The Art and Science of Night Riding With Tom Place
Downtime - The Mountain Bike Podcast
Downtime MTB
4.9 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Today, I’m joined by Tom Place from Outbound Lighting to chat all things night riding. Hear what attracted Tom to night riding and what he feels the benefits are. Tom shares some insight into how to choose the perfect night riding setup for you and how to optimise the setup once you have it. I learned a lot here that’s definitely going to help me get the most out of the lights I have and I hope it helps you too. So sit back, hit play and listen to this episode with Tom Place.
You can see everything that Outbound Lighting have to offer over at outboundlighting.com and you can follow them on Instagram @outboundlighting.
Tom is also giving away two sets of their awesome EVO downhill package of lights. You can enter by heading to the competition post on my Instagram @downtimepodcast.
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Outbound Lighting
Outbound lighting make really well designed and engineered lights for night riding. If you’re interested to find out more, then you can check out all that they have to offer over at outboundlighting.com.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Chris Hall and you're listening to the downtime podcast where we delve deep |
| 0:07.9 | into the gravity-based side of mountain biking. First up, I want to thank our supporting partners |
| 0:12.3 | and that's earshots, YT Industries and Outbound Lighting, and we've got some great offers for you. |
| 0:17.4 | I've talked about earshots here before. They're a set of Bluetooth headphones that were |
| 0:21.0 | specifically designed with mountain bikers in mind, and they're the only headphones that I've found |
| 0:25.3 | which stay on when I'm riding and in the gym. I love the original product, but earlier this year, |
| 0:29.8 | they launched an updated version, and I have to say they've really made some huge improvements. |
| 0:34.8 | The biggest of those is in sound quality, where the base response is up by 90%, |
| 0:39.3 | which makes a massive difference in how they sound, especially if you like some bass heavy music |
| 0:43.4 | when you're riding or training. They've got more battery life with 80% more than the original product, |
| 0:48.4 | and they also fit better in your ear. In addition, the product now turns itself on and off |
| 0:52.8 | as you take it in and out of its charging |
| 0:54.3 | case so you don't even have to press the on-off button. If you're looking for some headphones |
| 0:58.4 | for riding, training, running or just a bit of casual podcast listening, then Earshots |
| 1:02.6 | have got you covered. As a downtime listener, Earshots are offering you 10% off. All you need to do |
| 1:08.1 | is to enter the code downtime 22 at the checkout over on |
| 1:11.6 | earshots.com and the discount will be applied at the final stage of the checkout process. |
| 1:16.5 | That's downtime all uppercase, no space, then the number 22 over at earshots.com. |
| 1:22.3 | I've recently spent some time riding YT's latest CAPRA in the core MX spec and it really really impressed me. For a 170 mill bike, it actually climbs really well, and equally it doesn't feel like a big travel bike when you point it downhill, as it remains light and playful on the trails. However, when you really need it, that 170 mil of travel is there to help get you out of trouble. If you get a YT, I'd highly recommend trying the suspension |
| 1:44.2 | settings that they recommend via their website, as for my way, on this bike, the setup felt great. |
| 1:49.3 | It was super responsive with loads of grit, but still has the support that you want to keep |
| 1:53.0 | the bike composed. As well as how it rides, YT really care about how their bikes look too, |
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