What We Learned From a Year of Racing Downhill
Downtime - The Mountain Bike Podcast
Downtime MTB
4.9 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2023
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Downtime Goes Downhill, a podcast mini-series that’s been taking you with us as we have a go at racing downhill at both a regional and national level.
Downtime Goes Downhill wouldn’t be happening without the support of some incredible brands. So a massive thanks to Canyon bikes, Fox suspension, Wahoo Fitness, Fox clothing and protection, Maxxis tyres, Magura brakes and We Are One Composites wheels.
This is episode eight, where we’ll be sharing what we’ve learned from a year of downhill racing and discussing the hits and misses from the products that we’ve been using. So sit back, hit play and listen to episode seven of Downtime Goes Downhill with me, Ben and Jonny.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Down Time Goes Downhill, a podcast mini-series that's been taking you with us as we ever go at racing downhill at both a regional and national level. |
| 0:11.5 | I'm your host, Chris Hall, and I'll be joined by my good friends, Jonathan Matthews and Ben Thompson. |
| 0:16.4 | Downtime Goes Downhill wouldn't be happening without the support of some incredible brands. |
| 0:20.6 | So a massive thanks to Canyon Bikes, Fox suspension, Wahoo Fitness, Fox clothing and protection, |
| 0:26.1 | Maxis tires, Megira brakes and Weir 1 Composites Wheels. |
| 0:30.0 | Weir 1 are offering a whopping 20% discount sitewide on all their top-nutch products. |
| 0:34.8 | Seize this opportunity until the end of 202323 at we are one composites.com |
| 0:38.8 | using the code downtime December 2023. Remember that that's downtime with the capital D, December, |
| 0:44.7 | also with the capital D followed by the number 2023, all one word at we are one composites.com. |
| 0:50.9 | There's more too. Miss Spent Summers is joining the party with a generous 10% off everything until the year's end. |
| 0:56.4 | Whether you're eye on their fantastic yearbooks for downhill and enduro racing, |
| 0:59.8 | eager for some downtime EP in your life or looking to snag some of the best riding-based merch in the business, |
| 1:04.7 | then head over to misspent summers.com and use the code downtime or lowercase to get your 10% off. |
| 1:10.7 | There won't be a podcast next week as I've decided to take a much needed break over Christmas, but don't worry, we'll be back on the 2nd of January for a super interesting chat with a man who's responsible for managing Loic Bruni, Finn Isles and Jordan Williams. That's head of the specialised gravity team, Lauren De the Law. Okay, this is episode 8 of |
| 1:27.9 | Downtime Goes Downhill, where we'll be sharing what we've learned from a year of downhill |
| 1:31.6 | racing and discussing the hits and misses from the products that we've been using too. |
| 1:35.7 | So, without further ado, here's Downtime Goes Downhill, Episode 8 with me, Ben and Johnny. |
| 1:44.7 | All right, we're back with the downtime goes downhill team. |
| 1:47.8 | It's been a little while since the last race of the season. |
| 1:50.4 | I'm feeling a lot brighter, which if you listen to that episode, |
| 1:54.2 | I don't think I sounded on top of the world, |
| 1:56.3 | so it's nice to be back and having a bit of energy. |
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