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Apologies for the lack of live stream from the event. The tested internet connection at the venue decided to let us down at the last minute. But never the less, here's the recording from the night complete with terrible adlibs, bad jokes and typically short to nonexistent acceptance speeches.
It is what it is.
A full report of the night with full winners lists and galleries will be on our website soon.
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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and welcome to the 2019 sim tracker
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reader awards and trade day thank you
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very much
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right calm down everyone you'll all get
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a chance like he needs our microphone
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[Laughter]
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right great see all hope you enjoyed the
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ride if you got to go out for a ride
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today I don't think we had to call any
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ambulances or anyone's mum so thanks for
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coming the single track trade day
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started because we basically came back
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from some foreign show somewhere and
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realized that we never actually got to
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ride bikes with any of the people who
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live just over the hill so we decided to
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have a trade day on a on a weekday so
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accounted his work and you could all
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tell your boss as you were doing media
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liaison and and come and ride bikes in
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work time and then we'd all buy fish and
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chips so that's been going on for I
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don't know 15 years or something and the
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single track reader Awards have been
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going on so long that we can't actually
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remember how long we've been going on
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for we certainly got banned from our
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first hotel we used in about 2003 so
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great it has a great history as far as
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we know there are the they are the only
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awards where the result is entirely
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voted on by the readers we have nothing
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to do with it the nominations go up and
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then it's up to the readers of sync drug
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world to nominate and to vote for their
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favorite favorite artist right so we're
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going to rattle through the walls and
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then you can get on with the drinking
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beware the danger beer there is there's
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a couple of beers that will make your
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legs stop working so I think some people
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are already on it
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anyone on the but it said mango it's
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like fruit and really good for you and
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stuff so we're going to announce Awards
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we're going to get the winner of the
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award up to receive their amazing trophy
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you'll see them in a minute and then if
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they won't say word they can and then
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we're going to get the other two
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finalists up and then we're going to
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escort them to the back where mark will
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shoot them against the wall in the face
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and then we'll move on to the next
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category so I think I think we've we've
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set the tone for the evening and on with
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the awards good evening good evening
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Hebden coming so I'm the new boy at
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singletrack I'm charlie
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I used to be a bike monger and now I
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found myself in the in the valley of the
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trousers above us
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so there's two kids down the valley
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grants grants grants and Ted I finger
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the names only and they messed me up for
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these and the the weird one
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he said Charlie do you dress to the left
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or do you dress to the right I said just
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make sure is a lot of room and Ernie's
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which seamlessly oh man you got manage
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your expectations they ain't gonna get
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any better so it seamlessly takes us to
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the best hardware these are the bits you
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attach to your bike there are no notes
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here this is all ad-libbed maybe they
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come on a complete bike maybe you
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replace something old or maybe you just
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upgrade to something even more better
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Aurora that she says better
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where is from bills to brakes hardware
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goes in your bike and the finalists ah
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ah so whatever we have yeah max max this
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mini in to her
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we have rib grips and we have SRAM eboo
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access and the winner is for best
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hardware max this minion DRH II whose
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Maxis come on up and can we also have up
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the do you ever find the ski come up
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please
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the the trophies this year need a little
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bit of care they need sunlight and water
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there you go sir congratulations rev
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grips come on rub grips
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it's amazing about a 100 quid grip got
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this far good on them
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everyone Alex from swam there you go
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now he needs go and get shot in the face
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who's up next mr. chips oh it's miss
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Hanna make sure you get your photos
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taken Gus apparently I am smaller than
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Charlie and I if he's the new young boy
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then I am the old gal and I'm Hannah
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so best software software is all the
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stuff that you put on you if you're
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lucky you might wash it when it smells
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it might protect you it might protect us
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from seeing too much of you so the
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finalists o7 mesh Revo shorts the
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Camelbak repack LR and the new proof
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women's black line short and the winner
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is Camelback repack LR
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Camelback
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who do we have here from distributor
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we've got somebody here from Shiro
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Fisher yep
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Martin holes come on up and all the
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other finalists
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[Applause]
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new proof have you got anyone here from
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New proof oh so sad
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I know sever mesh are too far away in
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Squamish and and it's illegal to post
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plants to Squamish as well so we'll keep
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them alive for you you're a notice of
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the the awards are little succulents
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next year we're going to be checking to
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make sure they're still alive we're
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going to be demanding photos and then
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we're going to be giving kittens outs
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the award for the best Trail Center
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really good trail center needs more than
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just a great range of trails pi is a
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good start
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here are three delivering the goods lead
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open by park land a clone one planet
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adventure sounds close for Elysian bike
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Park and the winner of the best Trail
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Center is a revolution bike park
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there's anyone here from no one from
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revolution stuck in traffic from Wales
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do we have the other two finalists here
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we have a guest a guest prize we're no
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Vera Sandler I believe has done some
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digging there that's good enough for us
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come on come again the award
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[Applause]
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come on Leeds where I
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you are let's say word rights go and
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have your photo taken and we have one
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planet adventure anyone from land a glow
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one planet ok let's move on
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[Music]
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rightio guys who else is going on
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so I'll start work at single track I
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also have a cookbook coming out soon I
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knew I shouldn't have eaten the whole
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cookbook
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hey come on okay best bike under two
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grand this was a big year for bike
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service price point with hard sales as
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well as some quality full suspension
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options becoming available prompting a
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difference of how much squawk for many
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here are the bikes but lightened your
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hearts but not your wallets and the
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finalists are the calibra boss nuts the
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radon Cragar 8.0
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and these that Sandor Zonda Zonda okay
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so under cortex and the finalists is is
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the caliper boss now come on come on up
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come on big step
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[Applause]
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oh she likes on words say few words that
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was good timing because I was literally
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in the bog and thank you very much this
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is an awesome pop one that my missus
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will probably love and yeah
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thanks for uh Checotah Cheers when I
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told the okay finalists cheer sighs and
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Sunda come on up sundar congratulations
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[Applause]
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okay best bike under four and a half
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grand if you're shopping for a bike of
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this price point then I'd be interested
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in your job and you have our condolences
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it's not an easy job trying to choose
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just one bike from the hundreds of
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stellar options on sale today
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you're both spoilt for choice and cursed
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with a longest most difficult cycling
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decision of your life
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here are three possible options the
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finalists are the Kotik flair the giant
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trance advance pro and the specialized
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Stumpjumper Evo and the winner of the
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best bike under 4 and a half thousand
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pounds is the Kazakh Flair
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[Applause]
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Kelvin is confidently coming up with a
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beer in hand you have to keep it alive
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and you can't shake my hand now okay
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well Paul was developing this bike he
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always kept the single truck readers
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admired literally it was like who's
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gonna who's gonna be interested in this
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single don't read us so thank you for
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the boats do we have anyone from giant
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corporation order specialized
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corporation in the house giant and
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specialized please come up to stage now
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it's not like they have many staff you
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have a specialized there's a long
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discussion about plan care going on here
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they're right there you shouldn't water
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them not very much the next category is
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the best bike over four and a half
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thousand pounds which is the money no
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object dream bike category very highly
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contested here the finalists are the
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pivot Mac for SL team XT are the Santa
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Cruz mega tower and the Yeti as be 130
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[Music]
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the winner is the santa cruz make a
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tower we volunteered Jason miles to go
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and come and get the award given that he
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sometimes rides as Santa Cruz mega tower
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[Applause]
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you guys can talk amongst yourselves who
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are gonna make a speech speech well
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thank you for everyone thank you for the
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votes it's been another good year thank
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you very much
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yeah that's right cheers for the plum
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yeah
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come up mr. Yeti
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there you'll need it can get invited
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anyone from paper chair
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what's next boy way next up we have best
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Orvis brings back memories of the 80s II
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MTB oh yeah okay say hello to the
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biggest growth sector in the market
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right now these are the best
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EMG Bayesian that you can be riding and
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the finalists are the canyon spectral on
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intense taser and specialized Laveau
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sorry and the winner is
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oh my god it's a specialized another
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succulent to not kill guys yeah I
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believe this the second time we've won
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this so pretty stoked to be thanks very
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much a bike so rad
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and intense
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anyone from incense hey have you ever
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had sex whilst camping his sense
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come on and can you on anyone from
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Canyon no really
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we could have shade a shitload on plants
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if we knew who is coming next up there's
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a certain amount of pressure following
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Charlie right the best online service
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this year's nominations look beyond
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buying stuff to other sorts of services
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the script is doing it for me and the
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finalists are bird cycles keeper of the
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peak and sixth element and the winner is
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bird cycles
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[Applause]
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speech thank you very much
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I'm glad to see the customer services
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going better than my riding today cheers
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everybody
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[Applause]
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hope you got any of the finalists here
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[Applause]
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and I believe that keeper of the Pete
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nominated somebody to come up on their
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behalf don't be shy anybody else want to
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give a speech other than me no okay
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go and get your photos taken the next
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award is a very contentious and a highly
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Fort best bike shop
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I believe there's a great deal of
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campaigning going on on all fronts and
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the best local bike shop is the
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finalists are rather that the things in
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the end 18 bikes are hope cycle factory
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from top model and spokes from Newcastle
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online as I said a great deal of
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campaigning going on the winner of the
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best bike shop is 18 bikes
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[Applause]
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[Applause]
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let's go the other finalists up as well
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cycle factory psycho factory and spokes
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I think cycle so you actually come there
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representing yeah who's who's in from
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spokes who is in from spokes
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[Laughter]
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[Music]
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that's bike shops don't get your photo
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taken that's me next up we have best MTB
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personality this is a hard one this is a
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personality oh wait what is a
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personality is it someone you would like
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to have dinner with because you know
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it'd be entertaining is it someone you
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admire is it someone but has loads of
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Instagram followers or someone who puts
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everything into this into the sport
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maybe it's a magic mixture of them all
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[Music]
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and and finalists are been Khafre Sam
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pilgrim and Veronique Sandler who's you
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and win
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go on that's it I'm taking bribes right
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now at Stansted line okay and the winner
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is
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then care for here oh he is here through
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the miracle of the interwebs you won
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can't believe it what trophies well
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thank you so I'm actually genuinely
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shocked i won I feel like very Nick
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Sandler and Sam pilgrim were much better
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candidates but I'm a bit of a byte geek
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and I get the feeling that maybe the
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readers are singletrack Carswell so yeah
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I was fortunate for me really sorry I
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can't be there I'm nice a traveling
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traveling around East Coast America with
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my girlfriend right now after the snow
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shoe World Cup so I'm not gonna make it
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back in time for the ceremony hence this
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dodgy iPhone in this video but yeah
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thanks again can't believe it like hope
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you guys have a wonderful evening and
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enjoy the rest of ceremony through a
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singletrack bend in the other guy were
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pre day
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you
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singletrack you can trust us with
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technology breunig Sandler I understand
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you're here you'd like to make a speech
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they got Ben for winning well deserved
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and thanks for the nomination super
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stoked on it okay on to the best
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published image this one gets quite
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complicated on the slide so I hope this
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is gonna go smoothly a really great
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picture is one that makes you stop and
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look again wonder at the situation
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marvel at the trail or the characters in
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it and to really feel that you're there
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we have three for you the finalists are
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la de lo the single track issue one two
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three cover which is in Utah terrible
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place Ryan query single track issue one
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two to cover take our altitude sickness
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together picture and the final finalist
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is Samantha Saskia Dugan and this is
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from the behind the seeds feature in
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Fort William and the winner is sus Q do
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them
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[Applause]
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yeah is off shooting the EWS so she's
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asked if Vera would come up and get this
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award as well it's a big garden you've
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got going there and the other two guys
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live abroad and we can't send them their
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plants so we'll send them the signs the
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next cancer is the best author where we
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recognize that sometimes it's not a
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single article that stands out but a
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whole body of work and sometimes is that
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one perfect article where the magazine
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content were eligible for this category
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and here are the nominations and Snead
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Avenue him
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[Applause]
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Jason miles and keep on rollin which was
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a pseudonym for obvious reasons if you
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read the piece and the winner is we're
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expecting big punch up later Jason miles
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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thanks so much
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cheers thank you round yeah great I'm
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lost for words actually come on
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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every not give it to you there's our new
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wordsmith only go a bit let me on this
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Hager so ya know it doesn't work the
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next award is best event now I'm a turbo
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responsible Waddell I'm a scout leader
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and I organized a whole bunch recycling
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events I can tell you I used to not beat
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gray is a toughest job and this is no
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joke is event organizer is up there in
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the top 10 most stressful careers it's
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up there with brain surgeons and
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soldiers and so I've got some blurb here
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let's go from where but where it's the
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atmosphere betrayals the charity support
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the beer tent or the magical mixture of
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all of these we're looking for the event
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that pulled together the ingredients for
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a great day out to not get around
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applause we're okay so the finalists are
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we have the hope tech women's enduro if
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you want mayhem on the mountain where'd
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you go you go to a mountain mayhem and
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MTB Nita
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oh my god the best event in the single
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track readers Awards is the hope text
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women enjoy who's heading up wow you are
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the best hope tech woman I've seen in
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ages he is on Tuesday nights in the car
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park just up the valley people involved
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in our event
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Michael Mitchell Walker started off for
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us and obviously p.m. beer keV and all
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these marshals help us out a lot so it's
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a big team effort so thank you well Rita
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Slaton
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[Applause]
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yes we have MTB meetup MTB meetup and
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mountain mayhem if you say hey you could
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like sell sausages and stuff and that's
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it for the breeder Awards we have the
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entertainment doesn't quite finish first
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of all I'd like to thank a load of
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people firstly thank you to freewheel
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our title sponsors they help provide the
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awesome trophies which we need to thank
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Hannah and Amanda for Amanda's hiding
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behind a curtain thank you to all the
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single track staff front of house and
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behind the scenes who've helped with
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everything we've got
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people up in the wave up in the sound
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desk there we've got everyone else who's
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helped with the food the organizing the
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cake for making everyone a coffee and
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just making sure that the whole thing
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runs super smoothly and that we look
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amazing up here so thank you to everyone
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a singletrack for that
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and talking of food we should thank out
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to lunch Mountain Emily who provided the
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amazing breakfast and roses Indonesian
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who provided the dinner
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thank you obviously to all the readers
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who voted in all the awards and thank
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you to you the bike trade for coming
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along yeah give yourself a round of
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applause there because you're all
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amazing and we've got one more award and
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it's not a reader award this is the
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single track Legend Award and it's
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something that we choose among the staff
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of the magazine
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a person who has inspired us continually
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and previous Awards have gone to Martyn
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Ashton till the late Mike hall and
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Patrick Adams
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you're off the list Matt yeah you would
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be too late
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and we'd like to have get our own local
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legend Nick Craig to come and help us
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present this award right so Nick's got
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the magic envelope don't open it you
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answer these the this person that the
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2019 man tomate legend has been a legend
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since there was a mountain I've seen in
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the UK and has always been there and we
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followed them through through their
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career through grey highs deep lows and
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they have always inspired us and they
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continue to inspire entertain with
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everything they do and the 2019
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singletrack Legend Award is obviously
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can go to no one else but to Nick Craig
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[Applause]
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sorry for the ambush snake
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[Applause]
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thank you I'm not very good at speeches
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but thank you know Craig for everything
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[Applause]
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so all the remains is to drink lots of
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beer and chat the bars open for another
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four hours I think so thank you all for
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coming we where the danger beer and
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thank you for the single track reader
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Awards 2019 thank you
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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it's a comeback
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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you
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