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Take a look at the new 29in XC tyre from Maxxis - the Rekon Race, brought to you all the way from Idaho.
Read more: https://singletrackworld.com/2018/06/maxxis-launches-rekon-race-an-xc-tyre-for-modern-xc-courses/
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hello so I'm hello from singletrack
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WorldCom and I'm here in Idaho in Sun
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Valley in town called Ketchum I've been
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here for this all this week for an event
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called crank tank which is like a press
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camp where lots of different brands get
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together and show us lots of cool some
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new things so I'm not snoozing some
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things that we just haven't seen before
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but they've been out for a bit
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so I was hoping to do lots of life broad
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live broadcasts but this is the place to
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come for a digital detox
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there is no internet outside the hotel
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and I haven't spent very much time in
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the hotel now I know all of you think
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that was by joonas just you know hang
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around riding bikes and drinking beer
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but it's not true
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we've we've done lots of riding bikes
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and and lots of other things as well
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yeah basically not been here to sit down
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and just take a breath
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that would be some big American vehicle
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so I'm fat here on my balcony at the
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limelight hotel in Ketchum and I'm gonna
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see if I can just try and give you a
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little peek at the view from here
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because if you just overlook the carpark
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for a minute
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a bit of a sunset going on over there
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and there's some proper mountains and
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you know that's quite nice isn't it I
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don't have to say it is very very nice
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here I have written some some of some of
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the nicest trails I think I've ever
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ridden like they're mine they're my cup
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of tea they're gonna cross-country not
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massively technical you just kind of
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sweep along now you could take your kids
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down them if you could get them up to
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the top in the first place or you can
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ride them like really fast and then
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there's bike park stuff as well as some
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like they've really concentrated on flow
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trails around here there's a load of
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flow trails there's a load of like top
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to bottom go up in a gondola and just
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sweep your way down bit more mellow than
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some of the stuff I've seen and like the
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Alps and things and then away from the
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bike parks you've got these these really
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unusual shapes hills wet and the let me
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get it right
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the north sides tend to have trees on
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and then the south sides tend to be much
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more kind of baked bit more desert e
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meadow E and as I've never seen so many
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butterflies as I have out on the rides
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here and there are loads and loads of
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trails all throughout that and you
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allowed to ride on them the limited
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amount of e bike riding that's allowed
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but yeah there's a whole bunch of access
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here and the town of ketchup
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he brought ketchup Ketchum is an amazing
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bike friendly place I don't think bike
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friendly something we really associate
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with America a lot of the time but
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there's there's quite a lot of bike
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lanes there's a big bike lane that goes
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all the way around the outside of the
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town and you go for a ride along now on
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a Sunday morning as I did and there's
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loads of families out there's people
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taking their dogs in trailers that seems
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to be a quite a thing here there's
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people heading off to the trails every
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other shop seems to be a bike shop or a
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bike shop there's also a ski shop
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because in the winter this is a big ski
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destination one of the original ski
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destinations and it has the Sun Valley
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Inn which was one of the first places if
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not the first hotel in in America to
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have its own ski lift so yeah it's
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really outdoor sports orientated and
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it's a lot of fun so if you can get here
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I highly recommend it there's a bit a
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smell of smoke in the air at the moment
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I rather hope that there's not a big
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wildfire you can see on the hillsides
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they have had some really big wildfires
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around here and there's quite a lot of
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burnt trees but yeah it's an amazing
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place and when it doesn't smell smoke it
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smells of meat loads of different
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flowers out there with the butterflies
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anyway enough about Idaho what have I
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been up to ah well I think probably one
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of the newest the thing that's new and
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new to us and indeed new to most of the
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world is
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new I get the camera angle right oh it's
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like it's opposite way around a new tire
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from axis and this is the yukon race you
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turn it around and it's a cross country
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it's higher but it's a cross country
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tire that is designed oh I think my
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brains inside out
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there we go recon race so this is a
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cross-country tire designed for the
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modern cross-country world so it's not
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quite so slick perhaps and some of the
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scary fast tires of old it's got
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cornering knobs on it
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for the much more aggressive race
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courses that we're seeing and then these
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little knobs here you can see these kind
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of side in between the middle tread and
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the outside tread these are transition
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knobs so you don't just get a kind of
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bald patch between the the fast rolling
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Center as you turn there is grip on the
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way around on the corners and Nino
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shirts that has indeed raced on these
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already because he races on a prototype
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at monitor and LA last year any one part
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of its perfect season I have not raised
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on these but I have been for a very
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short ride in some very dusty conditions
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and this kind of small knob tire and
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dusty conditions is not something that I
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am particularly familiar with but I was
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surprised at how much traction I had I
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thought I'd be slip sliding all over the
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place and it wasn't so this is the Recon
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race with XO
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and it will be $64 don't know how the UK
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pricing yet if you want it with out the
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XO casing which gives you a bit more
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sidewall protection then that will be
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four dollars less $60.00 and Maxis
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reckons that most people are going to
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want the exo it's a very slight weight
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penalty so you'd have to be a real
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weight weenie that wasn't gonna mean it
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necessarily riding over anything
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particularly likely to get your
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sidewalls
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if you were going to go for the version
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without XO you can only buy it in a 29
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by 2.25 one size only but yeah very much
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a cross-country race tire before the
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modern age there you go recon race so
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I've seen that what else they're written
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quite a few e bikes and I'll be writing
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something about that and I have ridden a
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gravel bike that way there we go
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so moots is American company been going
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since I think this is 1981 it's an
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alligator it's on that that's their logo
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and they started off making bikes and
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steel and they've moved over to making
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bikes in titanium we're making them
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quite a while in Steamboat which is
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somewhere in America I forget where and
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that yeah they make their bikes out of
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titanium there so I have written one of
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their titanium gravel bikes today
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so I should be writing a little bit
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about that and you can see that over on
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grit CX soon so they've got a video with
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guys from moot I've also not had the
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chance to ride a gravel bike by Turner
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so but I did it sad about that because
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it does look like a very nice bike it's
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it's another titanium drop by a gravel
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bike but I did manage to get an
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interview with david Turner who is hmm
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how should we put it he's very easy to
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interview you just ask a question and
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point the microphone so yeah he he has a
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really nice philosophy about riding
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bikes and what riding bikes is all about
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and asking him about ebikes
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was interesting so you can see that on a
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single track world soon so what else
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we're done well there's a whole bunch of
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product I've been given and that will be
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appearing in freshman's Friday over the
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next week or so so look out for that
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[Music]
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this is a local beer by the Sawtooth
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brewery and they've made it specially
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for crank tank maybe what bike ride
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wonderful so sawtooth the mountains that
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are over there because they look like
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that like I saw to do the death of us oh
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yeah
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anyway I've now got to fit all that
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product so that I can put it in fresh
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goods Friday into my suitcase which is
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going to be quite a challenge so I think
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I'd better go and do that now see you
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soon and hello to whoever is actually
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watching this at whatever time this is
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in the UK there's probably like three
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people in IT or something okay then
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Cheers
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bye
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