Downtime - The Mountain Bike Podcast

Downtime - The Mountain Bike Podcast


Latest Episodes

Yoann Barelli – Injury, Photography, Addiction and More
August 19, 2019

Our last episode with Yoann Barelli was super popular, so I thought it would be good to get him back on for a catch up. He’s had a tough start to the season with an...

Lenzerheide 2019 Post-Race Show
August 14, 2019

Lenzerheide put on a show for us this year, with multiple track changes and mixed conditions making it a challenging race. The Lenzerheide of old, renowned for being a ‘bike park’ track, was changed to...

Mixed Wheel Size Bikes – Cy Turner from Cotic
August 12, 2019

In this episode, I’m joined by Cotic main man, Cy Turner, to chat about one of the big topics of 2019, mixed wheel size bikes. I’ve been riding a Cotic FlareMax, which is their 29inch...

Val Di Sole 2019 Post-Race Show
August 06, 2019

Val Di Sole 2019 was a hell of a weekend with constantly changing track conditions, crazy storms, topsy turvy quail results, and new winners in all the categories. So let’s check in with Eliot and...

Fabien Barel – A Philosophical Approach
August 05, 2019

This week, I’m joined by Fabien Barel. I grew up watching Fabien race, so when I got the chance to sit down with him at the Les Gets World Cup, I was super excited. We...

Sven Martin – The Changing Face of MTB Photography
July 29, 2019

This week, I’m joined by Sven Martin, arguably the best known photographer of the modern era. We met up after the Les Gets race weekend to find out more about Sven’s career, and what it...

Vali Höll – Rising to the Top
July 22, 2019

This week, I’m joined by one of the most promising up and coming riders of this generation, Vali Höll. Since Vali hit the world cup scene, she’s taken the junior women’s category by storm and...

Testing Bikes – Rob Weaver & Seb Stott from the MBUK Test Team
July 15, 2019

Earlier in the year I met up with Rob Weaver and Seb Stott from the Mountain Biking UK magazine test team. MBUK is a magazine I grew up reading when I first got into riding,...

Les Gets 2019 Post-Race Show
July 14, 2019

What a weekend it’s been here in Les Gets. For me it was a chance to come back to a town that I lived and rode in 17 years ago. Les Gets didn’t disappoint, the...

Andorra 2019 Post-Race Show
July 11, 2019

Andorra 2019 was another classic race, with the French guys once again showing their current dominance of the sport. I sat down with Neko Mulally and Eliot Jackson to find out more about what went...