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Pirelli have launched a complete range of MTB tyres, all called Scorpion. That could use a bit of explanation obvs and so we've done just that.
In this first of three videos looking at the range of Pirelli tyres Mark takes the all rounder Scorpion Trail tyres to one of the most famous bike parks in the world - Whistler. To see how the tyres could cope he took them from the very top of the mountain to the very bottom on one of Whistler's most amazing black runs - The Top Of The World Trail.
Benji goes into all the details on these tyres in his comprehensive feature here https://singletrackworld.com/2023/10/pirelli-scorpion-mountain-bike-tyres-explained/
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hello I'm Benji from singletrack I'm
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here with Mark from singletrack and this
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is the first of our Pirelli scorpion
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Vlogs all about their new tire range now
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Pirelli have been doing tires for a long
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time probably as long as anyone who's
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been making rubber over a hundred years
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they do tractor tires Formula One tires
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probably Formula One tractor tires I
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don't know but they do loads and the
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tires that Mark has been trying are what
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these that you can see behind me these
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are the Pirelli scorpion Enduro M tires
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and where and what have you been up to
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well before we get to that have you ever
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wondered what it's like to be a tire not
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really what would you like to find out
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yeah okay then check this out
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thank you
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foreign
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thank you
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that was quite intense yeah I mean that
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was my local trails around Burnley and
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it wasn't particularly a gnarly Trail at
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all I think we forget exactly what it is
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that tires have to deal with even on
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gentle Trails incidentally my camera did
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fall off when I was actually filming
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that I did find it I went back up the
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trail and found it it was still
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recording When I found it
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hello little vanilla
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I thought we'd lost you
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wow
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welcome home
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let's put you back
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we didn't just ride these on your local
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Trails did you no these tires Pirelli
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say are actually suited to general
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purpose riding they kind of do it all
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tires so I decided to pull out to the
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ultimate test by taking them to the
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ultimate bike park so I took them on
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holiday with me to Whistler and this is
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how I got on
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okay
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all right
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thank you
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breathing heavy already
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I'm gonna blend on that seven thousand
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feet
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attitude would have at the moment
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oh
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stop
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that's section one done
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now for section two
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so this is a
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Black Diamond single black diamond
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they go it's a double black diamond
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for mountain biking here in the park
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they also differentiate the trails as
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technical
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or jump lines
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this one is definitely technical there
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shouldn't be any jump lines on this
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see you from going around in these
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corners but we've got the black tusks to
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the left right now
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which is an old
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volcanic plug
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I don't know if you can see that now
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it's just slightly up there to the left
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very famous landmark here
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and that section two
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wow
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you see the black disc over there
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it was the front wheel then
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look at the burns here
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now there's some kickers along here
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have an abundance of caution
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I'm just rolling them
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because I don't like the idea of
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crushing it
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67 000 feet
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very remote up here
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and I've never done this before so I
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don't know what to expect so I'm
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just being cautious
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for example
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well
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it's about
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doing it
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finally got if you I'm gonna do misfire
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yep
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all right
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I've got to misfire yeah oh my God look
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at the roots
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some of these are riding blind
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a rationale is
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[Music]
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I was just about to say my rationalize
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they must go is someone's designed it
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well I've done to my
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boat
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well
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go on camera
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landed it though
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on my feet what was I saying before I
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did that
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this
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everything goes
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perhaps I should commentate less and
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concentrate more
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holy that's steep
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[Music]
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that was a leap of faith because
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that was the steepest thing I've written
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down
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let's say this Pirelli
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Enduro
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um from Tire
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of a
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found very capable here
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on this Terrain
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[Music]
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just gonna stop
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have a break
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[Music]
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I'm so glad I stopped just to
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well one get my breath back
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two just
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look around
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the middle of a forest
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it's gorgeous
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you have to give these Trails especially
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these black ones you're a hundred
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percent
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undivided attention which has the
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the sad side effect of actually
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missing out of being aware of where you
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are
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this is a
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so peaceful
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but there's people waiting so let's get
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going
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let's try and do this one incident three
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I think you could tell from my silence
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there I was concentrating
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great scar
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and Trust
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the trail Builder
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oh my
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God
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no that was not you don't worry
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that was uh you're right
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oh wow
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I was yeah you were just in front of us
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oh I'm gonna have a lie down after this
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yeah
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full on isn't
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it isn't it here we go
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foreign
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I think I'm gonna end up in Creekside
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[Music]
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that makes it about
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pretty continuous
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descent
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feeling it
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oh rideable
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oh this looks
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like we're merging into a blue
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oh it's a relief
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don't do that
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easy way around I like that
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easy way around what
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was that oh
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that's quite nice actually
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pretty sloppy
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[Music]
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easy way bro
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I'm tired I'm gonna take the easy way
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around
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I've just come from 7 000 feet give me a
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break
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oh great side
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ah the bottom there it is
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oh
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I actually lost the feeling in my right
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so oh God
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so how did they get online in general
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over in Whistler well I'll be honest
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these tires were probably a little bit
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out of their comfort zone that trail
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that you saw me riding there was one
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called top of the world and it goes from
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the very Summit of Whistler Mountain at
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7 100 feet and descends all the way down
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to the valley floor it's about five
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thousand feet of continuous descent I
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had to put the pressure up quite High
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just to compensate for the amount of
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battering that they were getting but
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overall they handle it really really
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well I was really happy with them I
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didn't have any problems with traction I
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didn't have to worry about the tires
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going down I just had to worry about my
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own skills and as you saw in that clip
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there was one point where I went right
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over the bars but I managed to get down
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safely didn't really injure myself so
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yeah I was very happy with the tires
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right well that's a good indication of
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just how far you can push all around
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mountain bike tires these days now stay
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tuned we've got second of these Vlogs
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coming up and that one's going to be all
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about cross country racing stuff so stay
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tuned bye for now
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foreign
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