Hey everyone, I'm Chris Hall and this is the downtime podcast where we're going to be taking

you deeper than ever into the gravity-based side of mountain biking. Before we get stuck into this

week's episode, just a quick thank you to our supporting partners. We are Won Composites and Canyon Bikes

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It's listener survey time again and this year Magura have been kind enough to give us three

sets of my favourite breaks, the awesome MT7 pros, to give away.

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