Phoebe Gale’s Breakthrough Year and Lessons from the Elite Ranks

Downtime - The Mountain Bike Podcast

Downtime MTB

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

4.9 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Today, I’m joined by Phoebe Gale, one of the most exciting young talents in downhill mountain biking. From growing up in Scotland to competing against the world’s best, Phoebe has been on an incredible journey. But it hasn’t all been smooth sailing. In this episode, we dive into her transition to elite racing, the challenges of injury recovery, and the mental side of high-performance sport. We also talk about her close relationship and rivalry with teammate Tahnée Seagrave, how she’s adapting to a new bike for the 2025 season, and what’s next for her career. So, it’s time to sit back, hit play and listen to this episode with Phoebe Gale.

You can also watch this episode on YouTube here.

You can follow Phoebe on Instagram @_phoebegale and you can watch her episode of How We Roll here.

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0:00.0	If you don't ride in the wet in Scotland, you don't ride your bike at all.
0:02.8	So I'm seeing every single thing she does leading up to that race run, and yet she still smokes me by every single week and week out.
0:09.8	That was quite a big challenge to get used to being smoked every weekend by your teammate.
0:16.2	I actually never sat an exam in school because of COVID.
0:18.9	So I had two years.
0:20.1	Two years of basically just riding bikes rather than being in school.
0:23.3	And it was actually such a big turning point in my riding.
0:26.7	I was doing my homework.
0:28.6	My phone pinged.
0:30.2	FMG racing started following.
0:34.9	Hey everyone.
0:35.9	I'm Chris Hall and this is the downtime podcast, the podcast for true fans of gravity mountain biking,
0:41.2	immersing you deeper into the sport than anywhere else. This week's episode is supported by our wonderful
0:45.8	Patreon's and soon we'll be presenting all our Patreon's with a unique opportunity.
0:50.4	Nigel Wade, the innovator behind Shockwiz and with over 13 years of experience in mountain bike suspension,
0:55.8	is offering one-on-one consultation services for a deep dive into suspension tuning, and we're going to be offering 10 lucky patrons of free consultation.
1:04.4	This offers you the opportunity to go way beyond basic setup, into things like the interplay between the bike and the rider,
1:10.6	and understanding the system to help you get a better setup interplay between the bike and the rider and understanding
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