Vallnord 2023 – Pre-Race Show
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4.9 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Vallnord World Cup is here and I’m sitting down with Chris Kilmurray to find out about the changes to the track, the impact that rain can have in this location, dealing with the heat, who has a score to settle and much more. So sit back, hit play and listen to this Vallnord World Cup pre-race show with Chris Kilmurray.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, after a short break, World Cup Racing is back. |
| 0:07.1 | So we're here with your Maxis Tires pre-race show for this weekend's racing in Andorra. |
| 0:11.7 | Maxis is synonymous with racing and is the name that comes to mind when you think of performance. |
| 0:16.3 | It's no surprise then that they've won more than any other brand in the history of World Cup and EDR |
| 0:20.9 | racing. No matter where or how you ride, Max's has got the tires for you with a wide range of |
| 0:26.1 | tread patterns, casing and compound options. On my injury bike, I've been running the DHR 2, |
| 0:31.3 | Max Terra double down on the rear, paired up with the Assegai Max grip on the front in their |
| 0:35.6 | slightly lighter XO plus casing. |
| 0:42.1 | On the downhill bike, I've gone full DH casings, I've gone with their super grippy max grip compound and I'm running the DHR2 both front and rear. Both those setups are working awesome for me. |
| 0:47.9 | You can check out the entire range of Maxis tires over at maxis.com and find the tires at your |
| 0:52.7 | local Maxis dealer. You can also give them a follow on Instagram where they're at Maxis bike. All right, it's Vaughnord World Cup week and I'm sitting down with Chris Kilmurray to find out about the changes to the track, the impact that rain can have in this location, dealing with the heat, who has a score to settle and much, much more. So without further ado, here's Chris Kilmurie for our Maxis Tires pre-race show |
| 1:13.4 | for the 2023 Vownaud World Cup. |
| 1:19.7 | Chris Killmurie, it feels like ages, actually, since we last did this, |
| 1:23.8 | but it probably is only like three or four weeks. |
| 1:25.6 | How long has this break been? |
| 1:27.6 | Yeah, I guess only three weeks since we would have done the pre-race show for Fort William |
| 1:31.5 | World Champs. |
| 1:32.2 | So it's only two weeks plus a day or two since then, since the end of that race. |
| 1:37.2 | But it does, for whatever reason, it does feel like it's been a long, long stint, funny |
| 1:41.3 | enough. |
| 1:41.5 | But it's been, I think, I counted out about 55 days since the last World Cup. So over a month, month and a half, a bit. Month and a half, really. So it's big stint since the last World Cup. So I think actually World Champs being the race it is with slightly, but substantially different organization and riders and kit and focus and everything else. I think everyone's going to kind of be thrown back into the deep end here. |
| 2:03.6 | Straight qualis semis finals like, oh yeah, I got to do three of them again. |
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