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After Hannah and mark had been out sessioning and adventuring on their Canyon eMTBs they sat down to have a chat about the ways in which different eMTBs are changing the way we ride and what we can do on them.
The full feature can be read here.https://singletrackworld.com/charged/2020/02/26/the-best-ride-for-an-emtb-well-we-couldnt-pick-just-one/
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hello viewers I'm mark from single truck
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magazine I'm joined here by Hannah hello
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we've we've been out riding to ebikes
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the last few weeks haven't we
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yep what have you been riding I've been
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riding the canyon neuron on yes and I've
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been riding the canyon spectral on yours
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is easier to say it is yes neuron Ron
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Ron first it had to be done yes the two
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bikes are kind of different
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aren't they aimed at two different sort
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of styles of riding so how would you
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describe your neuron more of a trail
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bike 1:30 fork on the front so
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definitely not an XC bike but not
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heading off into enduro land which I
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think yours is more of that isn't it
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yeah my special is 150 mil trouble early
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Forks on it's gone tone Fox 36 on the
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front 4 yep so I think that
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characterizes what the attended use is
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for each of the bikes so there's a lot
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of sort of I don't know myths and
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assumptions around what a bikes for well
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I think people started off thinking that
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he bikes were just one thing and now
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they're sort of diversifying into
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different bikes for different uses just
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like other mountain bikes are yeah so we
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decided to put these two bikes to the
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test in it in a kind of a unique way so
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what do we do
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well I took mine out for an adventure oh
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well yes it was an adventure I hoped it
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might be a nice ride out with possibly
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some adventure yeah yeah definitely was
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an adventure so your your adventure is
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all about where you could go how I could
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get things like that yeah and you and I
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went out to session a trial mm-hmm
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because one of the things that I really
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love about ebikes in particular is the
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fact that it means that you've got a
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built in uplift yeah so lots of times
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when I'm out on a ride well you know you
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climb up to the top of a hill on a
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normal bike and then you'll hair down
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fantastic descent and you've got that
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was great descent I'd love to do that
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again but then you turn around you look
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up and you think
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I'm going back up there so each ride has
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one descent and you do it just once
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mm-hmm and then that's kind of the way
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it's always been well certainly for me
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I've never really uh nor Denari bike
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never been particularly inclined or
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perhaps fitting off to actually session
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some of my favorite descents right he
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bikes make a difference with that thing
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so you're using it to dispatch the hills
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that's right yeah yeah no I was doing
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the same thing but just keeping on going
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as well yeah
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so I wanted I'd seen on the map that
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there was right away I'd never been on
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but I knew that to get to it there was
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definitely one Hill there that it's no
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fun and leads to a descent that is
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moderate fun and then leads to another
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Hill which I knew was tarmac so I was
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like I could put a lot of effort in
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skating a long way and then just ride a
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load of hills that just kind of led to
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nothing much really yeah so I knew that
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was the ebike that would take some of
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the pain out of that potential and
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Dorrie finally mitigates the risk of
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exploring as well because I found I'll
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admit this he's a genuine thing I have
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found more new trails in my local trails
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more new paths that had never been down
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before
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on an e-bike in the last few years and a
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half in the 25 years I've been riding
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simply because little tiny trails that
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you look good as you ride passing and
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all like you go oh horn what's down
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there but then you don't bother
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exploring because you think yeah but if
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it's a massive bog or a yeah it's a dead
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end
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but with an e-bike you change that so I
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did actually that happened to me on the
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ride because I could see another bit of
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trail that looked like it might lead
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somewhere I actually might lead to
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biscuits and I went against all
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instincts down a tarmac road in search
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of this bridle way which appeared to
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have been locked off by a padlock a gate
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and and so because I was on the bike
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actually I didn't kind of start pursuing
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it and climbing over things but I didn't
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resent the fact that I then had to go
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back up the tarmac line you know so yeah
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it led me to go and try and find someone
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you that I then gave up on but I didn't
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mind that it didn't work out yeah
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now I went to local bike park BIOS which
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is called havoc and I have to admit I've
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not had much experience havoc I mean one
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of the reasons is because it's so steep
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and there is no uplift so it's a push up
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everything you have to push up now the
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thing that always popped me off was the
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fact that maybe my time of life right
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now late forties is that I'm finding
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when I'm getting to the top of the hills
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and I'm ready for the downhill I have to
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spend an awful long time at the top
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before I get too old to sit there and
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have a room so the ebike gives me
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the opportunity that it takes out that
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horrible climb that that push is no
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longer a push you can ride it and then
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I'm fresh at the top and I could session
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it and I did I went to havoc and there
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was a section with a gap jump oh yeah
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which also know it yeah I haven't done
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it well you should try you see if you're
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all refreshed at the top of the hill
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from riding up an e-bike you'd feel kind
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of hopefully giving it a go and if I
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even if I got there an ordinary bike I
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reckoned that I maybe would have done it
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maybe twice or maybe three times and
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even though it's not a huge push up I
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think my attitude would on an old boat
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would be I've done it twice now I'm not
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going back up I'm gonna see what else is
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below and I will just keep working my
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way down the hill whereas because I was
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on the ebike I actually did that gap
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jump I think around about six or seven
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times alright that's good
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yeah I'm proper nailed it in the end and
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there's a little bit of video footage of
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me going over that jump I've seen it
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yeah that was quite impressive actually
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I was it's amazing what you can do with
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good camera technology make things look
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very epic we're not all I haven't done
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that gap jump I think it's quite yeah
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well for me the barrier has always been
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trying you're just being completely
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knackered when it gets little and then
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doing it a few times and going I see you
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know if I'm tired so I did go to the pub
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you did might be where things started to
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go wrong
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I'm not sure you know I'm not gonna lay
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all the blame because you're open
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didn't really go to plan did it well
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some of it did in that I i dispatched
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those climbs that I thought might be
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boring and on the other side is amor
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actually some really fun trails and
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because the client's were boring I had
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previously contemplated taking the
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gravel bike over there and that would
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not been the right tool I definitely
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wanted a mountain bike so yeah I was a
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load of fun on some fun rocky descents
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and my single track and then I got
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hungry and I went to the pub and then I
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continued on to the more when it proved
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to be a little bit more remote and
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technical than ours may be imagining
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luckily by this time I'd filled the
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GoPro so there's no evidence of the
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flying through the air while flying
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along the trail at high speed first of
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all and then I just caught something
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which you know I could have done on any
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bike and I shouldn't have been riding
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that fast
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by myself probably yeah flew through the
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air and landed on my shoulder and it
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made a noise it's never made before I
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felt a little bit sick very that was the
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end of your adventure for the day
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well it kind of at that point it became
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all about rescue and getting off this
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remote Mall and as quickly as possible
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which was a lot easier on a knee bike
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and I rode half an hour straight to a
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unique yeah yeah I was being a bit worse
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actually as it turned out I haven't
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really done anything very serious
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probably just dislocated it a bit and it
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went back again dislocated a bit is
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there such a thing as dissipated you
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bike riding now on the canal right okay
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so what do we learn from our two
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adventures ah I've learned that it's
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definitely still mountain biking and
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just because you're cruising up the
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hills doesn't mean that you don't need a
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emergency bag and a first-aid kit and
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there no extra layer and to be prepared
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for the things that go wrong which
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actually I was because I knew where I
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was going was remote mmm so yeah here's
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still mountain biking yeah I look
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I would agree with that entirely I
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learned that it's not about cheating
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it's it's it's not about you know
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getting the awful stuff out of the way
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and forgetting about the climes it's
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about having more fun on the stuff you
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want to do on the bike mmm and I don't
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know about you but I got into mountain
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biking
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I think getting into mountain biking to
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get fit mmm that was just a byproduct I
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got into mountain biking to have fun
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yeah I mean fun or adventure zucchini
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peppy components they might overlap you
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could have an adventure that was mostly
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miserable it's still mountain biking
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personally yeah that's what we're doing
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it for so I mean that's I think it was a
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success despite what you ended up in in
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A&E I think the whole thing was a
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success and there's more details about
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this adventure because we've got story
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online yep and you can go and tune in
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and you should really we've got some
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great pictures in there and there's a
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nice sheep that's pretty sheep yeah
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she's very friendly that sheep ever see
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more details if Hannah's adventure where
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she got to I think do we have a map of
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we got we got in probably make one yes
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we'll do that we'll stick a map in there
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too so there we go
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adventures on e-bikes that was all very
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good
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all right let's end it there
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