You can find out more about the Malverns at malvernsclassic.com and on Instagram @malvernsclassic and Facebook @malvernsclassic.
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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 |
| 0:07.9 | you deeper than ever into the gravity-based side of mountain biking. First up, this week's |
| 0:12.7 | Supporting Partners, Weir1 Composites and Canyon have got some great offers for you. I've been on |
| 0:17.4 | WeR1's wheels for years now and I love them. Recently, I had the chance to ride their new convergence wheels and I can report that once again, they've nailed it. |
| 0:25.7 | The team at Wheel 1 have managed to take their incredible durability and ride feel from their revolution wheels and turn it up to 11, making the wheels tougher than ever and even better to ride. |
| 0:35.5 | Not only that, but they look really good too. Whether you're |
| 0:38.4 | interested in their brand new convergence wheels, there's still very awesome revolution wheels, or |
| 0:42.6 | they're to package bar and stem. Downtime listeners can get 15% off by using the code |
| 0:47.1 | downtime February 2023 at the checkout over at We are 1conversets.com before the 5th of March 23. |
| 0:55.4 | That's downtime with capital D, February with a capital F, followed by the number 2023, all one word, over at |
| 1:01.0 | we are oneconversets.com. Don't forget, this code must be entered at the final stage of the checkout |
| 1:05.6 | process on the confirm order page. Spring feels like it really is just around the corner. And if you're looking for |
| 1:12.1 | a new ride for this year, then you'd be crazy not to go and check out the trail sale on canyon.com. |
| 1:16.9 | There's discounts across a load of cany bike and e-mountain bike range. And as a downtime |
| 1:21.0 | listener, you can save even more. You can get yourself free bike guard packaging on your trail sale |
| 1:26.0 | purchase just by using the code |
| 1:27.7 | the dash trail dash sale dash 2023 at the checkout. That's the dash trail dash sale |
| 1:34.2 | 2023 all lowercase over at canyon.com. Terms and conditions apply and you'll find those in the show |
| 1:40.2 | notes for this episode over on downtimepodcast.com. Before we get stuck into this week's episode, here are a few quick ways in which you can support |
| 1:47.4 | the podcast. |
| 1:48.5 | Downtime t-shirts, sweatshirts and hoodies are available over at downtimepodcast.com for slash shop. |
| 1:54.1 | If you fancy some non-digital downtime, well, for just £20 a year, you can subscribe to our |
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