US Open Special – Behind the Scenes with Clay Harper and Neko Mulally
Downtime - The Mountain Bike Podcast
Downtime MTB
4.9 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2022
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
The US Open is a huge part of the American mountain bike scene. Join me and Neko Mulally as we chat with the man behind the US Open, Clay Harper. Hear about his background and what drew him into race organisation. We chat about the concept behind the US Open and how the team have built it up over the years. Find out how they attract some of the biggest names in the sport and hear the specifics of the 2022 event from Neko himself. So sit back, hit play and listen to this episode with Clay and Neko.
You can follow the US Open on Instagram @usopenmtb and find out more here.
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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 into the gravity-based side of mountain biking. |
| 0:10.1 | Before we get stuck into this US Open special, I want to thank our supporting partner for the month, and that's We Are One Composites. |
| 0:15.7 | We've got a super generous offer for you. We Are One make awesome wheels, and that's a fact. |
| 0:41.5 | It's amazing to see the amount of support that they have as a relatively small brand from their loyal customers who've experienced just how great the wheels are and also how robust they are. The ride quality of WeR1 wheels is a biggie for me. They're accurate and they go where you point them, but they have enough compliance that they can stick to off-camera lines and don't feel every little obstacle on the trail trying to ping you offline. I'm currently running a faction 29er up front and the union 275 in the rear and they have needed literally zero maintenance. They're |
| 0:47.1 | still as tight and true as the day that they arrived. And I genuinely cannot say that about any |
| 0:51.6 | other wheel set I've ever owned. We are one are offering downtime listeners, a very generous 10% off any revolution wheel set, |
| 0:58.2 | including rim-only for the month of September. |
| 1:00.8 | All you need to do is to head to WeR-1 Composites.com and use the code |
| 1:04.2 | downtime wheeling 2022 at the checkout. |
| 1:07.2 | That's downtime with a capital D, no space, followed by the word wheeling, W-H-E-E-L-I-N-G, no space, |
| 1:14.4 | then 2022 over at we are-1conversets.com. Head to their site now and check out their range |
| 1:20.0 | of awesome wheels. While you're here, don't forget to subscribe or follow the podcast so you |
| 1:24.4 | never miss an episode. There's buttons to help you get that done over at downtimepodcast.com for slash subscribe. Merch is available if you want to help support the show. |
| 1:32.5 | That's over at downtimepodcast.com for slash shop. Also head over to downtimepodcast.com |
| 1:38.0 | for slash EP and check out our incredible print project, which is called downtime EP and is made |
| 1:43.3 | in collaboration with a team |
| 1:44.6 | over at Misspent Summers. It's a biannual piece of mountain bike history that takes the guests |
| 1:49.0 | and topics of the podcast, expands on them and brings them into a lovely printed format |
| 1:53.5 | featuring words and imagery from mountain biking's most talented creators. You can get single copies |
| 1:58.9 | of the back issues or you can save yourself a bit of money by treating yourself to an annual subscription over at |
| 2:03.8 | downtimepodcast.com for slash EP. All the links you need for all of that stuff are in the show |
| 2:08.7 | notes for this episode over on downtimepodcast.com and you can also get in touch and give us a |
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