Vital Mtb - Speaking Of Mountain Biking

Raw audio interviews from the 2021 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup Downhill in Lenzerheide, Switzerland. Thank you to SRAM for their support of our race coverage.Interviews in orderEmilie Siegenthaler on RetiringMyriam Nicole, Elite Women's WinnerIzabela Yankova, Junior Women's WinnerLoris Vergier, Elite Men's WinnerPA - Loris Vergier's mechanicJackson Goldstone, Junior Men's WinnerTahnee Seagrave, Elite Women's 2nd placeLoic Bruni, Elite Men's 2nd placeVali Holl, Elite Women's 3rd placeThibaut Daprela, Elite Men's 3rd placeAmaury Pierron, Elite Men's 4th placeEddie MastersKade Edwards

Enjoy the photos from Sven Martin, @maddogboris and Dan Hearn on Vital MTB. A big thank you to RockShox for supporting Vital MTB's World Champs coverage. Order of the interviews are as followsJackson GoldstoneMyriam NicoleBenoit CoulangesJordan WilliamsCamille BalancheTroy BrosnanLoris VergierVali HollAmaury PierronLoic BruniCecile Ravanel on behalf of Antoine VidalThibaut DaprelaCam Cole and Wyn Masters,Ben CathroTahnee SeagraveArthur, the engineer from CommencalGreg Minnaar (the same post-race interview you listened to in his standalone podcast)

Welcome mountain bikers. The Inside Line podcast is supported by Maxxis Tires and Santa Cruz bikes. Coincidentally, Greg Minnaar, your 2021 Elite Men's Downhill World Champion is supported by them too, so if there ever was a sponsor tie-in for a podcast, this is it! Before we go further though, you can shop for all kinds of products Greg runs at JensonUSA.com too. If you use coupon code, InsideLine at checkout, you'll receive 10% off qualifying items.Sven Martin, long-time friend of Greg and Vital media guru at large captured a fantastic weekend of World Champs activity. He and Greg discussed all his past world champs wins prior to the race, with candor and transparency, and then they were able to get together after Greg won again this year to discuss how it all came together. The class act that Minnaar is, he deflects to his support crew as the reason he won, and Sven manages to get their insight too with Lyle, Greg's mechanic, Laura, his physical trainer, Jordi from FOX and the legend himself

Join Jason Schroeder,  Tanner Stephens and the Rooted MTB Crew to talk about everything related to the 2021 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships and #USDH racers.Jenson USA makes the Inside Line go. You can shop for all kinds of mountain bikes and products at JensonUSA.com, and if you use coupon code insideline at checkout, you can save 10% off qualifying items. Thank you Jenson!Maxxis Tires help us keep the microphones plugged in and let me just say that the other day I was on a bike with a front tire that wasn’t an Assegai and it was primo, loose, dusty Assegai conditions. Needless to say, I wish I had the Assegai on that day. Maxxis.com will let you figure out which mountain bike tire works best for you and your conditions.Interestingly enough, Greg Minnaar designed the Assegai and he also shreds Santa Cruz Bicycles. The GOAT knows what’s up and even if he wasn’t the goat, if he was a regular rider like you or me, he’d still get free lifetime bearing replacements on any Santa Cruz bike that he owned. to f

History in the making thanks to Sven Martin and @maddogboris.  Audio interviews from our slideshow on VitalMTB.com

USA Cycling's World Championships team selection debacle, Tanner Stephens and plenty of #USDH comedy and questions with Jason Schroeder and the crew at Rooted MTB. 

Enjoy the audio interviews with the racers from the 2021 Maribor World Cup Downhill. Sven Martin and @maddogboris get the inside scoops.See the slideshow with incredible photos on VitalMTB.com

Sven Martin and Boris Beyer talk to World Cup Downhill racers at the 2021 Maribor World Cup Downhill race. Hit www.vitalmtb.com to see the slideshow full of great photos that go with these interviews.

 Welcome mountain bikers,Today on Vital MTB’s The Inside Line podcast are two of my favorite humans - Cam McCaul and Taylor Sage. Cam’s been on the show before, TSage hasn’t, and I’m not even kidding about their Cats Don’t Need Dollars video getting me so hyped, I wanted to talk to them about it on the show. Jenson USA makes the Inside Line go. You can shop for all kinds of mountain bikes and products at JensonUSA.com, and if you use coupon code insideline at checkout, you can save 10% off qualifying items. Thank you Jenson!Maxxis Tires help us keep the microphones plugged in and let me just say that the other day I was on a bike with a front tire that wasn’t an Assegai and it was primo, loose, dusty Assegai conditions. Needless to say, I wish I had the Assegai on that day. Maxxis.com will let you figure out which mountain bike tire works best for you and your conditions.Interestingly enough, Greg Minnaar designed the Assegai and he also shreds Santa Cruz Bicycles. The GOAT knows what’s up and even if he wasn

Jason Schroeder and Rooted MTB are back with another episode of #USDH Unfiltered. They discuss the 2021 U.S. National Mountain Bike Championships that just took place at Trestle Bike Park in Winter Park, Colorado. Three national champions call into the show, Kailey Skelton, Chris Grice and Dakotah Norton and Nik Nestoroff and Austin Dooley jump in too!

Welcome mountain bikers, I'm honored to be joined by three fantastic guests on this episode of The Inside Line. We will discuss mountain biking and head injuries. None of us are scientific or medical experts on the subject, but during the last World Cup DH race webcast from Les Gets, Jeff Brines and I were texting and discussing Thibaut Daprela’s incredible race-winning run with the sidebar of his recent knockout crash at French National Champs a week prior. I said let’s do an Inside Line about the subject and here we are.Discuss your experiences and information about head injuries in our forum hereJeff, has been a Vital MTB bike and product tester, he's long-time DH and enduro racer, he’s one of the few people to have owned a handmade carbon BCD bike from Alex Morgan, and, he may be one of Vital’s most prolific site commenters based on number of characters typed over the last decade. I’d have to imagine it’s a close call between him and Primoz.Matt is co-owner of Momentum Trail Concepts, long-time

Welcome to Vital MTB's USDH unfiltered. We kicked it off with a Les Gets World Cup Downhill pre-game show with host and Vital MTB Tech Editor, Jason Schroeder, and the crew at Rooted MTB. They get ahold of Dakotah Norton over in Europe for his perspective on how the racing has gone and how it will go this weekend. They talk gossip, race predictions, the woes of being a b-practice punter, and plenty more as another epic weekend of World Cup downhill racing kicks off in France. Despite internet struggles and technical difficulties, they charged on and made this happen, and we're excited for more to come throughout the year!Please note there is some adult language and this was recorded before Thibaut Daprela and Amaury Pierron went down hard at French Nationals. We wish both of those riders strong recoveries and make sure you hit VitalMTB.com for all the race action this weekend! 

We're honored to have Aaron Gwin back on The Inside Line podcast. He was on the show a few years back and with the World Cup Downhill in Les Gets on the horizon, we figured it was time to reconnect. In this episode we discuss his struggles at the first World Cup DH race in Les Gets, the challenges of being a podium-level racer now and if his training has changed over the years. Bike development with Intense is a topic of conversation as is being present on social media. Does he remain a bike racer only or does he share thoughts and questions about social and political ideas on Instagram? Enjoy the show as one of the fastest bike racers on the planet opens up.Cover photo by Dan HearnThank you to jensonusa.com for supporting the Inside Line for over 4 years now. Shop for mountain bikes, components and riding gear and use coupon code insideline (all one word) at checkout so can save you 10% off on qualifying items.Summertime is the right time to try something different on your bike and Maxxis tires will let

Amy Morrison is a born competitor. After a youth spent water skiing and being a Division 1 pole vaulter for Clemson, she found mountain biking. The perfect storm of timing, talent, and work ethic had Amy join the pro enduro ranks in a few short seasons. She has a pile of race wins to her name, including National Champ and most recently, winner of the TDS Enduro.More than a racer, Amy is a teacher, a coach, and an advocate for a healthy lifestyle that includes riding bikes. She's hooking the youth on bikes and coaching newer riders. Beyond winning races, she has a focus on the mountain bike community as a whole.As much love as Amy has for the sport, mountain biking is better off with her in it. Hang tight as Amy sits down with Brad Howell to discuss her journey through racing and what the future may hold.Thank you to jensonusa.com for supporting the Inside Line for over 4 years now. Shop for mountain bikes, components and riding gear and use coupon code insideline (all one word) at checkout so can save yo

Mountain bike legend and last #USDH racer to win a Downhill World Championship, Myles Rockwell, joins us on The Inside Line today. Austin Hackett-Klaube joins Myles to discuss everything from mobbing bikes around the streets of San Francisco as a kid to becoming one the fastest mountain bike racers on the planet. We're honored to have him on the show!Thanks to Yeti Cycles for the throwback thumbnail photoA big thanks goes out to Jenson USA, supporter of The Inside Line for the last four years! Keep your bike running strong with parts from Jenson. If you use coupon code “insideline” all one word at checkout on jensonusa.com, you’ll receive 10% off qualifying items. Thank you Jenson!Maxxis Tires just launched the updated Shorty tire. You can check out our review on VitalMTB.com with Squamish shredder, Joel Harwood, who gives it 4.5 out of 5 stars. A specialty tire for wet conditions, the Shorty is available now on maxxis.com Santa Cruz Bicycles, through their Paydirt initiative is donating $1 million to tr

Austin, Harrison, Wiley and Kasen from Rooted MTB keep the discussion going about the state of downhill mountain bike racing in the USA. They reflect on their experience at the first National level race at Windrock a few weeks ago and call Dakotah Norton to see what it means to be one of the country's fastest racers on the World Cup circuit. Finally they connect with Matt Thompson and Steve Wentz of Momentum Trail Concepts to gain insight of what it took to put on DH races a decade ago and what it may take now.Listen to Rooted's first Inside Line podcastFollow Rooted MTB on Instagram @rootedmtbThank you to jensonusa.com for supporting the Inside Line for over 4 years now. Shop for mountain bikes, components and riding gear and use coupon code insideline (all one word) at checkout so can save you 10% off on qualifying items.Springtime is a fun time to try something different on your bike and Maxxis tires will let you slide around with a semi-slick or go big and grippy with a DoubleDown or DH casing.

We're honored to have Sam Hill, one of mountain biking's most successful and exciting gravity racers, on The Inside Line today. Brett Pengelley spends a few hours with Sam at his home in Western Australia to discuss everything from his race career to family life to bike setup to flat-pedal-dominance and what his future looks like. There is even a lightning round at the end with questions from riders like Troy Brosnan, Brook Macdonald, Loic Bruni and more. Don't miss his answer to the very last question, which is probably the best thing we've heard all year!Thank you Sam, Brett and all of you listeners out there!Thank you to jensonusa.com for supporting the Inside Line for over 4 years now. Shop for mountain bikes, components and riding gear and use coupon code insideline (all one word) at checkout so can save you 10% off on qualifying items.Springtime is a fun time to try something different on your bike and Maxxis tires will let you slide around with a semi-slick or go big and grippy with

Welcome mountain bikers! Thanks for listening to Vital MTB’s The Inside Line Podcast. We have a double-dipper of a treat today. We wax nostalgic and catch up with Henry O’Donnell, one of the original Santa Cruz Syndicate racers. He grew up in Downieville and found mountain bike success with help from Greg Williams, the main man behind the Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship, who’s also on the show. We touch on Henry’s race career, why he just seemed to vanish from racing, and then get into some history of the Stewardship and what they’re doing in the Sierra Nevadas with some massive trail-building projects that connect various mountain towns in the region.Henry, Greg, thank you for your time and listeners, as always, thank you for taking the time to hear us talk about mountain biking! Hope you’re staying safe and getting some quality ride time in!Thank you to jensonusa.com for supporting the Inside Line for over 4 years now. Shop for mountain bikes, components and riding gear and use coupon code insideline (all o

Welcome mountain bikers, thanks for tuning in to Vital MTB’s The Inside Line podcast. I’m honored to have Darren Murphy of PUSH Industries on the show today to keep the conversation rolling about mountain bikes, products, Covid and the economy.A big thanks goes out to jensonusa.com who’s supported our show for the last 4 years. Use coupon code INSIDELINE at checkout and receive 10% off qualifying items.SHOP PUSH Industries at JENSON USASHOP Maxxis Tires at JENSON USAMaxxis tires keep our show and the fastest mountain bikes rolling and Santa Cruz bicycles, who offer free lifetime bearing replacement and have a handful of models that can run a PUSH elevensix shock help us keep the lights on, too.Inside Line Podcast with Darren Murphy from 2019MTB Suspension Q&A with PUSH IndustriesDarren Murphy of PUSH IndustriesShow questionsDarren thanks for being on the show!As you know, we talked with Joe Graney at Santa Cruz to discuss the bike supply issues, but I’m glad to have you on for a couple reasons. You’re a c

Welcome Mountain Bikers! Thanks for tuning in to Vital MTB’s The Inside Line podcast. I’m your host, Shawn Spomer. Today we have a treat! Charlie Sponsel, sometimes known as Team Robot is on the show. Charlie was a professional mountain bike racer, has a hilarious and informative presence on the internet, and is a down-to-earth, straight shooter when it comes to both bikes and, more importantly, life in general. We run the gamut of topics on today’s show, and I even had to call him back up to get his stance on chainstay length because we missed it the first time around. If you didn’t know, Charlie has a monthly advice column on Vital MTB, so if you have a question, hit him up by writing advice@vitalmtb.com on the old email.A big thanks goes out to Jenson USA, supporter of The Inside Line for the last four years! Keep your bike running strong with parts from Jenson. If you use coupon code “insideline” all one word at checkout on jensonusa.com, you’ll receive 10% off qualifying items. Thank you Jenson!Maxxis Ti