The Inside Line Podcast - Vital MTB Vital MTB

What could have been! After a long stint in the hot seat with a time that bested the season's biggest names, the last man down the hill squashed our tall bar savior's dreams of winning his first World Cup. We were filled with mixed emotions as reality set in that we'd have to wait a little longer to see Dak take that elusive first win, but what a treat to watch Amaury Pierron piece together a historic run that cemented his return to the top of the sport.We chatted a lot about the wet, slipper...

Visit Jenson USA - FREE BONUS CARD valued at up to $1000 with the purchase of eligible Santa Cruz bikes & frames!Passionate interviews from the Val di Sole World Cup Downhill today as Amaury Pierron and Tahnee Seagrave return to the top of the podium!Interviews0:32 - Tahnee Seagrave1:26 - Amaury Pierron6:21 - Dakotah Norton8:24 - Marine Cabirou8:58 - Cory Rimmer (Dak's trackside coach)11:54 - Finn Iles14:16 - Myriam Nicole16:15 - Troy Brosnan18:44 - Luca Shaw21:55 - Loic Bruni

After years of success, RockShox has updated its trail and gravity suspension lineup with some new internals for model year '25. The latest Charger 3.1 damper is now found across all fork models, while rear shocks gain an XL air can option and a high-flow main piston for Super Deluxe models. They have also re-introduced the Vivid Coil shock with some technology derived from the Vivid Air released last year. We sat down with Chris Mandell from SRAM and RockShox to help make sense of all&n...

A track on the circuit that always provides dramatic, legendary race runs, this year at Leogang was fairly uneventful. A business as usual World Cup, you could say. Rain throughout the week provided some of the most changing and challenging conditions hit the #notabikepark track, with the lower woods being the deciding factor on race day. There was exciting racing across each category, highlighted by a dominating victory in both women’s fields, an upset in the Junior men’s race, and another e...

See what the top riders of the 2024 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup DH in Leogang, Austria, have to say about their race weekends. A familiar track was made tricky with varying conditions thanks to overnight rains. Interviews by Jack Rice.Interviews0:00 - Loic Bruni4:52 - Anna Newkirk7:49 - Neko Mulally10:52 - Vali Holl11:54 - Max Alran13:28 - Erice van Leuven14:41 - Ellie Hulsebosch16:18 - Finn Iles18:37 - Myriam Nicole21:50 - Lachie Stevens-Mcnab23:14 - Oisin O'Callaghan24:25 - Lisa Baumann25:3...

Loic Bruni has five different electronic buttons on his prototype Specialized Demo downhill bike, and we're not even talking about shift levers. He, his mechanic Jack and Ohlins are all pretty tight-lipped about the functions they serve, but today we got a bit of information from the current World Cup DH leader himself.SuperBruni confirms the buttons are not Skittles, he seemingly teases that they're for playing music, and then says their function should be pretty easy to figure out. When ask...