MTB News Recap: Mechanical Doping, New Santa Cruz Hightower, Fat Bike World Champs
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2016
⏱️ 22 minutes
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In this episode we talk about this week’s mountain bike news including the mechanical doping scandal, the new Hightower 29er/27.5+ bike from Santa Cruz, and the Fat Bike World Championship race in Crested Butte.
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| 0:00.0 | Something unexpected has arrived in Happy Meal. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Hello Kitty and friends are teaming up for the ultimate collab. |
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| 0:16.0 | Until the 2nd of February from 11am includes one pre-selected book or toy whilst it's last. |
| 0:21.9 | Hi everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. Today it's me, Greg, and I have Jeff and Aaron with me. |
| 0:27.8 | And we're here to sort of give you our spin on the latest mountain bike news. It's been a busy week in the mountain biking world. |
| 0:35.5 | A lot of stuff has gone down for a random week in February. So we're |
| 0:39.7 | going to give you our take on a lot of these topics. For more information on all of these, |
| 0:44.4 | be sure to check out Singletracks.com as we've published an article or a video on each of these |
| 0:49.2 | recently. To get us started, we just had a tragedy this past weekend. |
| 0:55.0 | Kelly McGarry, who's a world-renowned free rider, previously sponsored by YT and Diamondback before that, has made a massive name for himself in events like the Red Bull Rampage. |
| 1:05.7 | Unfortunately, Kelly died while Mountain Viking in his home country of New Zealand this past weekend, which is just a |
| 1:12.6 | massive tragic loss to the whole community. I met him personally a few times and just an awesome |
| 1:19.1 | guy. It's just super nice, great to be around. It's just pretty horrible. One bit of information |
| 1:25.5 | above and beyond what we've already published comes from a website stuff.co.n.z, a New Zealand website. |
| 1:32.1 | The website didn't mention the cause of death, which we hadn't heard before. |
| 1:36.4 | And here's a direct quote from stuff.com.n.c. They said the 33-year-old from Nelson was biking on the |
| 1:42.8 | Fernhill loop track when he suffered from a |
| 1:45.1 | cardiac arrest while riding uphill at 4.14 p.m. on Monday. So thoughts and prayers go out to |
| 1:51.9 | Kelly's family and his friends and all the people that know him in our community. I've met him |
| 1:57.8 | a few times as well and he was just a really fun guy to be around, so the mountain bike community definitely miss him. |
| 2:06.9 | Unfortunately, moving on. |
| 2:08.8 | So lots of other crazy stuff has happened this week. |
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