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We took one eMTB with Shimano Steps motor and went out to see if it could transform one of the worst climbs in our local area into a whole hill of fun.
Find out more about the Shimano Steps E8000 system here https://www.shimano-steps.com/e-bikes/united-kingdom/en/product-information/mtb/e8000
You can find out more here too.. https://singletrackworld.com/2018/12/a-fun-e-day-out-with-shimano-steps-e8000-turning-descents-into-climbs/
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[Music]
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power all the way I'm gonna win already
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giving up run too much algae no no
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peeking
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hi guys mark here you join us in a car
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park at the bottom of one of our
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favorite descents you'll soon see why
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it's one of our favorites since we have
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an e by contest at the moment and since
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one of their purported benefits of an
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e-bike is they turn horrible climbs into
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lovely fun trails we thought would put
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that to the test in what we have
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originally called our star on a
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reasonably priced ebike so what's the
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plan here
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well we're going to take our e bike and
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we're gonna ride it to the top of this
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trail and we're going to measure how
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long it takes each of our testers to do
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it but we're also going to ask them how
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much fun they had along the way so let's
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introduce you to the team Andy Shimano
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steps
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--sykes shining star Dobson chips
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sartorial elegance chicken Oh
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[Music]
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okay so you've met the team let's have a
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run-through of the bike we've got the
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Saracen Ariel
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here with Shimano steps motor and chips
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can talk us through exactly what we get
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so this is the the air early as you say
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it's based on Harrison's
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aerial which is their kind of long
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travel trail bike and it's got a linkage
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based off the mist it's got 150 mil
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traveled front 140 ml rear big tires
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it's got big rotors short and burly
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cockpit you know an ideal ride all the
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trails trail bike adding a motor means
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you can self shuttle come on I've done a
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bunch of things to make the motor work
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well for mountain bikes they've they put
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the bottom bracket at the very back of
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the motor so that you can make the chain
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stays as short as possible there's no
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resistance if we kind of whiz that round
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and then Jomon has done a lot of work on
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the torque sensor so it made it as
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sensitive as they could so that the
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power on and power off is really quick
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so because you don't want to be riding
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around a corner and kind of shooting
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yourself into a tree so this the instant
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you stop pedaling the forward assistance
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stops okay so up ahead we've got a few
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tight corners
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so we're get to put that into practice
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won't we and hopefully get around those
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corners yes I I don't think anyone here
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has actually ever decided to do this as
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a time because it's because it's
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horrible because it's a fun descent and
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why would you do fun to sense the other
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way around but the alternative to get to
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the top of this as we know it's probably
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a good two mile road right to get to the
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top of here whereas if you just ride up
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the trail you'd be at the top you're
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ready chips no no okay that's good you
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know
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ready you're gonna go three two one go
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ridiculous no ready
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[Music]
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and the clock stops now well he's still
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in boost so how was that huh that was
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very hard but you're on an e-bike what
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do you mean it was hard yes there was
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they're a bunch of placer I thought I
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wasn't going to get out and I did which
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was which was quite impressive because
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I've never done it on a push bike in one
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go and actually a couple of times I
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sprained out because there was too much
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power to the wheels so I could have done
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with finessing a bit maybe from between
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boost and trail ass it's not all about
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the power no cuz power is nothing
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without control as they say there was
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tons of fun actually
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it's surprising how how much terrain you
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can get up because because the bike puts
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the power down really smoothly you're
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you're not kind of chopping away on the
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cranks so the bike will bite in the lots
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of places where normally you'd just be
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spun out
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it felt super stable on on the descent
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so yeah really fun excellent how's your
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preparation being for this I am a
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machine on a machine three two one go go
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go go go go
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- my anything about my Wow
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hello there's Ross he's called me he's
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called me pushing pedal keep going
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that's it
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go run
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you said you were gonna win
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go go go go same route so you can make
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up time down chips
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[Music]
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come on here we go we've got her in
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sight she's coming through and stop the
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clock
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what the hell gear is that that you're
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in really cuz I'm kind of bump myself
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off the trail well four petals of the
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rocks and it's quite slippery is that
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too much power I think too much pressure
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possibly in the rear tire yeah and and
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too much algae algae so you set off in
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trial mode did that change yeah then I
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put in boost and then I was having some
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fun and then I was having too much fun
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and I kind of bounced myself off my
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pedals and that was the start of it all
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going a bit wrong and Ross laughed at me
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did he yeah that's not very kind well it
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means that I might be winning on having
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had the most fun well that's it that's
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the important factor Andy what's your
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strategy gonna be here my strategy is to
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pedal very quickly use the boost power
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all the way I'm gonna win what gear EU
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in at the back there three on a scale of
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one to ten how seriously you taking this
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right here we go you ready Andy we're
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going in three two one go go go go
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[Music]
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also misfits done
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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[Laughter]
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what are you doing come on
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the idea is to ride off come on don't
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blame the tires bad woman
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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here he comes whoa and stop it off whoa
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that was that really so did you stick to
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your game plan was it full power anyway
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because I gotta close really well hey
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just got a bit slippy on the rocks up
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there so had to knock it into trail and
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then he's okay oh I had a sit down well
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that's all three riders done so we're
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gonna go back to the studio now we're
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gonna get we get some some coffee in
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these guys and then we'll sit down and
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we'll examine the results hi he joined
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us back in the studio in the wall
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everyone's got changed and we're going
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to run through the results I've got the
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results here so we'll start in the order
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that we sent them up the hill so we're
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gonna start with chips
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so chips how did you find that did you
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enjoy the descent more or did you enjoy
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the climb more perversely enjoyed the
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climb more because you have all the
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power available to you and and then the
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descent you you're on your own so it's
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my less strong point so yeah I enjoyed
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the climb right well let's go to our
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technical laser display board and we'll
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put some times down so chips let me see
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so I've got the time here when you got
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to the top no no no peeking well you've
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got to the top in two broken chalk see
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that quick and 18 seconds that feel
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about right that's about and your total
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time when you got back down to the
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bottom was three minutes and 35 seconds
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there we go so we've got the first score
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on the board how do you feel about that
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chips that's pretty good right well who
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went up next it was hammer swap around
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so Hannah yes you until next into the
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hot seat how did you find it it wasn't
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my finest hour
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what was your strategy sort of steady I
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was trying to be but I wasn't steady us
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daily no I got a bit overexcited didn't
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put it in turbo and bounced off the
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trail okay slithered about a bit turbo
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too much too much too much too much on
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the big rocks yeah right let's see how
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well you did how do you let's start with
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your time to the top so Hannah got to
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the top in 337 yes but how long did it
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take to get back down your overall time
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was I was looking at the view you only
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do the View for ha and 10 seconds there
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we go how do you feel about that I don't
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mind I can live with that
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yeah yeah did you have fun yes would you
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go up that climb again on an e-bike
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maybe yeah yeah yeah because it's easy I
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probably go round the other way actually
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and do the full descent because you can
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get up the road nice and easy
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it's a horrible yeah for the easy climb
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so final final Rider final athlete Andy
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how was it for you amazing
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very very good I really enjoy that
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thoroughly enjoyed it look at the goals
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on the boards how do you think you're
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gonna referred against chips uphill
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I don't know cuz he was really really
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fast I don't think he went to the top to
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be fair I think he cheated honestly
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kids like we were talking and and he was
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down again so I don't think that's
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possible right well Rory chips no I have
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the results it's very interesting
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okay so Andy to the top in - oh I did it
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twice to the top in one go is that right
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mm-hmm okay two minutes and thirty mmm
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fine it's not bad for twice we have a
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winner on the Clyde and his chips but
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what about the overall overall a yeah I
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hope I'm faster down you think I hope
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but I hope let's see
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you did it total run in three minutes
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mm-hmm starts kids
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zero oh yes I knew it
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ladies and gentlemen we have a winner on
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the overall Andy
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so Andy which do you like more the climb
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the descent oh I like both actually yeah
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yeah I'm not really a big fan of
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climbing but on an e-bike it's really
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really good fun it's it's yeah it's very
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exciting that exciting but just fun you
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can enjoy yourself popping up the hill
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and then down it feels like a downhill
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bike because you have a little bit of
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extra weight and it's really low in the
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center so you can use that to get round
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corners really nicely it's yes full all
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right so ebike does it open up new
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chapters of climbs and descents has it
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changed the face of the normal regular
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trails yeah for me personally yeah yeah
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because every uphill is fun and just a
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laugh isn't it you look at things and
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think I'm gonna climb that whereas I
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might not do that on a regular bike
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especially with a limited time you might
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don't have time to climb so many
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different things and find so many new
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descent so for sure you you buy there we
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go
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so ebikes fun fun extenders that's what
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they are yeah I think I'll leave it
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there
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yeah thanks everybody
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